[EVO 4G General] Whiplashh:
Okay, well to start off, I have bricked / soft bricked 2 phones, and have gotten out of both soft bricks successfuly and I answered a reply to how to unsoft brick, but never made an official thread, so here it is!

First off, I bricked my phones back when I was a noob, by trying to flash cm7 with s-on, so be sure to root and s-off before flashing so you don't ever have to feel like a noob like I did! So if you did that, here is a way to help you.

I found 2 ways to do it and I am going to combine them into one thread. Remember, one was for the evo shift, but it works for all versions. Just be sure to know what downgraded hboot you will need for your phone. Follow the directions and this could save you one day! Works for most HTC!

If you are soft bricked, is bootloader locked or unlocked? If so, and It is locked, try unlocking it from the HTCDEV sight by picking "all other devices", and then try the xxxxx.zip or whatever yours is called. Make sure the SD card is in fat32, and if your bootloader is unlocked, it should let you do the "update". If you successfully downgraded to the hboot and android version you needed to root and s-off, congratulations! Go ahead to your HTC devices s-off and rooting guides to do that!

If not, try this next guide!

I have another solution, because I had the same problem with my evo shift, follow this guide I am copy and pasting from my other thread, but remember some stuff like my hboot info and all that, was for my evo shift , but the same idea should work.

(If possible, it might help to you have your hboot unlocked here too.)

Paste :: (from my question thread a long time ago, from my evo shift.) please please please remember you are doing is the same but is for your HTC Device so know your devices hboot, what is needed, etc, and what it means by RUU, is the one for your computer that you run on the desktop. This will get your phone to boot again, but will not downgrade your hboot. To downgrade your hboot after doing this, please use the first guide after doing this one! Thanks!

(Here is what i did to my evo shift.) Everyone who has Similar problem, First download the 2.2 Froyo RUU (Thats what I used, Might work with others, not tested) for the Evo Shift (your device), Open RUU and let sit on first or second screen. Hit start in bottom left corner of screen (Windows Symbol) and search %TEMP% and open computers TEMP folder. Find ROM.zip and copy it to your platform tools (On C: Drive) open it with WinRaR, and extract everything to platform tools, which should be on C: Drive.

Now you have to flash, to flash open ADB, (Make sure phone is on fastboot mode) and type in ADB shell

Use these commands to Flash:

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash dzdata dzdata.img

fastboot flash partition partition.img

fastboot flash radio radio.img

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot flash system system.img

and reboot, Now your phone should be unsoft bricked with Froyo 2.2 or whatever you chose for your software version.

Original Instructions here (If I missed something)

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http://androidforums.com/evo-shift-all-things-root/501901-htc-evo-shift-4g-root-help.html

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Hope I helped everyone! If you have more questions or something in this guide did NOT work, please message me! I will research and help find out why they did not work! Have a good day everyone!

Devices:

Evo 4g: Swagged Out Stock

Evo Shift: CyanogenMod 7

Optimus S: AOSP (ICS)

Galaxy S3: Stock Jellybean and Rooted. :)

Questions? I'd love to help!