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How to brick my phone??

I know this is a strange request but I need to deliver my phone for repair because of HW issues and since it seems way to hard to recreate the original operator image from the dump, I thought that if I could get the phone into a situation where there is no bootloader then that should be enough.
Any ideas?
Thanx,
Eran

jocool said:
I know this is a strange request but I need to deliver my phone for repair because of HW issues and since it seems way to hard to recreate the original operator image from the dump, I thought that if I could get the phone into a situation where there is no bootloader then that should be enough.
Any ideas?
Thanx,
Eran
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Allow mw to suggest the following: Why don't you try to set it on fire?
Cheers.

I would say a bunch of big magnets should do the trick.

Kevlar-Source said:
Allow mw to suggest the following: Why don't you try to set it on fire?
Cheers.
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Wish I could but if I break it physically need to pay a fine

simple answer:
HTC doesn't take "the phone was burned" under warranty...
So instead of giving nonsense remarks, you could have said nothing instead.
Of course this is cheating, in a way, but since there are HW issues and HTC doesn't repair unless it's the original ROM on it...
Jocool: One method would be to disconnect during a ROM installation, thou i'm not sur if you can't still get it right after that.

You'd probably have to get it to the original bootloader which shouldn't be too hard and then interrupt it during a Radio flash.

Flash a radio and pull the cable about half way through...i think that should do it!

ai6908 said:
Flash a radio and pull the cable about half way through...i think that should do it!
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I tried this with a full ROM and unfortunately still gets to the boot loader. Will try this later.
Thanx
Eran

actually, i thought HTC dont cover software issues?
and if YOU damage the bootloader in the update process is that not your responsibility? as i'm pretty sure the RUU states somewhere that you update at your risk?
if i were you, just do something to fubber up the mainboard, best thing i suggest is to put something into the micro sd card slot which will basically insulate the pins such that it doesnt make contact with the memory card, that way you can get the thing changed like i did with my old charmer!

Piezoelectric gas lighter...
I haven't said this, I have not been there...

duke_stix said:
actually, i thought HTC dont cover software issues?
and if YOU damage the bootloader in the update process is that not your responsibility? as i'm pretty sure the RUU states somewhere that you update at your risk?
if i were you, just do something to fubber up the mainboard, best thing i suggest is to put something into the micro sd card slot which will basically insulate the pins such that it doesnt make contact with the memory card, that way you can get the thing changed like i did with my old charmer!
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I need to get this to the operator for fixing. It is actually easy enough to return to an original HTC ROM but that won't work for me

brick your phone???
4 months ago I sent my device for repairing, but they sent it back after 3 months with a note that: "the device can not be repaired any more becasue the Flashbaustein (this is the name in German and I couldn't find the english word) is kaputt"
of course I can assure you they even didn't try to switch on the device in these 3 months... after a long discussion with the T-Mobile agent, I took my device home and tried to re-flash a new ROM on it and everything went as it should be.
be careful with the risks you might cause to yourself

i once did it with my htc wizard ... though i forgot how already ... but I think it did it through the sd card... not sure if it's possible with hermes though since I didn't try that ...
but anyway, i think I modified the first few bytes in the 512 header of the rom with random characters and copied into the sd card to flash my wizard.
Tada, killed the bootloader
I hope that you can do that with the hermes ... I did see a wiki on how to flash your hermes through your sd.
Hope this helps

Burn Baby Burn
Hi
Try this, i assure you that will do the trick.
Connect a USB Cableto the HTC, get a 20V AC adapter, connect a wire to the Positive and one to the negative on the AC adapter connector, connect the negative to the outside of the usb cable, and, use the positive in every other contacts, wen you see SMOKE, STOP.
I'am preaty shure that they wont get to the BootLoader

New Idea
I have an idea...
1. Get an anvil
2. Get a sledgehammer
3. Place your Hermes on top of the anvil
4. Drop the sledgehammer on it
5. Pick up the pieces
6. Glue them together
7. Polish it with a fine cloth
8. Wrap it in a fancy paper
9. Send it to wherever you were sending it in the first place
Cheers.

compumad said:
Hi
Try this, i assure you that will do the trick.
Connect a USB Cableto the HTC, get a 20V AC adapter, connect a wire to the Positive and one to the negative on the AC adapter connector, connect the negative to the outside of the usb cable, and, use the positive in every other contacts, wen you see SMOKE, STOP.
I'am preaty shure that they wont get to the BootLoader
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I believe it would be more effective with a high voltage... Just imagine pluging it directly into a high voltage power line... It would be better than fireworks

the best way is to cause an electrical fault. just connect a 12V car battery to the battery terminals of your phone. just be careful as you may kill yourself due to the high current flwoing out of the battery regardless even though its 12v.

Thanx to all that gave me ideas some practical and some not
I was able to convince my provider to replace my phone without turning it on so problem solved

I fried my blackberry by just putting it in the microwave for 15 seconds, pop and bam dead

If you wanna brick your phone, just go into clockwork recovery and format your sdcard and so a whole system wipe. That's what I did then took it to verizon and got a new Droid x.

Restoring my rom before servicing?

I've flashed my Titan but the usb connector port on the bottom has developed a short. I have to push the connector sideways to get a connection. I have a headphone adapter and if I want stereo sound I have to push on the side as well as when syncing. My PC doesn't recognize the Titan unless I push on the cable slightly right where it connects to the device.
Anyway, I'm gonna need to take it into the Verizon store to get it fixed and I find it likely they are going to want to send it to a repair center. I even replaced the verizon boot screen with the stock HTC one, so it's very obvious I've flashed my phone.
I probably should restore it to the stock firmware before I take it in but I want to be sure. It's a pain in the ass to reinstall everything after a flash.

So what is the question?
Most people restore if they are able to, but it is up to you. I have heard that many phones go in with 2.40 olipro, so I would assume that many go in with custom roms and splashscreens.
Roll the dice if you don't want to reflash, I figure we have broken our warranty in many ways that they could object to if they really wanted. I haven't read anything here or on ppcgeeks that says that someone was charged for a phone they sent in for service after flashing.

The question was if I should flash my phone with the stock rom before I took it in but you answered it anyway.
Thanks.

[Q] Any Hope For Bricked Phone?

so, ive definitely learned my lesson about buying things off of craigslist..however, it was the ONLY way i could afford this phone, and ive been DYING for this phone. ANYWHO, it was "Bricked" when i bought it, but was guaranteed it was fixable, guy says hes been selling these for the past few months, and hes never had a problem. i dont want to fix it myself, but just want to know if it IS fixable. i dont know what was flashed on here, wont turn on, no charge signal. all i get is when i plug it into the pc, im told i need to download the qualcomm CDMA technologies MSM, then im told it cant be located. should i have hope since ATLEAST the pc recognizes something is connected or was i just bamboozled? oh...it also wont recognize as connected in the windows mobile device center or activesync.
thanks for any info or help you can provide!
it REALLY is appreciated.

wildlikesafari said:
so, ive definitely learned my lesson about buying things off of craigslist..however, it was the ONLY way i could afford this phone, and ive been DYING for this phone. ANYWHO, it was "Bricked" when i bought it, but was guaranteed it was fixable, guy says hes been selling these for the past few months, and hes never had a problem. i dont want to fix it myself, but just want to know if it IS fixable. i dont know what was flashed on here, wont turn on, no charge signal. all i get is when i plug it into the pc, im told i need to download the qualcomm CDMA technologies MSM, then im told it cant be located. should i have hope since ATLEAST the pc recognizes something is connected or was i just bamboozled? oh...it also wont recognize as connected in the windows mobile device center or activesync.
thanks for any info or help you can provide!
it REALLY is appreciated.
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Can you boot into bootloader. If so, just HSPL, run a Task 29 and flash a ROM.

wildlikesafari said:
all i get is when i plug it into the pc, im told i need to download the qualcomm CDMA technologies MSM,
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and no charge light, nothing, right?
Its a ..51.. version radio vs tmous phone. Its dead. The only way to repair it is with a JTAG device. Hunt around for specialist phone repair shops, theyre the few places likely to have one, or if you're handy with taking appart, you can buy jtag boxes for around 150 dollars or so, plus another 15/20 for the cradle to hold the mainboard, which will let you re write the bootloader (or some such voodoo). google "ort jtag" or "riff jtag".
I dont know any specifics about it, theres a thread somewhere in this tmous section where a guy talks about it, he seems to know what hes doing.

yeah, no bootloader, no light, nothing!
I gave it to my dad to look at...he said its dead, he's going to send it back to HTC, hopefully they replace it..im so depressed, I've been wanting this phone FOREVER!!
has anyone dealt with HTC? how long does a repair take? cost?

loads of people have successfully claimed on warranty, just be sure not to mention flashing and all will be well.
"it was like that when i woke up"

[Q] Removing Hspl with a broken usb port (literally fell out of the device)

I need to send my hd2 back to the carrier but I need to remove hspl first (You know hide any evidence of tampering with the software). How can I do so with no usb port, but with a microsd card instead?

Flash stock rom from sd card. But you know that from when you googled "how to remove hspl hd2"., right?

yeah but after reading the articles they mention something about the device now being able to read the usb port to restore the original spl, even though that doesn't mean anything to me, not being able to use that method. so I'm just double checking if for example a site called jayceooi is right by saying renaming the ruu file to leoimg will flash everything or just be setting me up to be able to remove it, since in the end of the instructions it mentions now you can connect to remove hspl as if it wasn't done already and every video I see shows the hd2 being connected to a computer to flash the original spl back. Anyways I've believed that flashing the original stock rom would do what I want but the "loading" screen only flashes for less than a second (in bootloader) so now I'm stuck trying to use different micro sd cards and but to no avail. I downloaded the official update rom from t-mo's U.S.A site so any advice would be welcomed.

to be honest i don't know what you are trying to say, but do as samsamuel says and all be good.

i you cant figure out how to fix it, just try to send it to the carrier, maybe they cant it too

Put stock rom (extract the .nfh if needed) onto root of your SD and name it leoimg.nbh.
Then just hold volume down button while powering on and let it flash back to stock and you should have stock SPL again.

Kevin: I wish :/ Originally it had the insurance on it and the phone is still under warranty and its been replaced multiple times. I've noticed the void sticker is broke on the model as well as the lens, that protects the actual camera, is missing. The wireless cable must be loose since something makes noise in there and wifi reception is almost nonexistent. To add on the charging port just fell out with little usage (gf likes using a wireless powermat so I know using the port didn't have much to do with it). To charge the phone I had to cut a usb cord and make a little charging station for the battery since the phone can't charge even wirelessly anymore. She's had the device for 4 months now and last time talking to c.s. about a week ago they said that with the insurance it would be a 350 deductable and without insurance it be a possible $600 restocking fee if anything was wrong with it. So Idk what that's suppose to mean when obviously the whole thing is messed up...
TheAtheist: I've been doing that I'm starting to think something must be wrong with the file I got from t-mo

Best way to Brick/Break my HD2

Hi. I have a problem with my HD2 and I didn't find a solution how to fix it for over a month and I don't think I will find it. My problem explained (HERE) So now I want to Brick / Brake my phone so that I can send it to my insurance and they will not able to tell that I had Android on it, as now I can't install WM and I can't rid of MAGLDR. So what will be the best way to Brick / Break my phone so what whey will not be able to turn my phone on or fix it and find out that it’s been hacked as then I will not get a new one or they will not fix it. Waiting for advices

Sw1pe said:
Hi. I have a problem with my HD2 and I didn't find a solution how to fix it for over a month and I don't think I will find it. My problem explained (HERE) So now I want to Brick / Brake my phone so that I can send it to my insurance and they will not able to tell that I had Android on it, as now I can't install WM and I can't rid of MAGLDR. So what will be the best way to Brick / Break my phone so what whey will not be able to turn my phone on or fix it and find out that it’s been hacked as then I will not get a new one or they will not fix it. Waiting for advices
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I see a lot of solutions, but nobody seems to have told you to boot up your phone using volume down, which gets you directly into the bootloader, from where you can flash the Winmo 6.5 ROM.
Did you try that?
Otherwise there are numerous ways of trashing it i guess... mess around with electrical wiring and make sure the mainboard has a power spike or something... then you're sure nobody will be able to do something with it

Of course I tried it. The problem is that for some reason I can't get into bootloader, and I tried to do that 100 times with all different methods with no luck. I only can get into MAGLDR. I wrote all this in my first message in that threat

Well, from what i can understand after looking at your original post, you cannot enter the tri-color bootloader? Well, have you tried a hard reset? And, when you mentioned liquid entered your phone, you should also check the water indicator stickers on your phone and battery to see if they are pick or red. Else, they will not bother replacing or repairing it. Have you also tried resetting Android from MAGLDR? Back to your request, if you cannot enter the bootloader and unable to flash anything, the easiest ways to brick(any maybe recover) your phone are all void. The best way to physically damage your phone might be to short circuit it. Alternatively, if you just do not want them to know that you have flashed MAGLDR, you should damage the ribbon cable for the LCD. You have to unscrew the phone for this,but do gently remove the warranty and water indicator stickers before this. Please do explore all avenues like a hard reset and Android reset

i just got off the phone with htc and thay still fix the phone even if it has android on it thay will just replace the main bord because thay dont know how to fix it. but i have bricked my phone alredy and it wont turn on at all due to flashing a wrong rom on it that was ment for a diffrent country my phone is htc hd2 tmoble us. anyway you may just want to fix it your self and use the riff jtag box
watch this to see how to dissesible the device fix it and reasimble!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoiuM9epp2o
then watch how much easyer this guy repairs it using the non soldering method!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XroEPU4qyuM
first you need riff box and the other thag to or the non soldering method
i dont know the name for it im trying to find out!
hears teh link for riff box
http://www.jtagbox.com/tag/htc-unbrick/
hears the link for the other thang
http://www.multi-com.pl/index.php/en_US,details,id_pr,6503,menu_mode,categories.html
but not sure!!! im hopeing someone could conferm that or give us better links to this stuff!
maby from a diffrent sorce or cheper even!
so far i found the riff box for 150usd
but i dont know about the other thang! hopeing someone can help us with this stuff!
the advantages are if you brick it agin you can fix it agin and you can bebrave enuf to test new roms its expencive but its a very populer device and im shore more new roms will be relesed you may beable to help others who have bricked phones and make some cash back
i think this is the other thang he used but i need to find a site that has it in usd and in english im sort of in the same boat as you exept im not in warinty but warintys dont last forever so eventuly this thang is gona be peoples only hope!
htc charges
avrege repare 50$
lcd 120$
mainbord 170$
mainbord & lcd 285$
and thats only if you have
thay might extend your warinty if you have your resept
or
prufe of puchese
date
product id
im curently looking for someone to do a riff jtag on mine!
hope my info helps

i bricked my phone
i briked my htc hd2 phone . when i switch it on it gets stuck at the pink ribbon which does not roll at all. i tried installing a gingerbread on it and while usind the mgldr it downgraded and when i swithced it on again the loading got stuck at the pink ribbon.

baymol said:
i briked my htc hd2 phone . when i switch it on it gets stuck at the pink ribbon which does not roll at all. i tried installing a gingerbread on it and while usind the mgldr it downgraded and when i swithced it on again the loading got stuck at the pink ribbon.
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well atleast it boots i would start from scratch if i was you if its tmoble usa htc hd2 install RUU_Leo_1_5_TMOUS_2.10.531.0_Radio_Signed_15.34.50.07U_2.08.50.08_2_Ship.exe

Sorry for a late replay, I was very busy in the past days
kawshigan said:
Well, from what i can understand after looking at your original post, you cannot enter the tri-color bootloader? Well, have you tried a hard reset? And, when you mentioned liquid entered your phone, you should also check the water indicator stickers on your phone and battery to see if they are pick or red. Else, they will not bother replacing or repairing it. Have you also tried resetting Android from MAGLDR? Back to your request, if you cannot enter the bootloader and unable to flash anything, the easiest ways to brick(any maybe recover) your phone are all void. The best way to physically damage your phone might be to short circuit it. Alternatively, if you just do not want them to know that you have flashed MAGLDR, you should damage the ribbon cable for the LCD. You have to unscrew the phone for this,but do gently remove the warranty and water indicator stickers before this. Please do explore all avenues like a hard reset and Android reset
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Yes, I cannot enter bootloader and yes I tried hard reset (with volume up and down keys) with no luck. I checked my indicator stickers and they all look fine (white). The liquid damage was not a water damage I get a little bit of oily liquid on my phone but just a little, so very little of it could get inside my phone if any, but after that my phone just frozen on android screen and when I tried to reset it, it’s always freezes on android boot screen. And yes I tried resetting Android from MAGLDR, I even tried to install different android soft but after installation it still freezes on android boot screen.
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the easiest ways to brick(any maybe recover) your phone are all void
Can you explain more about his one? And how I can do that?
I don't really want to unscrew anything because if I going to do something wrong I would void my insurance and they not going to change it at all. I was thinking maybe just drop it in a big cup of water and hold it for like 30sec - 1min. I think my insurance will cover water damage and I think whey not even going to bother to fix it. What do you think?
jackrabbit72380 said:
i just got off the phone with htc and thay still fix the phone even if it has android on it thay will just replace the main bord because thay dont know how to fix it. but i have bricked my phone alredy and it wont turn on at all due to flashing a wrong rom on it that was ment for a diffrent country my phone is htc hd2 tmoble us. anyway you may just want to fix it your self and use the riff jtag box
watch this to see how to dissesible the device fix it and reasimble!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoiuM9epp2o
then watch how much easyer this guy repairs it using the non soldering method!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XroEPU4qyuM
first you need riff box and the other thag to or the non soldering method
i dont know the name for it im trying to find out!
hears teh link for riff box
http://www.jtagbox.com/tag/htc-unbrick/
hears the link for the other thang
http://www.multi-com.pl/index.php/en_US,details,id_pr,6503,menu_mode,categories.html
but not sure!!! im hopeing someone could conferm that or give us better links to this stuff!
maby from a diffrent sorce or cheper even!
so far i found the riff box for 150usd
but i dont know about the other thang! hopeing someone can help us with this stuff!
the advantages are if you brick it agin you can fix it agin and you can bebrave enuf to test new roms its expencive but its a very populer device and im shore more new roms will be relesed you may beable to help others who have bricked phones and make some cash back
i think this is the other thang he used but i need to find a site that has it in usd and in english im sort of in the same boat as you exept im not in warinty but warintys dont last forever so eventuly this thang is gona be peoples only hope!
htc charges
avrege repare 50$
lcd 120$
mainbord 170$
mainbord & lcd 285$
and thats only if you have
thay might extend your warinty if you have your resept
or
prufe of puchese
date
product id
im curently looking for someone to do a riff jtag on mine!
hope my info helps
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The thing is that I have insurance on it not a warranty. If I only had just a warranty I will think of fixing it by my self with jtag. But now I just need to think of how to break it so whey don't know it was hacked pay to my insurance £20 - £30 and I should get brand new HD2

bump !

High voltage electrical charge: via stun gun or similar high voltage output such as automobile ignition coil ect ... Have seen a stun gun used on a computer, killed it without any obvious signs of damage ...