I bricked my Droid yesterday. Either that or I had a sudden fatal hardware problem. I can't tell.
To make matters 1000x worse, DroidForum was down yesterday afternoon when this was happening!! Arrrgh!
Here's what happened...
Four days ago, I went from stock Moto Droid 2.1 and flashed the following (in order):
SPRecovery
Bugless Beast v1.0
Bekit 1.0GHz 7-slot LV kernel
ClockworkMod Recovery
HelixLauncher1
SetCPU (OC to 1000)
Things were 100% fine for three days. No issues at all.
SUDDENLY and without any warning yesterday, I take my Droid out of its holster and it is on the BootLauncher
I can't get it out of Bootlauncher.
Tried to flash a few Recovery versions. No luck.
Still boots to BootLauncher
Battery finally died and I can't charge it or boot it at all.
HELP!!! Can anyone help me get my phone up and running (or even back to stock to have Verizon replace/repair)??
(I finally went to Verizon and added a 2nd line and got a basic LG flip phone as a backup. I am a doctor and dozens of calls went unanswered yesterday. I'm thinking such with such a "critical need" I probably should run stock? Or get an Incredible as my main phone and play with the Droid? Not wild about having a belt full of devices!)
For charging your battery, use the wall charger. Once completely dead plugging into the computer isn't effective. Plug it in and leave it for a while (like 8 hours or more). Worked for me when I had my phone completely die a few weeks ago.
As a doctor I'd say reliability > fun, at least when a lot of your business is likely done over the phone. But I'm not you nor a doctor so I wouldn't know really, the Incredible is a good phone that is faster than the droid at stock. It still won't be able to do the "root" things, but honestly I could live with the Sense UI.
Device(s): BAMF, Sense 3 RC3... DreamKernel-2.2.2Beta-SENSE... waiting for my turn to brick.
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I to am a doctor.. the hospital provides me with a BB for unlimited use... or more to the point... their unlimited access to me... I shower with the damn thing.
I charged it for 10 hours. Still boots into Bootloader, but now its flashing "battery Low -- Cannot program" so I don;t think I will be able to flash SBF.
Verizon is sending me a replacement... of course I never told them mine was rooted/OC'd when the problem started.
Should I root the new one or bag it (unless I get a Incredible as my daily driver?)??
be weary of sending it to verizon because if they find out that you have tried to install a ROM and thats the cause of the issue you might get charged the cost of the phone.
When you say Bootloader what exactly to do mean, the M logo?
be weary of sending it to verizon because if they find out that you have tried to install a ROM and thats the cause of the issue you might get charged the cost of the phone.
When you say Bootloader what exactly to do mean, the M logo?
The M logo appears.
Then the screen goes black and ...
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Bootloader v???? (can't remember the number)
Battery Low
Cannot Program
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What can I do to wipe the ROM before I send it in?
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Bricked??
