Help Question about bricked phone

Painkillaz · Jan 25, 2011

Ive always seen bricked my phone posts. So it got me thinking...with the rooting/custom ROM process dealing with software only is bricking your phone truly permanent?

What is stopping someone from just finding a way/writing a program that resets all the hardware/software to its original state to I guess "unbrick"...

because as far as i know the hardware cant be damaged unless it overheats or gets dropped or falls in water...

or am i on the wrong track?

Mr. Ed · Jan 25, 2011

No....you are on the right track. Very few of the bricked phone threads have actually been bricked phones.

akazabam · Jan 25, 2011

It's true that most situations are recoverable. That doesn't mean that it's impossible to truly brick the phone. Here's the thing, if something gets interrupted or corrupted at a low enough, level, none of us have the tools available to recover some of those things. If you ever lose the ability to get into hboot, you've pretty much got a brick, and it's not worth your or HTC's time to try and fix that. That being said, that's probably harder to do than most think. Something like pulling the battery out during a radio update is likely to give you a brick, but just routine ROM flashing, etc. will never get you to that point.

drexappeal · Jan 25, 2011

I bricked the phone when that software update glitch happened a week or 2 after the initial release. The techs tried to fix it, but told me to bring it back to Best Buy and just get a new one.

Painkillaz · Jan 25, 2011

were these techs at the store? i feel like you would've gotten more help from these forums...just my opinion though...and i remember that glitch...i was lucky and it worked fine for me

drexappeal · Jan 25, 2011

Painkillaz said:
were these techs at the store? i feel like you would've gotten more help from these forums...just my opinion though...and i remember that glitch...i was lucky and it worked fine for me

Yeah, it was sprint.

Nope. I was on these forums a month or more before the phone was even released, so the forums wouldn't have helped me any. This was a mass issue for a lot of early EVO owners. And I was one of the first few that experienced it.

Painkillaz · Jan 25, 2011

true i guess at that early of a stage since it wasn't rooted at that time information would've been scarce

drexappeal · Jan 25, 2011

Painkillaz said:
true i guess at that early of a stage since it wasn't rooted at that time information would've been scarce

This was literally 1 or 2 weeks after the June 4 release, so the only information about the problem with the update was pretty much after a lot of people ended up bricking their phones...LOL...Root was already available, but this was an OEM software update, so it shouldn't have bricked the phone (and shouldn't have popped up twice for updating).

So, in essence, the people that got the OTA update the soonest ran the greater risk of that happening. That was the same OTA update that made HTC send Sprint a BUNCH of EVO's as replacements for people who were experiencing the problem. They also pulled the initial software update and had to adjust it so that it wouldn't loop the update notification and allow for people to update twice.

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