Guest jtc42 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 Well this is embarrassing, So I decided to upgrade to Gen 2, I followed the guide letter for letter, the converter got to 6%, then stopped, said "Download failed", phone switched off, won't switch on. No LED, nothing. When I plug it in through USB it does the device connected noise but I don't think anything it actually happening. I know according to the threads this means it's gone forever, but any bright ideas? PS, I can't even return it because I took the screws out the back to clean the screen (dust got on the inside somehow) so I'm really screwed :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N3M35I5 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 Well this is embarrassing, So I decided to upgrade to Gen 2, I followed the guide letter for letter, the converter got to 6%, then stopped, said "Download failed", phone switched off, won't switch on. No LED, nothing. When I plug it in through USB it does the device connected noise but I don't think anything it actually happening. I know according to the threads this means it's gone forever, but any bright ideas? PS, I can't even return it because I took the screws out the back to clean the screen (dust got on the inside somehow) so I'm really screwed :) can you do anything with fastboot? -- just an idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jtc42 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 can you do anything with fastboot? -- just an idea Hangs on <Waiting for Device> unless I'm going something wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest selecta8998 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 I had exactly the same problem ... Phone was so bricked I figured orange would never be able to tell what happened - I got them to replace it. Be interesting to see what our phones had in common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jtc42 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 I had exactly the same problem ... Phone was so bricked I figured orange would never be able to tell what happened - I got them to replace it. Be interesting to see what our phones had in common. And they did? Replace it I mean? Mines black, OLED, bought Novemberish last year, and overheated last night while charging. Thats all I can think of that may be mildly relevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rickywyatt Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 do this take out battery put back in hold vol - and vol + then tap the power button dose the led flash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dibbles Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 What happens if you take out the battery and then power it on with the USB lead in only, holding the vol - button..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jtc42 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 do this take out battery put back in hold vol - and vol + then tap the power button dose the led flash Nope >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jtc42 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 What happens if you take out the battery and then power it on with the USB lead in only, holding the vol - button..? Nothing at all. Im fairly confident it's dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MDCFan Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 (edited) Open device manager with your phone connected and look for ZTE Diagnostic interface COM port under "Ports". If it does not, try this procedure: Remove the battery, then insert it again (to ensure that you have correctly powered off device). Hold volume + and - then without releasing those volume buttons also press power button and hold these three buttons it for a second (just to be sure). The screen should remain blank. Now connect USB cable to the computer and see if it recognizes your phone as a virtual com port (you can check it in device manager if you are on windows). This method works with gen1 phones, but you can try it on your gen2 too. Once you get into that mode, try flashing again. And please report your results. Edited April 17, 2011 by MDCFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jtc42 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 Open device manager with your phone connected and look for ZTE Diagnostic interface COM port under "Ports". If it does not, try this procedure: Once you get into that mode, try flashing again. And please report your results. Doesnt list as anything, doesn't make the device connected noise since I removed the battery the first time. Thanks for all the support everyone! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MDCFan Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 (edited) Ok, try doing this: 1. Unplug the USB cable. 2. Remove the battery and don't put it back. 3. Hold volume + and - buttons. 4. Insert USB cable without releasing those buttons. Now see if it gets recognized this way. Edited April 17, 2011 by MDCFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jtc42 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 Ok, try doing this: 1. Remove the USB cable and battery and don't put it back. 2. Hold volume + and - buttons. 3. Without releasing those buttons insert USB cable. Now see if it gets recognized this way. Again nothing. Thanks for the tip though :) Pretty confident it's dead. It's a pitty because it was OLED. Not gonna get another one like that now >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest exec Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 When I updated to Gen2 the first time the application got some error at like 8% and the phone wouldn't come on. Took out the battery and left it over night, put it back in next morning and it worked fine. Not sure if that's the solution to your problem though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MDCFan Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 (edited) Again nothing. Thanks for the tip though :) Pretty confident it's dead. It's a pitty because it was OLED. Not gonna get another one like that now >.< Does not look good :) Probably flasher erased important parts of your phone memory and failed before writing new code. Edited April 17, 2011 by MDCFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jtc42 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 Does not look good :) Probably flasher erased your memory, including the important parts for restoring firmware and it failed before writing new code. I dont get how its actually more bricked than any other bricked phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MDCFan Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 I dont get how its actually more bricked than any other bricked phone. I don't know how diagnostic mode works, but many phones can't be bricked unless you erase the bootloader. I guess that Gen2 upgrade includes bootloader upgrade so the part of the memory it resides gets erased before writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest digital0 Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Could it be that you can't upgrade to gen2 OLED phones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mELIANTE Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 (edited) Could it be that you can't upgrade to gen2 OLED phones? Yes you can, I have one :) Edited April 18, 2011 by mELIANTE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hecatae Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Yes you can, I have one :) upgraded gen2 oled blade here as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest selecta8998 Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Hi, my phone was exactly the same...gen 1 OLED OSF with wbaw's 128MB system partition. Symptoms were exactly the same too... no trace of it via adb/fastboot. No red LED when (working) charging cable inserted. I left it like this overnight, but the battery was dead when I put it in my new phone. The battery was fully charged when I started. Orange replaced it via next day courier a couple of days ago - and I think they are unlikely to test it. I think they only do this if it is less than 6m old. I would like to know if anyone has any ideas what went wrong... I want to upgrade to gen2 but given this has happened to a couple of us I'm going to wait until other methods are available. I'm not a noob either which is a surprise... I've been messing with firmware and adb since the Hero. PS I got a TFT replacement :) better than a brick tho I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hecatae Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 gen 1 OLED OSF with wbaw's 128MB system partition. ok that's the most interesting part. which flasher did you try? I'm a standard partitions user and I have had no issue upgrading to gen2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest selecta8998 Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 (edited) I used KK's gen2_128mb_system_no_oem... strange thing is there's anecdotal reports of flashing with modified partitions working - that why I thought I'd be ok. Edited April 18, 2011 by selecta8998 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Matthew Ferguson Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I flashed as a Gen1 with modified 128mb partition to a Gen2 with the same partition, and I'm an OLED user too. No issues whatsoever - are you sure the file you downloaded wasn't corrupt, and did you extract the zip, or just run the exe from inside it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest selecta8998 Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Hmm... correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think there were any MD5s for KK's partitions - maybe it was corrupt? I extracted the .zip, and then ran the .exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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