im just wondering how do i no if i bricked a phone or not i mean if the ipl and spl have diff verison does that mean i bricked it? can any1 tell me what does a bricked phone look like and how do i no if i bricked or not..?
joco2560 said:
im just wondering how do i no if i bricked a phone or not i mean if the ipl and spl have diff verison does that mean i bricked it? can any1 tell me what does a bricked phone look like and how do i no if i bricked or not..?
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If it still turns on I don't believe its bricked. When it isn't responsive, doesn't show the three color screen, and doesn't charge or anything like that. That I believe is a true brick.
a bricked phone means a lot of things
it could mean the flash has gone wrong and failed to flash the radio rom
it could mean the flash has gone wrong and failed to flash the OS
it could mean the flash has gone wrong and failed to flash the ipl
it could mean the flash has gone wrong because you have just tried to flash a g3 rom onto a g4
If you want to know if you have screwed it up completely flash the original rom that came from your mobile provider and see if it works, also try explaining in better detail what it is that happens and what it is that doesnt happen when you switch it on?
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a bricked phone means a lot of things
it could mean the flash has gone wrong and failed to flash the radio rom
it could mean the flash has gone wrong and failed to flash the OS
it could mean the flash has gone wrong and failed to flash the ipl
it could mean the flash has gone wrong because you have just tried to flash a g3 rom onto a g4
If you want to know if you have screwed it up completely flash the original rom that came from your mobile provider and see if it works, also try explaining in better detail what it is that happens and what it is that doesnt happen when you switch it on?
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actually the phone doesnt charge or turn on
take the battery out and leave it out for twenty minutes then put it back and see if it will turn on.
what were you trying to flash to the phone and what happened ?
btw if ipl and spl are not the same this does not mean it is bricked
Also if the battery ran out charge it via a wall charger not via the usb lead. Have you tried taking the battery out and seeing if there is any charge in it?
I just stick my tongue on the contacts, not very technical i know, but at least you can tell if it is deaD or not.
umm..i tried to leave my battery out for an hour but still wont turn on and charged using the wall plug but still woulndt charge. dunno what to do, but some ppl told me to get a new battery , and i just oredered 1 online, but the last screen i saw was 3 color screen with diff ipl and spl versions, and scared the **** out of me, that was after i flashed a bad rom(dont no if its with ipl/spl) then it changed my spl number then iflashed back using love rom, then it woulndt boot affter love rom, so i took the battery out(dumb move) and plugged it back in and it wont boot, i mean turn on, tried camera button, reset button with the pen or that softreset. i really hope its the battery..
but the battery was fully charged before the flash, so im sure that there were at least 80 percent power left..
Actually, if you can remember the original IPL version with .0001 at end of it and your tried to flash a G4 wizard with ROM that with only G3 IPL/SPL, then it is a brick that you can't charge nor switch it on.
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Actually, if you can remember the original IPL version with .0001 at end of it and your tried to flash a G4 wizard with ROM that with only G3 IPL/SPL, then it is a brick that you can't charge nor switch it on.
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ummm. i think the ipl/spl was 2.26.xxx then after the flashed it changed either ipl or spl i forgot, but the number was 2.21.xxx.xx(i) there was an"i" after the number
so u dont think getting a new battery would make it turn on again?
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a bricked phone means a lot of things
it could mean the flash has gone wrong and failed to flash the radio rom
it could mean the flash has gone wrong and failed to flash the OS
it could mean the flash has gone wrong and failed to flash the ipl
it could mean the flash has gone wrong because you have just tried to flash a g3 rom onto a g4
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I don't agree with this. For me, a bricked phone does the same as a brick: NOTHING!
@joco2560
So only the last one of the options above is the one to make a phone into a brick; which is what i believe happened to your phone. (which i already answered in the other thread)
ummm. i think the ipl/spl was 2.26.xxx then after the flashed it changed either ipl or spl i forgot, but the number was 2.21.xxx.xx(i) there was an"i" after the number
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Then there is a very high possibility that your Wizard is a brick now because many bricks are formed after 2nd reboot with incorrectly flashed IPL and SPL.
There are no known easy way to recover a brick, so...be ready to get a new phone or to replace mainboard.
Dear Mestrini, My g4 cid unlocked wizy, felt in water. Now after a cleaning it starts with the boot screen. I flashed back with love rom and the process goes fine up to the end. By the way when it starts goes back to the boot screen. I tried to hard reset but when I push the send button nothing happen.
What can it be?
thanks!
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Dear Mestrini, My g4 cid unlocked wizy, felt in water. Now after a cleaning it starts with the boot screen. I flashed back with love rom and the process goes fine up to the end. By the way when it starts goes back to the boot screen. I tried to hard reset but when I push the send button nothing happen.
What can it be?
thanks!
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It can be a LOT of different things. That's why no repair center accepts a phone with humidity or that fell in some sort of liquid.
I would advise to open it and dry it with a hairdryer or hot-air station but to be very very careful with the distance not to fry the PCB (main board)
After that try to flash it with the original/official ROM (full ROM) a number of times to see if it recovers
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umm..i tried to leave my battery out for an hour but still wont turn on and charged using the wall plug but still woulndt charge. dunno what to do, but some ppl told me to get a new battery , and i just oredered 1 online, but the last screen i saw was 3 color screen with diff ipl and spl versions, and scared the **** out of me, that was after i flashed a bad rom(dont no if its with ipl/spl) then it changed my spl number then iflashed back using love rom, then it woulndt boot affter love rom, so i took the battery out(dumb move) and plugged it back in and it wont boot, i mean turn on, tried camera button, reset button with the pen or that softreset. i really hope its the battery..
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Another member managed to recover a phone that wouldn't turn on; maybe you can too and i got it wrong
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=349539
good luck
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I have a Wizard 200 and I tried to unlock it, I loaded the Love rom and that worked, but CID locked I then loaded 1.05 rom and when it finished I just got the splash screen, so I removed the battery and now it will not power up and there is no led display even for power, I am sure there is some charge in the battery as it was 75% when I was loading the rom.
Now I have no display and no power in, nothing, is this truly a brick?
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I have a Wizard 200 and I tried to unlock it, I loaded the Love rom and that worked, but CID locked I then loaded 1.05 rom and when it finished I just got the splash screen, so I removed the battery and now it will not power up and there is no led display even for power, I am sure there is some charge in the battery as it was 75% when I was loading the rom.
Now I have no display and no power in, nothing, is this truly a brick?
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YES, that's what we call a bricked phone; when it does same as a brick: NOTHING.
I'm guessing you have a G4 and tried to apply procedures meant for G3.
My advise (and only thing possible now) is to get another battery or charge yours on another phone and see if it lights up...
I tried the plug and unplug with no battery process and I get a red light flashing, but nothing more then that, I am guessing I can't post a boot because of the wrong rom loading (it said prodigy for new version when I loaded the rom) Does anyone now of a way to re-write, access, or reprogram the chip, in a jtag type connection, any service that i can pay for to revive this thing.
one other thing if someone can help me, CAn I take a G3 and make it a G4 with a rom upgrade?
I swear I seen 2.21 for IPL/SPL and OS sytem(it was a lock O2 xda mini s) when I started the process and the next screen said it was 2.21.0001 for IPL/SPL with OS 2.26( I used the LOVE rom and the loader was in Italian, that worked fine but the CID was still locked, so I loaded the last rom and ended up with IPL 1.05 and SPL 2.21.0001 I forget what OS it was last loaded with.
Gazoo22 said:
I tried the plug and unplug with no battery process and I get a red light flashing, but nothing more then that, I am guessing I can't post a boot because of the wrong rom loading (it said prodigy for new version when I loaded the rom) Does anyone now of a way to re-write, access, or reprogram the chip, in a jtag type connection, any service that i can pay for to revive this thing.
one other thing if someone can help me, CAn I take a G3 and make it a G4 with a rom upgrade?
I swear I seen 2.21 for IPL/SPL and OS sytem(it was a lock O2 xda mini s) when I started the process and the next screen said it was 2.21.0001 for IPL/SPL with OS 2.26( I used the LOVE rom and the loader was in Italian, that worked fine but the CID was still locked, so I loaded the last rom and ended up with IPL 1.05 and SPL 2.21.0001 I forget what OS it was last loaded with.
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No,you cannot make a G3 device to a G4 device with a Rom upgrade.They are entirely made of different DOC chips with different Bootloaders.You cannot flash a G3 Rom unto a G4 device which contains IPL/SPL in it.cuz a G3 has IPL/SPL 1.xx or 2.xx bootloaders and a G4 device has 2.xx.xxx1 bootloaders.A Rom containing 1.xx bootloaders if flashed to a G4 device will Brick the device.This has been Warned many a times on the forum.That's exactly what you did.You flashed a Rom with containing IPL/SPL 1.xx (wizard_love_rom and Button's Rom)
It's clearly visible from the SPL 2.21.0001 which you have posted,that you had a G4 device.It's wrong to say that it was actually with a IPL/SPL 2.21 in the begining and with flashing it changed to SPL 2.21.0001,cuz both the roms which you flashed only have IPL/SPL 1.xx or 2.xx, they will always downgrade to 1.xx,it cannot make it 2.xx.xxx1.
Take mestrini's advise and try to charge or get a fully charged battery to make the phone start and try to go into bootloader screen,if it's able to get into bootloader mode than there are chances of it's revival,by flashing the official carrier's rom from the bootloader,ok
good luck
Ok, thanks for the reply and correcting and pointing me in the right direction, my battery says 3.57 volts on a meter, any idea what a fully chargered battery should read on a meter, not sure how i am going to charge the battery but I will try to find a way.
Gazoo22 said:
Ok, thanks for the reply and correcting and pointing me in the right direction, my battery says 3.57 volts on a meter, any idea what a fully chargered battery should read on a meter, not sure how i am going to charge the battery but I will try to find a way.
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If i remember correctly from my Nokia days a battery would not wake the phone below 3.2v and would not allow to charge below 2.4 (not sure though) but wouldn't also never reach the 5v when fully charged
So i'm guessing that your battery has enough 'juice' to fire up a 'good' bootloader. Sorry to tell you this but either make up some story with the repair center or sell the housing and other parts to get some money back...
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Ok, thanks for the reply and correcting and pointing me in the right direction, my battery says 3.57 volts on a meter, any idea what a fully chargered battery should read on a meter, not sure how i am going to charge the battery but I will try to find a way.
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Sry,it's not my field ,I don't know what a fully charged battery shud read on a volt meter,better ask some person who got experience with it,
Ya I think the battery has the power to boot the sytem, it is reading 3.66 when I measured again and my xda IIi reads 4 volts after a full charge, so I think it is down to a corrupt boot loader and I have yet to see anyway to program it like I do with jtag on satellite boxes, I had backed up what i could before flashing but no way to put it back in.
when i upgrade my device at 98% its hang up
and i make reset
then the device didnt work when i press power button
what can i do with my device
Iam from palestine and the near service center for imate is in ksa
icant send it
can i resolve the broblem with my self
Your fatal mistake is reseting your phone...it wasnt done flashing yet. The RUU(flashing prigram) often hangs up near the end for 1-2 minutes, and then it completes. I would say that you need to get your phone repaired now, seeing as if it wont even power on, that its more than likely damaged the bootloader:/
Hashem_12321 said:
when i upgrade my device at 98% its hang up
and i make reset
then the device didnt work when i press power button
what can i do with my device
Iam from palestine and the near service center for imate is in ksa
icant send it
can i resolve the broblem with my self
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Always post the version of the phone and which rom you were trying to upgrade with ?
Check your battery,is it fully charged or working.Its always recommended to get the battery fully charged before flashing.
It might be due to discharged or dead battery that it doesn't power on,first confirm the status of the battery.
If the battery gets charged or working,get the phone into Bootloaders (multicolor Screen),if it gets there,its safe.
i try a new battry but there is no power my device is wazard g4 and i upgrade with black diamond 2 after i unlock my device (i dont remember the no but at the end there write olip)
i think that i need a new device becuase there is no light on charge when i plug in the adapter and not start when i press the power button
thanx alot
If your not intimidated by working on your phone, you could try buying one off eBay with a broken LCD and using the motherboard out of it in your phone. Worked for me and now I have a G3 instead of a G4!
what does it meat when i unplog the battry there is flash light from the screen
can any body explane this
it means there is power going to the device,but as it cant boot up it simply flashes the backlight on the screen
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it means there is power going to the device,but as it cant boot up it simply flashes the backlight on the screen
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so there is away to repare mt device??
i remember that there is an spl v1 aor something like that when my device turn off
and when my computer hang up my device went to boatloader mode and i read the numbers of ips & spl. then i found that i have to flash rom (wizard love) but i turn off my device to keeb the battrey charge to complet flashing and that is the last time i see my device working
Which is your phone,post the full data,make/model of your phone ?
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Which is your phone,post the full data,make/model of your phone ?
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not understanding
my device wizard g4
Ok, Perhaps you applied HardSPL and the it must be displaying IPL 2.21.0001 and SPL 2.21.olip, Right ?
And when you tried to upgrade Black Diamond,it got stuck up on Bootloaders or it was working on Black Diamonds ? you say, your computer hang up and phone got stuck on Bootloaders,did it hang up while flashing ?
Did you actualy flashed 'wizard_love rom,or you were planning to flash but it got stuck.
Why I ask all this is coz,if you flashed wizard_love,your phone is HardSPL,,it'll get bricked with wizard_love rom as it has IPL/SPL in it. But if you didn't flash wizard rom and it goy stuck before that,than,its a dead battery.
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Ok, Perhaps you applied HardSPL and the it must be displaying IPL 2.21.0001 and SPL 2.21.olip, Right ?
And when you tried to upgrade Black Diamond,it got stuck up on Bootloaders or it was working on Black Diamonds ? you say, your computer hang up and phone got stuck on Bootloaders,did it hang up while flashing ?
Did you actualy flashed 'wizard_love rom,or you were planning to flash but it got stuck.
Why I ask all this is coz,if you flashed wizard_love,your phone is HardSPL,,it'll get bricked with wizard_love rom as it has IPL/SPL in it. But if you didn't flash wizard rom and it goy stuck before that,than,its a dead battery.
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my computer hang up at 98% in flashing wizard
i didnt flash wizard_love rom yet and i try to change the battrey 3 time with my friends but the device couldnt start ,,, is this problem from the battrey??
now iam going to buy new battrey to try and i hope to resolve this.
i've got new battrey but still not working
so what can i do
can any body tell me where i can buy mainboard but not from e-bay.
so,,,,, no one know where ican buy new mainboard??
Hi, look at this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=276963
I repair my device successfully.
ok, im inbetween a newb and a full out destructive force to any type of moddable device and im having a little bit of trouble with my cingular 8125. ive had this phone for a few months and i am having the hardest time dealing with the rom on the phone now. ill give a quick breifing on it:
got it with original cingular rom, not sure what spl or ipl on it but the first thing i did was unlock it by myself, cid and sim unlocked, and then updated to a jaguar wm 6.1 rom which worked fine. decided i was going to unfortunately sell this phone so i decided to upgrade it one more time to see if i really wanted to sell it, i then bought the upgrade to go past my 2.21 ipl and spl. i got my unlocker and followed my instructions and got a brick. but not a full brick. its stuck in the bootloader screen. after reading countless threads, i learned that i should be able to just still update a rom to the phone with no problems which actually works, but as soon as a rom completes it goes right back to my bootloader screen so help me! please cuz now thats its a challenge again, i want the phone! plus all my info is on the phone still back up
Flash the official stock ROM first, then use Button's ROM to downgrade your IPL and SPL before unlocking CID.
post the present IPL/SPL it displays now.Which rom you are trying to flash now ?
ok when i try to put the most current 8125 rom on my phone (2.25.blah) it tells me that its not the same phone which is weird but thats preventing me from putting the original rom on the phone. however if i try and put the buton rom on the phone now, it will go through completely and say it put it on the phone, but when it restart, its right back to the bootload screen...
and im running IPL 2.21.0001 and SPL 2.21 with a previous installation of a jaguar rom, dont know exactly which one, but i know it was a jaguar rom. but right before i tried to upgrade the updater, i went back to my default WM5 rom so i guess it was te basic 2.21 rom on the phone with WM5
dimedash12 said:
ok when i try to put the most current 8125 rom on my phone (2.25.blah) it tells me that its not the same phone which is weird but thats preventing me from putting the original rom on the phone. however if i try and put the buton rom on the phone now, it will go through completely and say it put it on the phone, but when it restart, its right back to the bootload screen...
and im running IPL 2.21.0001 and SPL 2.21 with a previous installation of a jaguar rom, dont know exactly which one, but i know it was a jaguar rom. but right before i tried to upgrade the updater, i went back to my default WM5 rom so i guess it was te basic 2.21 rom on the phone with WM5
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WEIRD !
You got mixed Bootloaders of G3 And G4,IPL 2.21.0001 is G4 and SPL 2.21 is G3,as you posted,well,can't say which was original,only you can tell,but some how its mixed Bootloaders,in this situation no Rom will flash,its a 'Brick'.
If as Zabardast says its bricked then you have three options:
1. Get a new Wizard
2. Get a new Wizard Motherboard
3. Get a Wizard with broken LCD from eBay and replace its LCD with your current one and Enjoy!!! (Cheapest)
lol this is tough! but no worries, ill be back with some other pda at some point and time and then ill try and take this phone apart! but the weird thing about my wizard is that this only happened when i tried to update the phone with the CID unlock program that you have to pay for!
lol it was perfectly fine until i tried to do it! oh well, back to my crappy p168!
May be that CID Unlock program was not meant to be for a G3 and you were updating a G3 so it mixed you IPL/SPL and caused a kinda BRICK. So please be careful before doing flashing things because if you dont be carefull then your PPC may become a heavy paper weight, and a costy one too. LOL. TC
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Stop this nonsense immediately,otherwise it'll be reported and you'll be banned.Its spam !!!
try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=276963
Cingular 8125 problems
Ok guys i am really pissed i have been looking for three days and cant find it, first off my IPL is at 1.01 and the SPL is at 2.25 and i cant fix it i wanted to install the original 2.25 again and start from scratch but can not find the damn thing so if anyone has it can u just upload it fo me and give me a link that i can get it at please i am sick and tired of waitnin i really like this phone and i dont want to risk bricking it thanks.
Ok, grimgod, aggression is reaaaallly ugly and no freakin one will help with that sh!t attitude (pardon the language, mods). The senior members do everything they can to help the noobs. Have you tried reading the flashing guide, wiki, or tutorial? I'd bet even money you haven't. Have you CID unlocked? Did you flash the button rom twice ( as the guide suggested to get ipl/spl both 2.xx)? Did you flash the official tmo rom (found im the flashing guide)? Have you done anything other than sit on your hands and wait for it to be handed to you? READ AND SEARCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=310831 <HERE!!!!!!!!!! Should I flash your device, too?
Similar issue... need some Wizard Expertise
I picked up a coworkers old Cingular 8125 that he'd had in a drawer for about a year. Battery was right dead so the phone wouldn't boot. I charged the battery on an external charger for a few minutes, put it back into the phone, and plugged it in to the charger until the LED went green indicating a full charge.
When I power up I see the T-Mobile splash screen (light gray background, some square dots, and the "T-Mobile" logo). And there it stays indefinitely.
Tried a hard reset (Comm Mgr + Voice Cmd + Soft Reset), and it said "Press Send to restore factory default". Pressed the green dialer key (I assume that's send), and it says Format FAT partition, FAT partition complete, and then returns to the same T-Mobile splash screen and hangs there.
So then I tried putting it into Boot Loader manually (Power On + Camera). No problem, shows IPL 2.26 and SPL 2.26. Plug it into the computer USB port (running XP Pro), and then the USB connection shows on the phone. Attempted to flash the Wizard Love ROM to get this thing back to square-one. Error 260. Attempted to flash the T-Mobile stock ROM. Error 260.
Between each flash attempt, I'm pulling the battery out and starting fresh. I think I've followed all the steps I'm finding in multiple threads. But for some reason I'm not able to get this thing to communicate via USB. All RUU's give an Error 260. Am I missing something?
Forgot to mention I'm following the steps outlined in this thread from Dr P. To the letter!
Also did a little reading up on using the MTTY method in this thread by Drug_Store. Thought maybe the existing ROM might be intact, and I might be able get it to a 256MB MiniSD, then write the backup ROM from SD in boot loader. Well, for some reason I don't even see the USB connection option when I use the MTTY - can't ever get to a point where I can issue commands. Again, I think I'm following the instruction. But still no juice.
Nudge, nudge. I'd donate for a solution that works... otherwise I have to keep letting my 10 year old play The Quest on my phone.
Hi, I was trying to flash/upgrade my Wizard to WM6.1 (was able to do it once over the weekend). But got over-confident and was trying to do it second time (ofcourse use some other cooked rom) but during the upgrade, my kid pulled out the wire from the computer.
If that was not enough, in a panic mode, i actuall did a reset on the wizard. Now it wont even start (no lights light up nor I get the 3 color screen = bootloader.).
The time when my kid pulled up the USB cable, I was "upgrading" to 2.26 after having successully downgraded to 1.xx ..
I fear I have bricked my wizard...is there anything I can try before having to spend 40-50 buck and get to cell repair estimate? I tried hard-reset (Camera + Power On), (Green + Red button + Power), Communication Button + Voice Button + Power but nothing happens.....
Sorry but i guess your Wizard is a brick, the only solution is that you get a new motherboard or a new Wizard. Feel Sorry to say that but still dont go on my advice let some other senior member say something too. Maybe there is a way i dont know and anybody else does.
did you have a full battery?do you think your battery drained through the process?try charging the battery in some other way or try another battery...if that doesn't do the trick....you need a new motherboard.....
G3 phones are very stubborn devices,its very hard to 'Brick' it ! They don't get Bricked in this way ,unless you really do stupid thing and flash a Rom with G4 IPL/SPL.
Here,you have a dead battery,just try to charge it fully ,somehow, or borrow another battery from a friend,or if you prefer,buy a new one,as it comes with little charge to start and boot up the phone and even sometimes flash a rom.
Apart from this,I don't believe its Bricked,G3 doesn't get bricked like that,by being interrupted in the middle of flashing or resetting it.
zabardast i think he was upgrading the bootloader...that kills it right?
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zabardast i think he was upgrading the bootloader...that kills it right?
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What I believe he means he was upgrading to IPL/SPL 2.26 by flashing T-mobile,after downgrading to 1.xx by Button's Rom,while flashing,it got interrupted and in panic he reset the device,now can't power Up the device.
Well,interrupted during flash or resetting doesn't brick a phone.
secondly,Bootloaders IPL/SPL are automatically downgraded/upgraded by flashing a Rom with IPL/SPL when flashed.
Unless,as I posted above, if he has flashed G4 IPL/SPL or a G4 Rom with IPL/SPL,it wud certainly brick a G3 device.But as he said he was upgrading to 2.26,means,he was flashing T-mobile,so I believe,it cannot be bricked this way
OOOPS!
On second thought,did he mention its a G3,well,what if its a G4!!!
and he flashed Button's Rom............. GONER!
I assumed its a G3,coz he posted ipl/spl 1.xx and 2.26 and he already got it upgraded.
hi thanks for all the info.
Before the upgrade I verified it have more than 60% battery (arround 80%). I had got a new battery and charged it 100% overnight before i tried the first upgrade.
Its a G3 phone (It showed 2.2x a did not have following .000 which show for G4).
I had downgraded using the Button ROM and was upgrading the rom using WST write ROM.
So is there still a chance..
I can try and see if anyone's got a HTC Wizard within my friends/around and try to charge the battery in their phone....just to make sure its fully charged
try this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=276963
I have repair my wizard with this manual.
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OOOPS!
On second thought,did he mention its a G3,well,what if its a G4!!!
and he flashed Button's Rom............. GONER!
I assumed its a G3,coz he posted ipl/spl 1.xx and 2.26 and he already got it upgraded.
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I wonderfully and utterly stupidly did exactly that !!! I wrote a G4 rom on G3 Wizard !! It turned on once after the procedure and wm6 loaded all the "extras" and then re-booted... into complete darkness !! Now it's completely dead nothing turns on, not even the green charging light. I left it for a couple of months and the red light come on briefly... but that's all. Now it stops the papers from flying off my desk .... it's my funeral and I'll cry if I want to (
I honestly feel sry for it,but may I ask which was the rom which you say is G4,which you flashed ? coz all official roms are suitable to flash to both devices and custom build roms do not contain IPL/SPL in them,which cud harm any device,its really questionable as which was this rom which bricked a G3 phone,if you are sure your phone is a G3. YES! its certain that if a G4 phone is flashed with a G3 specific rom,it'll get bricked,was your G3 or G4 ?
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I honestly feel sry for it,but may I ask which was the rom which you say is G4,which you flashed ? coz all official roms are suitable to flash to both devices and custom build roms do not contain IPL/SPL in them,which cud harm any device,its really questionable as which was this rom which bricked a G3 phone,if you are sure your phone is a G3. YES! its certain that if a G4 phone is flashed with a G3 specific rom,it'll get bricked,was your G3 or G4 ?
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I confirm my Wizard is a G3 device and the rom I accidentally wrote over it was a G4 rom (I since deleted it from my computer to ensure I would not repeat the mistake) ....
So, there are G4 specific ROMs floating around out there? Now that doesnt make a whole lotta sense. I thought that all carrier ROMs where G3 (and to an extent G4 safe), and that all cooked ROMs where G3 and G4 safe because they dont contain IPL/SPL?
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So, there are G4 specific ROMs floating around out there? Now that doesnt make a whole lotta sense. I thought that all carrier ROMs where G3 (and to an extent G4 safe), and that all cooked ROMs where G3 and G4 safe because they dont contain IPL/SPL?
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After G4 came out, the providers started releasing ROM packages with two bootloaders and a new RUU that would detect the device DOC generation and flash accordingly. If you extract an 'official' ROM you'll find IPL_1, SPL_1, IPL_2, SPL_2, etc... which means G3 and G4 respectively and therefore safe to flash to any Wizard in the market (minding the CID status of course)
As for G4 only roms i believe that might be a few around that were cooked in a time when the "G4 safe" concept wasn't yet implemented and when one would flash a complete ROM and upgrade IPL/SPL at the same time.
Nowadays, since Wizard official development has ended, almost everyone has a 'high' bootloader and only needs to change the OS version/flavor thus the absence of IPL/SPL in a released cooked ROM
Hope it's clear
cheers
mestrini said:
After G4 came out, the providers started releasing ROM packages with two bootloaders and a new RUU that would detect the device DOC generation and flash accordingly. If you extract an 'official' ROM you'll find IPL_1, SPL_1, IPL_2, SPL_2, etc... which means G3 and G4 respectively and therefore safe to flash to any Wizard in the market (minding the CID status of course)
As for G4 only roms i believe that might be a few around that were cooked in a time when the "G4 safe" concept wasn't yet implemented and when one would flash a complete ROM and upgrade IPL/SPL at the same time.
Nowadays, since Wizard official development has ended, almost everyone has a 'high' bootloader and only needs to change the OS version/flavor thus the absence of IPL/SPL in a released cooked ROM
Hope it's clear
cheers
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This, however does not solve my "totally dead" G3 Wizard, I suppose it must go to a service lab after all.....
Simply
gizmofan777 said:
This, however does not solve my "totally dead" G3 Wizard, I suppose it must go to a service lab after all.....
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Does your wizard starts? YES- it can enter to bootloader? Yes - its not bricked...
Does your wizard starts? NO- Maybe a dead battery... Does your wizard shut off and conected to the wall charger shows a Led RED? this two are......
BRICKED PHONE!!!!!
Thats all...
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Does your wizard starts? YES- it can enter to bootloader? Yes - its not bricked...
Does your wizard starts? NO- Maybe a dead battery... Does your wizard shut off and conected to the wall charger shows a Led RED? this two are......
BRICKED PHONE!!!!!
Thats all...
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Battery OK, red light briefly once then never again, no other activity - patient is brain dead.... it's "el bricko phone" !!
Bricko Phone?????????
gizmofan777 said:
Battery OK, red light briefly once then never again, no other activity - patient is brain dead.... it's "el bricko phone" !!
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Hahahaha "A silence minute for it's soul please"
Father, embrace with your arms this soul of a dead wizard and let it rest in peace in the Pocket Heaven Amen.
More Respect please HAHAHAHA
what a funny men!!!!
I bricked my phone too!
Hi there! I think I have the same problem. My phone is a G4 and it won't boot to bootloader mode nor charge in a wall charger. I had my phone unloacked and during the process, my phone shut down. Now it's dead. Is there a go around for this problem? Thanks.
Hey Guys,
I've got a similar thing, think I might have flashed a G4 file to a G3 Wizard.
I have, by following through the "Let's Revive A Wizard" thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=274766) been able to get the thing to boot into the bootloader screen and show IPL 1.05 : SPL 2.26.clip I think from memory and then flashed the 02 ROM but then it just boots back to the bootloader.
I also tried an SD backup from my other G3 and followed that through but nothing.
I think there is a way to revive using the methods shown, but there appears to be no more help relating to it and I'm out of ideas myself.
If anyone has a IPL & SPL file for 2.26 can they post it for me to try.
Thanks.
Ian
hi guys
i have been having truoble installing other roms im using cyanogen rom with hard spl but i cant flash another rom when i do it stucks on tmobile g1 boot screen i tryed installing death spl but still it stucks on g1 boot screen then i had to restore my phone and it works please guys help me how to fix this and i want to know what is haykuro SPL and death spl and danger spl? and is haykuro SPL and danger spl the same if not were can i find them ?
Before you do anything else, read this tutorial very carefully.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=625886
Make sure that your phone has the PVT board and not a DVT board.
You can check by going into fastboot and make sure that it reads DREAM PVT 32B ENG S-OFF on the first line.
Then you upgrade the radio first AND THEN you flash the Danger SPL.
Just make sure that you read that tutorial very carefully and know what you are doing or else you might just end up with a paperweight.
cg87 said:
Before you do anything else, read this tutorial very carefully.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=625886
Make sure that your phone has the PVT board and not a DVT board.
You can check by going into fastboot and make sure that it reads DREAM PVT 32B ENG S-OFF on the first line.
Then you upgrade the radio first AND THEN you flash the Danger SPL.
Just make sure that you read that tutorial very carefully and know what you are doing or else you might just end up with a paperweight.
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thanks i will read this and try and see if this works or not i will reply here back
hi i did what in the tuturial said an when i Flashed the Radio "ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip know my g1 wont even boot when i press the power button nothing happens it does not even start please help me i dont know whats wrong?
Try removing the battery and then put it back in and see if it turns on. Then see if you can get into recovery mode. BTW, what recovery are you using right now?
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Try removing the battery and then put it back in and see if it turns on. Then see if you can get into recovery mode. BTW, what recovery are you using right now?
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i tryed everything removing the battery and putting it back on nothing works just dead it does not do anything when i try to press the power button im using cyanogen 1.4 recovery but whats the point of it if the phone is not powering on?
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i tryed everything removing the battery and putting it back on nothing works just dead it does not do anything when i try to press the power button im using cyanogen 1.4 recovery but whats the point of it if the phone is not powering on?
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Did you check to see if you phone has a PVT board? Did you install the radio first and then install the SPL? If you did it the other way around, then will will have a brick.
Is the phone not powering on after you flash the radio or after you flash the spl?
yes i know the phone has pvt and i checked it and i installed the radio first i did not had the chance to install the spl and after rebooted into recovery i pulled the battery out and after that it did not power on
That's weird because the radio should not have bricked your phone. Since you were able to boot the phone after you flashed the radio, it couldn't have been the radio either. Why did you pull the battery when you were in recovery?
What was your battery level before you flashed? If it ran out during the installation, then you have a brick. Try charging it some and see if it turns on.
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That's weird because the radio should not have bricked your phone. Since you were able to boot the phone after you flashed the radio, it couldn't have been the radio either. Why did you pull the battery when you were in recovery?
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well the flashing was complete and i rebooted the phone and it went back into recovery and i removed the battery i tought i will boot into the phone instead of recovery
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What was your battery level before you flashed? If it ran out during the installation, then you have a brick. Try charging it some and see if it turns on.
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battery level wa less but the flashing went ok it happend after flashing it i tryed another battery but same nothing happens
IIRC when flashing a radio, the phone will reboot itself during the process then carry on flashing.. you didn't pull your battery then did you..?
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IIRC when flashing a radio, the phone will reboot itself during the process then carry on flashing.. you didn't pull your battery then did you..?
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when i flshashed the radio then i rebooted the phone and it rebooted into recovery then i pulled the battery out as soon as i saw the recovery mode
loveispoison said:
when i flshashed the radio then i rebooted the phone and it rebooted into recovery then i pulled the battery out as soon as i saw the recovery mode
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Are you sure it was the recovery screen? Did it have all the text options? The radio flashing screen looks similar.. If you pulled it out there, you're bricked.
I am pretty familiar with the guide that you said you followed. I dont remember seeing the part in it that says "pull the battery"...
UPDATE: After this persons unfortunate experience I have updated the guide to actually tell you not to pull the battery at any point during the installation process. I know its common sense but this thread goes to show that unless you tell someone not to do something they may think that its ok.
goldenarmZ said:
Are you sure it was the recovery screen? Did it have all the text options? The radio flashing screen looks similar.. If you pulled it out there, you're bricked.
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im sure it said flashing complete then rebooted it and i pulled the battery out anyways doesnt matter know bcoz there was guarantee on my phone so i took it back to them and told them when i woke up in the morning the phone was like this and i got my money back and i bought an iphone 3gs thank you for your help
Joe333x said:
I am pretty familiar with the guide that you said you followed. I dont remember seeing the part in it that says "pull the battery"...
UPDATE: After this persons unfortunate experience I have updated the guide to actually tell you not to pull the battery at any point during the installation process. I know its common sense but this thread goes to show that unless you tell someone not to do something they may think that its ok.
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thanks for your help
loveispoison said:
im sure it said flashing complete then rebooted it and i pulled the battery out anyways doesnt matter know bcoz there was guarantee on my phone so i took it back to them and told them when i woke up in the morning the phone was like this and i got my money back and i bought an iphone 3gs thank you for your help
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After you flash the radio it tells you to reboot and it reboots and then finishes installing the radio. Then it reboots to recovery. You must have pulled the battery before the radio finished installing.