Hello Fellas,
I unfortunately have bricked my Magic.
It happend as follows:
Code:
fastboot erase radio
fastboot erase hboot
fastboot erase recovery
I never tried to upgrade/downgrade a SPL or Radio like that. I always uses "Fastboot flash radio ... .img" and so on.
Well, first try; brick ^^
As I wanted to
Code:
fastboot flash radio ... .img
my Magic hanged up.
So everybody: USE FLASH and DONT ERASE!
By the way: does anybody has a tip how I get it back to work or a new one?
Greets
MarcVikernes
[EDiT]: Maybe we (in this Topic) could get some Information about other peoples expirience and how they've bricked their phone?
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So I have been trying all night to flash my buddy's MyTouch 3g to Cyanogenmod 6 and have run into several issues.
1. Created golddisk and updated the bootloader
2. Flashed radio (fastboot)
3. Flashed hboot (fastboot)
4. Flashed Clockwork recovery (fastboot)
I have been able to access Clockwork and install CM 6, and google apps. After all of this, the splash sreen hangs and never loads the ROM. For some reason, I decided to update the radio again to the radio img I downloaded from Cyanogen. After radio flash the hanging splash screen happens again. So I remove the battery and try to enter the bootloader (vol down+power) and it goes staight to the splash screen. Tried to enter recovery rom, same thing. The only thing that works is trackball+power to get the blue LED. HELP!!! I would prefer not to buy him another phone. (THIS WOULD BE THE THIRD PHONE I HAVE LOADED WITH CM6. NEXUS ONE, SPRINT HERO CDMA BEING THE OTHER TWO.)
Provide this info:
All fastboot info. ALL of it.
Run this command and post the output:
Code:
fastboot getvar version-main
When ALL info is provided we can help you!
mumilover said:
Provide this info:
All fastboot info. ALL of it.
Run this command and post the output:
Code:
fastboot getvar version-main
When ALL info is provided we can help you!
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How can I get that information without access to the bootloader where the Comand Prompt can access fastboot?
My mistake :0)
i have ran into the same problem
this happened to me because i basically tried downgrading the radio with the one of the cyanogen website
now my phone is bricked cannot access fastboot ,
have tried this method ?
i am about to try it see if it works
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=656798
hmm..
i feel like the goldcard method is last years root method, although i know nothing of it, i just remember it having to many steps. theunlockr.com has the way i rooted and its never done me wrong as far trouble shooting.
Hi, I know normally most threads are about help getting out of brick but in my case I find myself in the strange situation of needing to brick a phone. The jist of this is I'm helping a friend brick his phone so he can send it back to Tmobile. He thought it was bricked called it in and they sent him a replacement (Lg Optimus) but after I did some reading and messed with it I was able to bring it back lol Now he wants to keep the Optimus but here we are. I've spent hours looking for ways other than rooting and flashing custom spl's/radios/roms so that he doesn't get voided warranty.
Any thoughts or ideas on this? A friend is an app dev and told me to try to find some brick command file that "could be made" but I found nothing and he has is too busy with his job (sys admin) to help right now. I was thinking of doing OTA and taking batt half way thru to brick but cant find file anymore, seems google took it down from their server
Simple... Do you have eng spl?
If so, issue these commands:
Code:
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase data
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase splash1
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase radio
fastboot erase hboot
Now take out the battery and back in - watch the fun :0)
NB: If any of the commands fails, then just skip it......
not sure about the eng spl, will look it up in a sec. on my way to work lol Thank you!!!
to easy, install Rom Manager from Market, and flash the recovery from Mytouch3G, for example, or if u got 6.35.xx radio, flash recovery for HTC Magic, i bricked one doing this, and also a few people i know got the same result... :s
because rom manager´s recovery for Magic is for 3.22.xxx Radio, so if u flash the recovery on a 6.35 Radio, u will get a full-brick....
Vodafone, replaced the motherboard, no questions asked, in all the cases, but .....
But if they say that the warranty has been void, what then?
mumilover said:
Simple... Do you have eng spl?
If so, issue these commands:
Code:
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase data
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase splash1
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase radio
fastboot erase hboot
Now take out the battery and back in - watch the fun :0)
NB: If any of the commands fails, then just skip it......
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This is your best option. The phone wont do anything after. Just a paperweight.
Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk
Thank you all!
Sent from my "reason to own a phone"
ferreinf said:
to easy, install Rom Manager from Market, and flash the recovery from Mytouch3G, for example, or if u got 6.35.xx radio, flash recovery for HTC Magic, i bricked one doing this, and also a few people i know got the same result... :s
because rom manager´s recovery for Magic is for 3.22.xxx Radio, so if u flash the recovery on a 6.35 Radio, u will get a full-brick....
Vodafone, replaced the motherboard, no questions asked, in all the cases, but .....
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Flashing the wrong recovery will NOT brick your device.
You just did not know how to recover this... :0)
Hi.
i need some advice to see what can i do to get the phone working again.
case:
htc magic 32A.
ENG S-OFF H.
hboot-1.33.2005
radio.3.22.20.17.
i had cyangoenmod 6. working just fine! for several months. a couple a days ago (without installing anything new) it crashed, and now it gets stuck in the splash screen.
symptoms:
i can enter fastboot. fastboot devices lists the phone.
i can't enter recovery. fastboot boot recovery.img doesnt work, still stuck in splash screen. fastboot flash recovery.img doesnt work either.
i thought the next step would be a factory reset so i got a friend to copy the sappimg.zip on my sdcard and tried to run hboot mode, but it says NO IMAGE! when checking SAPPIMG.zip
should i use RUU? whats the procedure there?. from where i run it?. also i don't know whats the right one for my phone. i see this list: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=659403.
and fastboot getvar version-main gives me: 3.05.529.9. while CID gives BSTAR301
i dont see that exact version in the list, and the only one with that cid is 2.20.515.5 HTC Chile BrightStar/Entel. im a little confused here...
thanks for any help!.
the problem seems to be bigger. I decided to go with the RUU directly from Htc site. For my device, i gave my serial no. and downloaded the .exe for magic_brightstar. It did successfully updated everything (?), radio, hboot, recovery, system, splash....
But i start the phone and it is still stuck in the freaking init screen.
I don't understand, what else can i do?.
Can you enter the recovery now?
No. the recovery doesn't enter. still frozen.
I'm trying to have a working goldcard, but it has been a little tricky without another phone to convert the sd. I'm following what amon_ra suggested here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=548218. Because right now my hboot is locked (after running the factory RUU) and i can't run any of the flashing fastboot commands.
will post what happens...
ok the goldcard did its job, i have again eng spl with all fastboot flashing enabled. but i cant get into recovery yet, no matter what.
at this point i'm thinking on flashing the original hboot, radio and go claim the guaranty...
Any ideas before throwing the towel???
i was thinking that if it is a hardware/firmware problem, it should be possible to test via fastboot oem commands, isn't?
Download my fastboot commander from my signature (the magic version).
It has a special 32A tab.
Using the tool, flash the old combo and see if you can enter recovery afterwards.
You can also flash the new combo and give it try...
I know this might be a noob question but I'm trying to
Get the new radio and 14 MB hack so I'm really trying to do
this but when I go to bootloader and hit fastboot USB nothing
happens my radio right know is 2.22.23.03... I updated to the lattest radio before thru recovery but no rom would load up so I think I need to flash the right spl ra recovery and radio all
Together for this to work. Holla
OK so held the camera and the power together and this is what's on my
phone dream pvt 32b s off 1.33.2005
2.22.23.03 know how do I flash thru fast boot the spl 1.33d 15mb
Radio
Code:
fastboot flash radio radio-2.22.28.25.img (or radio-2.22.27.08.img)
fastboot flash hboot hboot-1.33.0013d.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot erase system -w
should be sufficient to get the "ram-hack"-combo.
The img files must be located in the directory from where you are calling the fastboot command.
Clockwork recovery wont let me flash these files only the radio
And I don't know how to use fastboot to flash
pkilla said:
Clockwork recovery wont let me flash these files only the radio
And I don't know how to use fastboot to flash
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How does Clockword relate to fastboot???
You need to boot your phone into fastboot mode (back + power on), you connect your phone with your PC and then you enter the commands I wrote in my last post on a shell on your PC and after that everything is fine.
Edit: if you need intstructions to use / set up fastboot you might have a look here
OK thanks I knew it was something else too this hack
Tried to install a new radio so I could get radio 2.2 instead of 3.2 rogers htc dream..
Just stuck at boot screen won't load os, fastboot or recovery should I try install adb and doing some commands there or should I just said it is bricked and dead ?
Thanks for answers, Also if you know it is bricked recommend a new phone please
I take it you ignored the advise to flash radios via fastboot rather than recovery.
If you had a 3.22.* radio and flashed a 2.22.* radio from recovery you are likely bricked (as this is one of the two easiest actions you can take to brick your phone).. Jtag can fix this.. but the jtag operation is worth more than the phone at this point)
Regardless: see if you can get into fastboot [power on holding camera] if you can get the fastboot info so we can help (if its 1.33.2005 just follow fastboot instructions to install 2.22.28.25 and 1.33.0013d including flashing recovery)
Cannot get into fastboot, I had danger sql on it also I did flash it via recovery
thanks for post please post back.