[Q] Noob Need HELP! ....Please - HD2 General

Hi everyone
First I would like to thank the people who are here that make these awesome developments, I enjoyed them until today when I was trying to find a better
radio rom. I am/was using tytung's NexusHD2 NAND. I was going threw the radio roms listed in one of the threads and tried "Leo_RADIO_15.29.50.07U_2.06.50.04"
I had to get up for a second and when i returned about 5 min. later the phone was unresponsive. When I try to turn it on i can feel the vibrator motor spin for a split second and noda...No light with the wall charger pluged in or USB.
If anyone has an idea to what I did or what can be done I would be ever so grateful. This is my first smart phone and was so happy to have android running on it. I NEED it back. I've only had it for about a week and am lost with out it already.
I want to thank everyone in advance willing to give me some help!
Thanks from The NooB
Chris

I was reading some more and I'm sure its bricked but the PC does see it when its plugged into the USB...but it doesn't have drivers for it and it didn't have drivers for it before this problem.
I guess the problem is I shouldn't have loaded a TMOUS rom?
I thought It would be "OK" as long as it was a ".50" and not a ".51"
Such a sad day...first my little Leopard gecko broke her leg and then flying ants invade my house and go into my saltwater aquarium and mess that all up and now my new favorite toy is a fishing weight or new target.......I'm afraid to go outside to even go to McD's cause i'm sure i'll die somehow!?!?!?!
Someone please tell me there's hope.
I should have just traded it in for the G2X when I was up the mall today...
But I thought this Nexus NAND was the best thing in the world only problem with this phone was that I had no reception in my house.
Which is why I was messing w/ the radio in the first place...
If anyone figures anything out I'll be in the corner crying..
Thanks again fellas..

If you boot up with the volume down button held down, does it go into bootloader (tri-color screen, not MAGLDR)?
And does your pc have ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center installed on it?
If you can get into bootloader, there is still hope...

Hey Huggs
Thanks for the the reply, No There is no bootloader screen, No nothing just a little blip from the vibrator motor for a tenth of a sec. when I try to just turn the power on, If I try to hold the Vol. key and power at the same time it wont do anything.
I did notice when I plug it into USB it try's to install drivers for a "QUALCOMM CDMA DEVICE" and after about 10min it starts to get warm near the bottom of the battery. I have windows vista so Windows Mobile Device is installed.
I left it go for about 4 hrs from 4am to am and then tried the battery again and again nothing, I'm pretty sure there's nothing I could do from USB.
Does anyone know if any JTAG will work or does it have to be the one I see people using, not the cheap Flea-BAY ones for $50?
also when using a JTAG do you have to have a special file or just the stock rom?
Or is there someone on here offering this service?
The phone never had reception in the house so I should be looking for other methods but this thing is like brand new and I would like to see it come alive.
THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE!

Sorry dude but you have 100% bricked your phone. You have no excuse other then lazyness as this is a very well documented fact and warnings against flashing and incorrect radio.
If you had taken time to read things properly you wouldn't have made this mistake.
Your only option now is to send it away for JTAG repair so they can replace your bootloader.

I wouldn't say its because of laziness. I looked up that rom and found a thread where people were using it. It was a ".50" and not ".51" rom and that was all I knew that was uncompilable.
Instead of starting the name calling or your this and that, How about some constructive criticism and say well "that particular rom isn't compatible because of"
I stayed up for 3 days strait and been reading for over a week trying to learn about flashing and what not. could I have spent more time reading YES but I flashed roms about a 2 dozen times and everything was OK. Like I said I used it because of the fact it was a ".50" and thought it was safe to use and the fact I seen the tread that it came from HTC and was safe to use. Guess not!
Thanks for your .02cents theatheist though.
Can someone tell me which JTAG box I have to use?
or what does the box have to support? I see others using the "RIFF BOX"
but 150 for a box is alot for one time use. does the box just have to support an arm7?
Again Thank you for taking the time to read this
Hope every ones have a nice holiday weekend

Can someone tell me why this particular radio rom bricked this phone?
and if anyone could tell me which JTAG box I would have to use?
would a cheap one from the BAY work?
what does the JTAG box have to support?
I am reading but I don't understand some of it.
Thank you for your time and reading this.

As soon as i finish posting this I will send you a PM with a link to someone that offers a JTAG service for $50 USD and lives in US. He is very good too, I would not recommend him if he was not very experienced with JTAGing HD2s.
I do not know why that Radio version brickedc your HD2 cause from what I know only the 2.04.50.xx or the 2.05.50.xx radio versions or the only radio versions with 50s that will brick a TMOUS. Looks like I might have to add 2.06,50,xx radio versions to that list. The reason why these radios with 50swill brick a TMOUS is because these radio versions were used in the Test TOM/Test T-Mobile HD2s which were actually regular HD2s and not the TMOUS that is out now with the extra ROM and RAM. There for these radios were not designed to run on the TMOUS.
Oh and you are correct about the %1 radio versions to0, they were all made for the regular HD2s also.

Thank you so much for your time Sir.
and thanks for the explanation, I would really like to try and JTAG it myself
do you know if any of the cheap JTAG boxes on ebay that support the ARM7 would work? I will shoot that guy a PM.
I hope you have a Safe Holiday weekend!

SeaWeed89 said:
Thank you so much for your time Sir.
and thanks for the explanation, I would really like to try and JTAG it myself
do you know if any of the cheap JTAG boxes on ebay that support the ARM7 would work? I will shoot that guy a PM.
I hope you have a Safe Holiday weekend!
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To be honest i do not know if the "cheap boxes" you refer to will work or not. Maybe a link to the exact box you are referring to would help.
I do know this if you want to try it yourself that is cool, but be warned you have to have a small torques head srew driver, a HTC HD2 JTAG, a Riffbox with proper connection cables, a Omnei Repair Tool (ORT), the software to use the Riffbox, and it is best if you have a small power supply for the mainboard but you can use the power from the HD2 battery. Plus you have to completely remove the mainboard of your HD2 to JTAG it, which means you pretty much have to totally disassemble the HD2.
So not only is JTAGing a HD2 just for yourself expensive, but you need to have some skill to do it as well.
PM the guy I referred you to is a very good idea, best of luck with however you decide to JTAG your HD2.

Thanks for the response...Your very helpful.
I didn't know If links were permitted.? Here's the link's
1&2 are the same but different prices, They both support ARM7 architecture Which I thought the QSD8250 was?
#1. http://cgi.ebay.com/JLINK-J-LINK-V8...155?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aab620ae3
#2 http://cgi.ebay.com/JLINK-J-LINK-V8...551?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b1f2c6e7
There is a RIFF for $150 that I found but I cant really pull that off ATM.
There is others that support the ARM also. I've also found a no-solder connecter for about 15 bucks but I don't know if the pin-out is the same on the ribbon cable as the ORT-JTAG box(company that has the connecter). I'm sure I could change it around If i could find a schematic for the both of them(connecter and box)
I do have the tools to dismantle this and power station(I also mess with the Arduino platform and circuit building when I have time and recently have just dismantled my HTC TP2 for craps and giggles and have fixed multiple IPOD touches) I have been also ripping everything apart that had a battery/wire connected to it since I could remember. And try to get it back together before my old man would come home and would find his stereo taken apart...
The only thing that has me is the programming part itself like the actual file.
I don't know if it's something special for the box or just the stock rom?
I have watched some youtube on it but nothing really helpful.
I'm thinking I could do it and maybe help some others if I could nail it and do some more reading. My brothers into IT(servers) and a HTC nightly rommer so I was hoping he could help he and I was really hoping for some help from you good fellas here.
I want to thank you for the PM (very helpful) and the reply.
I will probably end up sending it to him because it's about the same price and I don't have funds for a new phone if I toast it, and hes a very nice guy. I just love messing with stuff.
Have a good one.
Chris

To be honest I do not know if the JTAG Emulators your linked would work or not. It looks as though it might could but I can not saw proof positive it would work.
Ii seems like you might would be able to do it yourself. You have a lot of the needed tools. I think the software for the Riff Box comes with the Riff Box but not sure as I have never JTAGed a device. The software allows you to reload or as the program calls it "res-erect "the SPL, you see JTAG restores the bootloader and that is it. Then you just flash a ROM of your choice to the HD2 and you are good to go. But I do recommend you flash a stock Windows Mobile ROM just for precautionary purposes.
Yes you want the no solder JTAG that makes it a lot easier as far as the set up process.

Related

The Official UN Brick HTC G1 Thread

I recommend to set a reward to thoses who find a solution for this problem.
Before continue lets say a Bricked HTC C1 is a phone who stay no matter what in the T-Mobile G1 screen.
I put 25.00 USD in a paypal account
Dude, when a phone is bricked it means its DEAD like a BRICK.
If you can get into recovery or bootload mode, it isn't bricked.
So back to my first statement, there is no coming back from a bricked phone.
Agree with Mikey, dead means dead. Unless you want to bend the rules of life then its not possible.
There's must be a way to fix it.
And i'll give more U$50 (on paypal) of reward
Does anyone know what board is replaced by HTC when they fix bricked SPL's and such?
axion68 said:
Does anyone know what board is replaced by HTC when they fix bricked SPL's and such?
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I dont think they replace the board, they must only reflash (somehow) the correct flash.
That must be using a JTAG way, or some battery (pandora), who knows...
The reward is 75U$
UNITED NATIONS Brick HTC G1 Thread?!
Lol sorry, but isn't there already one of these threads? But, when you guys say dead... isn't it just dead software wise? It's all physically intact.. why is there no coming back?
Dead doesn't necessarily mean not recoverable. Think about developers who are writing radio and SPL parts - if they mess badly with something, put it on their dev devices, and phone can't boot, only solution will be order next dev device...? I don't think so...
In general, there are several ways used by phones/electronic devices producers, one is to have simple spare bootloader which can write part of SW which can take unbricking process further, or device's heart can be operated with JTAG. Unfortunatelly there is not much documentation about Dream's, and producer of the processor isn't known as a cooperative one... (or i missed something
come on guys.... someone from inside HTC or Android dev. Surely you can give us the details on how to build a ROM flasher and how to flash without the damn device switched on?
Its basic electronics, it is for sure possible, the catch is only you guys know how. Please share some details...
From what I know you would require a JTAG cable at least but then having the right flash tools to bring it to life. Even if software or chips die on a motherboard, there are always a way to either clear it, short it, re-flash or to replace the chip in question.
Happens a lot if you work on laptops, computers or any other electrical device, however the hardware required is often specialised and expensive...
I also think the Jtag will be the solution, reward 75.00 keep it up guys!
HTC G1 Service Manual
http://mikechannon.net/PDF Manuals/HTC Dream SM (A04).pdf
its time to give up :'(
Hell no!, i think i find a solution... please provide me 10 days. Thanks in advance!
@cuore_alfa: woah... that now sounds very promising... why 10 days? you take 20 days and if you come up with a solution, then the forum members with bricked devices will rain all their blessings and favours on you.
Cuore_alfa said:
Hell no!, i think i find a solution... please provide me 10 days. Thanks in advance!
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Buying a new one?! =)
Btw, U$30,00 paypal reward for a solution to my bricked G1 (spl).
Now we have U$ 105 of reward
Yes please!
My HTC Magic has just passed away
I think I applied the HARD Spl meant only for G1.
me idiot (but page not clear http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/SPL)
where theres a will there a way come on people... its america anything is possible ill add 15$ to the highest offer ... the must be a way...
p.s i just brick my g1 so im waiting...
I'll add $25, solve and tell me how to pay...

Donate My Crushed G1

Please be kind to me as this is my first post on XDA although I have been reading and utilizing these forums for quite some time. If this question has already been addressed, please let me know. I have already searched the forum and was unable to find anything on the subject but perhaps I wasn't as diligent as I could have been.
I left my G1 on the roof of my car and it fell off and was run over by a car. I already ordered a new one which will arrive in two days (I do nightly nandroid backups so all is well in that department). I would, however, like to donate the crushed G1 to one of the developers on this site so that they can salvage it for parts. Believe it or not, I was actually able to boot to the recovery screen and do a wipe (Alt-W). Obviously I could not see this as the screen is crushed but it rebooted after I hit Back+Home so I am pretty certain that there are some valuable working parts for someone who knows what they are doing.
I have taken advantage of the ROMs on this forum for awhile (Kavana's WinMo 6.1) as well as How-To posts (Apps2SD, Rooting G1, Nandroid, MAM, etc.) and countless other posts to keep my phone in perfect working order, and would like to give at least a little back to the hard working developers here. I would like a moderator to assist me in getting the phone into the hands of the right developer. I am sure it has some value to someone. I am pretty certain that the motherboard is in working condition as well as the keyboard and various other parts (it still vibrates on boot). I don't know much about hardware as I am largely a developer and a user. I don't want to take it apart only to find out that I have ruined what was once a good part. Ebay was an option but I figure that I will actually get more value out of donating it since XDA is literally my lifeline and smartphones would just plain suck without this site.
Please reference the attached photos. Sorry they are not so great. They were taken on my Dash because I was too lazy to take out my good camera.
Post replies here and we can go from there.
Thanks,
Aaron
Cool I'm sure someone will find this useful. You might want to save the battery so you have two
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Cool I'm sure someone will find this useful. You might want to save the battery so you have two
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haha ill take it
i was gonna say send that battery my way because the one i have drains too fast for me and a new one cost like 60 bux.
ill take it... i know im not a dev but ive been wanting to learn how to take the g1 apart and put it back together but i couldnt justify the price of buying one.. ill surely make a guide (both a pictoral one and a video on youtube)... if not i understand
PM Sent to you a little earlier.
jaygajay said:
i was gonna say send that battery my way because the one i have drains too fast for me and a new one cost like 60 bux.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=320374959323#ht_1969wt_907
heres a solution
I believe you should donate it to one of the members working on finding the jtag pins so the people who were effected by the spl brick might have a second chance
Amazon sells them as well for about $7 + $3 for shipping.. OEM, safe..never had issues..
I am keeping the battery which still works. Now I have three! The battery door is crushed too. My goal is for the phone to better not just one person in need of parts but the community in general. If a developer can use this to help out the rest of us it will have been worth it. Like I have stated, I am not sure what use it will be but I am sure that someone out there can utilize it for the benefit of the rest of us.
jusplainmike said:
I believe you should donate it to one of the members working on finding the jtag pins so the people who were effected by the spl brick might have a second chance
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Can you, or someone else, point me in the direction of one of these developers? This sounds like a worthy cause.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=320374959323#ht_1969wt_907
heres a solution
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ICBM said:
Amazon sells them as well for about $7 + $3 for shipping.. OEM, safe..never had issues..
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So why do T-Mobile and HTC sell them so expensive?
donate your Devices
if you would like to donate any device that you dont use.
i take any cellphone i fix them and recycle the one that dont work...
the one's that work i give it to people that need it...
also i use them to make videos take them aparts///// and e.t.c..
donate @ [email protected]
just pm you
G1 disassembly
If you want to take apart your G1, here's a good start:
http://androinica.com/2008/12/19/htc-dream-service-manual-now-available-for-download/
Donate it to one of the big Devs, EX: JesusFreke, Cyanogen, The Dude, JAC, Etc...
Im sure they can MORE then utilize an extra device in futher learning/releasing Android related ROMs.
oreoOozZz said:
Donate it to one of the big Devs, EX: JesusFreke, Cyanogen, The Dude, JAC, Etc...
Im sure they can MORE then utilize an extra device in futher learning/releasing Android related ROMs.
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A battery from HTC directly (after they first tried to deny my warranty status) is 37, shipping included.
As for a crushed device, I should try to find one in that condition since emulator will not run on my laptop. More or less the process goes make a program or update, open my sd card, load it, try it, improve it on the computer, delete the sd card copy, move the new one... very agravating.
Not to mention if you plug the device into the computer right, you can load your device AS the emulator (but I don't really want to do that to my "daily driver")
I would like to suggest a moment of silence to honor your G1.
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Can you, or someone else, point me in the direction of one of these developers? This sounds like a worthy cause.
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lbcoder has expressed a desire to jtag the g1.. I'm not sure if anyone's sent a dead board his way yet.
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lbcoder has expressed a desire to jtag the g1.. I'm not sure if anyone's sent a dead board his way yet.
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Haven't got one yet, the lead I had seems to have disappeared.
If interested in sending it for jtag study, PM me.

Wrong Firmware installed(Australian), No drivers from windows.

This TMOUS HTC HD2 has a wrong firmware installed (Australian) and windows does not have the drivers for it. The phone currently does not turn on, but when connected to the computer you can hear the usb sound, but is not recognized and simply Quadcomm CDMA Technologies MSM appears in the devices, but no drives for it.
I would like to know what to do and some advice. I tried downloading the T-Mobile original software, but it won't work since Windows Mobile Device Center does not recognize the phone as connected. There is no way to return it or anything, so please help ME do it.
no one has yet fixed this (more and more common) problem.
there is THIS thread, which no one has yet said yes or no to whether it does anything for '51 radio vs tmous' bricks,, , i suspect not but would be interested in your findings.
i'll cross my fingers for you, but i suspect it's a shiney black paperweight..
When I estract it to the desktop and open it, a buch of files appear, what should I do?
no idea, sorry. Its supposedly a bunch of drivers for qualcomm, which is what dead tmous phones show up as when they get killed. I dont have dead phone, so i cant test it.
I honestly dont thiunk it will help, but i would try opening device manager (right click 'my computer', choose properties and depewnding what ver windows just hunt around, looking for device manager, or maybe 'devices') find the qualcomm in the list right click it and choose update drivers, have disk, browse to the folder you extracted and see what happens.
You may just preffer to stop tormenting yourself, go get drunk enough to stop weeping, and sell it for parts.
A good several dozen people have done this, probably more, and no one has yet reported anything except that the PC sees it as a qualcomm.
I did that and when I installed it it said "Windows found friver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it...Qualcomm Diagnostics Interface 3197...Driver is not intended for this platform...If you know the manufacturer for this device please visit its website and support section..."
ahh sorry then. I would imagine they are intended for some kind of hardware magic box for programming chips, , or something. Its been a while since they were first posted, and no one had ever said anything so i didnt think theyd help. Usefull to have confirmation though.
Unlucky.
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ahh sorry then. I would imagine they are intended for some kind of hardware magic box for programming chips, , or something. Its been a while since they were first posted, and no one had ever said anything so i didnt think theyd help. Good to have confirmation though.
Unlucky.
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Don't worry I bought on Ebay with PayPal and problem was described otherwise, so I can return it since I have a 60-day warranty. Thanks anyway.
winner!
(As an ebay seller, i hate how biased they are towards teh buyer, but for you as a buyer, , hehe )
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winner!
(As an ebay seller, i hate how biased they are towards teh buyer, but for you as a buyer, , hehe )
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Hahaha happens to me too, I try to do my best as a seller, but its true, they give way too much support to the buyer...hahaha
lol, a little karma then.
This thread is dedicated to terrypro and samsamuel... You guys ROCK!!
Glad to hear @terrypro that u have 60 days return policy
i got the same problem since yesterday. still havnt figured out a way to revive my phone as yet..

[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.
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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?
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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.

Please help...bricked or not???

Sorry for my english but it's not my first language, even not second, so apologies.
So my problem... i don't like to post and don't post so much but i'm here every day. I have some devices and i love flashing and trying every new rom. I'm not a noob and nor dev. Just a simple user who's second life everyday is xda.
I just want to know if my HD2 is bricked or not. So the phone do not boot up, screen do not turn on, button backlight, or charging led. Nothing. It was installed with magldr. First i was thinking that battery was dead and with magldr do not charge and that's why do not boot. But no... today i have bought from somebody a docking charger with spare battery charger and 2 batteries. No luck. I have disassembled my leo and took a look in it. If i try to turn on i see that the vibration motor turns on for a half of second and than nothing happens.
I'ts not so very big problem if it is bricked (while i have a DHD, an SE xperia neoV, an asus tf101g, and next week i will buy a galaxy nexus too) but i don't want to take it in box if it can be bringed back to life. I just want to know what can cause this , if somebody knows what can i try feel free to answer.
P.S. no do not boots in bootloader also. Last time was installed with android via magldr, no OC, and all happend when i was driving my car using navigation on it. Simply turned off. It seem like the bootloader was deleted or don't know. Also battery pins checked. It can be defective mainboard or what???
Thanx in advance.
Sent from my Transformer TF101G using Tapatalk
Looks as mainboard died. Sometimes car charger can kill the phone
kliko kliktoris said:
Looks as mainboard died. Sometimes car charger can kill the phone
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Yeah i agree with you but then why is vibration motor moving? Also i know that it doesn't matter but i have the original car charger from htc, and the phone was not plugged in, battery was at starting the navigation app at about 80% and after 10 minutes was the phone dead.
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rapman172003 said:
battery was at starting the navigation app at about 80% and after 10 minutes was the phone dead.
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a few times on both by hd2's, I've come across a situation where some app/process hangs, the phone freezes or becomes really sluggish, and the phone starts to get hot at the bottom on the back. I always pull teh battery smartish, but perhaps yours did the same, and it burned itself out. Its well known that the hd2 suffers from heat.
Perhaps give the freezer trick a go, see what happens.
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Sorry for my english but it's not my first language, even not second, so apologies.
So my problem... i don't like to post and don't post so much but i'm here every day. I have some devices and i love flashing and trying every new rom. I'm not a noob and nor dev. Just a simple user who's second life everyday is xda.
I just want to know if my HD2 is bricked or not. So the phone do not boot up, screen do not turn on, button backlight, or charging led. Nothing. It was installed with magldr. First i was thinking that battery was dead and with magldr do not charge and that's why do not boot. But no... today i have bought from somebody a docking charger with spare battery charger and 2 batteries. No luck. I have disassembled my leo and took a look in it. If i try to turn on i see that the vibration motor turns on for a half of second and than nothing happens.
I'ts not so very big problem if it is bricked (while i have a DHD, an SE xperia neoV, an asus tf101g, and next week i will buy a galaxy nexus too) but i don't want to take it in box if it can be bringed back to life. I just want to know what can cause this , if somebody knows what can i try feel free to answer.
P.S. no do not boots in bootloader also. Last time was installed with android via magldr, no OC, and all happend when i was driving my car using navigation on it. Simply turned off. It seem like the bootloader was deleted or don't know. Also battery pins checked. It can be defective mainboard or what???
Thanx in advance.
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Contact this user. He had bricked and fixed his HD2 somewhere in Gegmany
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=1102297
Sorry for ur hd2 but as I heard that maximum flashing for hd2 are 100 timea till it break. How often did u flash ur hd2?
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taufan36 said:
Sorry for ur hd2 but as I heard that maximum flashing for hd2 are 100 timea till it break. How often did u flash ur hd2?
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I think thats just some kind of myth. I bet I have flashed my HD2 OVER 150 times, a lot of experimenting of windows mobile, and later went on to Android. I did have a problem with a HD2 to vibrate 5/7 times and then freeze, in any way. Even when I flashed. I had trouble booting it too, but removing the battery for 30 minutes worked.
Thanks for your answer. I will contact him maybe he can help me.
I think too that the flashing limit is just a myth. I was flashing roms more than 300times and with no issues. My Leo was a survivor two times made bath and even after was fully functioning. Last months i was using just for gps and playing with roms.
If i can't fix it i want to give it for somebody from hd2 forums. If you are near Gütersloh in germany and you were contributing with something for Hd2 community feel free contact me and i will give you for free. No shipment because i can't send it, but if you are from other country and you have somebody that can send it to you tell him to come here contact me and we will see what we can do. There is the phone, 3batteries, docking station with one extra place for battery charge, original and silicon case.
I WANT TO WAIT ONE WEEK FROM NOW IF I CAN'T FIX IT I WILL TELL YOU AND EVERYBODY CAN CONTACT ME. REMEMBER THAT YOU MUST BE A DEV OR THEMER BECAUSE I WON'T GIVE IT FOR EVERYDAY USER WHO DID NOTHING FOR THE COMMUNITY. I CAN'T DONATE, LET THIS BE MY DONATION.
THANKS
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Mate, i am from Hannover, which is not too far off your location. I might be able to help you with some advice. I am under pressure at work at the moment and cant reply in detail now but hang in there i will get back to you asap. Sorry cannot help right now.
There is two possible causes i can think of.
and btw: the flashing counter is not a myth. the Chip counts the number of flashes. But i don't think it has a kill switch. That is bull****. It's just for HTC to tell how often it was flashed and judge what users did to it.
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and btw: the flashing counter is not a myth
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Source? Never heard of this before. (Also, surely only ruu based flashes would register, the firmware wouldn't see android flashes, so it would be a hugely incorrect figure)
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Mate, i am from Hannover, which is not too far off your location. I might be able to help you with some advice. I am under pressure at work at the moment and cant reply in detail now but hang in there i will get back to you asap. Sorry cannot help right now.
There is two possible causes i can think of.
and btw: the flashing counter is not a myth. the Chip counts the number of flashes. But i don't think it has a kill switch. That is bull****. It's just for HTC to tell how often it was flashed and judge what users did to it.
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Ok thanks for your fast reply i'm here every day. When you have time drop me a pm and we will see what to do. There is no rush.
Thank you one more time.
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Source? Never heard of this before. (Also, surely only ruu based flashes would register, the firmware wouldn't see android flashes, so it would be a hugely incorrect figure)
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Hi Samsamuel,
good question. It is something i came across recently when my device got killed and i bought a new one with a brick. I did a lot of research (tried to find a way to get rid of the brick myself) but since the mentioning of the counter was something of little interest to me at the time i didn't take note of where i read it. It might be only HearSay and not be a proven fact, additionally, i was thinking the same about the RUU flashes and the android flashes. Most likely only the RUU flashes are counted. Maybe the part of the chip that holds the clocks for call time counting also holds a flash counter? Something i find a reasonable assumption. Further, i read about it in the environment of the whole jtag-programming world where i think i came across a page stating that their programming box resets the flash counters. i can't remember if that was the RIFF box or some other lesser known box. The RIFF box at last does not seem to feature it if i look it up now.
So, long story short, it might also just be a marketing gag for those believing in the Myth of a killswitch. As i said, i don't believe that but think flash counters aren't that far off reality and to answer your question: i cannot prove it. I just read it somewhere.
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rapman172003 said:
Ok thanks for your fast reply i'm here every day. When you have time drop me a pm and we will see what to do. There is no rush.
Thank you one more time.
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Ok here is a random search results collection of threads with similar issues related to overheating and broken solder Points on the CPU. You can read through them to get an idea of whats coming up to you.
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3 - by far the best one on overheating and breaking/fixing the CPU solder points!
And here the Help i can offer you for the scenario where your HD2 is "just" a brick - which is way more easy to fix! This is the Guy who successfully unbricked my HD2:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/HTC-Bootload...TAG-/320848960362?pt=PDAs&hash=item4ab4169b6a
BIG RED HINT: This guy has just bought himself an Infrared soldering station which could be used to re-solder the BGA connections for the CPU if them are broken! Read more about it on Link 3 up above. That dude is MASSIVE! Respect for his work is the word of the day! If you ask that guy with the soldering station he might be interested in doing a try on your device. He's learning, you are gaining if he succeeds. If he doesn't he still learned something and you helped the community by making him smarter
And there is another one in Austria who knows more about the Device and the possibilities and he was the first one ever to mention a HTC WhiteCard (for real, i searched the net and didn't find that term anywhere), i have never heard of that before but it seems to be a universal sim card that can set any HTC device S-OFF and according to that dude it costs a sum with 5 digits and he got one. It does exactly the same as the XTC Clip. amazing story anyhow , he is called Harald Kubovy and can be contacted here: Entsperren.net
Why did i not choose him? Further away, longer wait, 5 euros more. But he seemed to know A LOT.
And one last note: i don't think it is necessary for you to come over to my place as i cannot directly help you. I am not the kinda guy who fixes hardware. I fiddle around with software a lot and i am VERY tempted to buy a RIFF Box but then again i wouldn't really know how to work it and it costs quite a sum and then it sits here and i cannot use it effectively to get my money back out of it so i'd rather not toy around with it. BUT i can let you have all my research knowledge from my own desaster last week. Read above.
Cheers mate and good luck for your Quest for salvation. PLease feel free to contact me if there are any more questions.
Good night.
I have exactly the same problem as you, I turned off my phone and since then It just wont turn back on no charging light nothing except a small vibrate for half a second when I remove the battery and reinsert it.
Have you found any solution at all?
Hello maximillion,
Read my post above yours. If you happen to be in Germany contact the Ebay guy I linked to. He's good and your phone probably is just bricked. Happens sometimes.
If you are not in Germany I recommend searching your local Ebay for someone who does JTAG repairs. Or check for the search term "riff box" and "jtag".
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