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brick!!

I just brick my phone i get stuck on the boot screen try to do the update thru hboot but it seems that i deleted one of the files that would take me back to stock and ideas please. I downloaded a rom called dogma and soft brick my phone.

Pull the Battery ?
Can you get to recovery Bootloader ?
Did you flash a Desire radio ?

cal4877 said:
I just brick my phone i get stuck on the boot screen try to do the update thru hboot but it seems that i deleted one of the files that would take me back to stock and ideas please. I downloaded a rom called dogma and soft brick my phone.
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What file did you delete that you believe you might need? Were you trying to flash back to stock? A clearer picture of the process you were trying to perform would be helpful.

I get stuck on the boot loop screen. I pulled the battery out and press down button and power button, when i get to hboot it goes to do an update by itself, when it asks me if i want to update i click yes but but that still dont work. i cant get into recover mode either. im downloading ruu files now hopefully that would work unless i have to have the phone on. All i get when i get when i perform the battery pull out options is to get to the hboot screen but it would not let me scroll down to the recovery mode option, it seems that fast boot is on.

I'd try a stock RUU. from hboot . Format your sd card first to be safe .

Cal remove your SD card boot into hboot it will search for the file but can't find it then put your SD card back in and then click recovery
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While holding the volume down rocker, quickly press the power button.
or the above post....I'm not posting attention here.
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cal4877 said:
I get stuck on the boot loop screen. I pulled the battery out and press down button and power button, when i get to hboot it goes to do an update by itself, when it asks me if i want to update i click yes but but that still dont work. i cant get into recover mode either. im downloading ruu files now hopefully that would work unless i have to have the phone on. All i get when i get when i perform the battery pull out options is to get to the hboot screen but it would not let me scroll down to the recovery mode option, it seems that fast boot is on.
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Do you have a PD98IMG file on the root of your SD card? If so, either use the trick of pulling the SD card posted above, or remove your SD card and if you have a card reader use a PC to delete the offending file, and then re-install your SD card and reboot.

Thanks guys RUU worked like a charm. It made me loose root but I just finish rooting the phone again. I think I deleted the stock image file that's what happen.

Glad you fixed it.

ycode90 said:
Glad you fixed it.
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Me too . I don't think it is easy to hard brick this phone...speaking as one that has had many "brick" events with this thing...it is recoverable if it boots to any state at all it seems.

A brick is an expensive fried electronic device. I have't seen a bricked htc irl except when a friend of mine didnt rtfm and bricked his wizard in 2006. The only fix was jtag/not worth it.
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People throw the "brick" word around an awful lot, but by conventions a "bricked" phone is defined as unrecoverable.

Gene Poole said:
People throw the "brick" word around an awful lot, but by conventions a "bricked" phone is defined as unrecoverable.
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Indeed. I always chuckle when I see posts, such as this one, titled "brick!!"
Distinguishing with "soft-brick" and "hard-brick" nowadays seems necessary due to such sloppy usage of the original term.

Bricked would mean a brick fell on your phone lol hi. There would be no way of fixing the phone.
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Brick
I bricked my phone, htc inspire 4g 2.3.3 today for a friend of mine, not a soft brick either. I have rooted my htc thunderbolt without any problems but this phone was so easy to brick, when I hold down the volume button and power I can't recover the phone at all, I didn't make a backup either. Can anyone help? Does anyone have the original firmware or know how to solve this problem?

newbie818 said:
I bricked my phone, htc inspire 4g 2.3.3 today for a friend of mine, not a soft brick either. I have rooted my htc thunderbolt without any problems but this phone was so easy to brick, when I hold down the volume button and power I can't recover the phone at all, I didn't make a backup either. Can anyone help? Does anyone have the original firmware or know how to solve this problem?
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If you can get into hboot by holding volume down and pressing power follow this guide.
genes tool
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I'll beat Zel to the punch and say this:
USE THE SEARCH BAR.
Now, Somebody lock this thread.

newbie818 said:
I bricked my phone, htc inspire 4g 2.3.3 today for a friend of mine, not a soft brick either. I have rooted my htc thunderbolt without any problems but this phone was so easy to brick, when I hold down the volume button and power I can't recover the phone at all, I didn't make a backup either. Can anyone help? Does anyone have the original firmware or know how to solve this problem?
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What did you do? If you truly can't get to hboot, then you are really bricked; hboot is necessary for anything else to load and run.
How did you manage this? If you have a late model Inspire (post Aug 2011) and tried to install an older hboot (from, say the Froyo RUU), or the ENG hboot, then it isn't damaged so much as just confused and will boot eventually (like 10-20 minutes) from which point you can get the right hboot back onto it.
Please elaborate.

Joshp406 said:
I'll beat Zel to the punch and say this:
USE THE SEARCH BAR.
Now, Somebody lock this thread.
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Well apparently he did, because he didn't start a new thread.
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[Q] Really bricked?

I'm a complete n00b at rooting and hacking on Android and the HTC Inspire is the first Android phone I've ever had. I've searched the forum and tried loading PD98IMG.zip files, using the HBOOT recovery, but I'm still having a nasty problem with my Inspire 4G. I'd really like any help if I can get it - I think I've been sweating bullets for the last 2 hours...
Here's the rundown of what happened:
I rooted my Inspire 4G this morning using the Ace Hack Kit and everything was working fine until I tried CyanogenMod7. After that, I somehow managed to get it all working again, but didn't end up liking Cyanogen because various programs (such as Android Market) kept crashing. I switched to the TPC Inspire 4G ROM, and everything was peachy again. However, I wanted to try and get the completely stock version of the Inspire ROM, and loaded that onto the phone. I noticed that it was missing the ROMmanager, so I ran Ace Hack Kit again. This is where the huge problem happened. While reloading the older version of the ROM (I think it was doing the radio), everything went black on the phone screen, and stayed that way. The terminal screen (I'm running OS X) didn't show any progress, so I rebooted the phone. Now, the phone starts up with the white HTC screen, then fades to black and stays that way. You can tell the screen is on because the backlight is there, but otherwise, I'm stuck.
I'm currently trying to re-run the Ace Hack Kit, but the terminal says that the device is offline, then sits at < waiting for device >. I've tried re-flashing to the original HTC ROM from the website, but it doesn't detect that the device is even attached to the computer.
If you can help, that would be great! I've had this phone for 3 days, and I'm freaking out that I've just destroyed it.

Just an update - I tried a hard reset (power + vol up + vol down) and I get the green LED on, and the phone vibrates 3 times, then it sits there with the green LED indicator and nothing happening to the screen.

Do a search for un-brick. I dont have an Inspire, but on my Infuse there are a few different ways to return to stock and also to un brick. And once you get it fixed calm down on all the rom switching maybe? I mean u said 3 days and you were flippin through em then attempted a stock rom then another Ace Hack. My advice is slow down, take a deep breath and read the forums. Do this before you make moves. Good luck buddy.
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keiichi0908 said:
I'm a complete n00b at rooting and hacking on Android and the HTC Inspire is the first Android phone I've ever had. I've searched the forum and tried loading PD98IMG.zip files, using the HBOOT recovery, but I'm still having a nasty problem with my Inspire 4G. I'd really like any help if I can get it - I think I've been sweating bullets for the last 2 hours...
Here's the rundown of what happened:
I rooted my Inspire 4G this morning using the Ace Hack Kit and everything was working fine until I tried CyanogenMod7. After that, I somehow managed to get it all working again, but didn't end up liking Cyanogen because various programs (such as Android Market) kept crashing. I switched to the TPC Inspire 4G ROM, and everything was peachy again. However, I wanted to try and get the completely stock version of the Inspire ROM, and loaded that onto the phone. I noticed that it was missing the ROMmanager, so I ran Ace Hack Kit again. This is where the huge problem happened. While reloading the older version of the ROM (I think it was doing the radio), everything went black on the phone screen, and stayed that way. The terminal screen (I'm running OS X) didn't show any progress, so I rebooted the phone. Now, the phone starts up with the white HTC screen, then fades to black and stays that way. You can tell the screen is on because the backlight is there, but otherwise, I'm stuck.
I'm currently trying to re-run the Ace Hack Kit, but the terminal says that the device is offline, then sits at < waiting for device >. I've tried re-flashing to the original HTC ROM from the website, but it doesn't detect that the device is even attached to the computer.
If you can help, that would be great! I've had this phone for 3 days, and I'm freaking out that I've just destroyed it.
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Did you not backup, b4 you tried flashing another rom? If u did, just hold ur volume down button and hit ur power button... should go into bootloader (hboot). Once there select the recover option. If you havent backed up, I belive theres a recovery you can download. I just had that same problem while trying to get to hboot, was just a user error.... take ur time and dont worry, I dont belive ur fully bricked.

keiichi0908 said:
I'm a complete n00b at rooting and hacking on Android and the HTC Inspire is the first Android phone I've ever had. I've searched the forum and tried loading PD98IMG.zip files, using the HBOOT recovery, but I'm still having a nasty problem with my Inspire 4G. I'd really like any help if I can get it - I think I've been sweating bullets for the last 2 hours...
Here's the rundown of what happened:
I rooted my Inspire 4G this morning using the Ace Hack Kit and everything was working fine until I tried CyanogenMod7. After that, I somehow managed to get it all working again, but didn't end up liking Cyanogen because various programs (such as Android Market) kept crashing. I switched to the TPC Inspire 4G ROM, and everything was peachy again. However, I wanted to try and get the completely stock version of the Inspire ROM, and loaded that onto the phone. I noticed that it was missing the ROMmanager, so I ran Ace Hack Kit again. This is where the huge problem happened. While reloading the older version of the ROM (I think it was doing the radio), everything went black on the phone screen, and stayed that way. The terminal screen (I'm running OS X) didn't show any progress, so I rebooted the phone. Now, the phone starts up with the white HTC screen, then fades to black and stays that way. You can tell the screen is on because the backlight is there, but otherwise, I'm stuck.
I'm currently trying to re-run the Ace Hack Kit, but the terminal says that the device is offline, then sits at < waiting for device >. I've tried re-flashing to the original HTC ROM from the website, but it doesn't detect that the device is even attached to the computer.
If you can help, that would be great! I've had this phone for 3 days, and I'm freaking out that I've just destroyed it.
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Your mistake was trying to root again once you saw rom manager was missing. Rom manager is an app you can download from the market. Not every dev includes it in their roms. Go back to the hack kit thread, look in the op, and join his irc. He will help you.
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cire216 said:
Did you not backup, b4 you tried flashing another rom? If u did, just hold ur volume down button and hit ur power button... should go into bootloader (hboot). Once there select the recover option. If you havent backed up, I belive theres a recovery you can download. I just had that same problem while trying to get to hboot, was just a user error.... take ur time and dont worry, I dont belive ur fully bricked.
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Unfortunately, I did not do a backup - I'll try and look for another recovery ROM. Did you have any trouble with the HBOOT not finding the PD98DIAG.zip file? It seems like HBOOT is not seeing the PD98IMG file either... I have the PD98IMG zip file in the root directory of my SD card too.
Thanks for the support - I'll need it...

cwhitney24 said:
Your mistake was trying to root again once you saw rom manager was missing. Rom manager is an app you can download from the market. Not every dev includes it in their roms. Go back to the hack kit thread, look in the op, and join his irc. He will help you.
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Thanks - I talked with attn1, who wrote the hack kit, and he walked me through the process. Basically, I had to get the stock version of the PD98IMG.zip, which he provided.
Then, I followed the following steps (all typing is in terminal (I'm on Mac OS X):
1. Type: fastboot oem rebootRUU
2. The Inspire 4G went to a black screen with a chrome HTC logo.
3. Type: fastboot erase cache
4. Once that completes (the message says: erasing 'cache'... OKAY), type: fastboot flash zip PD98IMG.zip
5. That command flashes the Inspire 4G with the stock ROM. The phone will display the chrome HTC logo and a progress bar. Once it completes IN THE TERMINAL with the status OKAY, then type: fastboot reboot
6. Voila! HTC Inspire 4G is back to working condition. This method returned the phone back to stock mode, which means if you want to install custom ROMs and such again, you'll need to root it. Make sure to set the USB debugging on, and Connect to PC to Charging Only.
Thanks, attn1! Hope this will help others who get into this problem case.

Get the official ruu from htc. After that don't update and use simple root, this is better since if you brick it again you can go to fast boot and flash it back to inspire 4g rooted
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952224 the ruu is from this website and go on fastboot
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I had the same exact problem the same exact way lol...Thanks i was starting to get worried

Go to th IRC forums an they can get you unjammed
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I had this same problem (goes black and vibrates 3 times- except with a orange blinking light) before.
To fix it:
1. Completely shut down, remove the battery, and put a timer on for 10 minutes
2. Remove your microSD card from your phone, and put it in a card adapter for your computer
3. Put a ROM installer .zip on your microSD.
4. After 10 minutes is up, put your microSD in your phone, and turn it on
5. Go into H-BOOT, and select boot to recovery
6. Install by selecting the .zip let it do its thing
Hope that helped!
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need immidiate help

hello every1 and happy new year...i am new in forum and new on adroid devices since i have been an iphone user for long time. yesterday morning a guy sold me an HTC desire HD A9191 currently on 2.3.3
i have absolutely no idea about android and i have been lost in a maze. the phone was rooted but only thing i found was superuser. i tried to the latest version 2.3.5 with htc sense 3.0 but after reboot i see a white triangle with a yellow exclumination mark and a blue android robot on the side. the only way open it is to remove the battery....i have tried 3-4 fractory or hard reset but nothing changed..i also reseted my sd card but nothing changed...i used a few other programms to re-root it and then unroot it but both actions everytime failed. i have spend 24 hours on the pc withough sleep trying to find a solution but no1 nowhere helped me! i desperately ask for your help.....plzzz

matsamas said:
hello every1 and happy new year...i am new in forum and new on adroid devices since i have been an iphone user for long time. yesterday morning a guy sold me an HTC desire HD A9191 currently on 2.3.3
i have absolutely no idea about android and i have been lost in a maze. the phone was rooted but only thing i found was superuser. i tried to the latest version 2.3.5 with htc sense 3.0 but after reboot i see a white triangle with a yellow exclumination mark and a blue android robot on the side. the only way open it is to remove the battery....i have tried 3-4 fractory or hard reset but nothing changed..i also reseted my sd card but nothing changed...i used a few other programms to re-root it and then unroot it but both actions everytime failed. i have spend 24 hours on the pc withough sleep trying to find a solution but no1 nowhere helped me! i desperately ask for your help.....plzzz
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Turn the phone off, hold the volume "down" down and press the power button. This should take you to the Hboot screen. Use the volume keys to select recovery. Press the power button to make the selection to go into recovery. This SHOULD take you into clockworkmod recovery. If all of that works, you can go into the forum for your phone and put a zip for a ROM on your SD card. Then, using recovery, follow the instructions to install the ROM.

done my friend....i now run coredroid v9.1 hd on 2.3.5 and seems very nice and a little boosted. tnx u helped me a lot and i wish u the best. i will search for more info on how to go further with that device.

matsamas said:
done my friend....i now run coredroid v9.1 hd on 2.3.5 and seems very nice and a little boosted. tnx u helped me a lot and i wish u the best. i will search for more info on how to go further with that device.
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Happy to help. Glad you got it working.

[Q] HTC Sensation 4G problems

I was working on rooting my phone (HTC Sensation 4G) and was able to get S-Off to work. I was attempting to install ICS and now my phone will not get past the boot screen which is the white background with "htc" logo. I am able to update the PG58IMG.zip when in the the screen by holding the down volume button and the power button. It says update successful but when you reboot phone, it again refuses to load past the logo screen. Any help or directions to look would be greatly appreciated!

I am assuming you rooted also, right? Not just S-off.
Did you install the ROM of choice after you installed the -IMG file? I ran into a bunch of issues for about a day trying all of this and then finally got it to work with: Load the official T-Mobile IMG file-> reboot-> pull battery and bring back into recovery-> install ROM (I used revolution HD for Sensation)-> reboot and it will take a few minutes to load and u "should" be good to go.
Note that after I failed about three times with various ROMs I used Super Wipe to clear everything off of my phone and that seemed to help.
I hope this helps, as I am very new to rooting my phone also.
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HTC inspire root problems

Long story short my inspire was in the middle of being rooted and was stuck between. Phone dropped and unplugged. Screen is stuck on HTC logo and then fades to black screen with one line. I can get to the recovery menu but am having no luck from there. I have the usual from this menu and have tried all I know of. Tried to go through rooting again and when I press 1 on the hack ace menu it says device offline. Any ideas. I have been googling and checking forums all day and have not found anything much about it. I need help bad.
Recovery menu
Hboot
Fast Boot
Factory Reset

this is wrong forum this is htc desire, been reported to move whre you can get more helpful information

stuballiew said:
Long story short my inspire was in the middle of being rooted and was stuck between. Phone dropped and unplugged. Screen is stuck on HTC logo and then fades to black screen with one line. I can get to the recovery menu but am having no luck from there. I have the usual from this menu and have tried all I know of. Tried to go through rooting again and when I press 1 on the hack ace menu it says device offline. Any ideas. I have been googling and checking forums all day and have not found anything much about it. I need help bad.
Recovery menu
Hboot
Fast Boot
Factory Reset
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Hack kit has the IRC channel go there
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Did you try using the Ubuntu live cd method? It really is the most reliable method.