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You think you BRICKED your phone...Post here!!!

oh no, oh no, what have i done??
I've created a little problem for myself. While at work I performed a wipe/restore on my phone. I have modified rc30 jf 1.3 and when my phone is booting up now I get stuck at the android screen. The green light near the ear piece comes on and a ringing can be heard from the speaker. I have tried to wipe again to no avail. Has anyone heard of this happening? Is it because I have a theme file on my sd card named update.zip? I know I can't be the only one to brick their phone!

blehman said:
I've created a little problem for myself. While at work I performed a wipe/restore on my phone. I have modified rc30 jf 1.3 and when my phone is booting up now I get stuck at the android screen. The green light near the ear piece comes on and a ringing can be heard from the speaker. I have tried to wipe again to no avail. Has anyone heard of this happening? Is it because I have a theme file on my sd card named update.zip? I know I can't be the only one to brick their phone!
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Try reflashing JF 1.3. Did u create a backup?

I did not backup. I will reflash when I get home.

blehman said:
I did not backup. I will reflash when I get home.
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That should work. I had the same problem.

thanks, i need to hear that.

how would i go about using hard spl to bring it back from the dead?

Foolproof solution would be to use RC29 DREAIMG.NBH. More intricate solution is to fastboot flash your nand backups (provided you had the foresight to make backups in the first place).

What jashsu said. I nearly bricked my phone once but reflashing with RC29 was the quick and easy way of saving it.

i need help think that i am bricked
I was on 1.1 ADP JF with the mac 2.2 theme for 1.1 ADP i wanted to get back to the original theme so first i installed the restore theme thing on the fourms after this i have been stuck at the android screen when booting. i have tried to the wipe alt W but right now i am downloading the image file to get back to the original rc 30... can anyone help me out??? i really need to my phone tommorow and help would be much appreciated thank you

Assuming that you have the JF recovery utility, you should be able to copy the update.zip for RC30 to the sdcard (take the sd card out of the phone and copy update.zip to it), and apply the update from the JF recovery utility. You can get into the recovery utility by holding home+power when booting the G1. I hope this helps.

assuming if the above post don't get you up and running you will want to donwload the stock rc29 dreamimg file and copy that manually to your memory card and with the phone off. Hold down the camera button while turning on and you will get a grey screen the and should let you flash back to the original rc29 if you can't to an alt w whipe this would be the next thing I would recomend.

Just to clarify you said your phone is the adp - android developer phone, a phone that allows you to restore the phone to earlier states?
If this is the case you just need to grab a recovery image and reflash your phone by depressing camera on boot or using fastboot to restore your phone to an earlier backed up configuration.
If you don't have the developer phone, and infact have a rooted handset with a custom firmware such as JF your best bet would be as above to roll back to rc29 or rc07 if you're uk based using RC29 DREAMING.nbh -steps can be found here http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Root_For_RC30
The downside is this will require you to reroot your phone. May i suggest in future if you do NOT have a developed phone you install Nandroid and do regular backups before playing with your phone -details here http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f28/nandroid-v2-0-full-nand-backup-and-restore-tool-9336/
Let us know hopw you get on and if we can offer any further assistance.

ok thanks guys
i installed rc 30's official image to my g1 by power+camera and everything is fine besides being unrooted i think i will root back to ADP again because of its advantages but if i am the flash a theme once again how do i get back to original theme because im sorry but i still dont understand the steps needed to do this from a ADP 1.1 jf build ty

You should have tried updating back to the 1.1 ADP JF version you were on first, would have saved you alot of time.

Hey! I assume for the purposes of this post and on accout of your having dev phon firmware you know how to use fast boot. if not go to http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f28/nandroid-v2-0-full-nand-backup-and-restore-tool-9336/
Anyway if you restart your phone with the home button depressed alt b makes a back up, use fastboot to flash this to your phone and restore it to an earlier state!!!!

Can the G1 officially be bricked?
I know you can screw up and update or 2...but with the PWR + Camera thing and the Home + PWR update method...is there a way to officially brick the G1? or is it relatively brick-proof?

I wouldn't think any phone is brick-proof. Then again, the G1 does seem more "mod" friendly than others.

Flash a corrupt SPL and you will have a brick really fast

AbsoluteDesignz said:
I know you can screw up and update or 2...but with the PWR + Camera thing and the Home + PWR update method...is there a way to officially brick the G1? or is it relatively brick-proof?
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Try it really quick and please post your results lol

I might be wrong, but I think as long as we don't mess with the boot loader, it should always be able to start with camera-power

How easy is it to brick your phone?

I did a search, and dont see anything to answer this specific question.
Ive got my new Dev 1, and have the latest JF update. I want to install some cool themes, however, I know its a possibility to brick my phone.
Exactly how easy is it to brick your phone while installing a theme? I plan on following the directions step by step, but I will be very upset if something happens.
Any advice would be much appreciated. I suppose I just need some reassurance...
Thanks in advance.

Not too easy but if you Flash a corrupted SPL your toast

not very easy, just remember, if it boots to the SPL or recovery mode you are fine, it's not a true brick. if it doesn't boot at all then you may have an issue. i have had many times where the phone decided it didn't want to boot past the boot screen, or the flashing android and yet i am able to post this now using my phone as a tether. if you get stuck on one of those screens then you need to either flash the dreaimg.nbh or a new update.zip including the full JF build

Dredge said:
I did a search, and dont see anything to answer this specific question.
Ive got my new Dev 1, and have the latest JF update. I want to install some cool themes, however, I know its a possibility to brick my phone.
Exactly how easy is it to brick your phone while installing a theme? I plan on following the directions step by step, but I will be very upset if something happens.
Any advice would be much appreciated. I suppose I just need some reassurance...
Thanks in advance.
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Why are you so worry about brink your phone? If you want to brink your phone pour some concrete on the phone and make a customize brink G1.

tubaking182 said:
not very easy, just remember, if it boots to the SPL or recovery mode you are fine, it's not a true brick. if it doesn't boot at all then you may have an issue. i have had many times where the phone decided it didn't want to boot past the boot screen, or the flashing android and yet i am able to post this now using my phone as a tether. if you get stuck on one of those screens then you need to either flash the dreaimg.nbh or a new update.zip including the full JF build
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whatever he said....^^
I've flashed themes that were designed for RC3xx on my ADP1.1 and managed to "bricked" it. All i did was go to bootstrap and reload the SPL with RC29 and re-flash ADP1.1 to the phone.
As long the hard-SPL on the bootstrap remain untouched, there's always a way to recover your phone...it may be long, boring, and redundant...but it will safe your G1 from truly becoming a brick...or paper weight...or both

This makes me feel a bit better. I will just back up the latest JF update and keep it in case something happens. I will probably just hold off at tleast for a little while before I try doing much. I need to get a feel for the phone before I try to mod it. I found some cool wallpapers that should tide me over for at least a little while. But the clock is u-g-l-y. Im use to having TouchFlo, with HHC, and all the neat custom clocks.

Well, thats why I am probably not going to update my SPL...
I own an ADP1 and so already got the engineering SPL... and as the SPL update seems for me to be the only way to brick my phone... well, I am a coward...
It may be a little offtopic, but i am planning to update to JF1.43, or perhaps even messing around with Ubuntu MID (if ever possible).
Is there a really good reason I should update to HardSPL?

HELP I CAN'T GET DREAIMG.NBH Installed!
I just tried to downgrade my G1 from RC33 v1.42 + Radio Update 1.22.14.11!!!
I think I made the mistake and downgraded my bootloader from SPL_Hard to Original RC29_ SPL, because I was having trouble getting the file Dreaimg.nbh, recognized after booting holding camera + power buttons.
After downgrading from SPL_Hard to Orig RC29, I was able to boot holding the camera + power buttons, and the process started, but just before completing I got an error, FAILED TO UPDATE TERMINATING, and now my phone only reboots to the SPL screen with this showing:
DREA100 PVT 32B RUUNBH
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.14.11
SEP 2 2008
I believe it's has to due with the Radio Update 1.22.14.11...
I'm going to try using QMAT and follow the Inst from that same thread. If that doesn't help can some offer some help???

Follow UP!
QMAT WORKED:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=490960
Sorry about the double posts!

The G1 Night Light (READ FIRST IF YOU BRICKED YOUR PHONE)

Many people complain that they have "bricked" their phones when they really haven't. This thread will hopefully help reduce the questions on all of our useful threads.
How to tell if your phone is bricked:
1.) When you try to turn it on, nothing happens?
2.) Camera+Power does nothing.
3.) Home+Power does nothing.
4.) You flashed the SPL BEFORE the radio
If you answered yes to any of the above 4, you are bricked. You probably need a new board in the phone. Read more here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=516440 It has been confirmed that you WILL brick your phone if you attempt to downgrade your radio after flashing the new SPL. Not sure why you would want to anyways...
How to tell if you just need to re-flash:
1.) Your phone is stuck on the g1 logo
2.) Your phone is stuck in a boot loop
3.) Home+Power boots into recovery
If you answered yes to the above then you are NOT bricked. You have the G1 Night Light. This is (usually) a very easy fix.
The usual scenario is: You just upgraded your radio and/or the SPL on your phone and now you are trying to turn it on with no luck.
How to fix: After you upgrade your radio and/or SPL, you need to wipe a rom on the phone. For a plain almost stock feeling rom, checkout http://jf.andblogs.net/2009/05/24/jfv151-images-are-out/ if you are looking for hero, checkout the tutorial at g1upgrade.com.
I have also noticed when you flash hero, it will stay on the g1 logo for 5 or 6 minutes and then it'll finally start loading. Make sure your not being impatient and give it several minutes if you have just flashed a rom.
Last step:
If you have installed a new radio, then spl, then a new rom and you STILL get the g1 screen. Try it all over again. You probably didn't do something right. You don't need to ask questions in 30 different threads, your issue is not unique. You just need to search for some answers.

*Saved for future posts*

Edit:

Thanks! Updated.

I flashed the SPL before the radio whenever Haykuro released the Hero ROM and I didn't brick my device. Guess that I just got lucky. Thank goodness I know better now. haha

it's possible you flashed the radio prior to the SPL, only a loooong ways back.

Another thing to try if you are having issues is:
su
rm -r /system/sd/*
I was stuck in a boot loop and a quick ext3 wipe did the trick. The command should be able to be ran from console or terminal. You may need to mount /system with:
mount -t -rw,remount -o yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
You would need to type that in between the commands above . I ran across this in another post but i think this is a good spot for it too .

Duplicate post...

thanx
At least I know now how to tell if I bricked my phone or just flashed it badly thanks for this.

youneek said:
How to tell if you just need to re-flash:
1.) Your phone is stuck on the g1 logo
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many people who flashed the new SPL before the radio are stuck at the G1 splash logo, but cannot get to recovery or spl bootloader / fastboot mode regardless of what they do, so this bit might be misleading...
they aren't technically "bricked" b/c it's loading the radio rom, but it never hands off to the SPL, so there is currently no way of reloading either of those to make the device do anything useful -- essentially a brick

alapapa said:
many people who flashed the new SPL before the radio are stuck at the G1 splash logo, but cannot get to recovery or spl bootloader / fastboot mode regardless of what they do, so this bit might be misleading...
they aren't technically "bricked" b/c it's loading the radio rom, but it never hands off to the SPL, so there is currently no way of reloading either of those to make the device do anything useful -- essentially a brick
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This is exactly what happened to me, it was a brick, sent for repair and they replaced the mainboard.

I have fixed 2 phones that had no recovery and stuck at the g1 screen. If someone has this problem message me and I'll help you fix.

Good Job
Sorry this is off topic. But...
Thank you for this thread!
Ok,
By the way, has anyone figured out what The difference in the baseband is?? I have a U in mine...

youneek said:
I have fixed 2 phones that had no recovery and stuck at the g1 screen. If someone has this problem message me and I'll help you fix.
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really? if it can't get to recovery / fastboot mode nobody has published a fix w/o a hardware swap.
what's your method?

I will buy a bricked one off ebay and post the steps I do to get it back. I can only fix the "Night Light", I can't fix a truly bricked phone (yet).

digital006 said:
This is exactly what happened to me, it was a brick, sent for repair and they replaced the mainboard.
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How and where did you sent for repair and how much does it cost? I have a bricked MyTouch3G at this moment. Did HTC took it?

not bricked just weird!
ok been reading on here ,not sure if i need to just reflash everything or sd issuse?i put the new raidio,then spl on !then put jacxrom on my phone worked great!then ran for a day.then tryed cyanogenmod 4.0 and loaded fine but got force closed issues at the google sign in so i wipe and went to jachero 1.2 loaded fine went to logo android and then htc ,but then the screen went to blank .like the as said g1 night light .so i went back to jacxrom 1.3 it loaded fine got stuck in t mobile g1 screen .ok i flashed again same thing. but this is the part if i take my memory card out it will boot up just fine!then put memory card back in but lol all apps are missing have reinstall them. i wipe every time.i have the latest raidio 22.19.26I).,spl 1.33.2005 .also the jacxrom is running fine when phones on .so any help please thanks .also when i put the spl on it loaded then said reboot so i did. after went back to recovery at the bottom it said formatting cach... but was setting there for a while so took battery out then booted phone .was it suposse to say done or not ! hope dont make any mad thanks for the info

bump

hey help me plz i have big problem
i forget hit alt+w when i install SPL then i press alt+s when SPL install i out battery then i put it my mobile don’t want open and when i holding down the Home and Power button don’t open recovery mode and i holding the End key and the Camera button don’t open boot loader plz help me plz

You aren't going to get any help with sentences that atrocious. Can you be more clear?

Help for new method to development

hello guys
are now 2 months that I try to root my vodafone magic 32B, but without
success, I tried all the methods on this forum, GoldCard, rentless
rooter, oneclickroot ... etc but without success, I have 1.6 donut and perfect
spl 1.33.007, now ask the experts, if someone willing to create a
method that works well I would be willing to make a donation, for
development of this method.( for have root to my magic)
awaiting for help
thanks

I rooted my buddy's 32B yesterday took five minutes
I used oneclick method.
I used it myself, too.
But remember to write the correct name in flashrec and not what it says on the unlockr.com
for example. / sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2G.img

stian230 said:
I rooted my buddy's 32B yesterday took five minutes
I used oneclick method.
I used it myself, too.
But remember to write the correct name in flashrec and not what it says on the unlockr.com
for example. / sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2G.img
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thanks so much, but im not understand one thing, what say theunlockr that not is correct?and i will rename the recovery?

anyone have any suggestions? please

What he wanted to say is that you should write the name of your recovery image instead of writing the same thing that they wrote at theunlockr.com

correct
Download http://zenthought.org/content/project/flashrec Install it on your phone.
Download http://rapidshare.com/files/320335181/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2G.img on your memory card.
Then, click on the empty text box in the FlashRec program and type:
/ sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2G.img
Then click on the Flash Recovery Custom Image button and wait for it to finish.
Turn off the phone and turn it on into Recovery mode by holding down Home and Power
And you will have root access
Hope this helps

stian230 said:
correct
Download http://zenthought.org/content/project/flashrec Install it on your phone.
Download http://rapidshare.com/files/320335181/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2G.img on your memory card.
Then, click on the empty text box in the FlashRec program and type:
/ sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2G.img
Then click on the Flash Recovery Custom Image button and wait for it to finish.
Turn off the phone and turn it on into Recovery mode by holding down Home and Power
And you will have root access
Hope this helps
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When i try to root my magic i get an error on that part: Then click on the Flash Recovery Custom Image button and wait for it to finish. Invalid image.
what can i do to make an valid backup?

This is most likely because you already have a custom recovery image, please use one of the unrooting procedures to get back to the original recovery image and THEN you can use this procedure.
Also, instead of doing that, if you have root access, you can just put the recovery image on your SD card then go into Terminal (download it from the Market if you don’t already have it) and type:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.5.3.img
http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-unroot-your-mytouch-3g/comment-page-1/#comment-2899

Will it work ?? i'm about to go nuts couse it's not working

I hope it will work.
I had the same problem when I rooted my phone, but I can not remember what I
did. Take it easy. read some http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/29/how-to-root-the-htc-magic-in-one-click/:)

i have tried that guide too that you are linkin to without success
I'm lost and i don't know what to do hehe

Try to press outside the field you type
/ sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.3G.img on the right or Left side I can not remember then you will see an x, press, then phone of. the power and home
It is not so important to make your own recovery img. as long as you have some ROMs, for your phone sdcard that you can flash.
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stian230 said:
Try to press outside the field you type
/ sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.3G.img on the right or Left side I can not remember then you will see an x, press, then phone of. the power and home
It is not so important to make your own recovery img. as long as you have some ROMs, for your phone sdcard that you can flash.
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failed that too
i'm totally lost now...
maybe it's my sdcard?

thanks guys for your suggestions, but are methods that I have
tried, and do not work oneclikroot / etc sappimg.nbh i've tried
thousands of times, no method works by having perfect donut and SPL, for
So I hope that somebody who could create a method that
works ...

thanks all...

something like instant rooting for magic would me nice

anyone can help me?

Did you try search instead of posting new messages in DEVELOPMENT section?
Read this...
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_MT3G/Magic_Firmware_to_CyanogenMod
There are stats for Vodafone Magics 32B... Some flashed fine, some failed...

5[Strogino] said:
Did you try search instead of posting new messages in DEVELOPMENT section?
Read this...
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_MT3G/Magic_Firmware_to_CyanogenMod
There are stats for Vodafone Magics 32B... Some flashed fine, some failed...
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thanks for the tip, driving already tried, but the problem remains the downgrade
1.5 ... cupcake after the update with sappimg.nbh. always writes "main version is older" so this guide does not work either .....

I have the same problem as you it's driving me nuts the perfected spl 1.33.0007 and donut is an uncrackable combination it appears
it's getting to the point where I'd pay someone to get my phone rooted it's useless for custom roms at the moment which is one of the main reasons I bought the phone

Help! Stuck at HTC splash screen...I'll donate $$

Ok, so I am stuck at the white HTC spash screen, in the bottom left corner it says:
B 04
R 2.35.00WV
P DSDCANPZM-6125
D 4.01.93615
I had EnergyROM GTX, and I was flashing to this stock MR2 release and it flashed, and on first boot it is now stuck on the screen.
EDIT: Fixed! Check my 6th post, it was the steps I took to fix it.

You need to re-lock your phone to flash that update:
http: //forum. xda-developers. com/showpost. php?p=6838067&postcount=3
You'll see in the HSPL notes that there's a protection built in to prevent re-locking:
NOTE 2: this is unsigned Hard-SPL. no limitations on flashing ROMs (except of course some Radio roms). also, this has overwrite protection against HTC RUU's overwriting HSPL with a stock one, so if someone needs to revert to stock SPL for warranty reasons, a stock SPL downgrade package is posted here below. use this relocker *only* if you need to return the phone for warranty, and only use it as last step - after reflashing stock OS and radio. see steps at the end of this post about how to reflash stock SPL.
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Since I can't post links outside of the forums, take out the spaces here to get the link to relock your device - scroll down to the bottom to where it says "how to reflash Stock":
http :// rhodiumw. htc-unlocks. com/hard-spl. php

well, i cant get it synced with active sync so how do i get it to talk with the computer?

Bootloader

Ok, i got into bootloader.
then what, run the bootloader relocker on post 2 of this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=578660
im confused the order in what to do things...anyone have a little more in depth info?
still get the white HTC screen after running the relocker...am i now supposed to flash the MR2 ROM update??

Ok I got it!
If stuck on the white HTC screen, get into bootloader on power (volume down + power button). I had to be holding them as I put the battery back in to get it to restart into it.
Once in bootloader, run this relocker
After that, get into bootloader again because you will still have the white HTC screen. Once in bootloader, run the MR2 update
It takes some time, I thought at first it was stuck again at the same screen, but be patient. It will load...
hope this helps!

You dont need to relock. Just put in boot loader and flash...

ai6908 said:
You dont need to relock. Just put in boot loader and flash...
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to flash to this particular official update you MUST relock as stated on the posts above if you have been using a custom ROM.
without it you will always get a stuck htc screen.

Attempting to relock
I know this is an old thread, but I have been having trouble with a device for several weeks. I decided to give this relock and reflash stock ROM suggestion a try, but the relock sits at 0% and doesn't move. Any ideas what the problem may be?
Thank you!

HTC Touch pro 2 verizon GSM
Hi, i have a problem , I have a htc touch pro 2 verizon , i think its GSM because i can put a sim card in it , which am currently using with it now. the info below is the information for it. for some reason i can only load the mightyrom on it , when i try to load anything else it just gets struck at the bootscreen logo and thats it. i dont like the mightyrom , i wan to load something else on it , what rom is recommended and what process to go through without bricking the phone
B 04
R 2.35.00WV
P. DSDCANPZM-6125
D. 2.04.82488
RHOD500 32 SS-BC
SPL-1.00.01iNex

raven2k7 said:
Hi, i have a problem , I have a htc touch pro 2 verizon , i think its GSM because i can put a sim card in it , which am currently using with it now. the info below is the information for it. for some reason i can only load the mightyrom on it , when i try to load anything else it just gets struck at the bootscreen logo and thats it. i dont like the mightyrom , i wan to load something else on it , what rom is recommended and what process to go through without bricking the phone
B 04
R 2.35.00WV
P. DSDCANPZM-6125
D. 2.04.82488
RHOD500 32 SS-BC
SPL-1.00.01iNex
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Did you try reflashing the verizon shipped rom?