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:( HTC Inspire BRICKED

My brain hurts...I'm so frustrated I feel like slamming the phone against the wall.
I've gone through 5 threads about bricked Inspire phones but it seems my case is a little different than those.
This was clearly a failed rooting. The phone is stuck on the white screen/boot logo.
It will let me go into HBOOT but none of the functions will work,i.e. recovery,bootlader,etc. It vibrates and keeps going back to the boot logo screen or the triangle icon appears. I've tried everything, the S-ON Tool did nothing because the phone is not recognized when connected to the PC. When I try "factory reset" on HBOOT,it acts like it's going to do it but after a few seconds it goes back to the logo screen. Attempted several rooting processes with Hack Kit but get "phone is offline" error or not connected. I've taken out the battery so many times it's ridiculous. At this point I feel helpless and hopeless.Surely I'm doing something wrong and I'm hoping one of the gurus here can point me in the right direction.
Thank you very much in advance to all those who answer this post.

Search the recent questions regarding problems while trying to root. I have said it over and over that the best thing is to go back to the hack kit thread and re read the op. Towards the bottom it says to hit up the irc for help. All the people that have gone to the irc have received the help they needed.
Edit...irc it seriously. Good luck! :-D
I got your 10 char right here

I think we should have a sticky in every forum explaining to people what a BRICKED phone is. Your phone is not bricked....and what cwhitney said also...........................yeah

KPOTT said:
My brain hurts...I'm so frustrated I feel like slamming the phone against the wall.
I've gone through 5 threads about bricked Inspire phones but it seems my case is a little different than those.
This was clearly a failed rooting. The phone is stuck on the white screen/boot logo.
It will let me go into HBOOT but none of the functions will work,i.e. recovery,bootlader,etc. It vibrates and keeps going back to the boot logo screen or the triangle icon appears. I've tried everything, the S-ON Tool did nothing because the phone is not recognized when connected to the PC. When I try "factory reset" on HBOOT,it acts like it's going to do it but after a few seconds it goes back to the logo screen. Attempted several rooting processes with Hack Kit but get "phone is offline" error or not connected. I've taken out the battery so many times it's ridiculous. At this point I feel helpless and hopeless.Surely I'm doing something wrong and I'm hoping one of the gurus here can point me in the right direction.
Thank you very much in advance to all those who answer this post.
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It is so NOT bricked. Catch us in the IRC channel in my sig and we can get you sorted out, or, you can do it yourself.
If you "factory reset" all you did was wipe your dta settings - including USB debugging on.
Before you can do anything, you will need to install the factory RUU. You can do this from the FASTBOOT USB (note NOT HBOOT USB PLUG) and running the HTC/ATT RUU.

If you're still stuck i had the same issue. Had to reflash the pd98 image zip in hboot again to fix thru issue
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using Tapatalk

Problem solved. Attn1 and the guys on IRC took care of me.
Thank you very much for your help and patience.

Could you post your fix?I'm having the same problem

deandra said:
Could you post your fix?I'm having the same problem
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Here is the fix: get on irc or read the forums to find your answer.

Mine was like that to, but because I was rooted I updated ota and it got the loop,I just took out the battery and the memory card out turn it on and was back to normal
Sent from my Inspire 4G using xda premium

glitterbug said:
Here is the fix: get on irc or read the forums to find your answer.
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What a great idea!!I have done that but thanks for your help anyway

I had the same issue. I just took out my micro SD card, put it in my PC to load the ROM as a P98IMG.zip file on there, re-install the SD into my phone, the boot up in HBoot. It proceeded to find the zip file and continued to install the ROM to my phone. Afterwards it booted up as normal, but of course all of my information had been erased.

it's mya phone a brick!!!!
Ridn2Lo said:
I had the same issue. I just took out my micro SD card, put it in my PC to load the ROM as a P98IMG.zip file on there, re-install the SD into my phone, the boot up in HBoot. It proceeded to find the zip file and continued to install the ROM to my phone. Afterwards it booted up as normal, but of course all of my information had been erased.
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At me the same problem. Prompt where to take please P98IMG.zip (for AT T). Give please the address for downloading. Also write the instruction as it to correct. At an input in мею HBOOT buttons (I select nothing I can) do not work for me. Help me please. Thanks.

i thought i bricked mine.....
all i did was drag p98 img on to sd card and loaded it and it fixed it...

spv4 said:
At me the same problem. Prompt where to take please P98IMG.zip (for AT T). Give please the address for downloading. Also write the instruction as it to correct. At an input in мею HBOOT buttons (I select nothing I can) do not work for me. Help me please. Thanks.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191959&highlight=Stock+Rom
Download from last link
(Here it is in a PD98IMG.zip : http://www.multiupload.com/P13PZJ2JBN)
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If it's not already called PD98IMG.zip (which it should be), rename it to this. Put it on your SD card at the root directory (don't put it in any subfolders)
Boot to bootloader (Power off, hold Vol- and PWR until bootloader starts)
It should automatically find the PD98IMG.zip and tell you to press Vol+ to start the update.
When it's done, it will tell you to press PWR to reboot

This happened to me and I am hoping this will fix my phone, downloading now, getting a micro sd card reader tomorrow from best buy to put the new file on there to replace the old one. PLEASE WORK>....stay tuned

glitterbug said:
Here is the fix: get on irc or read the forums to find your answer.
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That is great. A little bit of reading and a great amount of common sense never hurts a situation.

attn1 said:
It is so NOT bricked. Catch us in the IRC channel in my sig and we can get you sorted out, or, you can do it yourself.
If you "factory reset" all you did was wipe your dta settings - including USB debugging on.
Before you can do anything, you will need to install the factory RUU. You can do this from the FASTBOOT USB (note NOT HBOOT USB PLUG) and running the HTC/ATT RUU.
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thank you so much this solved my problem!!

Stuck in Fastboot Mode - Please Help!!!

Hi everyone. I have been looking everywhere i can and i cannot find any existing threads explaining how to fix this.
First off I am a little bit of a noob when it comes to rooting. I rooted my phone using a one-click method yesterday and was flashing roms fine. I couldnt find anything i liked last night so i restored the backup i made. This morning i was going to flash CM9. My phone was fine this morning. I turned off my phone and went into fastboot mode. When i went to recovery it came right back into fastboot mode saying "no boot or recovery image". No matter how i turn the phone on it goes to fastboot mode. Also, i can't seem to get my computer to recognize my phone no matter what i try. I have pulled the battery and left it out for 30 minutes and still nothing.
What am i missing.
Thank you in advance for any help.

I had a similar situation, don't get stressed, basically u'll have to force the phone into recovery, delete all the files in regards to android on ur pc, restart it, same for the phone, I don't exactly remember where it is but I think is around here on the forums at XDA that explain how to force the Nexus to be recognized by Windows again, or ;look it up on Google, lessons learned!!!
Also check the posts about Nexus being stuck on Boot and similar.

cmill600rr said:
Hi everyone. I have been looking everywhere i can and i cannot find any existing threads explaining how to fix this.
First off I am a little bit of a noob when it comes to rooting. I rooted my phone using a one-click method yesterday and was flashing roms fine. I couldnt find anything i liked last night so i restored the backup i made. This morning i was going to flash CM9. My phone was fine this morning. I turned off my phone and went into fastboot mode. When i went to recovery it came right back into fastboot mode saying "no boot or recovery image". No matter how i turn the phone on it goes to fastboot mode. Also, i can't seem to get my computer to recognize my phone no matter what i try. I have pulled the battery and left it out for 30 minutes and still nothing.
What am i missing.
Thank you in advance for any help.
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Since your in fast boot try to go to recovery. From recovery try to delete data and cache. Then try to reflash your rom. Chances are if it will not work. Maybe the file you downloaded is corrupted and u need to download it again.
PS don't forget to do a nand backup before flashing any rom or update.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA

stuck in fastboot mode, optimus G E970 (AT&T)
bought the phone unlocked and rooted, w. Root Box. everything was working good, had too many files so format the sdcard, data, cache, system... so now Im stuck in fastboot mode... the phone doesnt recognize the ext.sdcard and neither usb when pluged in the PC......please somebody, PLEASE! help me..

Help would be greatly appreciate it!

I have made a big mistake and tried upgrading my phones firmware to install a costume rom.
Phone: HTC Sensation 4G
Company: Tmobile
I downloaded it the wrong firmware now my phone keeps restarting to the main htc screen over and over it wont get past that, I tried doing a factory reset but I'm not sure if it went trough. I'm done toying around with my phone I just want to go back to the the stock version of htc please help me. I can't afford to buy another phone.
Thank you so much.
Fredy

I'm a newbie, too. So get my advice in doubt.
As far as I read from forum, Task29 clears the ROM all. Then you can install a ROM freshly. May be you can search sbout doing Task29 on your device.

Download a compatible rom from the net to your computer and transfer it to the SD card using a USB cable (or just use the restore option in the recovery menu if you backed up the previous rom, which you should have). Then boot into recovery by turning your phone on, wait 1 second then press volume down then volume up to recovery and flash the new rom you just put on the SD card.
Good luck
If you can't get into recovery mode then I don't have a clue, sorry.
Sent from my XOOM using Tapatalk

If u can't get into recovery, u have to push the rom to the phone via adb. There's a thread somewhere on how to do it. Search it
Hit THANKS if I helped u

[Q] In a Bit of a Predicament with Nexus S 4G; is it possible to fix?

So like the genius that I am, I decided to mess with my Nexus S 4G. Right now, my PC will not detect my phone at all (won't show up at ALL, in my Device Manager or any toolkit that I've tried). Please note I had little experience and will probably look like a complete idiot, but bare with me.
So the steps I took were as followed (my phone came already unlocked)
1.) I first installed PDANet to get my computer to recognize my phone and install the right drivers
2.) After that, I flashed the latest, stable clockwork recovery mod
3.) Then, I downloaded the Hellybean ROM and installed it via clockwork recovery mod, with no problems
4.) I downloaded the Google Apps archive and dropped it onto my sdcard
5.) I then installed the google apps zip and then it all went down hill from then
Every time I turned on my phone, the nice Cyanogen mod logo popped up, and then once it was done booting up, it popped up with two error messages:
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Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped.
Unfortunately, SetUp wizard has stopped.
Both of these error messages will not stop popping up and my phone is currently useless at this stage.
So, I went back into fastboot mode, and tried to fix it with these steps:
1.) I downloaded the "Factory Image "sojua" for Nexus S (850MHz version, i9020a)" images, and followed the instructions on this thread
2.) Once I flashed the bootloader image, my PC no longer detected my phone. It won't show up on my device manages (not even as an unrecognized Android 1.0 phone)
I installed the bootloader image because it was apart of the tutorial on how to do a complete factory reset, I now know that was stupid and not necessary.
So, you can obviously see I didn't know what I was doing, and what I did was quite stupid and careless. So unless you have any suggestions or want to help me, please do not patronize me, I am already mad enough at myself.
With that said, I am unable to even flash anything to my phone anymore, and I don't know what I can do. I tried using Wug's Nexus Toolkit to try and install the drivers, but it won't detect anything. On top of that, I am not sure if I have even flashed the correct bootloader image. Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Carbon131 said:
So like the genius that I am, I decided to mess with my Nexus S 4G. Right now, my PC will not detect my phone at all (won't show up at ALL, in my Device Manager or any toolkit that I've tried). Please not I had little experience and will probably look like a complete idiot, but bare with me.
So the steps I took were as followed (my phone came already unlocked)
1.) I first installed PDANet to get my computer to recognize my phone and install the right drivers
2.) After that, I flashed the latest, stable clockwork recovery mod
3.) Then, I downloaded the Hellybean ROM and installed it via clockwork recovery mod, with no problems
4.) I downloaded the Google Apps archive and dropped it onto my sdcard
5.) I then installed the google apps zip and then it all went down hill from then
Every time I turned on my phone, the nice Cyanogen mod logo popped up, and then once it was done booting up, it popped up with two error messages:
Code:
Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped.
Unfortunately, SetUp wizard has stopped.
Both of these error messages will not stop popping up and my phone is currently useless at this stage.
So, I went back into fastboot mode, and tried to fix it with these steps:
1.) I downloaded the "Factory Image "sojua" for Nexus S (850MHz version, i9020a)" images, and followed the instructions on this thread
2.) Once I flashed the bootloader image, my PC no longer detected my phone. It won't show up on my device manages (not even as an unrecognized Android 1.0 phone)
I installed the bootloader image because it was apart of the tutorial on how to do a complete factory reset, I now know that was stupid and not necessary.
So, you can obviously see I didn't know what I was doing, and what I did was quite stupid and careless. So unless you have any suggestions or want to help me, please do not patronage me, I am already mad enough at myself.
With that said, I am unable to even flash anything to my phone anymore, and I don't know what I can do. I tried using Wug's Nexus Toolkit to try and install the drivers, but it won't detect anything. On top of that, I am not sure if I have even flashed the correct bootloader image flashed. Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
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Good luck. Flashed a sojua stock ROM on a sojus phone, bootloader and all. I don't know if you'll ever be able to fix this. :|

polobunny said:
Good luck. Flashed a sojua stock ROM on a sojus phone, bootloader and all. I don't know if you'll ever be able to fix this. :|
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Hopefully someone may know what to do.

Carbon131 said:
Hopefully someone may know what to do.
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If you can put it into download mode you might be able to use Odin with a factory image to bring it back to life.

polobunny said:
If you can put it into download mode you might be able to use Odin with a factory image to bring it back to life.
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Yeah I can't seem to do that.

Carbon131 said:
Yeah I can't seem to do that.
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Make sure your cable is connected when you try to put your phone in download mode. Turn off the phone, then hold both volume + and -, and press power. Continue holding volume buttons until you see download mode.

[Q] Samsung Galaxy S4 mini I9192 , soft bricked.

Hello , looking for help to unbrick a partially bricked phone that allows me to turn on and use mostly everything , it seems to reboot itself every once in awhile. I can goto Kies and and try to repair but that doesn't work , also have odin with factory file and that shows Fail every time i try that. Hoping someone can help try to get back to factory settings.
Oh and i have read for 2 days here downloaded files and tried everything i can , but nothing seems to work. And when i restart phone it seems to go back to exactly where i left when it got bad root file or something. In the phone part even after i erase calls , it shows the people that called that day every time it gets restarted.
If anyone can help and walk me through , i'd be greatly appreciated. And i've watched i don't know how many youtube vid's on trying to get this back to factory mode.
Thank you.

just go into download mode and flash stock rom through odin.....

mohit378 said:
just go into download mode and flash stock rom through odin.....
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I've tried mutiple times and always comes up FAILED.
Tried Kies option also....
Apparantly its stuck in Titanium backup mode and occasionally does a reboot on its own sometimes. But even if i try to reboot after erasing tons of stuff out of it.... it comes back to what it was or how it was. So basically the titanium even though it shows up nowhere in my apps or phone... it keeps reverting my phone back to where it was when it got messed up.....

Try this
redskies4you said:
Hello , looking for help to unbrick a partially bricked phone that allows me to turn on and use mostly everything , it seems to reboot itself every once in awhile. I can goto Kies and and try to repair but that doesn't work , also have odin with factory file and that shows Fail every time i try that. Hoping someone can help try to get back to factory settings.
Oh and i have read for 2 days here downloaded files and tried everything i can , but nothing seems to work. And when i restart phone it seems to go back to exactly where i left when it got bad root file or something. In the phone part even after i erase calls , it shows the people that called that day every time it gets restarted.
If anyone can help and walk me through , i'd be greatly appreciated. And i've watched i don't know how many youtube vid's on trying to get this back to factory mode.
Thank you.
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I don't know if the fail you get in Odin may be caused by having the wrong settings. I have ran into a few tutorials online that use odin, each one had a specific way. Try running it again with all the options unchecked except for the Auto Reboot. Also make sure you place the correct file(s) in the correct slot. example: any bootloader file goes into the bootloader slot, etc. make sure its checked. Then run again, this may be the only reason your getting a fail, it may have nothing to do with Odin or your phone.
Of course disregard this message if you had already fixed you problem. Also another possible fix would be to use ADB command to push the files to your phone, I suggest looking into it, there is a good amount of info on it online. It could help down the line with future issues to know ADB. Here is a website I found helpful, it is a guide to using ADB sideload to save bricked devices. ------- (android-revolution-
hd.blogspot.com/2013/12/ow-to-use-adb-sideload.html) note: just copy everything after the dashes and in between the parenthesis and paste into url bar on browser. sorry i have to be difficult, first time posting on this site and they wont let me post in a link, but this guide may be the answer to all your phone trouble. Plus I know how you feel, I just bricked my phone too and I know how agravating it is when nothing works.
Good luck and let me know how it goes

Thanks
BAMTek.Inc said:
I don't know if the fail you get in Odin may be caused by having the wrong settings. I have ran into a few tutorials online that use odin, each one had a specific way. Try running it again with all the options unchecked except for the Auto Reboot. Also make sure you place the correct file(s) in the correct slot. example: any bootloader file goes into the bootloader slot, etc. make sure its checked. Then run again, this may be the only reason your getting a fail, it may have nothing to do with Odin or your phone.
Of course disregard this message if you had already fixed you problem. Also another possible fix would be to use ADB command to push the files to your phone, I suggest looking into it, there is a good amount of info on it online. It could help down the line with future issues to know ADB. Here is a website I found helpful, it is a guide to using ADB sideload to save bricked devices. ------- (android-revolution-
hd.blogspot.com/2013/12/ow-to-use-adb-sideload.html) note: just copy everything after the dashes and in between the parenthesis and paste into url bar on browser. sorry i have to be difficult, first time posting on this site and they wont let me post in a link, but this guide may be the answer to all your phone trouble. Plus I know how you feel, I just bricked my phone too and I know how agravating it is when nothing works.
Good luck and let me know how it goes
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Thanks Bam.... I'm just in need of all stock files Including the PIT file which is like impossible to find it seems to try and get this phone back to factory reset mode..... The phone actually works but anytime it reboots or save anything...ect.... it just reverts back to when it got tripped up. Thanks again for anyone's help.