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Bricked HD2 Can It Come Back?

I installed the HSPL for the 1024 HD2 all went smooth then I proceeded to flash a Energy rom and all was smooth. Then I downloaded a dutty rom from 3/28 that I find out later was not the right one flash went accordingly 100%. The phone did not restart. It will not turn on. No power on and no light when charging. No bootloader mode, no regular boot nothing. I read you might be able to bring it back so i was wondering if you guys could help me out. I plug it in and says it has the wrong drivers. So is there a way to take it back to stock as I cant get mh money back on this phone?
Shokouhi

oops, another non starting tmous after bad radio flash.
same problem HERE and HERE (post three) and HERE , , it's also mentioned in the mtty and the HSPL (regular HSPL and tmous HSPL) threads.

samsamuel said:
oops, another non starting tmous after bad radio flash.
same problem HERE and HERE (post three) and HERE , , it's also mentioned in the mtty and the HSPL (regular HSPL and tmous HSPL) threads.
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So is it safe to assume that there is no way to fix this? Because none of these things in the other threads have worked for them and they have not worked for me. With the current state would they be able to tell it was flashed if I send it to tmobile? Or I am good to send it in for an exchange?

if they can make the phone boot to bootloader then they will see hspl and refuse to replace it.(shouldn't matter what rom is on it, its the hspl that invalidates it.)
if they can't start it, then you are in theory safe.
I have seen a few people say they got it replaced, but I would be quick!
I won't say there is no fix, just no ones mentioned one yet

samsamuel said:
if they can make the phone boot to bootloader then they will see hspl and refuse to replace it.(shouldn't matter what rom is on it, its the hspl that invalidates it.)
if they can't start it, then you are in theory safe.
I have seen a few people say they got it replaced, but I would be quick!
I won't say there is no fix, just no ones mentioned one yet
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I will keep you updated!

plus one for me. same exact thing happened with dutty's newest rom. so now i have a nice brick sitting here. still searching.
This will not be fun because i purchased the phone from wirefly and not tmobile...so i am not sure walking into the local tmobile store will be of any help.

ramontrotman said:
plus one for me. same exact thing happened with dutty's newest rom. so now i have a nice brick sitting here. still searching.
This will not be fun because i purchased the phone from wirefly and not tmobile...so i am not sure walking into the local tmobile store will be of any help.
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dont forget the phone is manufacturer warrantied for 1 year, plus wirefly are legaly bound to support you for a while too.

Tear a hole in your short's pocket and go jogging. After the run you'll realize your HD2 is no longer in your pocket. Report it lost and pay your deductible.

samsamuel said:
dont forget the phone is manufacturer warrantied for 1 year, plus wirefly are legaly bound to support you for a while too.
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true indeed. i called tmobile sending me out a brand new one...so i am not really complaining. so i am getting an extra battery and back
ddgarcia05 said:
Tear a hole in your short's pocket and go jogging. After the run you'll realize your HD2 is no longer in your pocket. Report it lost and pay your deductible.
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lol nice!

same here. I just got my phone like 7 hours ago and I already brick it coz I accidentally flash it to the wrong ROM. So I went back to the Tmobile store today and they try to swap the batteries and think that its just the batteries. Then, they can't figure it out whats wrong with it. The manager said he's going to call once he get his shipment of HD2 and replace it.

ddgarcia05 said:
Tear a hole in your short's pocket and go jogging. After the run you'll realize your HD2 is no longer in your pocket. Report it lost and pay your deductible.
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My favorite fix, of all time!
Thanks!

Snarksneeze said:
My favorite fix, of all time!
Thanks!
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That is what i ended up doing now I am flashing away! Kumar has a sweet rom go try his stuff!

Please help ..........im new to this.
can you please help me out, i follow your tutorial it was very simple to the point but the only i issue i still have is that when i tried to load the room following the instructions everything was successful but i get stuck on the initial T mobile screen and it shows the following message
R 2.08.50.08_2
G 15.34.50.07U
D 1. 66. Kumar
but it doesn't advance from that screen... can you please point me on the right direction.
did i BRICK THIS THING what can i do

eddie05ne said:
can you please help me out, i follow your tutorial it was very simple to the point but the only i issue i still have is that when i tried to load the room following the instructions everything was successful but i get stuck on the initial T mobile screen and it shows the following message
R 2.08.50.08_2
G 15.34.50.07U
D 1. 66. Kumar
but it doesn't advance from that screen... can you please point me on the right direction.
did i BRICK THIS THING what can i do
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i already answered the post you made an hour ago, go read here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=661599

same here
i did the same thing, but when i try to install a custom room for my tmobile hd2 ,,,, it stuck at HTC screen with 0% ..... ???? i try the custom room or stock room , they stuck at HTC screen forever

Has anyone been able to work out a "Bootloader Repair" programme that will help people bring these bricked HD2's back by re-flashing the loader on the the flash memory?
I imagine a hundreds of HD2 fans will need it...

HELP!!! flashed radio 2.07.51.22, now phone wont power on!!!

So, like it says, all i did was flash the new radio... now my hd2 wont power on. im using the core cell evo v3 rom. it was working perfectly, aside from the low reception... so i flashed the different radio. when the phone power cycled after the radio installed, it wouldnt power back on... please, please, PLEASE help!!!

Uhm, you didn't read ANYTHING before starting this whole process....did you? A Radio ROM with X.XX.51.X WILL ALWAYS BRICK A TMO-US HD2. Seriously, its at the top of like EVERY subforum...

as ashasaur said above... sorry my friend, but you have a nice paper weight on ur hands... any radio with a "51" in it is for european HD2's and will BRICK a USA HD2...
2.07.51.22 <--- evil

rlee008 said:
as ashasaur said above... sorry my friend, but you have a nice paper weight on ur hands... any radio with a "51" in it is for european HD2's and will BRICK a USA HD2...
2.07.51.22 <--- evil
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awe crap!! this isnt the first time i hacked this phone too... i read that warning so many damn times... i dont know why i overlooked that... by any chance, is there some hope of unbricking this thing... its not even my phone...

As much as I hate to say this because I was a complete noob once as well. But damn it dude did you not do any research what so ever before hand? I mean come on thats like the first thing you read is ONLY flash .50 radios to US TMOBILE hd2's . Read next time bro.

vampsandbats said:
As much as I hate to say this because I was a complete noob once as well. But damn it dude did you not do any research what so ever before hand? I mean come on thats like the first thing you read is ONLY flash .50 radios to US TMOBILE hd2's . Read next time bro.
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ummm... like i said... i read that warning a million times, and i dont know why i overlooked it this time. it was a stupid mistake on my part... but i DO read everything before getting started on stuff like this... my question still remains, can it be unbricked? i know its a slim to none chance, but im hoping it can be done...

Check this out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=668347
Hope it helps.

savd said:
Check this out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=668347
Hope it helps.
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I already read that one... unfortunately the phone needs to power on for that fix to work... thanks anyway...

gonna be a warranty issue I'm afraid. the phone is dead and gone.

Yup. I did this to my first HD2, the night I got it. I managed to take it down to T-Mobile the next day, and convince them it was a bad model, and they gave me a new one, but they only do that in the first 14 days after you purchase it.
There really is nothing to do but get a new one.
Personally, after I got my second one, I just stuck with the stock radio.

yup its a brick my friend... i did the same thing but with a .50 radio that wasnt good it was like the first edition... but yea my phone was brick insurance had to pickup the tab..

BrianYost24 said:
yup its a brick my friend... i did the same thing but with a .50 radio that wasnt good it was like the first edition... but yea my phone was brick insurance had to pickup the tab..
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JTAG maybe..?

I was in your shoes
samsamuel said:
WARNING- DO NOT USE 2.04.50.x OR 2.05.50.x - They WILL brick the tmous.
2.06.50.x
2.07.50.x
2.08.50.x
2.09.50.x
2.10.50.x
2.11.50.x
2.12.50.x
all work on tmous phones
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The second post on the radio thread was probably from my doing as I flashed a 2.05.50.xx on my T-Mo and bricked. I got mine off of cragislist and luckily it was under 30 days and the guy was cool enough to do (...for discounted Wii and 360 moding) a replacement for me.
But...It all goes back to what then seniors have always said when I started on the ROM dev forums. READ! I know you are getting that left and right and it doesn't change your situation, but YOU WON'T do that again.
Don't flash (or mod) anything late at night is a good rule of thumb...I HAVE learned my lesson when I disobey that rule...luckily Walmart/Target are unaware of gut swaps. But I bricked my HD 2 and did a semi-brick on my old Tilt before the semi-brick information was available at no fault of my own. I am sorry for your situation... I HAVE BEEN THERE. I keep a cheap flip phone (since I left the CDMA world) handy at all times since my first Brick way back when.
I don't even post that much anymore...I just read. But I am still a flashing junkie.
Hopefully, you will get a replacement and have attained some wisdom from the situation so it won't happen again or this thread you started will keep others from the bricking wayside.

It's most likely not a brick did u try to put your sim in an other phone? This happened to me and my sim was got fried and got a replacement from t-mo , this is one thing the other time I had to reflash an other rom with the radio recommanded for it worked try these first and then if all goes wrong it's just not ur lucky flash.

issam1979 said:
It's most likely not a brick did u try to put your sim in an other phone? This happened to me and my sim was got fried and got a replacement from t-mo , this is one thing the other time I had to reflash an other rom with the radio recommanded for it worked try these first and then if all goes wrong it's just not ur lucky flash.
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no, you're wrong. Its been proven over and over again that radios with a 51 in the version kill tmous hd2s.

I didnt say i was sure i said likely, but trying more ways wont hurt, u can try to flash tmo stock rom to it's known to fix problems, i wish u luck

raysaboy said:
I already read that one... unfortunately the phone needs to power on for that fix to work... thanks anyway...
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Whatever you do don't send it to HTC.. $600 fine..
PM me

Scabes24 said:
Whatever you do don't send it to HTC.. $600 fine..
PM me
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Fine? or Fee? Also, do you have an alternate method of repair?

SuperSport said:
Fine? or Fee? Also, do you have an alternate method of repair?
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I think a fine.. :/
I recently bricked an HD2 (not radio related) and was told by a few people that if I send it to HTC and they figure out the device has any custom/cooked ROM or an SPL that is hacked, or from a test ROM (MFG spl) or basically anything that isn't an official/shipped release then they'll hit you w/ a $600 fine. And I'm assuming they don't send the device back to you..
Just what I've heard, and maybe it was just for my 'type' of brick - My thread
And no, i don't have another method, was just gonna inform him about JTAG if he wanted, I guess the ".51 Radio brick" isn't quite as hard to recover as it is others (correct me if I'm wrong).

thank to EVERYONE for all your input. i'm still on a quest to try and salvage this phone because like i said, it wasnt even mine. i already thought of exchanging it at tmo, but my friend got it off of craigslist, so thats out... and i am a former employee of tmous, and i know all the little sim card tricks and what not, and that wasnt successful either. im trying to find someone with jtag gear locally, but here in hawaii there arent a whole lot of options as far cellphone repairs and reprograming... ive bee scouring the net looking for other solutions, and if i do find something, i will be SURE to post it here so that others with the same problem can bring their phones back to life... thanks again everyone!!

[Q] flashing help -debricking

Sorry guys, but i am totally lost.
I did some searching on debricking, but it is over my head.
I have a 512mb hd2.
I flashed it to android and have been using it for a few days.
I decided to go back to windows mobile using this guide
theunlockr.com/2010/04/22/how-to-get-the-htc-hd2-back-to-stock/
the file was called RUU_Leo_HTC_WWE_1.48.405.2_Radio_Signed_15.28.50.07U_2.05.51.05_2_Ship
i flashed the unbranded rom.
now the phone no longer turns on.
I really hope i didn't break it permanently.
If i hold the vol down button and power button, nothing happens.
if i plug it in, nothing happens.
please. My employment is solely through my phone (service rep).

Sorry to tell you but you flashed a 2.05.51.05 radio to. T-Mobile HD2 and a 51 radio bricks a T-Mobile HD2. The only way to fix it is to use a JTAG and a Riffbox on it. Do you live in the US?

its not a tmobile hd2 its a European hd2.

Are you sure it is a EU HD2 cause that shouldn't have bricked a EU HD2, but it will instantly kill a TMOUS. Is all of your buttons white, you don't have a green send button and a red end button?

there is no tmobile version of the hd2 with only 512mb of rom.
buttons are white, not colored. and not illuminated in any way.

Sorry just had to check to make sure. This is odd to me I do not know why that ROM would have bricked your HD2. Your HD2 didn't turn off or come unplugged or anything like that during the flash did it? Also did the progress meter on your computer and the HD2 go all the way to 100% and then your HD2 rebooted it self?
I am truly lost to why your HD2 is dead now. How about it guys anybody else out there know.

it did complete, and when it 'rebooted' it never came back on.

ABigNoob said:
it did complete, and when it 'rebooted' it never came back on.
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I am looking at the starring at the ROM in your first post and I do not see anything that would have causedcthos in the ROM name. Just out of curiosity where did you get the HD2 you have cause I am kinda wondering if you have a test T-Mobile HD2. It doesn't have like some writting on the back battery cover does it? I can not remember off the top of my head what it said but I am not talking about the HTC on the cover. You see the T-Mobile test devices were just like EU HD2s as far a ram and flash size. Also the test devices looked just like regular EU HD2s.

Ok go to this thread and tell me if your HD2 looks like the one in the picture. Also if you look atcthe list of test ROMs senior member xmoo has the ROM you flashed is the next to last ROM. So I think you flashed a T-Mobile test ROM to your HD2. And I think the test ROMs were only meant to be run on the test devices. Here is the link to the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768251

bent battery pins?

battery pens are fine.
T-Macgnolia your dead on. its a test tmobile hd2.
any chance of recovery?

ABigNoob said:
battery pens are fine.
T-Macgnolia your dead on. its a test tmobile hd2.
any chance of recovery?
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Well with it being bricked the one and only way to save it is to have it JTAGed. If you are willing to ship the phone I can hook you up with someone that can JTAG it.
I was looking at the thread I linked for you in my last post. Do you know if you have the HT97 or the HT98 test model HD2? I ambetting you have a HT97.

no idea what version, but theres a guy on craigslist in my area that is advertising he can jtag it. 20 bucks is cheap.
i appreciate your help. if it falls through can i contact you?

ABigNoob said:
no idea what version, but theres a guy on craigslist in my area that is advertising he can jtag it. 20 bucks is cheap.
i appreciate your help. if it falls through can i contact you?
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Yeah feel free to contact me if you need to. Twenty bucks is cheap, about thirty bucks cheaper than the Guy I know but the Guy I know is a complete professional too. He does cell phone repair for a living. I hope the Guy you found on criegs list knows what he is doing as the HD2 is not an easy device to work on. And to JTAG it he will havecto remove the intior main board from the phone.
Knowing now that you have a HTC Pro Three I still say the radio is what bricked your HD2. Cause I think that even though the radios used in the HTC Pro Three's were x.xx.50.xx radios, and they will brick a TMOUS.HD2. I do not think they used any x.xx.51.xx radios in them as a 51 radio will brick a regular and test TMOUS HD2. You must have got that ROM from HTC as I think the ROM version is a ROM version for the EU HD2s but they have the 51 radio where the ROM for the HTC Pro Three have a 50 radio. Best of luck and let me know if I can help any further, sorry for your bad luck.

Is my Htc Hd2 bricked?

Hello.. i tried to flash official stock rom via sd card method and it said update failed and then i had to take the abttery out. When i try to power the htc hd2 on it vibrates 7 or 8 times and doesn't do anything. no boot no anything. So is it bricked? if so can i repair it somewhere? Please i need it to work..

If no bootloader... Then sorry you phone is bricked... It can be fixed by doing a reinstall of bootloader. And radio using jtag... Google it.. Or search on the ebay you will get it
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siddharth singh said:
If no bootloader... Then sorry you phone is bricked... It can be fixed by doing a reinstall of bootloader. And radio using jtag... Google it.. Or search on the ebay you will get it
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But im not a technician to know that kind of ****..... Do you think there are stores taht wiill fxi this for me? or not? or do i have to put my htc hd2 in the trashcan? I need just a little bit more information.. please

beston94 said:
But im not a technician to know that kind of ****..... Do you think there are stores taht wiill fxi this for me? or not? or do i have to put my htc hd2 in the trashcan? I need just a little bit more information.. please
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You could probably take it somewhere, but it's expensive and I think it's difficult to find.
If you can't, then you just have an expensive paperweight

take the battery out, make sure the pins in the phone arent bent and then put the battery back in after 30 minutes
hold the down volume button as you turn it on if it still doesnt work you would need to take it toa shop that has a jtag device to fix the issue

beston94 said:
But im not a technician to know that kind of ****..... Do you think there are stores taht wiill fxi this for me? or not? or do i have to put my htc hd2 in the trashcan? I need just a little bit more information.. please
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there are quite many shops ...you can search on ebay ...and send yor phone to them ...they will fix it and return ...maybe google for a shop near you ..there is also a member in this forum who owns a jtag ...ask mskip for his name ..i have forgotten
if you hd2 failed updating itself ...i would be scared ...cuz it could mean that you have quite a bit of bad bocks in the radio section ..so just check it out ...if you have warranty ..then try to claim it ..tell them that you were updating(mention updating from pc ...not sd card) and it failed in the middle with this error
and 7 short vibrates also point to a hardware problem ...better go to htc and get it checked out ..or O2

Bricked HTC HD2

Hi guys, I am attempted to unbrick my friend's HD2? The phone will not turn on. When I plug the phone into a wall charger, it will charges, but without anything on screen. I cant turn it on and it won't vibrate. Please help!
I believed that he was trying to flash it to Android?

Well the device boot to the bootloader?

T-Macgnolia said:
Well the device boot to the bootloader?
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Bootloader is the power and two volume buttons together right?

Volume down plus power, ,, both plus power is hard reset.
Which model HD2? Tmous or regular?
’trying to flash Android,, ’ did your friend byanychance follow a guide that said he must flash some rom to downgrade the spl? (All non Tmous stock roms will brick a Tmous)

samsamuel said:
Volume down plus power, ,, both plus power is hard reset.
Which model HD2? Tmous or regular?
’trying to flash Android,, ’ did your friend byanychance follow a guide that said he must flash some rom to downgrade the spl? (All non Tmous stock roms will brick a Tmous)
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Volume down plus power = no reaction
I have no idea. He had abandoned this phone for at least a year and I am sure he doesnt remember of what he did.
This is the T-Mobile version one
Thank for for your reply

as i understand, a bricked HD2 (cannot enter into bootloader) can no longer be revived..
is that still holds true or is there a new way to unbrick it aside from jtagging? any thoughts please...

axesd said:
Volume down plus power = no reaction
I have no idea. He had abandoned this phone for at least a year and I am sure he doesnt remember of what he did.
This is the T-Mobile version one
Thank for for your reply
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Seeing that it is a TMOUS and it will not boot to bootloader it is probably radio bricked. The only fix for this is JTAG, contact MobileTechVideos.com they offer JTAG services and are the best I know
plus their price is very reasonable as well as they offer a money back guarantee if they can not revive the device.
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as i understand, a bricked HD2 (cannot enter into bootloader) can no longer be revived..
is that still holds true or is there a new way to unbrick it aside from jtagging? any thoughts please...
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Nope no new way that I know of besides JTAG to fix a bricked HD2.

Without checking post1 cos im mobile,, ,have you confirmed its not just simply a flat battery?

T-Macgnolia said:
Seeing that it is a TMOUS and it will not boot to bootloader it is probably radio bricked. The only fix for this is JTAG, contact MobileTechVideos.com they offer JTAG services and are the best I know
plus their price is very reasonable as well as they offer a money back guarantee if they can not revive the device.
Nope no new way that I know of besides JTAG to fix a bricked HD2.
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Without checking post1 cos im mobile,, ,have you confirmed its not just simply a flat battery?
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What do you mean by a flat battery? faulted battery?

sorry mate, me too once had in the same condition as urs i guess, no other way around than JTAG

^ at least, there's still hope..
riff box is there for a reason. its user friendly making jtag procedure as simple as ABC..
flat battery = no power (busted or no charge, as the case maybe)

There is another possibility that has happened that know one has brought up yet. Sometimes there can be a screen issue causing the phone not to show a display. This happened to me before and I just used my insurance I have through T-Mobile to get the device fixed. Even if you don't have a warranty through your carrier you could call up and talk to them about it. Just say something like you woke up in the morning and looked at your phone and it was blank. That there is no damage and your not sure why it just all of a sudden stopped working on you after a nights charge. Sometimes just knowing what to say works. Not always but you could luck out, worst thing is they say there is no warranty left.

^ a long shot IMO but its probable... my cent

I would agree it is a long shot. I've had great luck though by simply calling back. Like lets say I get an answer I want, I'll hang up and call back to talk to someone else. Normally that does the trick. For instance one time I had a problem with my credit card company after bring in the hospital for awhile I hadn't made a payment. One person said I would need to make a $400 payment and there was nothing they could do to help. I hung up and called back, talked to someone different and that person took off $400 from my bill so I didn't end up needing to make a payment. Just shows that you slipped be persistent.
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Thank you to everyone for their input! I greatly appreciated it

No problem.
Off subject but man this slideit keyboard really made a lot of mistakes. I didn't notice until I reread my comment. It looks like I'll need to go back to touchpal.
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samsamuel said:
Volume down plus power, ,, both plus power is hard reset.
Which model HD2? Tmous or regular?
’trying to flash Android,, ’ did your friend byanychance follow a guide that said he must flash some rom to downgrade the spl? (All non Tmous stock roms will brick a Tmous)
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i folishly flashed a tmous with wwe rom. any way to unbrick it?