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[Walkthrough] How to fix your bricked phone

So, you've decided that your shiny new toy isn't very well setup by default. You flashed a ROM and lo and behold, you missed some instruction somewhere and now you think it's bricked.
Here's the good news:
It's not bricked!!
Bricked means that it's dead and it's in no way or shape recoverable.
There is still a chance. (As long as you didn't try to hardSPL with another Device's SPL...)
All you have to do is:
For the WING:
Hold the Camera button and WHILE holding it, soft reset the device (that means press the little hole above the memory card with the stylus.) That will bring you to the bootloader. Now download the appropiate RUU and run that program. A few minutes later and your new shiny toy is back to it's crappy OEM but working self!
I'll put in links for those who can't find them...
Here's tmobile's ROM.

WOW! That´s all??
Ok - then provide us a link to a XDA Terra RUU!!!!!!
hahahaha. Thanks for this help. Maby for some people it is usefull - but written 1000 times before.
ivanmmj said:
So, you've decided that your shiny new toy isn't very well setup by default. You flashed a ROM and lo and behold, you missed some instruction somewhere and now you think it's bricked.
Here's the good news:
It's not bricked!!
Bricked means that it's dead and it's in no way or shape recoverable.
There is still a chance. (As long as you didn't try to hardSPL with another Device's SPL...)
All you have to do is:
For the WING:
Hold the Camera button and WHILE holding it, soft reset the device (that means press the little hole above the memory card with the stylus.) That will bring you to the bootloader. Now download the appropiate RUU and run that program. A few minutes later and your new shiny toy is back to it's crappy OEM but working self!
I'll put in links for those who can't find them...
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papamopps said:
WOW! That´s all??
Ok - then provide us a link to a XDA Terra RUU!!!!!!
hahahaha. Thanks for this help. Maby for some people it is usefull - but written 1000 times before.
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I know it has been stated a million times. I'm just tired of the same question being asked over and over again and so here we are...

Too bad it'll be stated a million more times afterwards too.

falconeyez said:
Too bad it'll be stated a million more times afterwards too.
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If we sticky it and threatened their lives if they don't read it... lol

ivanmmj said:
For the WING:
Hold the Camera button and WHILE holding it, soft reset the device (that means press the little hole above the memory card with the stylus.) That will bring you to the bootloader. Now download the appropiate RUU and run that program. A few minutes later and your new shiny toy is back to it's crappy OEM but working self!
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It will not help!

ASerg said:
It will not help!
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And we hold their pet's hostage?

ivanmmj said:
And we hold their pet's hostage?
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Or better yet, tell them to send us their phones, then we "unbrick" them and sell them on eBay.

falconeyez said:
Or better yet, tell them to send us their phones, then we "unbrick" them and sell them on eBay.
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Might work out, I get 10% of the over all sold
Ghostrider

Ghostrider said:
Might work out, I get 10% of the over all sold
Ghostrider
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Fine, but I get 15% because it's my thread.

The instructions to do this are actually in my newbie thread. Which is a sticky.

TylerC161 said:
The instructions to do this are actually in my newbie thread. Which is a sticky.
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I know, but most people don't search. I figured, maybe if it says "How to fix your bricked phone" on the title, they might get the idea.
It was actually done mostly as a joke...

help
I used the hardSPL from this thread..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=358225
It worked successfully and I was able to restart into WM6. Then I tried loading the TouchIT 4.4 and it installed cleanly with no errors. But when I went to restart it, my Wing just sits there at the CanonYang boot screen and never changes.
I tried using the steps here to restore the tmo default rom, but it after 1% on the progress bar, the screen goes blank and the CanonYang screen comes back. Is there anything I can do?
edit: I can get to the bootloader screen with the color bars. I'm not sure if this additional info will be of any help.
IPL 4.10.0002
SPL 4.70.Yang

gumbico said:
I used the hardSPL from this thread..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=358225
It worked successfully and I was able to restart into WM6. Then I tried loading the TouchIT 4.4 and it installed cleanly with no errors. But when I went to restart it, my Wing just sits there at the CanonYang boot screen and never changes.
I tried using the steps here to restore the tmo default rom, but it after 1% on the progress bar, the screen goes blank and the CanonYang screen comes back. Is there anything I can do?
edit: I can get to the bootloader screen with the color bars. I'm not sure if this additional info will be of any help.
IPL 4.10.0002
SPL 4.70.Yang
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SPL 4.70.yang!!! your device is HARD-SPL!!
So going back to stockrom--> delete the SPL.nbh from EVERY RUU you are running.
Then it shouldn´t stop......

Big Thanks papa! That did the trick. My Wing is happy once again and running Open Touch. But I still want to give TouchIt another try.

And what if i cant find stock RUU mine came with some arabic keyboard and spl was 1.08 , thanks to Oli he didnt mention that SPL should be 4 or higher , so device is bricked since first Olis release and no way to find this arabic stock RUU.
Any Help ?????
Hitec

If the device had an spl of 1.08 prior to HardSPLing it, then you'll have to bring the device to your nearest repair center. There isn't a way around that. Oli doesn't know everything and that's the risk we take when we try new and experimental things that people create but have no way of testing. But, we live and learn. If it wasn't for that issue, you could always cook your own ROM and if the HardSPL was working, you could've easily flashed any ROM. But the keyboard wouldn't been wrong until you could find someone who had the correct keyboard and you extracted the ROM from it and cooked that keyboard driver into your ROM.

Oh noooo!!
Hi ivanmmj,
I used your guide to flashing my HTC P4350 at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=358615.
It was in French and I wanted it in English. So I downloaded one of the official HTC ROMs "HTC_P4350_WWE_4.17.405.2_4.1.13.44_02.94.90_Ship.exe" assuming this was the English one because all the others couldn't have been.
I copied the "RUU_signed.nbh" from the above HTC ROM and put it into the RUU folder as instructed by yourguide (I didn't copy the SPL.nbh file). I then ran the herald-uspl.exe and everything went fine until the RUU utility stopped with the error "invalid vender ID".
The RUU exited without completing, now all I get when the device boots is the screen giving my IPL (1.08.001) and SPL (1.08.001). How do I flash another ROM from this state? I can't do it the "normal" way because ActiveSync can't see the device. When I try to use the RUU tool that comes with your tool, the progress bar shows then it says the tool can't be used with my device.
Someone please help!

foo_bar_baz said:
Hi ivanmmj,
I used your guide to flashing my HTC P4350 at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=358615.
It was in French and I wanted it in English. So I downloaded one of the official HTC ROMs "HTC_P4350_WWE_4.17.405.2_4.1.13.44_02.94.90_Ship.exe" assuming this was the English one because all the others couldn't have been.
I copied the "RUU_signed.nbh" from the above HTC ROM and put it into the RUU folder as instructed by yourguide (I didn't copy the SPL.nbh file). I then ran the herald-uspl.exe and everything went fine until the RUU utility stopped with the error "invalid vender ID".
The RUU exited without completing, now all I get when the device boots is the screen giving my IPL (1.08.001) and SPL (1.08.001). How do I flash another ROM from this state? I can't do it the "normal" way because ActiveSync can't see the device. When I try to use the RUU tool that comes with your tool, the progress bar shows then it says the tool can't be used with my device.
Someone please help!
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Oh wow. I'm so sorry. I think I may have forgotten to put up a warning for people that have an SPL lower than 4.0. Was your SPL lower than 4.0? If it was, you cannot use the USPL OR the HardSPL and they end up writing part of the ROM over your current SPL and brick the device. This, unfortunately, needs to be fixed by your local repair center. I'll talk to the Mods about unlocking that thread so that I can update it.

ivanmmj said:
Oh wow. I'm so sorry. I think I may have forgotten to put up a warning for people that have an SPL lower than 4.0. Was your SPL lower than 4.0? If it was, you cannot use the USPL OR the HardSPL and they end up writing part of the ROM over your current SPL and brick the device. This, unfortunately, needs to be fixed by your local repair center. I'll talk to the Mods about unlocking that thread so that I can update it.
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Oh deary me! I am so dead now - I live in Tanzania, East-Africa. My "local" repair center is several hundred thousand miles away across The Big Blue. What exactly do the repair center folks do to fix the device? Perhaps I can soldier out myself with some guidance...
Thank you,
foo_bar_baz.

Please help ASAP

Hello everyone,
I have a rooted g1 and I was putting on the 2.1 rom on my phone. I was following a guys instruction off of youtube but it totally messed my phone up. Now its stuck on the pitcure with the open box pointing a yellow arrow on the phone right next to it(the update screen), what do I do??? Thanks for your help.

You dont even have root then...If it shows what i think your taking about....You should follow this simple enough my little brother(7yr) could master it:
http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-root-the-mytouch-3g-or-g1-in-one-click/

no i have root access i already had about 5 other roms on there but this guy said that you need a radio update sign. the guys site is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfPI9Qdagd0&feature=related

Sagz326 said:
no i have root access i already had about 5 other roms on there but this guy said that you need a radio update sign. the guys site is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfPI9Qdagd0&feature=related
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If you had root why did you flash the radio again?
That gives bricks applying radio after having root is pointless.
What are you trying to do?

i dont know im a noob if you dont know by know. well is there anything i can do???

Sagz326 said:
i dont know im a noob if you dont know by know. well is there anything i can do???
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Just tell me everything you did, step by step.

ok first i put both of his zip files on my sd card then turned off my phone and turned it on with the home key, then i backed up my phone, then a factory wipe/reset, then applied the radio update, then tried to apply the other zip file but couldnt, so i rebooted my phone and now im stuck

Sagz326 said:
ok first i put both of his zip files on my sd card then turned off my phone and turned it on with the home key, then i backed up my phone, then a factory wipe/reset, then applied the radio update, then tried to apply the other zip file but couldnt, so i rebooted my phone and now im stuck
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radio and spl?'
But you have to have a custom recovery image before you can flash either of those.

i think it was just a radio but not sure. but i followed that guys video step by step and now im in this position

yeah i have amonra

Sagz326 said:
i think it was just a radio but not sure. but i followed that guys video step by step and now im in this position
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Ahh you might brick, you seem to have flashed the Radio made for HTC hero not G1....Notice the title: "How to get Android 2.1 on HTC Hero"
To use Hero 2.1 on G1 it shows it here @ XDA, you only needed Haykuro SPL and the 26I radio/
If rec mode is working then you arent brick or if you can get into bootloader.

how do i get in rec mode or bootloader

Hold down home when turning on the phone=recovery
Hold down camera button while powering on= bootloader
If you can't get into either one of those, likely bricked. I know with WM devices flashing a radio for another phone is one of the fastest ways to brick your phone, Android seems to be much more forgiving, so hopefully you will be lucky and if recovery and bootloader don't work, you can possibly get ADB to work.

If you don't figure out how to do this BEFORE you do it, you will likely brick your phone, if not sooner, soon enough. Doing it along with a video isn't enough to make sure you won't brick your phone.
Read through the steps of rooting, flashing a basic, stock ROM, do that a time or two, and then get into the more up-to-date stuff.
Your method of going about a new task is going to... well, it isn't going to work, unless you are really, really lucky.

HELP ME... URGENCY, has to do with reverting to stock...

This is my case, the volume button on my xperia stopped working... so is it possible to flash stock rom without using volume down button?? Do u guys think it'll be simple to fix if i open the phone?? Maybe the button just slid off the thing that it presses (noob terminology). Does updating the phone via Sony ericson update utility install stock rom OR does it just change hard-spl to stock spl?? The reason for me wanting to stock it up is obvious, i want the volume button fixed and some of my keyboard buttons stopped working... its funny cuz i take care of my phone like its my life :S
PLEASEE MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS... tnx

bgeorgi said:
This is my case, the volume button on my xperia stopped working... so is it possible to flash stock rom without using volume down button?? Do u guys think it'll be simple to fix if i open the phone?? Maybe the button just slid off the thing that it presses (noob terminology). Does updating the phone via Sony ericson update utility install stock rom OR does it just change hard-spl to stock spl?? The reason for me wanting to stock it up is obvious, i want the volume button fixed and some of my keyboard buttons stopped working... its funny cuz i take care of my phone like its my life :S
PLEASEE MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS... tnx
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- You can flash the stock rom using RUU ROM Update Utility via activesync connected instead of microsd method.
- Flash rom via SEUS doesnt change the hardSPL. But I think the latest SEUS needs stock rom/stock spl installed first, I'm not sure.

THANK YOU!!
So i should install my backed up stock rom then change the hard spl to stock?
Btw, should i install another stock rom intead of mine, for some reason i think something will go wrong (cuz I* backed it up)...

btw is this the tutorial i should be following?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=508038
because it says that is for flashing radios but it seems like its the same thing no?

i think this linkmuch better,also has got everything what you need.good luck mate..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=477801

bgeorgi said:
btw is this the tutorial i should be following?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=508038
because it says that is for flashing radios but it seems like its the same thing no?
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bgeorgi said:
THANK YOU!!
So i should install my backed up stock rom then change the hard spl to stock?
Btw, should i install another stock rom intead of mine, for some reason i think something will go wrong (cuz I* backed it up)...
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that thread is not what you are looking for, the one posted above this # is more suitable, but if you want to get back to stock because of warranty I would advice on
original x1 rom thread for the latest stock rom matching your country
olinex hspl thread to get the stock spl and read how to restore it
get customruu here as your volume control seems messed
biovolts tutorials for flashing and recovering if you are unsure (4.+5. for recovery)
bootloader app in case you still want to use sd card for flashing instead of synching with pc
cheers and gl

what is haykuro SPL and danger spl? please help

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?

cg87 said:
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?

loveispoison said:
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.

cg87 said:
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..?

goldenarmZ said:
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
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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.

[Q] Bricked??

I received a G1 from a friend, this isn't actually the first G1 i've rooted. I have one of my own, and I have done about 3 others without any problems what so ever.
I'm not exactly sure what went wrong. I had flashed the recovery, following the cyanogen wiki, and when I got to the flashing the Hard SPL part, i flashed it, (and the radio) and i restarted, and thats it. It just stays at the G1 screen.
No combination of keys work. Home + Power. Camera + Power. Nada.
From most of the threads I've found, I can almost say its a brick, but I just wanted to double check that theres nothing I can do (ADB?).
Thanks!

red.Wood said:
I received a G1 from a friend, this isn't actually the first G1 i've rooted. I have one of my own, and I have done about 3 others without any problems what so ever.
I'm not exactly sure what went wrong. I had flashed the recovery, following the cyanogen wiki, and when I got to the flashing the Hard SPL part, i flashed it, (and the radio) and i restarted, and thats it. It just stays at the G1 screen.
No combination of keys work. Home + Power. Camera + Power. Nada.
From most of the threads I've found, I can almost say its a brick, but I just wanted to double check that theres nothing I can do (ADB?).
Thanks!
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I know how frustrated you must be that actually happend to me before idk if the same thing caused it but try to do the whole process all over if that doesnt work i sudgest looking for how to unbrick your phone

jamal717 said:
I know how frustrated you must be that actually happend to me before idk if the same thing caused it but try to do the whole process all over if that doesnt work i sudgest looking for how to unbrick your phone
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Did you even understand what happened? How's and what is he supposed to do over again if he can't get into bootloader or recovery?
OP, Sorry to say, you have a brick.

borodin1 said:
Did you even understand what happened? How's and what is he supposed to do over again if he can't get into bootloader or recovery?
OP, Sorry to say, you have a brick.
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looks like i've done similar to the OP --> flashed a non EBI1/32A radio.
Now it just hangs on the HTC Dream splash screen.

Yeah, looks like were **** out luck lol. I ended up buying a Magic Slide. Whats weird is that i flashed the radio B4 the spl.

red.Wood said:
Yeah, looks like were **** out luck lol. I ended up buying a Magic Slide. Whats weird is that i flashed the radio B4 the spl.
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sent it back to the SP with a story of how during the flash the computer crashed. here's to hoping.

got the phone back after being charged about $25 to repair.
anyway this time i read the instructions properly. left the radio on 3.22.20.17 and then installed the one click root and flashrec apps. I then rooted the phone, download Anon-RA's recovery image with flashrec. I then followed the cyanogen wiki and froyo is now running on it.

red.Wood said:
I received a G1 from a friend, this isn't actually the first G1 i've rooted. I have one of my own, and I have done about 3 others without any problems what so ever.
I'm not exactly sure what went wrong. I had flashed the recovery, following the cyanogen wiki, and when I got to the flashing the Hard SPL part, i flashed it, (and the radio) and i restarted, and thats it. It just stays at the G1 screen.
No combination of keys work. Home + Power. Camera + Power. Nada.
From most of the threads I've found, I can almost say its a brick, but I just wanted to double check that theres nothing I can do (ADB?).
Thanks!
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Did you even understand what happened? How's and what is he supposed to do over again if he can't get into bootloader or recovery?
OP, Sorry to say, you have a brick.
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It definitely sounds like you have a hard brick. I think the only way to fix your phone is to JTAG JTAG it. Which I have no idea how that works or how to reload the software on your phone.

Go to this thread, this explains all:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591048