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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] I Need help fixing my HTC Inspire

the other day I turned my HTC Inspire off to charge for the night and the next morning I turn it back on to see it stuck at the white HTC screen. The phone vibeates like 5 or 6 times while on the White HTC screen... I get it to the BOOTLOG menue to try to reset the phone and it will not do anything it says no CID and something else. Please helpif you can.. I am open to any advise.. I was told that I could download new rom on my external SD card and then upload it thru BOOGLOG but cannot find what i need to download... any help would be great !!! please advise as I anxiously await!! Robert

First thing to try when it is stuck is to pull the battery out. put it back in and restart the phone. See what happens after that and report if the phone is still stuck or if it booted.

it is still stuck wont do anything ... i have to hold the power button and the volume down button to get it in Bootloop mode and still does nothing... is there any hope on saving this phone?

robmancole said:
it is still stuck wont do anything ... i have to hold the power button and the volume down button to get it in Bootloop mode and still does nothing... is there any hope on saving this phone?
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Please do your research on what you are doing before you do it. Bootloop is not a mode but what your phone does when it loads the animation and then starts the animation over and over again. My advice would be to read the stickies before you do anything else.
Please for the love of all tech. Do your homework on what your doing or you will wind up with a device that wont turn on and cant be returned. Flashing things to your phone is not for people that dont want to learn.

robmancole said:
the other day I turned my HTC Inspire off to charge for the night and the next morning I turn it back on to see it stuck at the white HTC screen. The phone vibeates like 5 or 6 times while on the White HTC screen... I get it to the BOOTLOG menue to try to reset the phone and it will not do anything it says no CID and something else. Please helpif you can.. I am open to any advise.. I was told that I could download new rom on my external SD card and then upload it thru BOOGLOG but cannot find what i need to download... any help would be great !!! please advise as I anxiously await!! Robert
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You obviously need to read up on this device. There is bootloader or fastboot. Yes you can flash a Rom through bootloader or a signed ruu through fastboot. One can be done if you are s-off and the other if you are s-on. Read the forums to learn about this device because no one is going to be able to help you if you can't even understand what they are telling you.
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phone's dead!

hi all. i've got a device completely "dead" with the real meaning after substituting the hboot with an eng one! by "dead" i mean it ain't gonna be detected by ./brickdetect.sh in ubuntu, saying device not detected, check connection.
when i try to turn the phone on, nothin happens... when it's plugged into ac with original charger, neither anything happens... even the orange light's not gonna be turned on, or the display... or anything else... is it bricked...??! plz help me.

That sounds... bad...
Not sure it will help, but try connecting it without the sim and SD card.
Also, could you elaborate more on the exact process and outcome of what procedure was done for the boot? What version you had, what you tried to install, which method was used, etc?
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If Can u access hboot by pressing volume down + power . . Then phone is not bricked
If u cant . . Then its bricked
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Raven2k said:
That sounds... bad...
Not sure it will help, but try connecting it without the sim and SD card.
Also, could you elaborate more on the exact process and outcome of what procedure was done for the boot? What version you had, what you tried to install, which method was used, etc?
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it was RELOCKED before, but then i installed 3.33 universal firmware n it got revolutionary hboot 1.27, but when i tried to flash an eng hboot, it died so...ma phone was connected with fastboot usb n flashing the hboot was apparently successful, n during the process, it was good, n seemed quite healthy, but when i plugged out n rebooted ma phone.................

Itsakash said:
If Can u access hboot by pressing volume down + power . . Then phone is not bricked
If u cant . . Then its bricked
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no i cant... so wt to do...?

ashkan-khatar said:
no i cant... so wt to do...?
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U need to jtag it or .
Replace Motherboard
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[Q] htc sensation totally bricked help

hello who can help me ?!
i have my phone to ifixbristol and they cant fix it too
it stock on the animation of booting on the 4.1.2
and i cant enter hboot too
and i cant disable the fast boot.
i tried the unbrick project and it doesnt work too
so what to do now !?

jimjanman said:
hello who can help me ?!
i have my phone to ifixbristol and they cant fix it too
it stock on the animation of booting on the 4.1.2
and i cant enter hboot too
and i cant disable the fast boot.
i tried the unbrick project and it doesnt work too
so what to do now !?
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Search about RUU's.
Read about them until you REALLY understand what you are doing.
An RUU will return your phone to compeltely bone stock. You can start over rooting from scratch.
Search in this forum and the general forum. Everything you need to know to try and RUU if around here somewhere.

It's not really bricked if you see a boot animation.

Do you have a custom recovery? Are you S-on or s-off?
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Can't access hboot well that's quite a thing well you have to flash ruu
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jimjanman said:
hello who can help me ?!
i have my phone to ifixbristol and they cant fix it too
it stock on the animation of booting on the 4.1.2
and i cant enter hboot too
and i cant disable the fast boot.
i tried the unbrick project and it doesnt work too
so what to do now !?
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A bricked phone is when the device doesn't respond to anything at all anymore. even when it's charged, or wallplugged, it won't switch on and the device is totally not responsive. Since your phone does switch on, you're not bricked. I don't think it's wisdom to attempt the unbrick project if you're not bricked.
What boot screen are you stuck on, the white HTC screen or the ROM boot animation/splash screen?
How are you attempting to enter bootloader, with fastboot commands or with power+volume down? If you're using the button combination, first unplug your battery.

[Q] My htc sensation xe died?

Hey sry for opening a new thread but i'm scared my phone died...
I have sensation xe i had s off with viperS 3.1.2 [i installed 3.1.1 then update it 3.1.2]
Yesterday i played with a game then the device crash... i put out the battery and then put in, now my htc don't want turn off...when i try to charge my phone the led don't turn on...
i have no idea what happend my phone... is it brick? or the phone's processor died?
Sry for my bad english, and thx for the help

princesama1 said:
Hey sry for opening a new thread but i'm scared my phone died...
I have sensation xe i had s off with viperS 3.1.2 [i installed 3.1.1 then update it 3.1.2]
Yesterday i played with a game then the device crash... i put out the battery and then put in, now my htc don't want turn off...when i try to charge my phone the led don't turn on...
i have no idea what happend my phone... is it brick? or the phone's processor died?
Sry for my bad english, and thx for the help
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Remove battery and put it again. Charge it for 5-6 hours and try powering it on.
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MrJukeHardbane said:
Remove battery and put it again. Charge it for 5-6 hours and try powering it on.
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Thx for advice!
And what if that doesn't work?
[So i should charge the phone with battery? i read somewhere i need to charge without sim/memcard/battery]

princesama1 said:
Thx for advice!
And what if that doesn't work?
[So i should charge the phone with battery? i read somewhere i need to charge without sim/memcard/battery]
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Sometimes device go in deep sleep and following above procedure will wake it up. I don't think it's necessary to remove SIM and memcard. Try the above method and post the results here. I am sure if this doesn't work then some senior members will help you out.
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princesama1 said:
Hey sry for opening a new thread but i'm scared my phone died...
I have sensation xe i had s off with viperS 3.1.2 [i installed 3.1.1 then update it 3.1.2]
Yesterday i played with a game then the device crash... i put out the battery and then put in, now my htc don't want turn off...when i try to charge my phone the led don't turn on...
i have no idea what happend my phone... is it brick? or the phone's processor died?
Sry for my bad english, and thx for the help
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If battery was low while playing game then
Check turning on with another battery , or at least try to enter in bootloader
Or try above solution for waking it up from deep sleep
If all fails then I'm sure your phones processor died
Try unbricking project just in case

Itsakash said:
If battery was low while playing game then
Check turning on with another battery , or at least try to enter in bootloader
Or try above solution for waking it up from deep sleep
If all fails then I'm sure your phones processor died
Try unbricking project just in case
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I think the charge method not working :S I think i'm gonna try an another battery if i get one
And sadly i can't reach bootmenu don't want turn on
Btw the unbrick project works on s-on phone not? so it not work for me since i have s-off
And the battery was almost full when it freezed [95-100%]

princesama1 said:
I think the charge method not working :S I think i'm gonna try an another battery if i get one
And sadly i can't reach bootmenu don't want turn on
Btw the unbrick project works on s-on phone not? so it not work for me since i have s-off
And the battery was almost full when it freezed [95-100%]
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try this
as your device is switched off connect it to pc
open a cmd window in your adb and fastboot folder and enter this command
adb reboot bootloader
see if it boots to the bootloader

rzr86 said:
try this
as your device is switched off connect it to pc
open a cmd window in your adb and fastboot folder and enter this command
adb reboot bootloader
see if it boots to the bootloader
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thx i'm gonna try it when i get home [now i'm in greece if i back and then i write but thx for helping!]

princesama1 said:
thx i'm gonna try it when i get home [now i'm in greece if i back and then i write but thx for helping!]
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Sry i wanted to try it but it always say in console 2 [adb and fast boot are just "instaling" or something i can only write in console2] but it say: waiting for device... this is bad or i don't have something?
Can u plz give me a better download link?

princesama1 said:
Sry i wanted to try it but it always say in console 2 [adb and fast boot are just "instaling" or something i can only write in console2] but it say: waiting for device... this is bad or i don't have something?
Can u plz give me a better download link?
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do you have htc drivers installed?
do you have enabled usb debugging mode from settings?
i think probably that with device switched off the command doesn't work
try as mentioned above
remove battery,sim and sdcard and charge the devcice from 4-5 hours
see how it goes

rzr86 said:
do you have htc drivers installed?
do you have enabled usb debugging mode from settings?
i think probably that with device switched off the command doesn't work
try as mentioned above
remove battery,sim and sdcard and charge the devcice from 4-5 hours
see how it goes
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+1
One more thing, pull out the battery and hold the power button for 20 secs or more. Put the battery back in and see if it charges.
JAM THAT THANKS BUTTON.
Happy to help.

"do you have enabled usb debugging mode from settings?
remove battery,sim and sdcard and charge the devcice from 4-5 hours
see how it goes "
I can't turn on my phone so i don't think my phone is on "debugging mode" ....so this method not work if the phone full off
The battery method not work i tried
Far_SighT said:
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One more thing, pull out the battery and hold the power button for 20 secs or more. Put the battery back in and see if it charges.
JAM THAT THANKS BUTTON.
Happy to help.
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not work :S any ideas? or i should go to service?

princesama1 said:
"do you have enabled usb debugging mode from settings?
remove battery,sim and sdcard and charge the devcice from 4-5 hours
see how it goes "
I can't turn on my phone so i don't think my phone is on "debugging mode" ....so this method not work if the phone full off
The battery method not work i tried
not work :S any ideas? or i should go to service?
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take a look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522351
but i don't think you will have success

rzr86 said:
take a look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522351
but i don't think you will have success
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"This will fix only devices which were bricked by turning S ON"
My phone was S OFF so it won't work if i try?

princesama1 said:
"This will fix only devices which were bricked by turning S ON"
My phone was S OFF so it won't work if i try?
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probably not

yup... not't working don't want to find the device :S
[on windows the QHSUSB_DLOAD i can see this but i can't copy any file [ not supported device i think]
I think i'm gonna take into service but thx for trying help me!

princesama1 said:
yup... not't working don't want to find the device :S
[on windows the QHSUSB_DLOAD i can see this but i can't copy any file [ not supported device i think]
I think i'm gonna take into service but thx for trying help me!
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actually if the pc sees it as QHSUSB_DLOAD unbricking project could be working!

Open your hard back cover, charge it. Leave it about 2 hours in a cool room. Then try to boot to your bootloader, see if anything is wrong at there.
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rzr86 said:
actually if the pc sees it as QHSUSB_DLOAD unbricking project could be working!
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Only windows 7 saw that, i installed linux on my laptop but that can't see it idk why :S
[should i update it on something?]

princesama1 said:
Only windows 7 saw that, i installed linux on my laptop but that can't see it idk why :S
[should i update it on something?]
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In dexter93 comment:
" Boot the linux box and download the appropriate package for the device. "
Where can i down load that "appropriate package"?