Yet another broken phone

[Guest 90180360]

There's no visible external damage, but the screen just remains black.

Actually you can see the back-light (it's a TFT) and also the button-lights work, but nothing is displayed on the screen.

Also I can get into fastboot and adb.

I don't know if the touchscreen still works.

What I'd like to do is getting the phone back to its original state before I send it in.

If I remember correctly, I even changed the partition sizes with the JJ image...

I guess operating clockwork "blindly" should be possible...

So all I need is the stock ROM, right? Or do I first have to fix the partitions?

Unfortunately, Sebastian404 refuses to share his collection of stock ROMs with the world, but I have a vanilla phone lying around, so maybe I could do it myself? Dumping looks easy, but how about the rest?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Edited January 22, 2011 by 90180360

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

you have to use the total phone transfer method

make a directory in sdcard

must be /image

copy the hungarian patch in this directory

overwrite the files in directory with the img files of the dump

wake your phone with power + volume up

if you are lucky it could be even work again

[Guest 90180360]

you have to use the total phone transfer method

make a directory in sdcard

must be /image

copy the hungarian patch in this directory

overwrite the files in directory with the img files of the dump

wake your phone with power + volume up

if you are lucky it could be even work again

Thanks a lot.

Another option has been suggested by freakyfreddy by PM:

Hi,

here you can find a nandroid backup, made with clockwork (OCH_P_P729BV1.0.0B01)

http://rapidshare.com/#!download|606dt...ange_.zip|95765

You can flash this with clockwork-mod. After this you've got a stock-swiss-blade, but with clockwork-recovery. In order to delete clockwork-recovery you need to flash recovery.img with fastboot. You can find the original recovery.img here:

http://www.android-hilfe.de/root-hacking-m...ustom-roms.html

After this you'll have a virgin-swiss-Blade!

I think I'll go with Phoenix Silver's method as it doesn't involve using clockwork-mod (which would be difficult without seeing anything).

I've already dumped the ROM from a vanilla phone using Sebastian404's program.

This gives me the following files: config.gz, system.info.gz, boot.img, recovery.img and system.tar.gz.

I've also downloaded the Hungarian Patch.

Besides all the .mbn files there's boot.img, recovery.img, splash.img and system.img.

I guess just replacing boot.img and recovery.img is not enough, right?

How do I get system.img? (I guess I can disregard splash.img?)

What do I do with config.gz, system.info.gz and system.tar.gz?

[Guest 90180360]

you have to use the total phone transfer method

make a directory in sdcard

must be /image

copy the hungarian patch in this directory

overwrite the files in directory with the img files of the dump

wake your phone with power + volume up

if you are lucky it could be even work again

Lacking a better alternative, I've just used the unmodified Hungarian patch / TPT ROM.

From what I can tell it has worked. Adb now shows the device now as offline, which makes sense as USB debugging is disabled by default.

At least I'm now back to stock recovery, partitions, etc.

P.S. Didn't fix the screen.

[Guest 90180360]

In case anyone wonders: It was good enough, phone got replaced.