Root bricked!

[Winters37]

yea, so, i upgraded to the 2.1 official beta (sucks!) and i hated it and liked preclair better. well, it wasn't rooted because it did an official update and all so i try to root it and it doesn't work. i tried using rsd to downgrade to 13.37 or whatever it is and when it finishes, it says "PASS" but now my phone is stuck on a black screen with a small blue bar that says "bootloader USB init"

nothing i do works to fix it. i've tried reflashing 13.37, and 13.35 to see if it would fix it. i've tried to get to recovery but that doesn't work.

i honestly don't know what to do so can someone help me? or am i doomed with a bricked backflip?

 

[Beach_Head]

Are you using an AT&T Backflip? If so, try this: Backflip Brick Fix for flashing back to 1.5 from official 2.1

There are already some files there which you can download.

If your Backflip isn't an AT&T model, download th latest SBF for you unit and follow the instructions posted there on how to create your own SBF...

 

[jmgib]

The reason you bricked your phone trying to downgrade from official 2.1 back to 1.5 is because the upgrade includes a new version of the radio for the phone. This prevents you from downgrading back to 1.5 unless you manually edit the 1.5 image to omit the radio.

 

[marvin02]

For those wanting root on a BF with 2.1 just use z4root, it's in the market and works. After you have root do what you will - you are now the super-user.