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Help Help I think I bricked my phone!

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justbenny2k

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I was playing around with the roms on the goo manager app. Now my phone won't boot. I get the white HTC splash screen but then it shuts off. I've gone into the 4ext recovery to restore my backup but it's still shutting off on me. Is there a way out of this?
 
If you can get into 4EXT, you're not bricked. What I would recommend is boot into 4EXT, do a full wipe of all partitions except SD Card, and then try to flash another ROM. One that you KNOW works. Are you S-On or Off? If S-On, make sure you have Smartflash enabled.
 
Prinny said:
If you can get into 4EXT, you're not bricked. What I would recommend is boot into 4EXT, do a full wipe of all partitions except SD Card, and then try to flash another ROM. One that you KNOW works. Are you S-On or Off? If S-On, make sure you have Smartflash enabled.
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Yes, I can get into 4ext. I've tried wiping everything and have tried even flashing roms that I know are stable (mobster/barebones) but it keeps shutting down after the HTC splash screen. I'm S-On. How do I enable SmartFlash or even check to see if it is? I don't seen an option for it anywhere.
 
justbenny2k said:
Yes, I can get into 4ext. I've tried wiping everything and have tried even flashing roms that I know are stable (mobster/barebones) but it keeps shutting down after the HTC splash screen. I'm S-On. How do I enable SmartFlash or even check to see if it is? I don't seen an option for it anywhere.
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Ahh okay. Do me a favor...do you have adb? If so. Pull the boot.IMG out of the Rom. Then fastboot the boot.IMG

fastboot flash boot boot.img

You might need to get to bootliader first, and do that by typing


adb reboot bootloader
 
Prinny said:
Ahh okay. Do me a favor...do you have adb? If so. Pull the boot.IMG out of the Rom. Then fastboot the boot.IMG

fastboot flash boot boot.img

You might need to get to bootliader first, and do that by typing


adb reboot bootloader
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How can I do that if I can't get past 4ext? My phone will only go into 4ext so from there I went into the command prompt and typed in fastboot flash boot boot.img but I get a message that says, "error: cannot load boot.img" and in bootloader I get "error: device not found"
 
Once in bootloader, use your volume keys and select fastboot. Are you connected to your pc?
 
Prinny said:
Also download the Rom to your pc and put the boot.IMG in the folder with fastboot.
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While I'm at it... I don't know if this is helpful but when I flash a new rom and it shuts off I reboot into 4ext and get this as a message:

4EXT SmartFlash is currently set to
update your boor partition on next
system start.
Is this wanted or whould it be removed
Remove SmartFlash?
(yes) (no)​
 
Prinny said:
Once in bootloader, use your volume keys and select fastboot. Are you connected to your pc?
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Ok, I had to take the sd card out and put it in my computer to get boot.img off it. My phone is now in fastboot and I typed in:

fastboot flash boot boot.img

and it says < waiting for device > and it seems to be stuck there.
 
That's why. There's something with the USB connection then...Do you have a spare cable? I would swap out cables. It should say "fastboot USB" and not just fastboot.
 
Prinny said:
That's why. There's something with the USB connection then...Do you have a spare cable? I would swap out cables. It should say "fastboot USB" and not just fastboot.
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It's the stock HTC usb cable that came with the phone but I rummaged around and found another. That one doesn't say Fastboot USB, either.

If this helps, when I boot into Bootloader and it does the whole PG86IMG.zip checking it says some of them are the wrong image. I can't see which ones they are because it goes by way too fast. I went ahead and tried copying the PG86IMG.zip that I had (as well as ones I found from the net) and they all came up as CID Invalid in the bootloader.
 
Okay, so in that screen, do you have an option to select fastboot? If so, choose it. That might be the step we're missing! use the volume keys to navigate, and hit POWER to select your choice.
 
Prinny said:
Okay, so in that screen, do you have an option to select fastboot? If so, choose it. That might be the step we're missing! use the volume keys to navigate, and hit POWER to select your choice.
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Yes, in the fastboot screen - and even though my USB is connected - it does not say I'm in USB mode. I'm about ready to scream!
 
Hmm...try this:

adb killserver

adb devices

See if it restarts the daemon. If so...then the fastboot flash boot boot.img
 
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