TOTALLY Bricked

[Guest phantomfisho]

Hi all,

I desperately need help. After an unsuccessful radio flash, my Desire won't even turn on. No response from any buttons or lights. Here's how it happened:

I'm relatively new to Android. I recently bought a Desire, to replace my Touch HD, which has seen about 25 different WM ROMs, over it's life.

I successfully rooted my Desire and had tried a few ROMs. I was sitting on the MoDaCo Custom ROM r17, which was all customised and running perfectly. I'd even used ADB to successfully update my wifi config to connect to my company LEAP-authenticated network.

I decided to flash the latest radio (32.37.00.32U_4.06.00.16_2), from this thread:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=687464

• I entered Recovery using 'Fake-Flash';
  
• I started flashing the radio image;
  
• All the good messages were scrolling down the screen;
  
• I kept one eye on the phone while I worked on my laptop;
  
• I saw a message saying something to the effect of "Finished installing radio..." (sorry, I don't remember the exact wording);
  
• The blue recovery menu had returned, with 'reboot device' as the default selection;
  
• As I clicked the trackball, I saw another message appear under the 'finished' messages, which said "Writing rad " I guess it didn't have time to print the whole message, when I selected reboot.
  

The screen went blank then a graphic appeared in the middle (where the recovery exclamation mark and triangle usually appear), of a software box with a curved yellow arrow over it and the android icon peeking out from behind it. I left it for a while (already had that sinking feeling) then pressed the power button. It switched off and stayed there.

Since then, nothing that I've tried has received any response. Various combination's of button pushes, USB connection, removed SIM, SD and battery...nothing, not even an LED.

I've searched and haven't been able to find any solutions to this particular situation. Can anyone help, or am I totally bricked?

Regards, PF. ;)

[Guest ltitcon]

you can go into the recovery?

[Guest phantomfisho]

you can go into the recovery?

Nope. Can't power on under any circumstances, so can't get into recovery.

[Guest Bol2riz]

does it seems to charge when usb plugged ?

have you tried to boot with usb plugged ?

[Guest afiorillo]

You interrupted the flash process, so you've bricked your Desire (really bricked, not the USB recoveable flavour).

Radio ROMs flash itself upon the first reboot issued by the console: the icon you saw it's the icon shown during the flash, that takes no more than 30 seconds to be carried out.

You'd have wait until the flash finished and the phone rebooted itself. Now, the customer service is your only way out, sorry for that.

[Guest phantomfisho]

You interrupted the flash process, so you've bricked your Desire (really bricked, not the USB recoveable flavour).

Radio ROMs flash itself upon the first reboot issued by the console: the icon you saw it's the icon shown during the flash, that takes no more than 30 seconds to be carried out.

You'd have wait until the flash finished and the phone rebooted itself. Now, the customer service is your only way out, sorry for that.

I suspected as much. That'll teach me to be impatient.

Thanks for confirming.

[Guest hensk]

are you my firend realy break up your instalation of radio,be honest pls?!!

[Guest phantomfisho]

are you my firend realy break up your instalation of radio,be honest pls?!!

Errrr...yes...? :(

I described it exactly as it happened. Why would I bother asking for help and then describe a fictitious scenario? It would make any proposed solutions useless, wouldn't it?

To be honest, I don't really understand what you're getting at... ;)

[Guest paulosman]

Errrr...yes...? :(

I described it exactly as it happened. Why would I bother asking for help and then describe a fictitious scenario? It would make any proposed solutions useless, wouldn't it?

To be honest, I don't really understand what you're getting at... ;)

I think maybe he's either being rhetorical and/or is just in disbelief. Either way, sorry to hear what happened dude that totally sucks and unfortunately impatience is defiantely the culprit here! It's an easy thing to do especially if you've never flashed a radio before.

If theres one thing I've learnt over the years of hacking about with stuff its always be patient and see what happens. It's so easy to get panicky and start pressing stuff in the hope you will see something happen... but usually its not something good :)

Hope you get lucky with customer services and they just simply replace it. Keep us posted bud, let us know what happens. Is it a network branded Desire?

Edited June 24, 2010 by paulosman

[Guest phantomfisho]

I think maybe he's either being rhetorical and/or is just in disbelief. Either way, sorry to hear what happened dude that totally sucks and unfortunately impatience is defiantely the culprit here! It's an easy thing to do especially if you've never flashed a radio before.

If theres one thing I've learnt over the years of hacking about with stuff its always be patient and see what happens. It's so easy to get panicky and start pressing stuff in the hope you will see something happen... but usually its not something good :(

Hope you get lucky with customer services and they just simply replace it. Keep us posted bud, let us know what happens. Is it a network branded Desire?

Ah well, when he learns to spell, I might take him seriously. ;)

Yep. Impatience...guilty as charged. Believe me, I've learned my lesson.

Thanks mate, I'll be sure to post the result.

[Guest peter.taylor]

Ah well, when he learns to spell, I might take him seriously. :(

Yep. Impatience...guilty as charged. Believe me, I've learned my lesson.

Thanks mate, I'll be sure to post the result.

I'm sure his english is better than your macedonian. ;)

[Guest daruma]

Hi,

I have similar problem as phatomfisho but I can switch the phone to recovery mode.

I rooted my phone successfully following this description. Then I flashed the custom room (r3.1) without any problem following the instruction. Everything works fine. Then I decided to try the actual froyo (r18) following that. I wasn't satisfied with that rom because the screen was to dim and there was no sense etc. I was carefully, I made a backup before with nandriod, save all application with titanium and save the whole SD card too. I restored the nandriod backup but I can't download anything from the market. The downloading process started but it stacked. I tried to reset with the custom rom but after the flashing it didn't work. So I tried wipe system data and everything but the ROM didn't work only the from the nandroid. I gave up the fighting and I want to restore from the nandroid backup but It doesn't work too now. So my phone absolutely doesn't work! I see only the HTC title nothing else.

How can restore the original state or the custom rom?

Is there any official rom that I can restore?

Can somebody help me?

I am afraid I have an uselessness but very expensive phone now.

daruma

[Guest phantomfisho]

I'm sure his english is better than your macedonian. :(

;) No doubt!

[Guest Judaz]

Did you try to remove the battery?

[Guest daruma]

I found the solution couple of minute ago. I removed the sd-card and after that rebooted the phone without any problem. So I repartitioned the sd card and "tada" everything works fine. Then reset to the factory default from the phone menu and after the rebooting the downloading from the market works good too. So I'm restoring the application with the titanium now. I don't know what was the problem with the sd card because the ext partition was deleted by the recovery menu many times.

Sorry for my terrible English!

[Guest phantomfisho]

Good news...

The HTC service centre were kind enough to replace my 'faulty' handset. :lol:

Re-flashed with r19 and radio updated (patiently) successfully.

Thanks all for your support.

[Guest 42turkeys]

Good news...

The HTC service centre were kind enough to replace my 'faulty' handset. :lol:

Re-flashed with r19 and radio updated (patiently) successfully.

Thanks all for your support.

That's good news! :D

If anyone else does this remember it was the ota update that caused it :D

[Guest afiorillo]

Glad to hear good news from you, mate. :lol: