Nah ive tried holding power and volume down to boot recovery, leaving the battery out for an hour even, goes right from the hydro screen to the error message.
Bummer, wish there was at least a stock recovery you could pop on a flash drive
dont mind wiping the phone.
Bummer is it wasnt even me trying to jack the phone around but a darned factory update that messed it up.
Sure kyocera said mail it to them and they would fix it, but they take forever
and the boost store wouldnt know how to reflash their ass
EDIT
Nope, got the update image that was being sent out, put it on sdcard, tried to get phone into recovery, no soup
goes immediately to the 8704 error screen.