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Bricked Hermes (SPV M3100) while flashing SPL - any help or sugestion are wellcomed

All started with trying to upgrade(rewrite) the GSM part because the Hermes had problems with phone part - when trying to call - the phone stop responding, bus the pda part sill worked.
So - I tried and tried and tried again, reading many threads about HARD SPL,Flashing radio, etc. Nothing worked..
In the end "i managed" to kill GSM - phone had "No Gsm" on boot-up.
From there i tried to downgrade SPL to 1.04 so that i try to "raw" rewrite the GSM part.
But something went terribly wrong, and while downgrading SPL, the phone suddently shutdown and never opened again.
Now i have the folowing situation: NO BOOTLOADER, no usb conectivity, nothing
This means that i cannot connect via USB whatever i try.
Is there any hope for me? or is it TOTALLY BRICKED?
Any help is apreciated!! I can even dismantle the mobile if there is any way to flash it via some kind of jtag connection...anything ...

The folks at www.imei-check.com can do the JTAG flashing. Just email them. It would be costly for you to do it yourself...

Are you saying that the phone won't turn on at all or that it does but you can't get a bootloader screen?
Have you tried taking the battery out for a while? Have you tried flashing an OEM rom and radio compatible with your device off an SD card?
All of this info is in the wiki, as are OEM roms you can flash.
Let us know how you get on.
Good luck.
WB

Try this:
1.) Remove battery
2.) Connect Hermes to charger or USB
3.) Insert the battery while Hermes is connected to charger
4.) Red light should turn Amber
5.) Soft Reset

@wacky.banana: The phone is totaly dead: no bootloader, doesn't boot at all, doesn't seem to have any USB conectivity at all. Flashing from micro sd doesn't work : probably because the bootloader isn't working.
@drummer10630: i'll check with imei-chek about jtag flashing, especially the price and shiping costs.thanks
@markafreeman: I tried, but when i put the battery in, the red light goes off, not to amber . no soft or hard reset helps. not even leaving the battery out for 2 weeks - i had tried that too . thanks anyway.
Anything else I can try? - phone totaly dead, no bootloder, no usb conectivity - cannot use mtty, cannot flash from microsd

I had to get a replacement device at that point when it happened to me.
Maybe someone else know a way to get it working.
Good luck.

get onto orange
tell them you dropped the phone
and it crashed and wouldnt turn on
so you managed to hard reset it
and it crashed an ****ed up
they'll replace it
well they will send it to HTC
who just replace the handset rather than repair it

Hi dancameo2k , maybe you will not remember but plz:
I ve bought recenty an spv m3100, im effortless trying to flash the rom to an wm6 version.
Like you ive started with the hardsppl flash thing to prevent bricking it and prior to sd flashing... and im not sure if its workin...
plz can you explain in detail how did you bricked it??? thx!!!!
the rom you used to flash was an american version or european one???

Dropped 8525. Need Help Restarting

My son dropped his 8525. It is now stuck on a display of red, green, blue, and white bars. A reset and a battery removal do nothing to get it to boot. Is it toast or is there something I can do to get it to boot?

considering this is your 1st post I'm assuming that you didnt have olipro 2.10 as your SPL.....What is your IPL and SPL as this may get you the help you are looking for... And if you do get it going again PLEASE install Hard SPL, Here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296722
Good luck.
P.S. try reading through this, it may help... : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=369434

The IPL:
IPL-1.04
The SPL:
SPL-2.03
I hope this helps someone.

Someone said they had success with this problem in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355884
Read a bit and see if it works but please understand that this really just trying out everything in a last ditch effort to get it working. There may be no hope, so no promises...
If you do manage to get it going again I'd suggest Hard SPLing your phone so it is easier to fix. Hard SPL isn't a guarantee, mind, but it does provide a safety net for when things like this happen...
All the best...

hermes 100 8525 flash problem
hi, i was trying to upgrade a cingular 8525 in the process of unlock,
and it stopped at 1%, and did nothing,
now the phone just go to the 3 color screen,
and says
herm100
ipl-1.00
hem100
spl-1.40.olipro,
what can i do to restore it to normal please,

lacasapc, try to Hard Reset, hold down both soft keys and reset with stylus. If that doesn't work then try this : Flash it to you device while it in tricolour screen. Make sure that your activesync disable & use the latest RUUwrapper.
Open Activesync, select connection settings and untick "Allow USB Connections".
Run the RUUwrapper.exe file for the os you want after connecting the hermes via usb. Chose SPL 1.40 then HARD SPL and then flash the new OS. This should work.
Cheers...

Bricked MDA Vario

I'm sorry that my first post in this forum is about a disaster, but i have a serious problem...
I tried to upgrade my MDA vario to wm6 using shelltool. During the process, the M$ XP hanged => one mistake led to another => i now have a very nice silver brick!
When powered, shows IPL 2.21.0001 , SPL 2.21.0lip , GSM 02.25.11 but no OS => it remains hanged...
Of course in this state it cannot connect with M$ ActiveSync, so it seems that my hands are tied....
After a hard reset (2buttons+reset), i see the screen with 4 colors (RGBW) and IPL 2.21.0001 / SPL 2.21.0lip (No GSM). If i connect the USB cable at this screen, the connect sound is heard from PC speakers, and i see the word USB on the lower left corner.
Is there any possibility that the device can be recovered?
If i go to HTC/QTEK service, can they restore the device to a working condition?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I really like this phone, and i don't want to buy iPhone!

maybe the wicki can help.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Wizard

Everything OK!
I made me some coffee, and did some reading for a few hours.
By pressing Photo Button+Power button, the phone starts in bootloader screen (RGBW). Then, i installed Wizzard Love ROM, which seems to be working fine!
I don't know who made this ROM, but he/she has my many thanks!
Thanks for the tip open_source!

This could all been avoided if you hadn't used ShellTool with a HardSPL'ed phone.
It's not reasonable to have a phone in an pseudo-unlocked state that can accept any 'SPL-safe' ROM with official updater tools (RUU) and still upgrade it with a method that isn't very safe and that was created when HardSPL and SoftSPL didn't exist.
Please be careful as these equipments are sensible and expensive and a thorough reading can avoid a lot of headaches

dead htc hermes 200

hi
i think i brick my htc hermes 200
i was trying to fix "No GSM" but during the way it shut down
i follow thread on wiki - problem 5
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_UpgradeProblems#problem5
when it came to unlock my device was in bootloader I run the unlocker but my device turn off and now only shows the 3 color screen but with no light and no letters like info herm200 IPL-1.01 or serial or usb when i connect usb cable.
my device was
herm200
IPL-1.01
herm200
SPL-1.40.olipro
now i cant connect i try almost every thing but doesnt work
any sugestion ?!

did any one had this problem?????????

can any one provide an sdcard flash rum ready for me just to copy in memory card?

Have you tried a hard reset? If you are able to get device into bootloader as you say, you can flash another rom as well. Connect phone to pc via usb cable (bottom of bootloader should change from 'serial' to 'usb') and then flash rom. Obviously you need either HSPL or USPL on device first

first of all I'm very grateful for reply.
my problem is not like usual i been reading on wiki ore in forum.
my device get in bootloader but doesnt shoh light on the screen and doesnt show letters no info or serial/usb just shows the 3 color with no light on it
hard reset doent work
Obviously you need either HSPL or USPL on device first
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
can you provide for me I dont know where to find and what are they

ubejd said:
can you provide for me I dont know where to find and what are they
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
HSPL info can be found in the upgrading section in the wiki or in this sticky

Herm200 getting stuck with white screen after logo

Hi All,
I have HTC Herm200 with IPL-1.00, and i have been tried to install the image from Black, then the process arrived to 95% and got stuck, i restart the HTC and after the logo i go white screen.
i've tried to boot from SD card but its didn't help me.
Please advice, you can see the attached files.
Thanks, Lior.

I can't help you !But I can put your post to top

how long have you been waiting untill you thought it was stuck at 95%, sometimes it can take up to 20 minutes!
I see you can still reach the bootloader, does your computer recognize your hermes as a hardware device when connected with usb?

Another one who went gung-ho and didn't install Hard SPL V7...
Newbs take note, this is what a brick looks like....
You may be able to recover from this but its gonna take a butt load of reading and time... do a search using SPL 2.03 and brick as the search words, you should find a lot to read.....
You may also be able to recover if you have a copy of the original SHIPPED STOCK ROM....
And, if you recover from this, go to the Hard SPL thread in Upgrading, its a sticky so you won't have to look hard, and install it before installing anything else.....