is zte blade as easy to brick as wildfire ? bricking topic/questions...

[Guest brickornot]

hello. i had wildfire.

while flashing radio with clockword recover i removed battery..(now it is non reactive, can not turn on, can not hboot - nothing, no response, no power)

it was stupid i know but i thought it hanged, ok it was in past...i now that it is possible to repair with riff box and jtag but this is another question:

is zte blade as sensitive as wildfire ?

what will happen if i will remove battery while flashing radio ?

(maybe this is no point in asking that but i want just to know)

because on some forums i read statements like "zte blade is almost unbrickable" - is that true ?

what you have to do to brick it ? (brick in the sense that only thing to boot/repair is to use another hardware like riff box,jtag)

and why - what is different than in wildfire which makes zte blade more brick proof ?

thanks.

[Guest wbaw]

You will break it if you remove the battery while you're flashing the radio. It sounds like a stupid idea, you should probably stay away from modifying any electronic device.

[Guest brickornot]

You will break it if you remove the battery while you're flashing the radio. It sounds like a stupid idea, you should probably stay away from modifying any electronic device.

i am not going to - just want to know:

so it is the same as in wildfire ?

it will definitively brick it without any options later ?

Edited June 22, 2011 by brickornot

[Guest wbaw]

i am not going to - just want to know:

so it is the same as in wildfire ?

it will definitively brick it without any options later ?

Yes, it's very likely to brick it if you pull the battery out while you're in the middle of flashing the radio firmware that it needs to make it work. The same applies to flashing firmware to most electronic devices. There is nothing special about the blade, or wildfire.

The Blade actually has a back cover to keep the battery in, so you should be ok, unless you're really stupid.

Edited June 22, 2011 by wbaw

[Guest t0mm13b]

Yes, it's very likely to brick it if you pull the battery out while you're in the middle of flashing the radio firmware that it needs to make it work. The same applies to flashing firmware to most electronic devices. There is nothing special about the blade, or wildfire.

The Blade actually has a back cover to keep the battery in, so you should be ok, unless you're really stupid.

I agree wholeheartedly and no not harsh at all... pull the battery in middle of flash - its "Dorothy says good bye to Kansas"... and will have to be debricked to get it back again!

Please do make sure you have sufficient battery power - if not you could find yourself in hot soup also - I know of one particular handset that states "Make sure battery is above 75% level for flashing to work".... might be sensible to use this advice for any kind of flashing regardless!

[Guest brickornot]

ok, i understand.

its sad that it is not so simple to recover as in usb drives eeprom - just needle and some circuit on eeprom pins while connected to usb:

http://flashboot.ru/index.php?name=News&am...icle&sid=24

phones should be so easy to repair too. :)

there is no similar instructions for phones ? or is it ?

[Guest hecatae]

you can flash a blade with the battery removed as long as you have a usb power source plugged in, confirmed by me with tpt on gen1 and gen2 (image.bin), and you can also use the windows flashing program if needed as a last resort.

Edited June 22, 2011 by hecatae

[Guest brickornot]

you can flash a blade with the battery removed as long as you have a usb power source plugged in, confirmed by me with tpt on gen1 and gen2 (image.bin), and you can also use the windows flashing program if needed as a last resort.

yeah but this not include disconnecting from usb while in the middle of flashing ?

btw - you dont have to be stupid to brick it.

just for example - your flashing without battery and suddenly you little brother comes to you and without knowing - grabs phone with his little hands and disconnects it from your pc. Your will be responsible only for unpredictable behavior of your brother.

its like saying - 'you are stupid because you died in car accident made by drunk woman'.

Edited June 22, 2011 by brickornot

[Guest t0mm13b]

....

its like saying - 'you are stupid because you died in car accident made by drunk woman'.

Do not troll by inciting or trying to elicit emotional responses from others by THAT stupid comment.

Clear?

[Guest wbaw]

More like saying 'you are stupid because you drove your car into a tree & then asked if any cars are tree proof'.

Edited June 22, 2011 by wbaw

[Guest deksman2]

Condescending posts aside, one cannot expect flashing of firmware to go without a problem if you pull the energy source from the device you are in the middle of rewriting.

Had it happened while the handset was plugged into the mains, then barring any power surges or failure, the flashing would have gone on without a problem.

By yanking the battery (only means of the device to operate) out of the device in question, well, it's safe to say that almost any kind of firmware flashing in the same manner would result in a bricked device.

To my knowledge, firmware's aren't really robust to the point where they will repair themselves.

It would require to create a backup firmware on the device itself which would be on standby should the original one go bonkers, but this kind of programming to my knowledge is not instilled into handhelds.