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Bricked Streak, and what I've tried(FIXED) w/ PDF

I Encountered a number of problems when trying to upgrade to DJ's V 1.2 ROM from V 1.1.1
Problem: My phone is dead, nothing. No lights at all and I cant turn the phone on obviously.
What I've tired:
1. All key combos. Holding for up to 20 sec
a. Volumes + power
b. Volume down + power
c. Volume up + power
c. Power + camera.
d. Power + camera + volumes
2. Take battery out + sim + SD let sit for 1 hour
3. Wall charge w/ battery and back in for 1 hour.
4. Wall charge w/ out sim and SD for 1 hour.
5. Phone plugged into wall with back off and no battery.
6. Phone plugged into wall with back off no battery, sim, or SD.
Still cant get it to work, charged USB and Wall charger for 3 + hours each. Phone still does not show any signs of life. The battery is not getting hot, which means maybe is not charging at all.
FIX: download PDF. Will Update with pictures later, very rough right now.

Still cant get it to work, charged USB and Wall charger for 3 + hours each. Phone still does not show any signs of life. The battery is not getting hot, which means maybe is not charging at all.
My question: is it possible to Brick my phone so bad that it cant charge? or is this possible a cable/charger problem?

I would suggest you try a different cable. your cable may be bad.

it needs the battery in and the backplate in place in order for it to boot.
try without simcard and everything else in place. make sure the backcover is firmly closed.
you might also try this: attach to pc and press power for 3 secs , stop press power for a second and then hold both power and camera button together till it does something.

FIXED thanks to DJ Steve! Now running v1.2 sucessfully. Man is it fast and sweeett!

ryrules1 said:
FIXED thanks to DJ Steve! Now running v1.2 sucessfully. Man is it fast and sweeett!
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can you let us know what you did, because i am having a major issue with mine as well, or let me know how i can contact dj steve to ask him directly, thanks for your help

I am working on a write up as we speak, and will send it along to those who request it.
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My rules, i would like your writ up...i had to go back to 2.1 when i got stuck on the flashing dell logo...a support guide will do so much good at this time.
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How did u fix it? Please send me the writeup.
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Any chance of sending me the write up, as I'm in a similar situation.
Thanks

I think that most of us would like to see this.
Is there any chance you could simply post it here? Or are there trade secrets involved?

my phone too will not start up! any thing i do!!! how did u fix this?????
i just flashed a radio last night. the flashed finished completely. the phone looked like it was going to restart but never came back on. and wont turn on no matter what i do. did i brick my phone? i did have hspl
us hd2 with tmobile
the radio was 2.05.50.11
any help would be helpfull

same problem
Please can I also get a copy of this fix ?
I have same problem fast loader no longer working just stuck at dell logo...
hope this can be resolved ....
Baz

Stuck At Dell Logo
dempbm said:
Please can I also get a copy of this fix ?
I have same problem fast loader no longer working just stuck at dell logo...
hope this can be resolved ....
Baz
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If you are stuck at the Dell Logo after flashing a Rom (install Clockwork recovery if you haven't already got in installed) press the volume up and down and power - select option 2 - when it goes into clockwork - go to partition option - mount the first three options (data - system and something else) and reboot - BAM Your back in business - you don't have to do it again except if you flash another rom (sometimes - not always)

bigdaddy4u said:
If you are stuck at the Dell Logo after flashing a Rom (install Clockwork recovery if you haven't already got in installed) press the volume up and down and power - select option 2 - when it goes into clockwork - go to partition option - mount the first three options (data - system and something else) and reboot - BAM Your back in business - you don't have to do it again except if you flash another rom (sometimes - not always)
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Sorry I should of explained myself...
I have tried to install 2.2 (DJ_Steve) from 2.1 when i booted into flash recovery using the following for the baseband update.
fastboot -i 0x413c flash amss amss.mbn (to install the baseband)
commands and rebooted my device i already had clockwork recovery installed..(used clockwork a few times in the past for other roms) after the last step using fastboot to reboot. (fastboot -i 0x413c reboot)
my device rebooted and was stuck at the dell logo ... left it like this for about 1 hour
nothing responds now ... tried booting into recovery using both volume buttons and power ... and trying to boot into fast loader no longer works.... i have pulled the battery and tried with no luck.... and also charged the device over night...
looks like I have some activity with the usb cable in windows for the ADB driver but does not respond to any fastboot commands ....
I lost count the amount of attempts to boot into fast loader mode white screen never appears just boots into dell logo...
if I try to hold down the camara button and then the power the streak will not even power up unless I pull the battery...

dempbm said:
Sorry I should of explained myself...
I have tried to install 2.2 (DJ_Steve) from 2.1 when i booted into flash recovery using the following for the baseband update.
fastboot -i 0x413c flash amss amss.mbn (to install the baseband)
commands and rebooted my device i already had clockwork recovery installed..(used clockwork a few times in the past for other roms) after the last step using fastboot to reboot. (fastboot -i 0x413c reboot)
my device rebooted and was stuck at the dell logo ... left it like this for about 1 hour
nothing responds now ... tried booting into recovery using both volume buttons and power ... and trying to boot into fast loader no longer works.... i have pulled the battery and tried with no luck.... and also charged the device over night...
looks like I have some activity with the usb cable in windows for the ADB driver but does not respond to any fastboot commands ....
I lost count the amount of attempts to boot into fast loader mode white screen never appears just boots into dell logo...
if I try to hold down the camara button and then the power the streak will not even power up unless I pull the battery...
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This is the exact problem I and a few others on Modaco are having, hopefully we can get a solution in the next few days. after the streak, using a normal phone is agonizing.

mrgribbly said:
This is the exact problem I and a few others on Modaco are having, hopefully we can get a solution in the next few days. after the streak, using a normal phone is agonizing.
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Yes I did spot your post over there....
I am sure this it's not bricked as do get some activity from a USB cable....
Back to my boring blackberry at moment

dempbm said:
Sorry I should of explained myself...
I have tried to install 2.2 (DJ_Steve) from 2.1 when i booted into flash recovery using the following for the baseband update.
fastboot -i 0x413c flash amss amss.mbn (to install the baseband)
commands and rebooted my device i already had clockwork recovery installed..(used clockwork a few times in the past for other roms) after the last step using fastboot to reboot. (fastboot -i 0x413c reboot)
my device rebooted and was stuck at the dell logo ... left it like this for about 1 hour
nothing responds now ... tried booting into recovery using both volume buttons and power ... and trying to boot into fast loader no longer works.... i have pulled the battery and tried with no luck.... and also charged the device over night...
looks like I have some activity with the usb cable in windows for the ADB driver but does not respond to any fastboot commands ....
I lost count the amount of attempts to boot into fast loader mode white screen never appears just boots into dell logo...
if I try to hold down the camara button and then the power the streak will not even power up unless I pull the battery...
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hum, this is different problem then I had, I could not get the screen to display anything at all.

Do you think your fix might help my situation ? as mine might aswell have a blank screen ...

Ok guys, I've attached a rough guide. I'm at work and will update w/ pictures later. It might be a bit confusing, but I will fix it later.

[Q] Magic 32a Flashing problems

Hey you guys
I recently installed amon ra's recovery v. 1.7 on my magic 32a (radio 6.3.5 something) after I rooted my phone, of course.
Now, I thought that with the new recovery I would be easily able to flash a custom rom onto my magic. This was however not so easy, because the recovery behaves in a very weird way. Whenever I tell it to flash a new rom from a .zip image, or wipe the phone, or anything, it just reboots my magic and thats it. Also, the recovery happens to freeze quite regularly when I don't act very quickly. E.g. when I boot into recovery mode and don't touch the phone for the first 5 seconds, it wont respond any longer.
So, I'm probably doing something wrong here. I would appreciate any help from anyone. (and btw, i have the official android 1.5 sense rom installed on my magic, os I cant use rom manager either, since it only supports android 1.6 upwards.)

Look at the root guide in my signature..
Do step 0, 1, 2, 5 and 7 only.
It should flash the recovery partition one more time.
Hopefully it will fix your problem :0)

mumilover said:
Look at the root guide in my signature..
Do step 0, 1, 2, 5 and 7 only.
It should flash the recovery partition one more time.
Hopefully it will fix your problem :0)
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hey, thanks for the quick response. I still have a few questions though, since I am quite a newb. So when I type all of those commands into cmd, doesnt my device need to be connected to the computer somehow? I read somewhere earlier that I simply connect it using the "mount" funtion, the problem is that that doesnt seem to work anymore for my magic, because after I hit "mount" it simply goes back to "usb connected" without acutally mounting. So ..how do I connect the device to the PC while entering the commands?

ok... my bad..
Try to read the ENTIRE guide... then do the steps i mentioned above :0)
Don't mount it... just connected... but again.. read the guide.

thanks a lot
I didnt use your method to flash the image, but the hero recovery works way better than the one I had before. I managed to flash a rom now. So happy ;D

ok i think i just did a bad mistake
i installed rom manager after i had flashed an android 2.1 rom on my magic. THen i told it to flash some rom from my sd card and also wipe some data, or something. Now my magic gets stuck on the magic bootscreen, like it keeps looping. Did i brick my phone ..or is there a way to fix this? please help me, (

most likely is that the rom you flashed doesn't have a compatible kernel for your phone.
Just boot into recovery and flash a rom that is compatible.

cant boot into recovery ..it just keeps looping

Then you will need to boot into fastboot and reflash a working recovery.
Clockwork has issues flashing the clockwork recovery sometimes.

to boot into fastboot i need to hold power and back, right? ..that doesnt work either. again, it just keeps looping.

so, guys ..did i brick my phonne..?? :S

da robat said:
to boot into fastboot i need to hold power and back, right? ..that doesnt work either. again, it just keeps looping.
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you're probably not doing it right. you should still be able to get into recovery or fastboot and install a different recovery. i'm using RA-magic+v1.7.0.1 recovery it has bugs but pretty stable.

so what am i doing wrong??

just realized when i connect the phone to my pc over usb and then boot it, it connects to the pc for a second or less and then disconnects again. Dont know if this helps anyhow.

pull battery, put battery back in. hold back and push power.
Should be good.

tried that like 50 times. phone just keeps looping ..like, it restart over and over again.

What you have is what hundreds before you had when they used Rom manager.
The system will not boot into anything.
My advice is to never use Rom manager for 32A device.
The fix:
Keep pushing the back button while the system reboots... just mash the **** out of it..
I helped out someone before you, and he did it for over an hour or so...
It's a timing issue...
Good luck

haha ..so is there still hope?
cheers for all the answers ;D

i do have one question though, actually.
Shall i just press the back button continuously ...while it keeps looping, or should i rather restart the device after each loop and hold the back button?

just mash the back button.

[Q] Can't Flash Recovery - any help?

I'm having an irritating problem.
I've rooted my wife's Gen 1 Orange SF with Androot, even repeated it when I started having problems to make sure the root had worked. SuperUser is installed and working so I know it has gone OK.
I've installed Recovery Manager v0.36, which has root access.
The current recovery is listed as "unrecognised"
I flashed the following CWM - recovery-clockwork-3.1.0.1-blade-gen1.img (MD5 checksum correct)
I get an "installing" message, then back to the Recovery screen and the recovery is still listed as "unrecognised".
One of the guides I found on Modaco is quite specific about using Recovery Manager v0.34 (though I suspect it just hasn't been updated with the latest release) so I've also tried this using that version and no joy.
So... I thought I'd try the FASTBOOT method. I turn the phone off, remove and replace the battery. Turn the phone on whilst holding the up volume button, and the phone just boots up normally. I've tried this repeatedly, I don't get the big grey square that people report when FASTBOOT fails, I just get no response at all.
Grrrrr!
Any thoughts?

Hmm, when you power up holding volume up key (held for a couple of seconds) does you phone show a static green android logo, or does it boot up fully to the lockscreen?
If only to the android logo, means you're in fastboot.
Edit: you can replace the green android logo with Orange's logo in the above comment if you haven't flashed an alternate ROM on the phone as yet.

I also had the same while trying to flash a recovery to my friend's Blade. I understood that i have been flashing the wrong recovery all this time (though it showed for gen1 and i had a gen1). I used the given recovery(link provided below), and it worked for me like a charm. Use the link download on root of sd card. Use recovery manager to install it. If the recovery manager shows that it has identified the cwmod version then its done or else if it again says unrecognised try different versions of cwmod.
Preferably after getting cwmod to working convert your gen1 to gen2 (wbaw method). Then you can flash a custom rom and use ROM manager to upgrade your cwmod recovery.
http://android.podtwo.com/recovery/archived/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.8-v9-gen1.img
To Convert gen1 to gen2:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103096

harmohn said:
Hmm, when you power up holding volume up key (held for a couple of seconds) does you phone show a static green android logo, or does it boot up fully to the lockscreen?
If only to the android logo, means you're in fastboot.
Edit: you can replace the green android logo with Orange's logo in the above comment if you haven't flashed an alternate ROM on the phone as yet.
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He hasnt been able to install CWmod yet so no green logo will appear. Due to unrecognised version only DELL logo appears and hangs or it reboots normally. And yes FASTBOOT is not enabled in gen1 devices so thats why i say to convert to gen2 as soon as possible.

Hi Be4con,
I flashed a batch of 10 blades the other day, and wrote my own little guide for it. I had exactly the same problem as you with the first two i tried to flash.
The guide on modaco does work, but i found i had to use a much older version of clockwork mod. I used 2.5.0.8 (if i remember correctly) not at work just now so cant see my notes. This was picked up by the recovery no problems and i was able to move on from there.
Hope that helps

Hi
You have try to flash directly to your device with a terminal emulator
type SU
accept SuperUser autorisation
type flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery_xx_xx.img (you find the good version on the recovery on internet)
reboot your phone with volume + down
if you have any problem to find the fine recovery or to flash the recovery contact me on pv . this method work with my zte gen1

Stuck on clk loading screen

Hi folks, my HD2 just went south. whenever I try and boot the phone it just sits at the CLK loading screen, I can access it with fasboot, but not ADB. I have tried to re-flash recovery, and to boot it from files on my PC, but it then just stops at 'cmdline:'. No matter what button combination I try it just goes to the CLK screen, even hard reset.
Does anyone have any idea how to get past this ?

have you installed CWM or any rom on the phone ?

Yeah, I have CWM & CM7 nightlies. I can still flash recovery as fastboot works at this stage, but I cant get the phone to boot to any other stage, ie the rainbow screen. I am actually begining to think that I have a hardware issue, possibly relating to the button cable or so.

stuck on cLk loadning screen
UbuntuBhoy said:
Yeah, I have CWM & CM7 nightlies. I can still flash recovery as fastboot works at this stage, but I cant get the phone to boot to any other stage, ie the rainbow screen. I am actually begining to think that I have a hardware issue, possibly relating to the button cable or so.
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this my 3th phone with the same issue. never got a good answer.

[Q] Problem re-flashing Swiftdroid

It seems that I'm in a pickle here.
I already had swiftdroid installed but then I wanted to re-install it. So I tried but after flashing euro+fast.kdz , I got stuck in boot-loop. I tried doing the steps but I think I might be doing something wrong. Well, to get into fastboot to test if it went through would be holding the "camera" button or is it "home+camera" button during reboot? Thanks. Been at this all day.
Oh, and it appears every time I try to power on and hold the camera button first, it just goes to a black screen. So, by that have I already installed the rom properly even if it gets stuck on the android logo?
and an update as to what's happening:
going into download mode detects my phone on "device and printers" but as soon as I click on "Launch software update" I lose all the icons and KDZ returns a message saying "Phone was not found" I just noticed this now. What should I do?
I already uninstalled all drivers installed on my pc and re-installed them. After doing so, my phone detected a whole bunch of LG devices. Now on Android logo -- That after doing the Euro+fast and now am trying to do the out.kdz. By the way, even if my phone restarted during the "Launch software update" I waited for it to say finish right before I took out the battery and the usb cable.
After param 207 my phone went into boot stage and my pc re-detected the LG stuff. Now my phone is on the LG logo and it's been like it for a minute+.
I am following several steps on doing this procedure.
--Now question is again.. After this step should I be able to launch fastboot via "holding the camera" button? Do I need to do this while the phone is plugged in to the computer?
......
already tried euro then the out then euro using phone cs_emergency. Currently on Android bootloop. So I think I'm kinda back to step 1. Because initially, when I had swiftdroid, I just did euro using phone diag then afterwards, it went to bootloop. Now when I tried to restart my phone then I press and hold of the camera button, phone goes into a black screen. But looking at the "devices and printers" page, it shows "unspecified--android" on the bottom. What should I do then?
So right now, I'm currently on Android logo bootloop and if I reboot then hold the camera button, it goes to a blank black screen. What should I do next? Thanks
Update:
so yeah, after dwelling on the black screen, I tried to open up Mur4ik's old thread looking for the files I downloaded last year. Tried the command prompt and typed this in
fastboot -w
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot
After doing so, phone rebooted okay. Right now, phone status seems fine. Some adventure I had. Will try to work on how to upgrade the version on this unit.

Nice work dude I too did all that stuff, its really adventures
Now I came over it and now I'm trying all roms
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
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