[TouchPad General] HP_TOUCHPAD:
So you are disavowing the work of J.C. Sullins and the thousands of TouchPad owners who used his debricking utility to get their TouchPads working? I see that you recently visited this thread: https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2126307. Did you even read through it? There were thousands of cases of TouchPads that showed some signs of life that no amount of charging, plugging and unplugging, heating/cooling or any other trick would get them working until Sullin's Debricking utility was used. Try reading post #32 in that thread. Of particular interest is the first paragraph:

jcsullins, on 30 Jan 2013 - 8:21 PM, said:

tpdebrick v004 by jcsullins

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TPDebrick is a suite of programs and files used to "debrick"

HP Touchpads. This process should allow the revival of Touchpads

that cannot boot due to corrupted raw partitions, corrupted bootloaders

or corrupted A6 firmware. Note that this should allow you to get

into bootie (webOS) recovery mode. Additional steps may be needed

after to restore the bootie configuration or OS (i.e. webOS doctor).

NT[/QUOTE]

From the README file inside the tpdebrick-v004.zip

NOTE: If you can hold Power+Home+VolUP for 30 seconds and see a big USB symbol,

then you SHOULD NOT do the following.

NOTE: Before attempting the following,

you should make sure that the failure to boot isn't due to

a faulty USB cable or charger.

NOTE: The following should be considered a LAST RESORT.

If the Touchpad isn't already "bricked",

then the following may very well "brick" it.

It is only necessary to press Power and Volume Up (closest to the power) (the left). No need to press Home, you will only use HOME+Power+Volume Down (closest to HOME) for a hard reset. I have learned my lesson by posting commands on this forum, anything can be interpret a different way. There is no mark as to which is Volume Down or Up.

Everyone has their own way to (decode) instructions, we do not have the same CPU (brains). There is a lot of misunderstanding, disagreement due to humans been different.

The most important is that the battery has some charge and when you press the correct buttons you will get the USB symbol, then it can be connected to the PC that has the novacom drivers and run in terminal: novacom boot mem:// < uImage (it could be a recovery or even the toolbox) it gets loaded into memory )

The ToolBox and tpdebrick-v004 by jcsullins is essential and without it everything will be difficult. It makes it very easy, for the regular user to refresh, update and modify the booting and partitions. I will not call a device a brick if the battery is damage and will not take a charge, for that replace the battery and all works. If the device fail to boot due to partitions or main files been corrupted or deleted, then reinstall will do. But if the main memory chip is corrupted or wrong firmware is flash (does not apply to the TP) Then I will call that device a "Brick".

I am not denying that the software that jcsullins created for the TP does not have any use to get it working again or the users that did not have any success with it.

But to make the claim that the HP Touchpad is a tablet that is prone to get bricked easily by just not charging it, is a false and misleading information. There is no need to flash any firmware to have a different OS. It only take a simple uImage boot file and the ROM installation, even if all goes wrong it will not brick it. If something happens to the boot partition and gets damage somehow or the files get deleted then when you boot you see a white triangle with an exclamation sign with this text : www.palm.com/ROM

If you do a hard reset it will come on again and stay on as there was no shutdown option. If not connected to a charger the battery will drain is the only way it will turn off.

To resolved the issue hard reset, once reset (quickly press power+volume UP to get the USB symbol connect to PC with the novacom drivers and load (novacom boot mem:// < uImage) TWRP, or the ToolBox to reinstall Moboot. That is the worse that can happen, but is not brick. But obviously any internal components in the motherboard can get damage and that is a total BRICK, no software or heat therapy will do!

For the record, I have been trying to BRICK the TP with no success. I have modified the kernel to run all frequencies at 3300000 microvolts (3.3 volts) the maximum it will boot, set all global settings to 3600000 microvolts. That is from the maximum settings allow now in the Kernel of 1700000 microvolts (1.7 volts).

But nothing happens, it runs supper fast until finally crashing and rebooting by overheating. It reboots again with no issues, nothing melts or sets on fire.

Can anyone help or suggest any software that I can run to brick the TP, or modification? ( all files in the boot folder also got deleted ) but is quick fix to reinstall.

I need something that can not be fix by software ( total brick ) ... ( Physical damage does not apply)