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InspireR6

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Ok so this is my second time rooting my phone and i used the simple root method found here [DEV][GUI][RC2][GPL][3-21-2011] HTC Inspire 4G Simple One Click - xda-developers

So the first time I rooted I bricked my phone which I think is the term because I read online that clockwork wasn't working so when i tried to recover into clockwork the phone went black and went to the HTC loading screen and stayed there. So I pulled out the battery and nothing happened. So now instead of making the same mistake what should I do because my phone is rooted, but I don't want to try anything until I get opinions on what to do.
 
nah i returned the one I bricked, said it was freezing on me and they gave me a new one. now i did rooted the second one, but waiting for an answer on how to get CWM to work so i can a ROM on it
 
InspireR6 said:
nah i returned the one I bricked, said it was freezing on me and they gave me a new one. now i did rotted the second one, but waiting for an answer on how to get CWM to work so i can a ROM on it
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crap like this pisses me off to no end, you voluntarily do something that voids the warranty of the phone, proceed to kill the phone, then return it for some other bullcrap reason so that you can get a new one and possibly do the same thing again. I hope you brick this one too.
 
tonyb81 said:
crap like this pisses me off to no end, you voluntarily do something that voids the warranty of the phone, proceed to kill the phone, then return it for some other bullcrap reason so that you can get a new one and possibly do the same thing again. I hope you brick this one too.
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Wow!!! you would do the same shit if it happened to your phone. So don't be judging on what I did. We all know your ass would be on this forum asking on what to do if it happened to you
 
InspireR6 said:
Wow!!! you would do the same shit if it happened to your phone. So don't be judging on what I did. We all know your ass would be on this forum asking on what to do if it happened to you
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So its perfectly fine to blatantly void the warranty on something you own, then return it under some BS reason because you messed up?
 
And so what I returned..are you going to get pissed off over that? Man get a life and quit worrying about things that people are doing and worry about yourself. I understand that your upset, but did it effect you in anyway to start complaining about what I did?
 
Some people just voice there opinions louder than others. Can't please everyone.

Now why is CWM not working? What version is it?
 
InspireR6 said:
Wow!!! you would do the same shit if it happened to your phone. So don't be judging on what I did. We all know your ass would be on this forum asking on what to do if it happened to you
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I say keep returning the bricked ones over and over, there not losing money at all
 
InspireR6 said:
And so what I returned..are you going to get pissed off over that? Man get a life and quit worrying about things that people are doing and worry about yourself. I understand that your upset, but did it effect you in anyway to start complaining about what I did?
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I agree with tonyb - Since you chose to root it, and the rooting went wrong, you should have found a way to fix it yourself. I had a similar thing happen when I rooted my Droid X - total brick - and paid a casual friend $50.00 to fix it; restoring it to the factory condition. I then *correctly* rooted it (I'd figured out what I did wrong the first time) and everything is fine now.

The point I'm trying to make is that it never entered my mind to return it to Verizon because it was MY screw-up, and I fixed it with MY money. You should have done the same with your first Inspire.

-Mike
 
InspireR6 said:
So the first time I rooted I bricked my phone which I think is the term because I read online that clockwork wasn't working so when i tried to recover into clockwork the phone went black and went to the HTC loading screen and stayed there. So I pulled out the battery and nothing happened. So now instead of making the same mistake what should I do because my phone is rooted, but I don't want to try anything until I get opinions on what to do.
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Chances are you never actually bricked your phone and could have just booted to Recovery. Short of letting the battery die while flashing the recovery partition or boot-loader, it's difficult to truly "brick" the phone.

So long as you can boot to Recovery (hold down Vol Down and Power to turn the phone on) you can recover pretty easily. To simplify, always keep your most recent nandroid backup of a working ROM on the sd card.
 
ultra droid said:
I agree with tonyb - Since you chose to root it, and the rooting went wrong, you should have found a way to fix it yourself. I had a similar thing happen when I rooted my Droid X - total brick - and paid a casual friend $50.00 to fix it; restoring it to the factory condition. I then *correctly* rooted it (I'd figured out what I did wrong the first time) and everything is fine now.

The point I'm trying to make is that it never entered my mind to return it to Verizon because it was MY screw-up, and I fixed it with MY money. You should have done the same with your first Inspire.

-Mike
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And this is why I havent rooted my inspire yet. I know if I mess it up its my fault and my problem to deal with. Plus I would kinda feel bad tricking att into taking the phone back especially since they have been good to me over the years.
 
gtalum said:
Chances are you never actually bricked your phone and could have just booted to Recovery. Short of letting the battery die while flashing the recovery partition or boot-loader, it's difficult to truly "brick" the phone.

So long as you can boot to Recovery (hold down Vol Down and Power to turn the phone on) you can recover pretty easily. To simplify, always keep your most recent nandroid backup of a working ROM on the sd card.
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Was that directed to me? No, my DX was seriously screwed up. My friend, who is a "for real" cell phone technician and an electrical engineer, worked on it for 4 1/2 hours, before he got it to the point that allowed a factory reset. He gave me a finger wagging lecture about messing with rooting (he considers rooting to be very dangerous) and said that he wasn't sure he could help me if I did it again. Fortunately, I knew what I did wrong the first time, and the second time around I got it rooted with no problems.

-Mike
 
No I was talking to the OP, should have made that clear. If you can get to the HTC boot screen, you can almost certainly get it to boot up to the bootloader or to Recovery.
 
ultra droid said:
I agree with tonyb - Since you chose to root it, and the rooting went wrong, you should have found a way to fix it yourself. ...
-Mike
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Don't be silly. He's proven that he's totally irresponsible, and is willing to let us indirectly pay for his f**kup. What's really messed up is that he took responsibility to root it, but when it went wrong, ran away from that responsibility like a child. "Honor, integrity, responsibility... huh?"

I agree with what you said 110%, but that's the entitlement mindset people have these days.
 
That's why our cell phone prices are so high, because of people like you who take advantage of the system.
 
I think it just comes down to a simple *moral* point - why should Verizon have to pay for MY screw-up with my Droid X, by taking it back and giving me a free replacement? THEY didn't deliver a defective product (worked fine out of the box), but rather *I* screwed up the rooting of it. So it never entered my mind to try to take it back as a defective product, I wasn't raised that way by my parents, plus I'm not a B.S. artist and have never been a good liar. So I just paid a qualified person to fix it. My phone, my screw-up, my money - that was it.

Same principle applies in this thread, with the return of the HTC Inspire to AT&T because of a botched attempt at rooting. I would not have done that myself, but we're all different I guess.

-Mike
 
The cost of a handful of people returning phones that they've screwed up is noise and isn't going to have any effect on prices. What it DOES affect is that it encourages the carriers to demand better security from companies like HTC, Motorola, and Samsung. We're already hearing that HTC - who has traditionally taken a "don't care" attitude toward rooting - may start locking new phones down Moto style with an encrypted bootloader.

This is why people who know what they're doing with this stuff have a right to be outraged. Forget the "morality" aspect ... other people's morals are none of my business. But when failure to take personal responsibility can impact my freedom, that's cause to speak up.
 
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