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think i bricked my phone

ok so i had fresh 2.0 and the updated radio on my phone. i woke up today and flashed the damage rom, and while it was booting for the first time i decided to take a shower. when i got out, i tried to turn the screen on. nothing. rebooted, screen came on, then it went off tried to turn it back on. nothing. i nandroid resotred back to fresh 2.0, booted, screen turned off, tried to power it on, nothing. called my phone, it rang but the screen didnt turn on. i RUUed it, said it was complete, booted up and froze at the htc screen. i tried to adb into it, nothing. went into fastboot, tried to adb, nothing. turned it on to hboot, restarted, then got the image of a phone with a caution sign. got into Android system restore utility, and it says E:cant read MISC: (no space left on device) i data/factory wiped, said complete, tried to flash an update.zip from the recovery utility, keeps comming up no signature. i tried 4 different roms. wtf?

blankd3ckskat3r said:
ok so i had fresh 2.0 and the updated radio on my phone. i woke up today and flashed the damage rom, and while it was booting for the first time i decided to take a shower. when i got out, i tried to turn the screen on. nothing. rebooted, screen came on, then it went off tried to turn it back on. nothing. i nandroid resotred back to fresh 2.0, booted, screen turned off, tried to power it on, nothing. called my phone, it rang but the screen didnt turn on. i RUUed it, said it was complete, booted up and froze at the htc screen. i tried to adb into it, nothing. went into fastboot, tried to adb, nothing. turned it on to hboot, restarted, then got the image of a phone with a caution sign. got into Android system restore utility, and it says E:cant read MISC: (no space left on device) i data/factory wiped, said complete, tried to flash an update.zip from the recovery utility, keeps comming up no signature. i tried 4 different roms. wtf?
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If the RUU was successful then you wouldn't be able to access the recovery console b/c it restores the phone & takes away root. I'd try the RUU again... Maybe download it again and be sure you follow every step to a T. It's not bricked cause it's turning on. Good luck!

mrcharlesiv said:
If the RUU was successful then you wouldn't be able to access the recovery console b/c it restores the phone & takes away root. I'd try the RUU again... Maybe download it again and be sure you follow every step to a T. It's not bricked cause it's turning on. Good luck!
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im not talking about the rooted recovery console. im talking about the built in android recovery utility. my pc cant find my phone.

blankd3ckskat3r said:
im not talking about the rooted recovery console. im talking about the built in android recovery utility. my pc cant find my phone.
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Built in Android Recovery? Never seen that... Idk man. I'd be running the RUU over and over all day. If that doesn't work go into a Sprint store and say your phone "just won't turn on for some reason."

How do you access the built in recovery??

mrcharlesiv said:
Built in Android Recovery? Never seen that... Idk man. I'd be running the RUU over and over all day. If that doesn't work go into a Sprint store and say your phone "just won't turn on for some reason."
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The stock android recovery is the ! screen with no options. BTW, there isn't adb access via android recovery, you need Amon_RA's or Cyanogen's

HeroMeng said:
The stock android recovery is the ! screen with no options. BTW, there isn't adb access via android recovery, you need Amon_RA's or Cyanogen's
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Oh... Yeah I've seen that. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Try holding down the house and the back key and turning on the phone... should be a hard phone reset that may work.

mrcharlesiv said:
It's not bricked cause it's turning on.
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This is untrue (unfortunately, I know from experience)... My phone "turned on" but would go into a specific FastBoot menu that did not allow anything to be performed that would take it out of that state... many people have gotten stuck at the same place and nobody has a solution. Its the Error 110 when RUU-ing...
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thats a new one to me.

i cannot repeat cannot see my phone on my computer when booting it on. the built in recovery lets me facotry reset but says cannot read MISC and that my devices memory is full. its whatever. gettign a new hero tomorrow anyway

Stuck in bootloader

so ive been flashing roms and have never had a problem till today.
i went to flash the new ava-froyo rom and it went fine and booted right up, and then i tried flashing the new radio and that when everything froze.. it was stuck at the white evo 4g screen...
so i rebooted and it did the same freezein at the white screen..
i rebooted again into hboot, and tried going into recovery and it goes to the white screen again and freezes.
so i only have control in hboot and fastboot. yet i cant get a shell connection. the device is recognized, so im just lost at what to do. been reading for hours and cant figure it out.
thanks for any help.

rdkustom said:
so ive been flashing roms and have never had a problem till today.
i went to flash the new ava-froyo rom and it went fine and booted right up, and then i tried flashing the new radio and that when everything froze.. it was stuck at the white evo 4g screen...
so i rebooted and it did the same freezein at the white screen..
i rebooted again into hboot, and tried going into recovery and it goes to the white screen again and freezes.
so i only have control in hboot and fastboot. yet i cant get a shell connection. the device is recognized, so im just lost at what to do. been reading for hours and cant figure it out.
thanks for any help.
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Wipe three times wipe wipe wipe if that don't work do whitslack startover method
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i cant get into recovery to wipe. do u mean clear storage?
and also, ive been trying to load pc16img off my sdcard, but its not reading. i didnt the sdcard fix and still nothing.. thanks for your help

I kinda had the same issue, try the unrevoked recovery reflash
that's what I did and it worked for me

mine was stuck on the red exclamation point... I tried 5 times by pressing power and +vol buttons, but it was just sitting there for ever...

baiatul said:
mine was stuck on the red exclamation point... I tried 5 times by pressing power and +vol buttons, but it was just sitting there for ever...
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Are you rooted if not then take battery out put back in hold power and vol down once it goes into hboot pull battery back out then put back in boot up regular way. Happen to me was trying something on non rooted phone went into recovery and got that red! Was like oh man so I did that it v came up hope it works for u
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rdkustom said:
so ive been flashing roms and have never had a problem till today.
i went to flash the new ava-froyo rom and it went fine and booted right up, and then i tried flashing the new radio and that when everything froze.. it was stuck at the white evo 4g screen...
so i rebooted and it did the same freezein at the white screen..
i rebooted again into hboot, and tried going into recovery and it goes to the white screen again and freezes.
so i only have control in hboot and fastboot. yet i cant get a shell connection. the device is recognized, so im just lost at what to do. been reading for hours and cant figure it out.
thanks for any help.
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If all fells do power and vol up hook to CPU HTC sync and try load stock ruu on there
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so i can only communicate with the phone thru fastboot..
adb isnt seeing the phone, ive also put a pc36img on my memcard and reboot to get it to load, but it wont load it.. so then i did the sdcard fix and still nothing.. thanks again

ewilson said:
Are you rooted if not then take battery out put back in hold power and vol down once it goes into hboot pull battery back out then put back in boot up regular way. Happen to me was trying something on non rooted phone went into recovery and got that red! Was like oh man so I did that it v came up hope it works for u
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Thanks, that's correct. Not rooted. Thanks.

baiatul said:
Thanks, that's correct. Not rooted. Thanks.
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Ok yes that's what happen to my friend phone I was just seeing what happen. Man I was like oh my lord got scared thought I brick phone what I did was pulled battery put battery back in holding vol down and power once in hboot pull battery wait a min or so put battery back and boot up normal way it came on I was like whew. If that doesn't work pull battery put back in vol. Up and power while phone hooked to CPU do HTC sync and reload stock ruu let me know if it works
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[Q] Bricked? Please help if possible

I don't know if the phone is bricked, i sure hope not.
I had cm7 final running just fine. I was installing a kernel from clockwork recovery, and i followed the instructions. It installed, i told it to reboot the phone, it came to the cm7 blue booting screen. it kept repeating that for over 20 minutes. at that point i pulled the battery and replaced it. then i think it was stuck at the tmobile splash screen for a while. i was able to reboot and get to recovery mode again, i wiped cache and tried to install the kernel again, this time got an error. now it went to tmo splash screen and froze there for a while. after another battery pull, nothing will display on the screen and i cannot access recovery mode (i try by holding volume down, then holding power button). the ONLY thing that does happen is that the lcd backlight will stay on until i pull the battery. i plugged into pc without the battery, lcd lights up, but its not recognized by windows or adb.
I'd be grateful for any possible help or ideas, thanks in advance.

Could you give more info on Rom recovery kernel you were attempting etc?
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Jay10826 said:
I don't know if the phone is bricked, i sure hope not.
I had cm7 final running just fine. I was installing a kernel from clockwork recovery, and i followed the instructions. It installed, i told it to reboot the phone, it came to the cm7 blue booting screen. it kept repeating that for over 20 minutes. at that point i pulled the battery and replaced it. then i think it was stuck at the tmobile splash screen for a while. i was able to reboot and get to recovery mode again, i wiped cache and tried to install the kernel again, this time got an error. now it went to tmo splash screen and froze there for a while. after another battery pull, nothing will display on the screen and i cannot access recovery mode (i try by holding volume down, then holding power button). the ONLY thing that does happen is that the lcd backlight will stay on until i pull the battery. i plugged into pc without the battery, lcd lights up, but its not recognized by windows or adb.
I'd be grateful for any possible help or ideas, thanks in advance.
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Um sorry to say but your screwed. Sounds like a true brick to me
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Can you boot into the bootloader? Which one is installed? How can we help if we have no idea what's installed on your phone? There could be hope if you can boot into the bootloader and have the engineering SPL installed.
Also, what kernel were you trying to install?

TeeJay3800 said:
Can you boot into the bootloader? Which one is installed? How can we help if we have no idea what's installed on your phone? There could be hope if you can boot into the bootloader and have the engineering SPL installed.
Also, what kernel were you trying to install?
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He already stated that he could not boot into h boot
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mark manning said:
He already stated that he could not boot into h boot
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He did? I only saw that he could not boot into recovery. I was thinking if his recovery is screwed up, he could still use fastboot to flash a new recovery and then be able to wipe and start over. If he can't get into the bootloader or recovery, then yeah, it's the dreaded B word.
I'd really like to know what kernel he was trying to flash.

TeeJay3800 said:
I'd really like to know what kernel he was trying to flash.
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Me too......

TeeJay3800 said:
I'd really like to know what kernel he was trying to flash.
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First thing I asked.. still no reply kinda sucks when they can't help by responding so we can help them..
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I was flashing the #107 kernel from this thread:
[Kernel]Gingerbread[2.6.32.36]MaxOC~1.84GHz,Smartass/UV/BFS/BFQ/SLQB-Faux123[Apr-10]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957267
I'm not sure if there's a different procedure to get into hboot as opposed to recovery. I've only had the mytouch 4g for about a week (always had Nexus one before). After pulling and replacing the battery, i hold volume down, then hold power button. Is that how to get into recovery and/or hboot, or is there another procedure I can try?
I used the visionary app to obtain root, install rom manager, then installed clockword mod recovery and cm7 through that. Working fine for a few days until i decided to flash the kernel to get better battery life....

Jay10826 said:
I was flashing the #107 kernel from this thread:
[Kernel]Gingerbread[2.6.32.36]MaxOC~1.84GHz,Smartass/UV/BFS/BFQ/SLQB-Faux123[Apr-10]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957267
I'm not sure if there's a different procedure to get into hboot as opposed to recovery. I've only had the mytouch 4g for about a week (always had Nexus one before). After pulling and replacing the battery, i hold volume down, then hold power button. Is that how to get into recovery and/or hboot, or is there another procedure I can try?
I used the visionary app to obtain root, install rom manager, then installed clockword mod recovery and cm7 through that. Working fine for a few days until i decided to flash the kernel to get better battery life....
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Unfortunatly its the same procedure, hold volume down and power on. So if when u do that nothing happens and adb doesn't work your phone is done.
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A little more info, maybe good news...i've been trying to get it to do anything for the last few hours. i had the battery out for a while. When i would plug it into AC charger or my pc with no battery, nothing would happen. however now i put in the battery, plugged it into the pc, and NOW the orange charging light is on like its charging...i haven't tried to turn it on or anything yet though.

Jay10826 said:
A little more info, maybe good news...i've been trying to get it to do anything for the last few hours. i had the battery out for a while. When i would plug it into AC charger or my pc with no battery, nothing would happen. however now i put in the battery, plugged it into the pc, and NOW the orange charging light is on like its charging...i haven't tried to turn it on or anything yet though.
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I'm not sure what the exact status of your phone is, but usually flashing a kernel does not brick the phone. If anything the ROM won't run right or there will be other problems, but never do they prevent the phone from booting into recovery (the recovery partition uses a completely different kernel). When you try turning it on again, don't bother trying to let it boot normally. Hold down power and volume down and see if you can get into recovery. Then run all three wipe options and flash a new ROM.

Jay10826 said:
A little more info, maybe good news...i've been trying to get it to do anything for the last few hours. i had the battery out for a while. When i would plug it into AC charger or my pc with no battery, nothing would happen. however now i put in the battery, plugged it into the pc, and NOW the orange charging light is on like its charging...i haven't tried to turn it on or anything yet though.
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It's happened to me before where I thought I had completely bricked the phone. It crashed in CM7 RC2 when I tried to mess with the DSP settings. After that, I went through the same situation as you. I got tired of it, left it charging overnight while it was stuck on the splash screen. The next morning, it was on like nothing happened. I'm thinking it just needed to sort itself out. Not really a fix or suggestion, but at least an indication that there is hope.

Nah, its dead man. Not on its entirety but virtually. I know that JTAG could be an option albeit, im not sure.
I can assure you though that there must be something extra u must have missed that caused this, did you play with radio's or SPL's? Cause that is how i bricked a magic lol
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mine bricked on restoring. got to the point of not responding to anything - power button and even charge indicator no longer worked.
sorry to hear OP. it's bricked.

Jay10826 said:
I was flashing the #107 kernel from this thread:
[Kernel]Gingerbread[2.6.32.36]MaxOC~1.84GHz,Smartass/UV/BFS/BFQ/SLQB-Faux123[Apr-10]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957267
I'm not sure if there's a different procedure to get into hboot as opposed to recovery. I've only had the mytouch 4g for about a week (always had Nexus one before). After pulling and replacing the battery, i hold volume down, then hold power button. Is that how to get into recovery and/or hboot, or is there another procedure I can try?
I used the visionary app to obtain root, install rom manager, then installed clockword mod recovery and cm7 through that. Working fine for a few days until i decided to flash the kernel to get better battery life....
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By saying that you used the visionary app to obtain root, is that all you did? Then installed rom manager and etc etc etc? Did you go through the full root method to get S=OFF as well?

Well previous to using visionary...i was trying another method to root using the terminal, but it wasn't working, so then i found visionary and used that. I never interacted with the phone using adb, if it matters. If i never really had s=off, could this be why this whole thing happened?

Jay10826 said:
If i never really had s=off, could this be why this whole thing happened?
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Yes it probably is
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Jay10826 said:
Well previous to using visionary...i was trying another method to root using the terminal, but it wasn't working, so then i found visionary and used that. I never interacted with the phone using adb, if it matters. If i never really had s=off, could this be why this whole thing happened?
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Not really, if you were able to run a custom ROM with no problems before then you were rooted properly. Somwhere after you must have gone wrong, not sure where
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[Q] Unable to get into CWM and no service/WiFi

Hi, I have a really strange problem.
I had this build of MIUI on my phone for a few months, no problems
droidforums[.net]/forum/dro...-6-stable[.html]
but a few days ago, my phone started giving whacky battery readings (would drop from 40% to 5% in a few seconds) and i wanted to go into CWM to reset the battery stats.
So I had my phone plugged into my car charger, and when I booted into recovery, it didnt do anything, and the screen stayed black for a few minutes (I assumed it was out of power)
When it booted again, ALL OF MY DATA had been cleared and MIUI WAS NOT EVEN THE SAME AS THE ONE I HAD FLASHED. Same version number, sure, but completely different theme and boot animation. (I believe its currently the stock theme)
Well whats even wierder is that I have no data or wifi. Wifi gets stuck on "Obtaining IP address"
And whats even wierderer than than is that every time i boot my phone up, I am greeted with the android activation screen, no matter how many times I hit skip the set up
I obviously cant activate my phone without a connection
it also resets itself every time i turn it on. Any app that I install from my SD card will be gone.
It gets worse. Droid 2 bootstrap does nothing, even though it reports success. I cant use ROM manager as it has to install CWM from the server.
The reboot recovery option from the boot menu just reboots the phone, and there is no blue LED on boot that I can see to press volume down.
(Holding volume down gives me the android with the box and arrow, and nothing else, I know this has to do with recovery but not much else)
So can anyone tell me how to get CWM working again???
THANKS!

Does your MIUI have a boot menu? If it does you should see a light right before it goes to the boot animation.

Albinoman said:
Does your MIUI have a boot menu? If it does you should see a light right before it goes to the boot animation.
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Nope. nothing. not even su cat.jpg works

I would suggest you sbf back to gingerbread then re-flash your rom.

Albinoman said:
I would suggest you sbf back to gingerbread then re-flash your rom.
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Is there any way I can avoid this? last time I sbfed it didnt work out so well

You could try a data wipe in stock recovery.
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Actually, i cant even get into stock recovery. I see the android and the box after I press x, but pressing the search key does nothing and the search key works.

You have to press both volume buttons at the same time.
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Albinoman said:
You have to press both volume buttons at the same time.
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I did this, reset to factory deafualts, and absolutely no difference. I cannot find a single sbf file that is still up (megaupload and multiupload are the only ones I can find)
Can somebody please give me a mirror or give me a way to fix this?

Full GB sbf. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1505035

[Q] N4 cut off, only "download mode" then nothing

I flashed PA, GAPPS and then DER kernel; wiped cache and dalvik and rebooted. It booted fine and I restored all my settings. I ran a benchmark and in the middle of it, it cut off and wouldn't turn back on. I plugged it in to the stock charger and I got the charging indicator. Then after playing with the volume and power buttons I got it into download mode. I then moved to the computer to use the toolkit and reflash the stock rom and when I plugged it into the computer the charging indicator would not come on, went back to the stock charger and now the charging indicator wont come on. Now it won't do anything, no download mode, no bootloader, nothing.
Any suggestions?
I found one other thread where someone had the same problem and he ended up just RMA'ing.
TYIA

Leave it charging undisturbed for the night, try again tomorrow. It'll boot up again most likely.
Careful with the benchmarking. Which I'm sure you don't need advise for anymore I bet..

Let it sit over night on the charger, still nothing.
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any solution please? i have same problem. only download mode and nothing

PeITeeR said:
any solution please? i have same problem. only download mode and nothing
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When you plug in the phone do you get the red notification light? Have you tried letting the phone charge for several hours while off or opening the phone and disconnecting/reconnecting the battery?
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You need to get out of download mode. Honestly I mash force rebooting the N4 and plug it in and out of the charge until something works, and every time without fail it works lol
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Try This...
PeITeeR said:
any solution please? i have same problem. only download mode and nothing
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When in download mode press the down and up volume rocker and power button. Try this for some time and it must reboot into bootloader(android with open chest).
(try it when connected to computer too)
If you get it to bootloader you can restore it!!
1. Flash factory image . all info here detailed :::http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
2. If u cant do it yourself download mskip's toolkit and install drivers. Select option to restore to factory image and it must get you back to stock rom unrooted with only bootloader unlocked.
mskip's toolkit:::http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995688
Recovered mine..
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