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bricked htc inspire frozen on htc boot up

hello.. i have looked for the answer to my question but i cant seem to find it, therefore i created this post.. sorry if i posted in the wrong section or if it is already out there.. i hope mr clown doesnt close my thread.
i rooted my phone doing it with the one click tool, and it worked perfectly fine.. the problem started when i tried to install a custom rom on it.. i installed rom manager and cwm fine.. but the problem is that i was following this instructions..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11557769
which i read i had to get this rom...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868720
the problem is that i didnt realize that i needed eng s off and i had s off wich therefore i wasnt able to see the cwm screen..
following the steps that told me to wipe the data with the wipedat.zip.. i did it through rom manager.. when the phone rebooted it went to a dark screen slowly so i took the battery out, and now is frozen in the htc logo... i have tried the up/down/power combo but the phone vibrates 3-4 times and then it goes to a black screen with the light on... but i dont get anything else.. so im really stock at either htc screen or black screen... i need help!!! i hope some one nows a good way for me to fix this.

Try pulling battery...wait a minute...then replace battery. Hold volume down as you power it on. Should get you in hboot.

Nickovtyme said:
Try pulling battery...wait a minute...then replace battery. Hold volume down as you power it on. Should get you in hboot.
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ur a genious!!!!!!!
thank u so much!!!!!!!

Nickovtyme said:
Try pulling battery...wait a minute...then replace battery. Hold volume down as you power it on. Should get you in hboot.
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puneta26 said:
ur a genious!!!!!!!
thank u so much!!!!!!!
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Heh...I wish...I've just had a couple Roms hang in bootloop...or stick on boot...or what have you. I had t learn...
Read this link...it'll help ya:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12611520&postcount=6

[Q] Im bricked bad

I bricked thu a bad flash. Normal unbrick wont work due to my volume buttons not working. I tried to just reflash the stock rom but it keeps telling me the battery is less than 30%. I let the phone charge for a hour or so so i doubt that is the issue. Ant help would be great thank you.

So you are not able to get into clockwork recovery at all? Or you cannot even get into hboot? where are you trying to re-flash the stock ROM then?

i was trying to update my coredroid rom, i cant get past the white HTC screen

SO you cant get into Hboot?(power+volume down hold)..thats before any Htc screen...
If you can then you can get to clockwordmod recovery...
If you cant get into hboot, then if you had debugging enabled perhaps you can get to hboot through adb commands?
If you can never get to hboot then I think youll have to download the RUU build thing and redo everything.
Maybe you should elborate more and check your spellings if you care so much about being bricked, lol just saying.

If I hold power and vol down after reinserting the battery all I get is the white HTC screen. I have tried the RUU build and it tells me my battery is less than 30%. I have also attempted ADB commands with no luck. I was however attempting the ADB thru Droid Explorer. Sorry for the spelling issues in my first post. I also don't get the initial spurt from the vibrator motor.

If you were just updating the rom you should in no way be bricked. Worst case your system partition or something is screwed, but this wont result in a brick. Take out battery, let sit for about 5 min. FIRST Hold volume down, then press power(hold both until you see hboot screen). If this doesn't get you into hboot, something is seriously wrong, not even a bad flash should corrupt that.
You need to get the rom.zip from the. Temp folder of your PC(when the Thu runs for a min, you can grab the rom.zip it uses), rename to PD98IMG.zip(or whatever it is, can't remener off top of my head), and get it on your sdcard. then hopefully you can get into bootloader and you should be good.

cmeyer3 said:
I bricked thu a bad flash. Normal unbrick wont work due to my volume buttons not working. I tried to just reflash the stock rom but it keeps telling me the battery is less than 30%. I let the phone charge for a hour or so so i doubt that is the issue. Ant help would be great thank you.
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Your volume buttons are broken, or unresponsive in h-boot? Two very different things.

M volume down button is broke. That seems to be the issue of me getting going again.

if you are using a older version of cwm, you should be able to plug the phone in while it is off and it will boot into recovery.

do you have the android sdk installed on your computer? you can always adb reboot recovery.
saves my butt every time

cmeyer3 said:
M volume down button is broke. That seems to be the issue of me getting going again.
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ARE you completely sure they dont work??they didnt work before too??or just now?
Make sure you press both at the same time, and HOLD IT and wait....
That happened to me when I rooted, I thought I bricked it, but I wasnt holding it down too long and kept pressing them at different times..

emarsha said:
do you have the android sdk installed on your computer? you can always adb reboot recovery.
saves my butt every time
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Only if it boots far enough for adb to see the phone, which a lot of time it wont if its soft brickd, so you have to be able to get into hboot manually.

The vol buttons were broke before this happened.

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] Bricked phone ?

Hello everyone ,
I got a HTC Desire S. Yesterday i opened my phone and suddenly it closed. And didnt open again. It froze in HTC screen. (Quietly Brilliant is not coming) And i couldn't make a factory reset or recovery. When i press factory reset it froze again. Is there a way to fix this? Also the phone is not rooted or installed any custom rom. Lastly i am a newbie on Android devices. While answering me, can you also please describe what should i do step by step. Especially technical terms.
Any help will be deeply appreciated.
SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.98.0000
RADIO-38.03.02.11_M
eMMC-boot

Hey. When I turned mine on first out stayed on that screen for about 10 mins.
Just turn the phone on and leave it. How long did you wait?
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pull out battery,wait for a wile then turn on..lets see what will happen

I pulled out the battery than waited for about 10 min. after that i pulled in and tried to open, its trying to pass HTC logo and still no "Quietly Brilliant" text is coming after 10 min. waiting.. Still waiting...

try to remove sd card too..thats my last idea..

After 28min waiting i pulled out the battery and removed sd card. Now trying to open without sd card. I will post the result. Thanks for responses btw.

i'm sure its not sd card problem,would be nice that i'm wrong but u cant lose anything if try..let us know hows going

Almost 10 mins passed but same htc logo. =/

hmm...power off ur phone,pull out battery,return battery,hold on volume down and press power on button ..give us info like hboot version,radio,eMMC

I thnik it is same as this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1150917 ... You have to return it to warranty...

Adidas108 said:
hmm...power off ur phone,pull out battery,return battery,hold on volume down and press power on button ..give us info like hboot version,radio,eMMC
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@Adidas108
This infos are in first post.
Bubaaak said:
I thnik it is same as this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1150917 ... You have to return it to warranty...
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@Budabaaak
Im gonna check it. Thank you.

Bubaaak said:
I thnik it is same as this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1150917 ... You have to return it to warranty...
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i'm not sure..that guy downloaded some stuffs from market and that coursed phone to freeze..
@uteamnofear is that happed to you also?

No it didnt happen while downloading or doing something. It happened suddenly. It looks like i will return it to warranty.

i think its best idea

Try boot into recovery or in the hboot menu wipe the device. Then try to boot again.

ste1164 said:
Try boot into recovery or in the hboot menu wipe the device. Then try to boot again.
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Unfortunately i tried them too. But results are same phone froze while i tried to do them.

this happened to me while i was downloading in the market.
phone got stuck in the htc screen and could not load anything at all, no reboot or factory reset either.
i send it back to HTC last wednesday n got it back friday! all good now.
they simply changed the motherboard.

thunder9111 said:
this happened to me while i was downloading in the market.
phone got stuck in the htc screen and could not load anything at all, no reboot or factory reset either.
i send it back to HTC last wednesday n got it back friday! all good now.
they simply changed the motherboard.
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I think i will do the same Thanks for sharing your experience.

Same here, just send it to HTC, they'll just install new motherboard or swap your phone for working one.
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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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