[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treddleman:
Some of it resolved, the rest compounded

Ok sooo for all the vets on here try to cut me some slack. I just started tinkering with androids about a month ago. Friend had a bricked one and I made it a goal to unbrick it. Got some good information here and was able to and since then im looking for broken ones to play with.

This one I bought from a neighbor for 20 bucks, he thought it was water damaged or hardware damage. Battery was completely drained but, the water sensors in tact so first thing I did was set it on a long charge. When I plugged it in you could feel little vibrations from it running but not a single light to indicate.

After the charge I removed it from the plug and pulled the battery out and let it sit for10 minutes went ahead and downloaded all the drivers and sdk tools it would use while waiting. Plugged it into the computer and sure enough drivers start reading, the red light on the track on the bottom was blinking, and the orange light was solid at top right. Well that's all great but, it still would not show any type of screen whatsoever nad I started noticing the vibrations when you hit the buttons.

One thing I am thinking is the phone vibrating is likle a computers post. It is being blocked form using lights and sound to function so vibrates instead. At any rate I started playing with button combinations and looked up what the hboot would look like. I managed after a couple of tries to get it to do a restore with the PD15 img on the cd card. This time the phone would load up but, the screen was like a splash of color, think of the white screen that's supposed to come b efore the Hboot and its that but rainbow colored.

This out of pure luck turned out to be an easy fix, I hit the power and home button at the same time as I slide out the keyboard and it was like a brand new phone again! Well that lasted about a day.

I got confident and wanted to throw the CM10 on it, followed the instructions but after the flash it was getting stuck at the logo page, and this was a compelte freeze because it was not even picked up by the computer.

So based on all these findings I am assuming this probably was on a soft brick and somehow I just managed to do the right steps to get out of it only now I don't think I will be able to. I have tried for hours to count the number of ups and then enter or downs or lefts to navigate through CWM without visual. I have gotten it to restore once think but, that one time it went to a boot loop. I twisted the keyboard a lttle and it came out but froze.

Reboot and now I am back to square 1 with the vibrations and trying to somehow clear everything to restore. I am pretty confident if I could at least see when its booting or giving an error I could find the resolution to it. For those of you who have just had the first smptoms here is what you can do to get out of it.

Download the stock image PD1img.zip put this on your sd card and plug it in.

Hold volume down and power for 3 seconds and you should notice a light go off or the phone vibrate.

Press volume down TWO times, then press the power button. Wait a little bit and if nothing happens press the power button again. Sit back and enjoy ;)

This should factory reset your phone.

If anyone has any suggestions on how I can do a wipe of cwm and restore from there please let me know. Even a place with screen shots of every 5.5.0.4 option would probably hlp so I know what I am looking at clearer.

---------- Post added at 10:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:11 AM ----------

Sorry I didn't realize I put in that much detail guys ill try to keep it straight to the point next time.