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[Desire HD Android Development] MegaHz:
what are the approaches?
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Magical recovery dongle and secondary boot state which we can access with some key combination that I cannot remember now. The problem is that we do not know how to talk to that interface.
[Desire HD Android Development] henk_j:
had this once and i was kind of lucky, i formatted it cause it wasn't accessible not by phone and not under windows not in cwm mountable yeah for a moment and then not anymore so in despair i formatted it in cwm and after the format it was accessible again with all the old data on it and they work, stil now after a couple of weeks are passed, strange but happy cause i didnt need to move my backup back
[Desire HD Android Development] geek7899:
Beats me too....

Bricked my first handset yesterday... :( Only response from handset was this error message when plugged into Windows 7. Error came up as: QHSUSB_DLOAD No Driver found

I sent an e-mail to Koush explaining everything and the reply I got was:

Hrm, partition SD card may be broken on the Desire HD. Can you try NBHing it?

Koush

I still have nfi what NBHing is :P

My good luck; that the carrier replaced it under warranty. Reason given was that the mainboard is fried.

Wondering if any other users managed to have it replaced under warranty and what the reason given was ?

I'm sure the expensive paperweights would be an excellent tool for Koush or others to study what happened !!

Anyway, lets have another go and see where it takes us :P fingers crossed
[Desire HD Android Development] MegaHz:
i believe that you cannot do any manual flashing since the phone cannot go into bootloader..
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
That is right. It is not possible to flash via PD98IMG.zip in bootloader as your phone does not seem to have bootloader at all.

I am hoping that we will get partitioning-disabled CWM soon in ROM Manager, so that new users do not brick their phones in their lack of knowledge.

If someone sees Scotty2, he might be interested in this. He had some theories about restoring bricked devices, mainly in the debugging/whatever state which we are able to access even in a (hboot) bricked device.
[Desire HD Android Development] Mr_JMM:
I see there's an update for ROM Manager but SD partitioning is still an option. Nothing in the details about this issue.

Sent from my HTC Desire HD using the XDA Premium App.

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[Desire HD Android Development] caanda45:
Maybe one answer (not a permanent fix though) is that we tell people to use Rom Manager and to get CWM and once on the phone delete Rom Manager and go into recovery using the volume down button and power method or the using a advanced power method?

Actually on my Captivate Rom Manager was not used at all and encouraged not be used. We had a update zip with CWM in it and that was used to get into recovery for flashing the rom. It was suggested and encouraged to

not

use Rom manager. I think it is because of these very problems that are arising here on our DHD`s. Here is the link to FireFly 2.9 and it is at the end of post # 3 the update.zip file.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=914284

I am not sure of the politics here, but it seems Rom Manager is causing all these problems, if it was me as the developer I would have already disabled this feature to stop the threat of bricks as suggested by jkoljo. I for one will not be using Rom Manager only the portion of the program to get my phone into recovery mode only, and not through the program but the other two methods that I know how to do this as mentioned above.
[Desire HD Android Development] blimpsrcool:
Bricked DHD

I have also bricked my phone after cwm. I was excited at the time too because I had finally rooted it after 4 different memory cards were used to make a goldcard.. I just wanted and ext partition to store data on, not apps2sd. So I hastily chose to use rom manager and it's now dead. Spending a lot of time pressing this power button now just incase. And my network has no stock left of dhd's...

Still though I can't wait to get another one to start all this fun again :D

Whoa those specs are old!!

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[Desire HD Android Development] Bert2662:
Thanks for the warning although I din partitioned it. But tmr j would be helping ny friend who is using HTC desire to partition his memory card. Will this issue affect other device too?
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
The problem is not in ROM manager but CWM.
[Desire HD Android Development] Bert2662:
Jkoljo bro, is this issue affecting other device as well?
[Desire HD Android Development] caanda45:
So partition SD card from Rom manager is okay? I still stand by my comments above that it is irresponsible to leave this functioning in CWM while it is bricking phones....One has a trust that these programs will not brick a phone..... just dumb actions by users should brick a phone.....Upsets me as something can be done by the developer now and to date nothing has been done and we still are bricking phones!!!!!!
[Desire HD Android Development] majorassface:
Not to add any confusion but I was able to partition my sd card using CWM a few weeks back. I can't remember which rom I was on, either CleanDHD1.10 or ARHD 3.3. At the time I believe CWM was at 3.0.0.6 or whatever version was just before 3.0.0.6 but again I can't be 100% sure as it was about three weeks ago. I have a Telus version of the DHD, I ended up deleting the partitions on it later and just reverting back to a regular fat formatted sd card as I didn't see much benefit from it. I saw others have reported they were able to as well. Hmmmmm!?

Anyway best of luck to those that bricked their devices, I feel your pain. Can't imagine life without my baby even for a few hours let alone waiting on a replacement.
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
No, because ROM Manager is just a visual interface for ClockworkMod. When you issue a command in ROM Manager, it just tells ClockworkMod what to do :)
[Desire HD Android Development] Mr_JMM:
And that's why I was upset that today's update to ROM Manager still allows SD Card partitions.

Not impressed at all but as I don't know how long it takes to get an update on the market I will give the benefit of the doubt that this update was created prior to this issue surfacing and a new up date will be immanent.
[Desire HD Android Development] BolecDST:
Good to know. I must be lucky, because I partitioned my sdcard once with CWM, but everything was fine. I don't remember which version of CWM was it. It was a month ago or so. Then I reverted back to normal, since I thought there's no point in having ext or swap.
[Desire HD Android Development] dstenc:
Again new version of ROM Manager (v4.1.0.0) but SD card partition option is still active and there is still the same CWM version.

Also, "what's new" text only gives info that some PayPal issues for licensing are fixed with new version.

It's sad that there is no at least some pop-up after starting to warn DHD users not to use partitioning option untill it's being fixed.
[Desire HD Android Development] MegaHz:
well it seems that more and more people appearing with bricked devices after partitioning their dhd through rom manager.

any idea anybody on how to unbrick?
[Desire HD Android Development] frosty_ice:
Well the definition of "bricked" pretty much is that it can not be repaired without hardware modifications. ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] painfull2006:
My phone got bricked

What is my course of action? Im on pay monthly with orange, is it orange i ask for a replacement? Its in warranty still ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] Xtiro:
What are the chances of a phone still working after using the buggy clockwork to repartition?

I have a friend who's phone is bricked - it turned off whilst he was using it normally. Yesterday he used clockwork to repartition his sdcard and it did boot, but today it suddenly died on him. We don't know if it's connected to this or not.

He was moving apps to the sdcard in the normal stock android way at the time too, although that doesn't use the same partitioning system as far as I know.

EDIT: In fact it's the post above mine ^
[Desire HD Android Development] rorydaredkign:
Sorry could be leading people down a dead path here, but can any of you with brickewd devices get into the mode where you hold wol up and power on, then it has the flashing orange light?

If so, might have a possibility of a solution. In this mode, if you install the right driver, you can get mtty to recognise the device as a com4 port so you might be able to flash stuff or something.
[Desire HD Android Development] letom:
I think people need to understand what we mean when we say bricked. Means it doesn't do anything, doesn't boot hence you can't get into bootloader or recovery. The idea of a bricked phone is that there's nothing else we can do, only HTC have the power to unbrick.
[Desire HD Android Development] Koush:
I have a fix ready now. I will need to release a new recovery and new ROM Manager to address this.
[Desire HD Android Development] thay:
Great news Koush ,too many people in danger :D
[Desire HD Android Development] M_T_M:
Thanks for your prompt response :)

Would you mind telling us what caused this problem? :confused:

Cheers,
[Desire HD Android Development] Koush:
If you are familiar with "sdparted", it is an old G1 script created by XDA member 51dusty.

It made it's way into JF recovery and AmonRa recovery, and everything was fine and dandy, because all phones sdcards were on "/dev/block/mmcblk0". Then, new phones like the DHD started coming out very recently, and their internal memory would be at "/dev/block/mmcblk0" while their SD card would be at "/dev/block/mmcblk1".

So, sdparted would run, and happily continue partitioning "/dev/block/mmcblk0"... which is the internal NAND. Needless to say, this results in a brick.

The fix was to remove the assumption about what the SD card is located, and figure it out intelligently using /etc/fstab, which is guaranteed to be correct.

The fix can be viewed here:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andr...mmit/f1bde365724b63b0f2b97304167fe60da9fd44cd
[Desire HD Android Development] caanda45:
So when is all this going to happen?
[Desire HD Android Development] rorydaredkign:
Not necessarily, a lot of threads I have read have said they can get into the volume up + power=flashing orange light mode. I cant really do much as I have a working device as cant risk screwing it up, but someone with a bricked device may be able to achieve something. If bricks can be fixed by JTAG, and by special dongles on other phones and there is talk of resistors on usb cables unlocking secret modes, its worth a go.
[Desire HD Android Development] caanda45:
I have a dongle, it was used for the Captivate to get your phone into download mode to be able to put on the "stock" rom using Odin (Odin was a leaked firmware tool downloader) It worked in situations where the phone could not be put into download mode to receive the rom and all is components for flashing.

Interesting I wonder if more talented people here (at least way more talented than me!!!lol) could devise something such as a dongle/usb jig (as they are called in the captivate community) to fix bricked devices.
[Desire HD Android Development] rorydaredkign:
I really think its possible, this mode is identified as qualcomm android diagnostics.
[Desire HD Android Development] caanda45:
Well I know it started as a resistor between two paper clips and tape, then morphed into micro usb jigs sold for 8 to 10 $ a pop. But they worked and saved many phones. I would buy another one in heart beat!!!!

Original one is here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdn5GoRjhn0

made ones are here...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hBUOPh_9mI
[Desire HD Android Development] M_T_M:
Not to be a buzz killer...but. let's follow the rules and keep this thraed on topic, please.

Cheers,

M_T_M

Your "I'm a buzz killer" Mod
[Desire HD Android Development] fotone:
In Rom Manager there is new versione 3.0.2.6 of ClockworkMod Recovery.

:)
[Desire HD Android Development] MegaHz:
yes but does anybody have any idea of what are htc's procedure to unbrick?

do you think that the JIG method will work for us as well?
[Desire HD Android Development] jerrylzy:
I always instal apps in nand :D.But i used cwm to partition my sd card in hd2 successfully.So has every phone got the issue?
[Desire HD Android Development] onlytaxz:
Question: Will the CWM team release a fix for bricked devices? Or is it just for HTC?
[Desire HD Android Development] ivolol:
The general definition of a bricked device means it can't be fixed by software...
[Desire HD Android Development] kgulruh:
But saying that you should understand that CWM would have bricked all the dhd's that have been rooted. BUT we did succesfully formatted our sd's by previouce CWM's. And this issue started recently. I had formatted my sd and deleted sd-ext by CWM 3.0.0.6 4 or 5 days before without an issue. HAPPY ME.
[Desire HD Android Development] thay:
Is the bug still present in 3.0.2.6 ClockworkMod ?

Any info about this?
[Desire HD Android Development] henk_j:
read the f.p. look at the date of the post that says today "fix is made"

combine this with the knowledge that a new release of cwm is released, to many coincidences :D
[Desire HD Android Development] thay:
coincidences are no certainties ..do you make an sd formatting test?

An official announcement would be appreciated.....
[Desire HD Android Development] Giloux1:
Yes! +1 ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
I will edit the topic to [FIXED] when someone confirms SD partitioning to be working. I believe that it is quite hard to find a person who is willing to test that..

edit: ok, confirmed!
[Desire HD Android Development] Giloux1:
Thanks!!!:)
[Desire HD Android Development] zepp3lin:
So who's the guinea pig dhd tested on? Any idea?

I don't dare to partition even with the fixed 3.0.26

Or anyone here tested the fixed?

Maybe after this issue someone will have an idea on how to fix a brick dhd.
[Desire HD Android Development] LorD ClockaN:
Great to see this fixed!

Congrats DEVS!
[Desire HD Android Development] MegaHz:
hope someone will have an idea soon..

good work with the fix, thanks.
[Desire HD Android Development] whyou:
Who can tell me where to get the new version of clockworkmod?

Cause that GFW denied many foreign websites,I can't download that with app on DHD,i need to download it with my PC.So,could anyone tell me where to get the new version of clockworkmod?
[Desire HD Android Development] therealnoob:
haha ya fck CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

use vpn like alwaysvpn(e.g.5G bandwidth 8USD)
[Desire HD Android Development] Aniquibobo:
CWM 3.0.2.6

http://mirrorbrain.cyanogenmod.com/cm/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.6-ace.img

/Ani
[Desire HD Android Development] :
3.0.2.6

I can confirm that partitioning is fixed. Just tried it last night.

Off topic: Last night when I decided to reformat/partition my SD card with Gparted and everything went well. But gparted couldn't see my ext partition (that I had before) on my 16GB SD card.

Anyway I went ahead with gparted and when everything was finished and dragged all the files (to the FAT32 partition) I had in it before and went to flash AR 3.6 through CWM it says "no files found".

In the end I took a leap and used 3.0.2.6 to partition my SD card and dragged the files again and CWM was able see AR 3.6.zip.

It is really weird that partitioning with gparted CWM couldn't see ANY .zip file in the FAT32 partition.
[Desire HD Android Development] eliashadow:
maybe a solution for bricked devices???

Hi to all..

A mate from Bulgaria send me pm cause he is new here and he cant post,so i only transfer his words..

He told me that there maybe a fix for the phones which brick whith the bug of previus version of CWM...

Here

is the Bulgarian link with the possible solution(i dont know Bulgarian so i used explorer translate googlebar) and he told me excatly ''we need a 301k resistor to be soldered to microusb (b) 4 and 5 nest''.He send me a pic too:

View attachment 577571

So,if anyone knows something about and has an idea please send pm to vihren1 for more details and maybe save his and others people phones...
[Desire HD Android Development] MegaHz:
That's great news elias,

It's similar to the samsung unbrick method.

i will have to wait until shops are open on wednesday to buy some resistors.

anybody can try it today?
[Desire HD Android Development] ghostofcain:
Kinda lost my trust in clockwork recovery here. Maybe we'll see amon_ra reactivated sooner or later
[Desire HD Android Development] Andy:
Bit harsh don't you think? How many ROMs have been flashed using CWM across various devices through the years? And a bit of legacy code broke a few DHDs, that can be fixed under warranty.
[Desire HD Android Development] onlytaxz:
This is great news. Then what do we do next after this?
[Desire HD Android Development] GoRRaN:
i'm sure there is a section in the Galaxy S i9000 for the same issue...fixing brcked devices using this method, but i cannot find it..please if someone can - post it here.

P.S my friend had once bricked his Galaxy S and he repaired it this way

EDIT...here is a video about unbricking using homemade Jig

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSaeaAcJHqw[/YOUTUBE]
[Desire HD Android Development] ghostofcain:
True, but my preference was for Amon_ra on the magic, his api's where always published, and competition is rarely a bad thing
[Desire HD Android Development] alutastisch:
hoooory shaat.

i was thinking about partition my sdcard in the last few days.

when i had my htc magic, i always did that via Amon_RA´s recovery.

phew. updated rommanager+recovery now.

good thing the devs fixed that.

bad thing there are some bricked dhds.
[Desire HD Android Development] ColdSpirit:
Anyone can tell me if it is now secure to partition SD CARD with the Clockworkmod 3.2.2.6 and Rom Manager 4.1.0.0 ???
[Desire HD Android Development] zepp3lin:
If you update the rom manager from the market now, than it's already fixed and secure to do the partition. It's CWM3.0.2.6

You read the title subject above dude.... It's FIXED
[Desire HD Android Development] zepp3lin:
It's worth trying for those who can't wait for HTC sucky services or can't warrant the product anymore.
[Desire HD Android Development] ColdSpirit:
It was to be sure as i dont want mu DHD bricked...

Thank you for your answer.

Cheers
[Desire HD Android Development] subz85:
Loads ROM --> Runs out of space on SD --> partition --> fail --> Check forums

Thank goodness for insurance/warranty hopefully my sd/sim cover will be tighter with the replacement :)

No worries Koush, mistakes happen. CWM still rocks!
[Desire HD Android Development] bradysoft:
htc desire hd bricked

i had the same problem tried to partition with cm and bang it would not switch back on.rang 3 uk as the phone was only 3 days old and to my surprise they are sending me a new one tomorrow how lucky is that.hope they get to the bottom of it soon
[Desire HD Android Development] SERGI.3210:
where are the mirrors for download and update our CWM???i dónt see it?
[Desire HD Android Development] panart:
You can upgrade CWM in ROM Manager.
[Desire HD Android Development] SERGI.3210:
oops!! i was not actualiced the ROM manager and THEY was not seNded to me the neW CWM recovery.

now... doing it... thank´s!!!!!!!!

PD:Rest in peace the DHD bricked :(:(:(
[Desire HD Android Development] Ditronics:
I have another one full briked here.

Using ClockworkMod 3.0.2.6

So keep aware guys.
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Are you 100% sure that it was 3.0.2.6?? :eek:
[Desire HD Android Development] Ditronics:
..............yep
[Desire HD Android Development] Mr_JMM:
Please clarify, EXACTLY what did you do that resulted in a "bricked" phone?

Where did you check the recovery version, ROM Manager or recovery itself (they sometimes differ)?
[Desire HD Android Development] blimpsrcool:
I'm willing to try this out. Will get the stuff to do it tomorrow hopefully. Will anyone be willing to walk through it with me as I do it? I don't really know what to expect once I connect it. Would also be beneficial for everyone else who needs a fix if someone with knowledge can understand each step.
[Desire HD Android Development] Ditronics:
I try to partition my SD using Rom manager 4.0.0.1 and ClockworkMod 3.0.2.6

The phone reboot and start the process normally, then black screen and my comp asked me about a new driver "qhsusb_dload".

I was trying to boot it (pull out battery and all that staff) but it is a brick right now.:(

There is nothing else to do now. I will send it to HTC tomorrow. I hope to be lucky cause i bought this DHD a few days ago.:rolleyes:

That´s all.
[Desire HD Android Development] LeatherFace:
holy crap am i lucky or what. about 6 days back i tried sd card partition from rom manager and it went into recovery:eek:... but lucky i did have a partition and my phone wasnt bricked.. i cant remember tho if i was on 2.5.1.3 or 3.0.0.6 :eek:
[Desire HD Android Development] pablo11:
I successfully partitioned my card with 3.0.2.6 yesterday - but I did it by booting into recovery first and then accessed it through the advanced menu. I'm glad I didn't brick my phone - I just trusted that it was fixed! People doing this from within the phone CWM menu seem to be in deep sh#t.

Cheers
[Desire HD Android Development] Mullicious:
I'd just avoid, permanently. Totally lost my trust with it.
[Desire HD Android Development] Ditronics:
I did not lost my trust on it, these things happen sometimes.

Just trying to help the experts to work on this.

I´m working with phones for years using software shared here in XDA without significant problems.

For that reason I want to thank to all the people who spend their time researching, programming, testing and sharing their work on this site for the benefit of the whole community.

Good luck all, mates.
[Desire HD Android Development] MegaHz:
that's good, i don't have any idea of exact steps but try the usb jig thing and if you get any results please let us know.

the good thing is if you have the device turned on.
[Desire HD Android Development] leith51:
ive never used rom manager or cwm to partition sd card found it quick and simple enough just to use pc
[Desire HD Android Development] onlytaxz:
Maybe you could try showing the picture and description to your local electrician or computer technician. He may have a better idea what to do. I'll wait for the outcome. My phone is with HTC now.. Still crossing my fingers. Good luck!
[Desire HD Android Development] Mr_JMM:
Then I honestly don't know. We have people saying it does work for them but I'm not willing to try.

Glad you were able to see that these things happen and you haven't lost faith in the app or the developer (re. your later post) but have to admit, with his reputation for not bothering to answer people I wasn't holding my breath with this one.

Sorry you're still having trouble (and I couldn't be more help) and please do let us know how you get on getting it sorted.
[Desire HD Android Development] rampage56:
I've tried using v3.0.2.8 to partition my new 16GB SD with 1024MB ext and 0MB swap and I prayed it won't brick my DHD, luckily, it all went well..
[Desire HD Android Development] Ditronics:
No worries about that mate, I do not usually post cause I like to fix issues by myself (this is my way). No questions, no answers thats all.

No breath must to be hold for a brick.;)

Well, at the moment my DHD is triping to HTC, I will post here about.

I think I got enough kleenex at home....:(
[Desire HD Android Development] caanda45:
I wonder what the big deal is here (for the future, I know the deal is big with the bricked phones), just do

not

partition your sd card at all using cwm then you will never run into this problem.......as far as trusting the program, it has been fantastic but in this situation it can`t be trusted at all!!!!!
[Desire HD Android Development] ghostofcain:
Faulty reasoning there, ROM Manager is just a GUI for Clockwork recovery, if you partition through ROM Manager it simply reboots the phone into clockwork where the partitioning is carried out. The problem exists in Clockwork recovery rather than ROM Manager hence the claimed fix with 3.0.2.6