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G1 is bricked!!!

after i attemped to upgrade my jf 1.41 rc 30 to jf 1.41 rc 33 my phone freeze and then i took out the battery, try to turn it on and it wont turn back on is there any way or any buttons i need to push to get this back on again? i'm desperate and dont want to wait for a g1 replacement which is coming next week please give me some advice on how to make my phone work again.

both CAMERA/POWER and HOME/POWER are not working?

yup both i tried nothing works

ariex said:
my phone freeze and then i took out the battery, try to turn it on and it wont turn back on.
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Did you put the battery back in?

what do you think?

I upgraded from JF 1.41 RC30 with no problem, Radio and all, good luck!

ariex said:
what do you think?
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So far you are the only person with this problem so we are running through the basics.
Did you get any errors or messages during the update? Did the phone run out of battery mid update? Did anything odd or unusual happen?

quick question in while in the topic, had he done a FULL nandroid backup and was able to atleast get to boot screen would he be able to restore his phone? just a quick questions because to this day i have no idea how the nandroid thing works i cant do it on my x64 vista either and dont see how it comes in handy lol. Sorry just trying to fig it out.

after i tried to install the radio update it showed some sort of chip with an arrow and then it froze for over 10 mins so i ended up taking out the battery

@zgjbeta Yes. If you can get to the blinkin android screen, your not really bricked. Nandroid would fix it right up.
If it wont even turn on, like your case. I dono what to tell you.
For starters, try to connect it to a wall outlet to make sure its not the battery.
Also tell us exactly what happened during the update process.
EDIT: I read your most recent post. That's strange because everyone gets the chip thing, you shouldve tried home + back or menu + green + red.
One of those wouldve most likely worked.
Good luck.
Also maybe try to take it out again and put it back in.

I had the chip and arrow after the radio update, I didn't take the battery out, started pressing random keys, lol... and then it went away and booted back to a JF recovery style screen. Pressed home + back and it rebooted to a stuck flashing android. Then did call+menu+end to reboot and it has worked fine ever since.
There is definitely something whacky going on...

yes i tried to do the home key plus end and camera plus end options while in that chip state but didnt do anything so i resolve to take out the battery and it wont turn on again. i also tried all the button reset combo nothing happens

If it wont even turn then there is really nothing that can be done. Another thing I would try is if you know someone else with a G1 try their battery.

ariex said:
after i tried to install the radio update it showed some sort of chip with an arrow and then it froze for over 10 mins so i ended up taking out the battery
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Also try cleaning the battery contacts in the phone and on the battery. This happened to one of my dumbphones once - cleaned out the battery contacts and it worked again. Bizzare situation, simple solutions first.
You might've turned it off while it was writing a vital file. Thus your phone might be bricked.
Here's an idea - sent it back to T-Mobile/HTC - and I don't think they will notice you violated your warranty until it's too late (they have to fix your phone to find out) so you could just refuse to pay and have them send it back to you.

I too saw the chip with the arrow thing, so that makes 3 people in this thread. It happened when I did the radio update. Anyway, in my case, I held down the recovery mode keys for a while and it went to the menu. Then I just rebooted and everything was great. Glad I didn't take out the battery (I considered it).

I had the chip and just waited and it took care of itself. Just be patient people.

plug in the wall charger, wait 10 seconds, then hold the red power button for 3-5 seconds then release, it should turn on

i tried that didnt work anymore advice?

also is there any way to run diagnostics of this phone to pc to make it work?

If the phone won't turn on, go back to the T-Mobile store and ***** em out. Not much else to say if we can't even get power to it.

Phone is borked?

Hi guys,
My girlfriend somehow has borked her phone.
From what she's explained, she used Task 29 to wipe her phone, or something to that degree, and then tried to flash a GSM ROM to it. However she in on Sprint, so I assume it's a CDMA phone.
As of right now, the phone appears off. If you hold the power down, nothing. If you take the battery out, put it back in, and hold Vol Down it'll boot into the bootloader (I believe that's what it is, the colorful background thing) however the bootloader soon goes away and back to the black screen.
Sometimes the phone will randomly boot up to the HTC logo, and then back to blackness.
Does anyone have any idea what she's supposed to do at this point? Or what I should do to get a ROM on there? I have 0 experience with Windows Mobile roms, so I don't know what happened or what to do next. Guidance of what happened and what to do next would be appreciated so I can solve this issue and understand the situation past 'is it borked'
Thanks everyone
EDIT UPDATE: I figured it out. Her battery was dead lol however USB charging wouldn't work. I happen to have an external charger hah so I saved the day. I was now able to boot into the bootloader, have it stay there, and put a ROM on there. Easy Peasy.

[Q] HTC Desire HBOOT need urgent help

Hi, I was checking the HBOOT menu to see what version it had.
It is a Desire running android 2.2 and it has HBoot 0.93. Everything is stock.
My problem is I pressed in RECOVERY and now the screen is blocked with a little image of the phone and a red warning symbol. The power button doesn´t respond and im afraid of removing the battery to restart.
Can someone tell me what should I do? Im scared of bricking my new phone.

REsolved, I took the risk and removed the battery, everything is ok.
This is what happens when you are new with something and you start playing with it, then something unexpected happens and you are scared like hell.
Didn´t felt like this since i was a little boy lerning to use the pc, hahaha.

This is what happens when you don't RTFM.

[Q] OTA update problem

I was running the stock ROM AT&T sends out the Inspire 4G with, and I haven't rooted it. My phone notified me there was a new update available, so I downloaded it and installed it. It's now stuck on the white screen with the green htc logo. I tried turning it off (wouldn't work) and plugging it in (also didn't work).
What do I do? I'm supposed to be helping my sister move today, and this is the last thing I need. Please help. ):

Out of Curiosity - how long did you allow your phone to sit at the splash screen before powering down?
Edit: I see you tried to power off and didnt work. And it won't when it is 'bootlooped'
Have you pulled your battery and tried rebooting? Make sure and give it plenty of time to Install before turning off, or pulling battery rather. Lemme see what I can find out.....

I let it sit for about a half hour to 45 minutes while I got breakfast with my family.
I'll pull the battery now.

Might have to downgrade it, and try again.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

I pulled the battery and now I'm in the HBOOT menu. When it restarted, the boot menu came up automatically. Do I need to do a factory reset? I really really don't want to, because I have google authentication turned on, and I won't be able to get into my email or anything else for two weeks, as my backup passcodes are about 2500 miles away right now.

derailatrain said:
I let it sit for about a half hour to 45 minutes while I got breakfast with my family.
I'll pull the battery now.
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Yep that's plenty of time. Give it a shot - its not going to hurt you any. Still perusing for an answer. This makes me wish I knew all I have learned when my phone wasn't rooted. I don't know what a stock Inspire can access. Out of curiosity - and this probably is NOT going to work - after you put your battery back in, hold Volume down and don't let go, and push power. Keep holding Volume down for a few good seconds after you push Power and see if it tries to boot, or goes into what we refer to as Bootloader. And you'll know - looks like old Dos from way back when. (Again this is a longshot - there is probably a few experienced users laughing at me.)

derailatrain said:
I pulled the battery and now I'm in the HBOOT menu. When it restarted, the boot menu came up automatically. Do I need to do a factory reset? I really really don't want to, because I have google authentication turned on, and I won't be able to get into my email or anything else for two weeks, as my backup passcodes are about 2500 miles away right now.
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That's where we wanna go! Before a factory reset though, do you have an option that says recovery? Let's fiddle for a minute before you wipe everything....

It goes into the HBOOT menu when I hold the volume down key and power.
I tried just now clicking on recovery on the HBOOT menu, and I got the red triangle with the exclamation point screen. I'm pretty sure that's bad.
The fastboot option just brought it to the HTC logo screen again.

From Hboot - if possible go to recovery. Again, I have no clue how Stock Inspires look and operate so bear with me, and add all the details you can, specifics. If not too late, does your Hboot have a version number? ..85 or some numbers around there? I didn't think we could get into Hboot without being rooted. Anyways....

Hmmm. Does the triangle have any comment or warning? We probably are looking at a wipe or factory reset. But first - do you have the means to go to your Google account and change your settings so that you can avoid the wait authentication deal?
Also : just the other day I did a factory reset on my rooted Inspire from the Hboot menu, and it took me to recovery. So that may be our means of getting into recovery there. I am rooted mind you.

Recovery gives me the red triangle with the exclamation point.
Here's what my HBOOT screen looks like:
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.85.0019
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.06.06.30_M
eMMC-boot
Dec 27 2010, 14:47:30
HBOOT
<VOL UP> to previous item
<VOL DOWN> to next item
<POWER> to select item
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
IMAGE CRC

The triangle has no comment or warning. ):

Ok man, let's try this. If possible do what you can with your Google account and see if there is a way to avoid all that hassle of waiting and what not. If your truly pressed, we can skip that, and the next step will be hitting factory reset. That will either wipe right there on the spot, boot you into Recovery (where we will have more options at our dispsal) or simply do nothing.

If none of these work then I will holler at someone with Dev skillz and see if they will pop in over here and put thier two cents in....

I've contacted google. Their forms says they may take up to 24 hours to get in touch with me about my account. I'll try wiping it.

Good deal. Go ahead and wipe and see where that takes us. Surely Google could assist in speeding it up a bit....

I went to factory reset, it showed the little installing screen with the green bar, and now it's hanging on the stupid htc logo screen again.
)':

Hmmm. Six minutes since you posted - it could possibly be booting. Unlikely though. Let me ask a Dev, I got just the dude if he is on. Hang tight Pal....

I sent a P.M. to the most competent developer we have for the Inspire. He's a good dude and he is on so sit tight...

I tried again and it's still stuck on that boot screen.
Thank you for your help!

[Q] Super bricked my One S? No lights or nothing

So I'm pretty sure I killed my one S trying to run the RUU_Ville_U_JB_45_S_TMOUS_3.14.531.17_Radio_1.13.50.05.31_10.30.50.08L_release_320836_ICS_2_JB update...
I had rooted my phone years ago and had CWM running, Unlocked and SuperCID but no s-off... Phone started running horribly slow (couldn't even answer calls) so I decided it was time for an update. Seemed to be limited by my HBOOT ver of 1.09 and couldn't figure out an easy way to update so I decided to just run the TMO update and reroot from there. Well the above patch kept failing so I kept reading until I heard about the fastboot oem lock command which seemed to allow the update to run. I happily waited as it ran farther than it ever had before, through the slow progress bar and everything. Took at least 30 minutes instead of 5 this time and when I finally came back to the computer said it had completed successfully. Sweet! Go to turn on my phone and get nothing. Long press the power button and vol - for minutes... Nothing! No charging lights, no screen flash, nothing when I plug it back in to the computer or wall charger. Only thing I could find I didn't try was to pull the battery, so I pulled that mofo apart and disconnected the battery all night. Still no change this morning. Any ideas before I concede defeat? I'm dead in the water w/o my phone for work and will have to order something else by tonight. Thinking used nexus 5 so I can rock Lollipop if I have to but not real happy about it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, please and thank you