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[myTouch 3G, Magic General] marcdbl:
A few days ago I bricked my phone. I performed a SPL flash which seemed to go ok, the phone rebooted and then just stuck at the first splash screen. I waited for 30 minutes and it was still there.

I then removed the battery, reinserted it, and tried booting into recovery mode. Nothing happened, it just stuck at the first splash screen.

So I removed the battery again, reinserted it, and tried booting into fastboot mode. Nothing happened, it just stuck at the first splash screen.

I repeated these steps a few times with the same result.

I tried booting it with the USB cable attached, the result was the same, and Windows showed the phone as an 'unrecognized device'.

At this point, I was nearly crying, my phone was a brick.

Then, for some reason I tried the following:

-On the PC, i ran the command 'fastboot boot recoveryimage.img'.

-At this point the command says 'waiting for device' (or something like that).

-I removed the battery.

-I Connected USB.

-I inserted the battery.

-I booted the phone while holding the HOME key.

-The phone still froze at the first splash screen, but then suddenly, the waiting fastboot command detected the phone and booted the recovery image! Yay!

That's it. I didn't test it any more thoroughly for obvious reasons, I just reflashed the SPL and everything was back to normal.

I hope this helps someone in the future....
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Filgaliel:
Very nice..
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mgear356:
wow seriously, didnt expected that..

good job mate!

btw wat did u do to cause the brick?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] TachorkaR:
Just read the very first line of his post...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] marcdbl:
As I said above, I had been flashing the SPL, and when I rebooted following the flash it was bricked (stuck at first splash screen).

It's weird, because once I managed to get back into fastboot, I simply flashed the same SPL again and it worked fine.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] goa200:
thats not really unbricking your phone. gotta be bricked meaning it wont even go to the splashscreen. and there is no way to unbrick it at that point. Still for those that end up in same situation as you this might help indeed.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] integrated:
Never seen someone say the splash screen isn't coming up without blaming the hardware. I didn't think that flashing the wrong SPL would case the splash to not come up. I bricked my first phone by stupidly flashing the wrong SPL first before loading an OS. I thought the whole point of using the word 'brick' was when referring to the phone failing to enter 'fastboot' and 'recovery mode'. At that point, the phone would technically be a 'brick'. This has to be the first post I've seen with a possible fix but I could be wrong since I gave up on fixing that phone awhile ago.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] str4vag:
bricking means you can't get to fastboot or recovery no matter what you do.

so he counts as bricking.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] maxisma:
this might be a fix for the haykuro spl bricked users..
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] imfloflo:
Well done if we have HTC G1 user with brick phone who want to try this methode and give feedback
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Jrbourque:
No, You can still get to your splashscreen when the phone is bricked, If you cant turn on the phone then thats called the phone is dead not bricked. As stated already if you can't fastboot, or get to recovery then thats a brick.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] manup456:
Just tried it does not work and I was flash the death spl from haykuro,I am getting a new one but wanted to see if this works and I did not think it would which it didnt.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ggrant3876:
Posted the fix on the android community forums. I have none person in mind, bricked it applying a spl, but he hasn't relied yet. Keep you informed if he does.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] alritewhadeva:
Did you reflash ROM after applying spl..? If you did and it still didn't boot then that should most likely be a brick. Can you boot into recovery right now and tell us your SPL version and radio?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] bonesy:
Yes bricking your phone is when it wont even turn on! In the case of the sapphire when you hold power the led will flsh red quickly once then nothing.

On the blackstone you dont even get the pleasure of the led flash :mad: if your phone will turn on there is a way to get it fixed.

When ive been stuck on the bootscreen i have managed to revert using sappimg.nbh (which is 32b in my case) dunno where i got it from but i have it!

sappimg.zip (which is 32A) i got from Amon_RA's post and also have that, ive managed to revert back with both images after being stuck on "red screen of death"
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ronni.rasmussen:
Won't agree with that, what you describe as a brick is a DEAD mobile. A brick is a useless piece which wont get into any state of recovery. The only thing i will agree with is that if it'll turn on there is a way to get it fixed that's why we even got the word unbricking which is done with many other pieces than Android mobiles.

Hope this will get us closer to a unbricking method which works on all the BRICKED pieces out there.

Good job dude!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] fishman0919:
Yes, my phone is back!

I bricked my G1 about 2 months ago pretty much the same way marcdbl did.

I gave up on it and sit it aside getting a new MT3G.

Sweet, now I got 2 phones to play with.

Thank You marcdbl
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] thihaz:
wow sweet news

Very glad to hear that your dead or bricked or whatever-you-may-call phone is back to LIVE!!!

So I think this solution works for some certain people. So i think rather than arguing on terminology, better spread this good trick to people who had dead/bricked/whatevery-you-may-call phone. IMHO :D

Thanks for the solution.

Best,

Thihaz
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] regunus:
where were you 2 months ago dude? I paid 270€ to change the board on my magic :mad::mad:

Good Job! Thanks for the info :):):)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DOHCtor:
Awesome man! Hope this helps many people out there
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] zeppelinsong:
I'm in the exact same scenario now...

Can you elaborate your instructions a little more, specifically the cmd line/first step? Are you running linux or something

Thanks, I hope this saves me
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] skweints:
Well, I've tried this method in Windows 7 and failed miserably. The problem, and I could be way wrong, but this is just a slightly educated guess, is that Windows isn't quick enough to catch the device before whatever happens that causes it to seize up. Hell, half the time Windows can take up to a few seconds to even just detect a newly plugged in device.

I've done work with my Android phone in both Windows and Linux. Linux would seem more capable of being able to use this method to fix the phone. The kernel is much better at letting udev know something has been plugged in. Considering that setting up adb/fastboot requires that specific rules be created that pinpoint the phone's vendor id, as soon as the kernel tells udev a device was plugged in, fastboot and adb can utilize it immediately.

Before I go putting my foot in my mouth, I actually have to try this in Linux. I'll post my results. :-)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ge0rgecz:
i have tried this guide to recover bricked phone, but g1 still just shows up tmobile logo and nothing more. Problem is:

"and Windows showed the phone as an 'unrecognized device"

is no true. Windows doesnt see my G1 at all.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PsychoI3oy:
I tried walking someone through this in #cyanogenmod last weekend and I have to say this:

If you're on windows and haven't already installed the SDK's driver for the phone, this has very little chance of working.

Linux, on the other hand, needs (at most) some udev rules to run ADB, and the phone doesn't have to be in any state or anywhere near the computer for that.

So, if you're hosed and haven't already installed the SDK (wtf?!? why bother modding?!?) then maybe a linux livecd and the udev rules and the linux version of the sdk may help.

Of course, not having fubarred my phone, I can't attest to this personally.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Quistnix:
Same here, with the exception it's a Magic over here.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] sauudmir:
same here windows doesn't recognize my g1 even i have the sdk up and running on my other g1
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] bryon13:
Fantastic stab in the dark, man!

On the topic of unrecognized hardware: My Windows PC doesn't recognize my g1's OR my Magic unless they are fully booted, but I can perform ADB and FASTBOOT commands in console even when unrecognized. Just because Windows is dumb doesn't mean ADB is. I wonnder if you could ADB shell into a bricked device at boot time, like the fastboot method described above?

Worth a shot for other bricked users fastboot isn't working for?

I don't have a brick (yet) so I have no way to verify this working or not.

This is potentially awesome news for people that killed their phones with the dangerspl!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] QuadDamage:
run fastboot boot recovery-image.img or whatever you named your recovery image. It'll display "waiting for device..." message just keep pluging it in, unplugging, popping the battery and eventually your device will respond and boot into recovery.

I just "bricked" my magic and i did it... twice trying to flash the eng 2010 SPL. It worked the third time and my device is up and running again with an engineering SPL.

if your device is stuck on the first splash but displays in red "Fastboot USB" message in the upper left corner of the screen, DO NOT power it down. run the above mentioned command and reflash.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] micahansel:
G1 stuck on G1 splash screen..no loops, just stuck

I have searched the forums and I have concluded this is the right forum. I have one g1 with hero running and my wife wanted her g1 with it to so i said i could do it. Wrong! haha. Heres the deal:

She has Amon Ra 1.2.3 recovery, Haykuro SPL, and have tried to flash kingxkx 2.1, an old 1.8 hero(think maxima), a nandroid backup taken from my g1. I will admit i had complications, and when i first flashed the death spl i never wiped my rom(i dont know if this matters,but i think its hard pressed for space?) so i have not tried this yet, but i was wondering if a fastboot erase spl, flash spl would be a viable option. idk i mean its seems to be working, i can hit power and back and boot into it!? Anyways Im stuck on the g1 screen. I get this message "nandroid-mobile.sh restore" when tried to apply a nandroid in recovery. I dont think this constitutes as brick, but each time i apply a new rom it doesnt take it. just freezes on the updating rom screen. i have wiped, wiped, and wiped and i have repartitioned. please please help!

Update: i dont know what happened, but I wiped, repartiitioned again, and did cyanogen. it worked..than i went back and did hero and it worked..
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cb7tuner93:
When you say you ran "fastboot boot recovery screen" do you mean in adb? Because I don't have adb on my computer I've never been able to install it and my phone is in the same situation yours was.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] sauudmir:
nope it isn't working for me my badluck :( :(

any idea anyone wanna give me about my g1??
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] sauudmir:
one more thing that my pc doesn't show it as unrecognized device
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cb7tuner93:
Got adb running but I'm trying it in ADB File Explorer.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] sauudmir:
can u tell how did u bricked ur phone? and how u ran it in adb??
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mattblack85:
Somebody knows a tutorial for this? The terms fastboot and ADB doesn't say me anything.

i have made the mistake to first flash spl before flash the radio, stupid stupid. And this wasn't my first time..damn, stupid

EDIT: I have ADB running, but what then? anybody knows?

Is it possible to let the G1 recognized by windows 7? Do i have to install the ADB usb driver? And how?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] swapniladsure:
hey dont give aruguments ..lets find solution

hey i am totally agree bricked phone meance..dont goes to splash screen even not goes to bootmode , no led.

onlt becoause of Wrong spl flashing

i lost my wizard 200 becoz of my stupid spl writing

is there any other way to recover it ??

or put it in to boot mode
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Biocyde:
*EDIT* Never mind for the moment, I might have been inpatient on the formatting cache part I learned from reading around some more.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] minhzc:
If your phone is bricked. you might to REPLACE the current flash chip with another flash chip (of another HTC Magic).

I'm in Vietnam, my friend well done by this way on G1

Anyway I think you'd better send your bricked phone to HTC Warranty Center, don't sell your phone :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] QuadDamage:
There's no such thing as "bricked phone". I've bricked my phone atleast five times - bad spl flash, stuck on first screen, no fastboot/adb access etc - and i've always managed to bring it back to life. Unless your phone doesn't respond at all ie. doesn't power on, there's always a way to ressurect it.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hyperfire21:
QuadDamage or anyone please help me... i have a mytouch 3g and i was following the guide here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=547133

i had SPL 1.33.0009 but was trying to update to 1.33.2005. My phone is a 32b.

I bricked it during the step of applying update.zip 1.33.2005 SPL... i'm stuck on the vodafone screen. No bootloader or recovery working...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hyperfire21:
I cant believe it... i've been doing this type of thing for a long time and its the first device that has bricked completely... how did u guys get the phone to even detect in windows xp or linux. it wont even show up. I ran flashboot before connecting and still no dice.

Its stuck on that damn vodafone screen.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] QuadDamage:
run fastboot on your PC - there will be a "waiting for device..." message or something along the lines. Keep pluging in your usb cable and disconnecting it and eventually it'll detect your phone. It may take five or fifteen minutes but eventually it will work. Make sure your recovery rom is in the sdk/tools folder as well as full firmare. Flash the recovery and re-flash the SPL from there, but don't reboot your phone after the SPL flash is complete - Re-flash the SPL once or twice more just to be sure. That's how i did it and it worked.

Once you're done with SPL, reboot into recovery, choose wipe data and then flash the full rom, reboot.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hyperfire21:
since the phone is stuck on the original logo and isnt responding to buttons when loading up... do we manually remove and reinsert the battery? or do we just remove and reinsert the usb into the pc? also should we hold down any button while booting up?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ryansito:
i keep getting a message saying cannot load recovery.img?? What now
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] sciopath:
I'd like to know too. I bricked my phone today, tried what was said to the first post. Always stuck at splashscreen. No led activity when I plug the device.

Also tried with the Linux android SDK, but even a lsusb gives nothing I think I won a nice expensive brick.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] indiocochino:
No way that Pc detects my magic!

It still waiting for device.

I removed the battery and with the usb cable connected I have put back.

Then loaded the splash screen but still will not see my magic.

I have tried a lot of combinations but nothing...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] jitensetia:
how to connect to vista

everything seems gud, but when a G1 is stuck on Tmobile G1 screen, then how can we connect it to windows vista in order to fastboot using adb command shell.

pls guide how to detect the mobile in vista that is stuck on G1 screen
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Deliximus:
You are awesome! You saved my phone!!!!!!!!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] crackmunky:
Bump.. any updates on this?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Nighte:
Bump.

I can't seem to get the computer to recognize the phone! No reaction at all!

All I need is to be able to get back into the recovery screen! :(

I've been trying to unplug usb, remove battery, plug it back, put battery back in, but it won't work! Damn it!

Any ideas?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] phosphorique:
brick ur g1 by flashing a radio for MT3G and try unbricking it.. hope it works :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] SilentTweak:
I wish I found this method sooner, I had a bricked G1 in my possession like 2 days ago. It went off for warranty instead. Poo.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] MESCU:
mine is like this ON YOUTUBE

w w w .youtube. c o m /watch?v=R5ihQU7DoDU[/url]

my hero is in the same state like this guy's.

I tried all that you've people sad and still NADA! :(

SOME MORE HELP!!! PLS
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ch3w:
unbricked confirm

confirmed...

-I Connected USB.

-I inserted the battery.

-I booted the phone while holding the HOME key.

-The phone still froze at the first splash screen, but then suddenly, the waiting fastboot command detected the phone and booted the recovery image!

worked on my second bricked magic...

thanx marcdbi
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] gymmy:
how long do u wait between battery insertions ?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] crackmunky:
More info please people who have used this method. What operating system are you running? Anything else but fastboot running etc..
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PJcastaldo:
Wow... that's cool.:cool:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kikius:
need more info, pls

"Then, for some reason I tried the following:

-On the PC, i ran the command 'fastboot boot recoveryimage.img'.

-At this point the command says 'waiting for device' (or something like that).

-I removed the battery.

-I Connected USB.

-I inserted the battery.

-I booted the phone while holding the HOME key.

-The phone still froze at the first splash screen, but then suddenly, the waiting fastboot command detected the phone and booted the recovery image! Yay!"

How can I run fastboot command, since my computer didn`t recognize the device, just recharge it, or so indicate the LED
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PJcastaldo:
well i have also tried this a couple of time and it seems to work for some and not for others.... so i am assuming i am doing somthing wrong. Like for example are we sapossed to boot a NEWLY downloaded recovery.img like amon, or a stock one? and when i plug my g1 in i get led lights but windows does not see it.... any one have any ideas?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tnpapadakos:
definition of "Brick" or "Bricked"

just for fun i thought i'd wiki the term

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricked

"In the strictest sense of the term, bricking must imply that software error has rendered the device completely unrecoverable without some hardware replacement. However, it is common to use the term for a problem which can be rectified but only by a complex and difficult procedure, often requiring additional software."

if its on wikipedia, it MUST be right...:rolleyes:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] frost785:
brick

i have a MT3G and its bricked at the red vodafone cant fastboot cant enter into recovery. i know its possable to bring it back from the dead but im not sure it will work because i was having trouble with fastboot. not sure how to proceed
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hitmaged:
Guyz I have a problem ... Magic 32A

Guyz I have a problem ...

I was updating the spl & the radio

phone rebooted and all its doing now

its a magic 32A

1- stuck on a screen with a box & arrow toward down on a phone

2- when I charge it it gets the led orange

3- if I press trackball & power led becomes blue

4- do not go into recovery mode or even fast boot

5- ADB do not read the fphone ..just keep on ( waiting for the device)

any idea ????? I need help
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] bart9984:
This method doesn't seem to work in all the brick types, in my case Magic 32a no luck.

Maybe It depends where the spl fails.

bart99
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] frost785:
Windows or Lenox

bricked mytouch1.0 with the new software 1.6 from htc gold card the vodafone sap.img because the usa was giving a version on device is older.i was trying to change radio then spl looked like flash radio just fine went to the reboot then never came back from the vodafone screen.

Plz dont forget about us also the community more input would be nice. how long did you let it sit before it found the device. what os were you using windows or lenox

cant fastboot and cant go to recovery

charging light just fine
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] dangambino:
my g1 is REALLY BRICKED!!! (g1 screen only, no recovery, adb, fastboot, etc.) So this didn't work for me :(:(:(:(:(:(
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] gymmy:
I suggest u join the rest of us in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=591048
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] jhinz88:
that's happened to my magic too ..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=5841285
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] billunique:
Thanks for your post!

It's a very useful post, appreciate it! however it doesn't work for my HTC magic 32a :(
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] billunique:
That's because you didn't screw up your recovery.... if both recovery and spl get damaged, you will get a such called "bricked phone".
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] gymmy:
Well if you are able to recover your phone perhaps you could share the way you did this ? I know i would like to know as i have a phone that just sits at the vodafone screen and doesnt even get to or even access the recovery screen as its poked also.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Tynen:
What did you type -On the PC, i ran the command 'fastboot boot recoveryimage.img'. into? I have a bricked G1 while trying to flash DangerSPL and had the exact same problems you had. PLease help! I will test this for you I'm just confused where you typed the command.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PsychoI3oy:
get the SDK installed: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Not all versions of the SDK come with the 'fastboot' binary, you can download it from http://developer.htc.com/adp.html#s2 (scroll down a bit, download the version for your OS, put it in the sdk/tools dir).

put the recoveryimage into the placeyouinstalledtheSDK/tools directory

open command prompt (cmd in start->run in windoze) or your favorite term in Linux

cd theplaceyouinstalledtheSDK/tools

./fastboot boot recoveryimage.img
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Muscleboy:
Tried it on my MyTouch 3g

I have the same exact problem after successfully flashing cyanogen test 3 and google apps I did a reboot now from the phones recovery menu and at first ended up with HTC on a black screen then after a while a pink/red vodafone screen and what they call a softbricked phone. brandnew phone and no way to unbrick it. I was trying to get to cyanogens rom to see if it would help with my loading of web pages problem which I had since getting the phone late last week. It loads web pages but usually requires me to refresh the page at least once each time. Now I have a bricked phone without having done anything wrong.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] nicknguyen2709:
I dont know my magic 32B (NTT Docomo) was dead or bricked.

I got that problem after installing a new software (lockbot) and restarting my device. When I click power on it had nothing just a black screen (no light up) with the blue led light.

:confused::confused::confused:

So what is the problem with my device.

Please help me.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] GuyInDogSuit:
This isn't working for me. I have the command open and "< waiting for device >" but I get no reaction. I keep on pulling and inserting the battery while holding the Home key. Am I doing this wrong?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Aaron!:
Didn't work with my bricked G1. Tried for at least half an hour.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Vatri91:
Do u have 32A or 32B?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] GuyInDogSuit:
I have the myTouch 1.2 (3.5mm jack) with the PVT32A board. I bricked it from trying to flash the "new" radio and SPL using the Radio Switcher made by Eyegor. Problem was, I was supposedly required to have a "Hero ROM" on it BEFORE I flashed them. So now I'm stuck.