If you have a completelly dead wizard (without any possibility of recover) I need it to extract the hard keyboard cirecuit cauzz mine is not working anymore. Thank you for reading
When you hapen to find a dead wizard, as you can read here, we need a mainboard from a dead wizard to reverse engineer the testpoints to use with a JTAG programmer. Finding these could save many dead wizards!!
So please contact us in the above mentioned thread when you find a dead wizard and have the mainboard to share.
PS. I am willing to pay shipment-costs for the mainboard (by paypal only!).
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do you have a broken wizard you'd like to sell? simply put it under www.ebay.com and signal the broken wizard offer (THE LINK!) under this thread - specifying the type of defect.
There is a number of OTHER broken wizards (like mine!) that could be repaired by recovering parts from others. And very often we could repair more than one - so after you've repaired yours you could try to resell the remaining pieces.
So, anybody having a broken wizard: follow this thread and we will ALL save money!
As you know, the service manual is very detailed and allows easy replacement of many parts: screens, keyboards, mainboards, stylus holders...batteries!
anyway, we are not anymore under warranty....right?
Comments also welcome, since keep the thread high in the list...
i installed a wm6 rom in my phone and reset it.but may phon no turn on.an no conect with active sync and no conect with adaptor.
on of my friend say to me that my k-jam flash is damaged and in my country cant service it.
and say to me that i want your forum for solve this problem.
olease help me...............
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You may be flashing a G3 ROM to a G4 device. If you device can't even charge, then it is the case. It is a brick and not repairable by your own.
You could try buying a device from eBay with a broken LCD and using it's motherboard in your phone. All the Wizard models have the same motherboard. This is what I had to do when I bricked mine!
i need for JTAG
my device ic-flash is full out, and i must JTAG my device.
please help me about JTAG process and describ JTAG with pictures for me.
thank all
JTAG is still not achievable,its not possible yet.many have tried to do it.
Take my advice,sell it for parts and get a new device.
Mods ,plz close this thread.
Double post,deleted
Best way is to buy an broken LCD wizard from ebay or anyother site and then replace its LCD with your Wizards LCD, but try buying a G3 Wizard becoz its "Easy to Cook and Easy to Eat".
hey im new to the forums and just got my htc diamond and flashed the hard-spl mfg 1.24 i think on it, and then belite's english ROM. but does doing any of this void any warranty issues ? i got my htc in taiwan and got it from the telephone company. it has a two year warranty 1 year with the company and 1 year with htc or senao or something.
any answers would be helpful . or any links to past threads as i have no idea how to look XD.
Well ,
In a nutshell yes.
You can though , re SPL your device to the manufacturers supplied as simply as you SPL'd with the one you have.
There are loads of ROMS on here that are the shipped ones . My advice would be to download and save somewhere on your pc. Obviously if you have a hardware issue and still can use the device then reflash and then replace the original SPL. If however your unit is dead then this could pan out one of two ways . They will just replace your device and throw the other away which is good . Or they replace something power up and see that you have a diffrent SPL and then I think some questions would be raised. Including a bill .
When you say the device is dead, do you mean that it accidentally bricked during re-flashing/flashing ? But other than that, i can always revert the SPL and ROMs back to original, and they won't know that i changed it ? Thanks a ton for your help !
Edit: I think i downloaded the right ones from ChungHwa. Should I use ChungHwa's SPL and ROM or should I use the HTC ones ? I think they're different files in Taiwan, and that's where my warranty lies. My cousin (tore his Titan apart byte by byte) said that the HTC company could connect the Diamond to the main system and look through the sectors to determine any change or not. Would they go through all that trouble? And, would they be able to detect the foreign SPL or just see a change ?
I got to read all 1000+ posts on ways to un-brick wizard devices which are mainly intended for G4 users . And the claims that G3 never bricks. However I couldnt see an effective mean to un-brick it , there was an attempt that made it to sticky that should be realy removed as it failed and no one is interested in carrying on with it (a sad story realy , you have to read 200+ posts to get there).
Now the question is , what is a brick ?
a brick is a device that wont power up through any mean nutral or based on a back door (ex: Camera+Power , Send+Power , End+Power, Com+Speed Dial+Power.. etc) so to note , if your device can wake up at any of these methodes , it is not a brick. It would rather be fixed easily.
How would a device reach such state ?
Hardware fault , the device got physicaly damaged.
Software fault , the device lost its IMEI (the device serial number , would survive if corrupted only if IMEI figure is of same number of digits).
How would a device lose its IMEI ?
IMEI of wizard device is written within same memory that holds the SPL/IPL (device bios in pc language), which could easily be lost in case of flashing a G3 SPL/IPL on a G4 board since the memory address of the G4 IMEI is different to that of G3 and would be over-written by G3 SPL/IPL.
Would this happen to G3 devices too ?
It is rare since no G4 (SPL/IPL) roms are released except from carriers and they are very cautious at reviewing device ids (another name for IMEI when it comes to G4 cause G4 was specificaly designed to be a locked phone.
Then would a G3 be bricked ?
Yes , current alteration/failier during the writing phase of the SPL/IPL would lead to corruption of such memory. also faulty batteries can get the device there on the long run.
Can the devices be fixed ?
Ever heard of cloneing ? If you can clone 2 device memories then you can get it to un-brick as simple as that , only both devices are going to have the same IMEI which can be fixed later via IMEI changing utilities.
What's the problem then ?
How can you access the device if it wont even start ? there is a need to communicate with the device and at which , one thread suggested finding the test points of the mother board so that they would use it to write a valied IPL/SPL memory dump to the IPL/SPL memory.
So ?
This process relies heavily on true understanding of Wizard board and sad enough it has to be leaked and not acquired (not unless we are with an extra ordinary mentality)
Does this mean a brick is dead ?
Ok can you get the board replaced in a first / second / third party shop ? if so then you saved your self a load of hassel , as would you realy build up a cable interface ? and where would you get a valied memory dump ? and what software to use to communicate with a wizard board ?
So you see , the wizard is 7 years old now , and its hard to assume that such data would be leaked atm as it wasnt leaked back when the wizard was a star. so yes , too bad you will have to buy a board .. or there is someone who can prove me wrong .. cheers
Hello
After an unfortunate event - my dear Mi8 got broken and won't turn on anymore.
What's the method here, please, in order to recover my memory? Any "precise" thoughts on how to do this?
I was thinking of buying another one and just exchange the PCB (motherboard) from the non-working in to the working one
Thanks and let me know about this, please