after flashing ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip and SPL 1.33.2005 i rebooted the bootloader using the code:
fastboot reboot-bootloader
But now my problem is that the Magic will not boot no matter how i try to boot it. i have taken the battery out and put back in several times but still no lock.
When the phone is plugin charger the LED light shows that it is charging but when i try to switch it on, the LED light goes off and nothing happens.
Can someone please help me with this
Actually you've flashed à 32B Radio on your 32A
If you can't boot into fastboot mode (holding back+power), recovery mode (home+power) or hboot mode (vol.down+power) and your phone is not recognized when connected to the PC then there isn't anything you can do, unfortunately. You can't get into any of these modes right?
you are right i cant get into any of those modes.
Is there nothing that can be done? no hard reset or some fix? i dnt mind opening the phone.
is there no parts i can replace to get it to work?
I hate to bring bad news but once you're locked out like this I'm afraid that only HTC can help... I'd try to get the phone replaced if it's under warranty.
the warranty is over.
since i can repair it as i have a few times and i have opened it and changed a few things like the screen.
cant i change the logic board or something or any part to get it working.
i mean cant i replace the radio chip or something like that.
sorry it sounds like i am just carrying on but i believe there is a way to make it work.
What have you repaired for it? (Just curious)
Isn't this a software problem, not a hardware? I don't see how opening it can really help unless you change up everything inside I could be wrong though.. But seeing as how you flashed the incorrect Radio, I don't see how changing that chip could help at all really.
I really don't think there is anything left you can do.. But again, I could be wrong! I don't know everything about the phone lol
i mean if i was to get another board from another htc magic or even buy it as a part and change my one.
or cant those parts be bought?
I dunno if you can buy that or not, but if you were to do that... It sounds almost like getting a whole new phone lol
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so after getting my blue led light after i did a bad flash of a mod update zip when i didnt have a rom flashed first...i was told to replace my trackball instead i ...
opened my htc magic and removed my trackball and disconnected the ribon to it let it sit for 30 seconds then put it back together i guess it resets hardware but it worked like a charm
tried ur methode on my bricked magic ... no luck
did u have the blue led with no hboot or recovery ...make sure ur battery is charge some
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so after getting my blue led light after i did a bad flash of a mod update zip when i didnt have a rom flashed first...i was told to replace my trackball instead i ...
opened my htc magic and removed my trackball and disconnected the ribon to it let it sit for 30 seconds then put it back together i guess it resets hardware but it worked like a charm
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I can't understant why doing that the device has unbricked, I probably must do the same.
anyone else tried?
is this really working???
can anyone other than the OP confirm this works? what showed up on the screen when it was bricked? Did it have the 'arrow coming out of the box' symbol, when the phone was switched on?
i did nt get big arrow or anything my phone wouldnt boot period all i kept getting was a blue light no fastboot or adb would work until i did this the only reason i tried it was because someone mentioned to me to replace the track ball i dont know why but it worked
Did you happen to remove the little battery when you did this?
no i only disconnected the cable leading to track ball the if u look where the track ball is you can pry and pop out the track ball i did it just to look around in there ...i am not a tech but i do have a basic understanding of somethings and i think for some reason in my situation it may have reset something i really dont know but my phone was a brick for half a day with me trying to use google as my friend typing away at fastboot and adb commands only to get nothing ..but when one person told me i may need a new track ball i just decided to look inside on how that a bad flash would effect the track ball but i did what i did and i am back using my phone but i did notice one thing today i had put my phone in fastboot and the normally when it loads those command or whatever about loading img. ...its now saying no image
Thanks, I will try this. Unfortunately I gave away my battery and cable... I still have doubts about this helping me, as I flashed the wrong radio. Where as you just flashed a bad update.
did u use a 32b radio
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did u use a 32b radio
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hi,
quick question. my friend rooted the phone and then flashed hardSPL but i think it was the wrong one. the last thing we saw was a box with a arrow on it and the phone has been dead ever since.
was this the same for you ? we would love to be able to unbrick his phone.
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hi,
i have a 32b magic, and since yesterday it just doesn't startup anymore.
i just get a black screen, with backlight on. (also no adb/fb/recovery)
if i hold trackball while power on, i get the blue led
i've searched, but haven't found any similar problem, cause i don't get that box with an arrow.
to unbrick this, you just disconnected the trackball?
pls be more specific
HEEEELLPPP!
fakecaker said:
i just get a black screen, with backlight on. (also no adb/fb/recovery)
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Sounds like you erased or flashed an invalid SPL (usually people brick into boot mode 3 where the radio + SPL works but is forcing the boot of a broken recovery image) Thus the user becomes stuck at the splash screen.
Regardless if blue light mode woks and nothing else will boot [and you are not stuck in blue light mode]:
the only option at this point in time is using JTAG to force an engineering SPL to load.. then use that to fix the rest of the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=668246
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6100287&highlight=radata#post6100287
The OP likely had a stuck trackball.
Holding the trackball when you power on puts you in the blue-led mode and doesn't let you do anything else. Being in blue-led mode doesn't mean you are bricked, it's just a mode in which the phone can start up. If the op's trackball got "stuck", it would explain his problem. Replacing the faulty trackball likely is what solved his problem.
It would be nice if the OP could update the first entry to reflect as much.
If your phone isn't voluntarily going into blue-led mode on it's own, this "fix" likely won't do anything for you. You still have a brick... like me
ezterry said:
Sounds like you erased or flashed an invalid SPL (usually people brick into boot mode 3 where the radio + SPL works but is forcing the boot of a broken recovery image) Thus the user becomes stuck at the splash screen.
Regardless if blue light mode woks and nothing else will boot [and you are not stuck in blue light mode]:
the only option at this point in time is using JTAG to force an engineering SPL to load.. then use that to fix the rest of the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=668246
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6100287&highlight=radata#post6100287
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hi terry ...
quick question.
the jtag de-bricking that everyone is mentioning is said to work with g1/dream/g2 ... is this also possible with the magic(sapphire) 32A ?
like i said my friend bricked his loading hardSPL and the phone is charging and i can get into the blue led mode no problem.
if it is possible would the pinouts be the same or similar for the magic? i am quite keen to give it a bash if i can be pointed in the right direction.
thanx in advance.
Thank for you response
but i didn't flash any new spl or something else.
i had my phone working fine with spl/radio/rom.
but then i shut down, and after that i couldn't power up
i reboot my working magic with froyo and then is dead.
its keeps rebooting and no fastboot or recovery mode only if i press trackball and on the phone i got blue led, any solutions ???
Regards Sn00py
But what exactly was the problem, when you turned it on it automatically turned the blue led or did that happen when you pressed the trackball+power? im going to try to debrick my magic now but must it be on with the blue led or off?
ale922 said:
But what exactly was the problem, when you turned it on it automatically turned the blue led or did that happen when you pressed the trackball+power? im going to try to debrick my magic now but must it be on with the blue led or off?
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Who are you asking, the OP? They just had a stuck trackball, so they couldn't boot normally.
It doesn't matter, just continue.
It's happen when i try to flash the 13.29.55.13H_3.35.07.20 Baseband via Recovery. My device is Tattoo A3232.
After reboot there's a Recovery picture so i tried to remove a battery and turn on again but this time it won't boot at all. no Tattoo logo or anything. and then I tried to plug a charger and there's no charging light. and i've plug into computer and no devices found.
I don't have any clue to do now. so i just try to post this before i go to HTC Care. I really hope you guys can solve this one.
UPDATE: they've replaced a new board with the old one. Now my Tattoo is 100% health!
I know this sounds stupid, but what helped when I had a similar problem with my PC (not mobile phone) was the following: removing the power cable, waiting about 10-15 mins and then plugging it in again, then at least it booted again.
maybe if you take out the battery and wait quite a while it will at least show the tattoo logo...else there are different causes for your dilemma: a piece of hardware is now bricked, the phone ROM is damaged, memory completely wiped...don't know what is the cause of your problem - but you should pray that HTC Care will repair your device if nothing else will work
what hapens if you hold volume down button and keep it held while you power it on, you should see spl screen ??
if you do get the white screen with the 3 androids then you are good to flas an IMG file
terminal 7 said:
what hapens if you hold volume down button and keep it held while you power it on, you should see spl screen ??
if you do get the white screen with the 3 androids then you are good to flas an IMG file
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nope, nothing appear at all. probably like TheSSJ said. I really hope they will claim the phone.
When you were putting the battery in the slot, have you placed it correctly? Please, check your battery and let us know.
and then I tried to plug a charger and there's no charging light
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This happens when you incorrectly place the battery back.
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This happens when you incorrectly place the battery back.
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Or when the device is bricked...I don't think the battery was placed incorrectly into the phone...^^
now it's been taking care by HTC Care now. hopefully they'll repair it.
good luck
good luck, i hope you get a good result without any problem because you were flashing at the point of fail.
keep us posted on this, im interested how fair they play in replacing your handset.
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UPDATE:
they've replaced a new board with the old one. Now my Tattoo is 100% health! it's came with a new RUU though. 1.67.729.xx i think. not the 1.67.405.6.
and of course I already rooted and flashed fyodor custom room.
@3DPRO: congrates
After a total brick, Black screen. I am convinced that this phone is truly un-brickable, I did not ask for help. All you need to do is READ READ READ! Having said that I would like to thank eugene and everyone else for the usefull tips.
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After a total brick, Black screen. I am convinced that this phone is truly un-brickable, I did not ask for help. All you need to do is READ READ READ! Having said that I would like to thank eugene and everyone else for the usefull tips.
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Congratulations! It is widely believed that this phone is about as close to being unbrickable as any phone out there.
Would you care to share how you got your phone working again? It's possible that someone might actually read this instead of asking, in which case you can forward the cause
Yea--DO SHARE!!!
I wrecked my phone somehow and have not been able to reflash a stock rom no matter what...I have a few days before I have to ship it back with to the warrantee center--I'd love to try and fix a HW locked phone.
this is true, unless u have a hardware locked phone, in that case, ne thing can brick ur phone easily
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this is true, unless u have a hardware locked phone, in that case, ne thing can brick ur phone easily
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That is not entirely accurate, I "bricked" my phone, and I have a hardware locked vibrant, seems download mode can be gotten into with some due diligence("due diligence"=Don't panic and read read read) .
I have a hardware locked phone, obviously I read the threads. I cannot get into download mode - at all. No recovery.
If you're bad at pressing key combinations on your hardware unlocked phone, that's okay. You will eventially get it and then post how you got your hardware locked phone into download mode, I'm sure (hint, take off the back cover, makes pressing the buttons trivial).
Don't spread misinformation.
Hardware locked phones will not let you get into download or recovery mode. They will just power cycle over and over again if you try to hold keys down while the phone is booting up. You can try evey combination immaginable and one of two things will happen:
1. It will power cycle indefinitely (if power button held down) to the Vibrant Logo (turns off and on to that screen forever).
2. It will get stuck at the Vibrant Logo and never move (if the Volume Buttons held down). Will get to Vibrant Screen and stay there.
If you let go of all the buttons, it will just boot up normally (if it can, or get to a black screen if you bricked it /shrugs/).
I know. We tried for 3 hours in the store and I stayed up half the night trying. There's no way to get there, Lol. Seriouly: No way.
T-Mobile says it's a known issue. Asurion knows of the issue. Samsung knows the issue (issued a patch for Canada, but no one else IIRC). All 3 told me the only recourse is to get my phone replaced.
And that's what I'm doing.
I doubt you will get charged for bricking a hardware locked phone, because the manufacturer will have to flash a new ROM onto the phone anyways - at a repair factory.
Mine is locked, but I got into recovery mode via terminal app connected on USB.
Hi, i bought an HTC Dream/Google G1/T-Mobile G1. I bought as faulty and asked the guy what did it had. He said he needed to flash and update software. So i bought it thinking that if that's the problem i'd solve it and end up with an Android phone. I paid €50 for it. Thing is i can't do anything to the phone. I plugged the battery, pushed power and it gives the normal vibrate and then nothing, the screen doesn't even light up. I have to take the battery out to power off the phone then. If i plug the USB, it lights the red LED, but no recognition of the phone by the PC, turn it on again...the same.
I've searched the forum, top to bottom, and i've tried almost everything to try and make something out of my beautyfull brick. Keys combination, *.img to SD, haven´t tried throwing it to the wall, but i'm almost there.
If i could even get to bootloader... I have a Diamond and flashed it numerous times and never had a glitch.
Can you guys help out ? Please, i've searched the forum, read almost every post about bricked phones, etc...
Sounds like they may have flashed the wrong firmware file or its physically damaged and they lied to you.
I am pretty sure it needs re-flashed with a jtag interface if it's only a software issue. Because if the recovery image is intact it will still say "t-mobile G1" and be stuck in a boot loop.
Have you tried to start the phone to fastboot mode(hold down the back button and press power), or recovery(hold home and press power) ?
If you can't get into either of those you either need to find someone with a jtag adapter or get your money back because it's dead.
Thanks for the reply.
I tried all of that... . How on earth will i find someone with a jtag adapter, at least in a nearby area... guess i have nice brick then. I read somewhere here on xda of a shop in India that recovers the phone but its way to far for me to send the phone, pay the fix and they send it back!!! Well i guess thats it, i got screwed...
My computer crashed while trying to flash a new radio image to my HTC Magic, and now, whenever I start it, all I see is an image of a box with an arrow pointing to a phone laying beside it. After a couple of seconds the screen goes black, but there's still background lightning, and after a while there are some weird graphical artifacts. Do anyone know what this means? Can it be fixed or have I bricked the phone?
Can you get into fastboot or recovery?
No, any key combination gives exactly the same result as powering up normally.
Sorry, looks like your bricked
Well, that's unfortunate ... Thanks for your help, though.