XDA MINI S BRICK PHONE

[gambino]

Well i officially have a BRICK PHONE . I tried to downgrade the ROM and now my phone will not even power up. Its not even coming up. Even with a wall charger the phone will not boot up. ITs just a brick now. Does anyone knowif there is any hope or should just use it as a door stopper.

[gambino]

WOW 49 views and no replies. Some one please help. Should i send it to HTC since my warranty is voided. If i should anyone know a HTC support center in the US.

[lie_ui]

Yes, there is one HTC support center located in Houston.

You can send them email
htc_tmobile@htcusainc.com

or call them
1-888-356-2375
(They answer as Tmobile customer care, but are actually a division of HTC).


HTC America

5950 Corporate Dr

Houston, TX 77036

888 482-8725

Hope this helps and wish you luck.

[summiter]

Well i officially have a BRICK PHONE . I tried to downgrade the ROM and now my phone will not even power up. Its not even coming up. Even with a wall charger the phone will not boot up. ITs just a brick now. Does anyone knowif there is any hope or should just use it as a door stopper.

I've had an experience when flashing my phone where during the flashing process the battery gets sufficiently depleted that it won't turn on after the flash completes. During the flash process, the battery does not charge, and the reading and writing to flash consumes more power than normal operation.

When the Wizard battery gets depleted, it will not take a charge without some serious effort. I would plug it in to the charger and leave it for at least half an hour. Then, with the power adapter still connected, attempt several resets using the soft reset button. There was a time when I had to do this several dozen times before it "took" and was revived.

You can confirm whether it's a battery problem by trying another battery. Perhaps you can stop by your carrier's retail store and ask to try a battery. If it powers up, then tell them your battery went bad (not unusual) and they may replace it for free.

[gambino]

Thanks for the advise, i ll try that. I knew i could get some help from this forum thanks again guys.

[gambino]

went to the tmobile store tried a new battery it still wont come on. I guess have to call HTC on monday. Might have fried te phone.

[gambino]

Called HTC support and they do not support the xda mini s. Anybody have a suggestions or any third party vendors who can help fix this phone. Please advise.

[gambino]

WOW 400 views and no inputs

[fluffcat1]

WOW 49 views and no replies. Some one please help. Should i send it to HTC since my warranty is voided. If i should anyone know a HTC support center in the US.

WOW 400 views and no inputs

Maybe if you weren't so sarky people might want to help...some more info might be good. What bootloader from / to and why? Does a computer recognise and install it, what happens when you run a rom update etc etc.

If you have destroyed the bootloader you will need to use JTAG to reflash it and this is not something you can do at home with your own PC so you may have to pay a service centre to correct it.

Richard

[gambino]

I was not trying to be sarky about it. I just need help. I downgraded the ROM from the 2.21 version to 1.X version. After the downgraded the phone booted up and it got stuck at the initail ROM screen. I tried reseting it a couple of time and it kept coming up and it gets stuck from on the ROM boot up screen. So i took the battery out and after i put it back in its not even coming up. There is absolutely no power. Im willing to send it any service center i just need info on where to send it to . HTCUSAINC says they do not support 02 devices. Thanks for at least responding to my thread.

[fluffcat1]

I was not trying to be sarky about it. I just need help. I downgraded the ROM from the 2.21 version to 1.X version. After the downgraded the phone booted up and it got stuck at the initail ROM screen. I tried reseting it a couple of time and it kept coming up and it gets stuck from on the ROM boot up screen. So i took the battery out and after i put it back in its not even coming up. There is absolutely no power. Im willing to send it any service center i just need info on where to send it to . HTCUSAINC says they do not support 02 devices. Thanks for at least responding to my thread.

HTC USA probably say that because they are contractually obliged to.

If you have destroyed the bootloader you will need to use JTAG to reflash it and this is not something you can do at home with your own PC so you may have to pay a service centre to correct it.

Richard

OK, who are i-mate's service agent in the US? Ring them. Explain you know how they don't service the XDA mini s, but it's a JAMin or whatever, and you're over from the UK where you work etc so can't send it back to o2 immediatley, a rom upgrade has gone wrong and you've corrupted the bootloader, you have downloaded the rom files and will strip the phone to the circuitboard if they would be so kind as to flash your rom file on it via JTAG if you made a donation to the charity of their choice etc etc.

So make it out that they have to do little work other than plug the JTAG onto the board and click 'ok' and you may get away with it.

If they do go for it, strip the phone, send the extracted rom files on CDr, thank your lucky stars and don't do it again. If they don't go for it, try the next HTC device service agent you can find until someone does.

Although people have JTAG equipment outside HTC the contact points are not labelled / listed in the service manual so you need them or their authorised agents to be able to do this.

Richard

[gambino]

Thanks for the advice you have been a great help im going to look for a Imate service center in the US. thanks again . Has anyone ever had any work done by the pocketpctechs.com please advise

[fluffcat1]

Thanks for the advice you have been a great help im going to look for a Imate service center in the US. thanks again . Has anyone ever had any work done by the pocketpctechs.com please advise

I don't know if PPCTechs have JTAG capability for wizard. Ring them and ask. If they say '"huh? all our boxes have tags on them sir" or similar walk away...

You need someone that not only has a JTAG flash kit but also knows where the testpoints are on the wizard board. I don't sadly :-(

And I really would offer to strip the board down before sending - that's an hours' labour in some places!....

Richard

[gambino]

Thanks you are being such a great help.Wow its getting even closer to a brick phone huh.Well im still looking i have no idea where to find a repair center for this o2 xda mini s.Ill try club imate like u said in earlier.thanks again. i owe u one

[fluffcat1]

Thanks you are being such a great help.Wow its getting even closer to a brick phone huh.Well im still looking i have no idea where to find a repair center for this o2 xda mini s.Ill try club imate like u said in earlier.thanks again. i owe u one

Unless you have a specific reason not to send the device back to o2 why not ring the UK XDA helpline for a quote? They do out-of-warranty repairs. +44 808 100 3427

If you are the original purchaser the warranty should still be valid - just don't mention you tried to flash it, says it stopped working.

Shipping insured to the UK should be no more than $25.

Richard.

[gambino]

I might just have to do that . It was a gift , but i know want the person to know that i tried to flash the phone. But at this point ill rather send it back to O2, than go thru all this stuff. Thank you soo much for ur inputs.

[Tamagochi]

WOW 49 views and no replies. Some one please help. Should i send it to HTC since my warranty is voided. If i should anyone know a HTC support center in the US.

WOW 400 views and no inputs

Maybe if you weren't so sarky people might want to help...some more info might be good. What bootloader from / to and why? Does a computer recognise and install it, what happens when you run a rom update etc etc.

If you have destroyed the bootloader you will need to use JTAG to reflash it and this is not something you can do at home with your own PC so you may have to pay a service centre to correct it.

Richard
Hello Richard!
Could you please tell me more about JTAG? What does JTAG stand for and what JTAG can do. Its unlucky that now i have a dead O2 MiniS like Gambino because of doing the same thing he did (downgrade ROM). Will my phone become alive if i change the Flash ROM Chip?
BR

[gambino]

yes its unfortunate . I was trying to downgrade the rom. Whats exactly happened to yours. Has anyone else haad this problem and if you did were u able to revive it.

[Tamagochi]

yes its unfortunate . I was trying to downgrade the rom. Whats exactly happened to yours. Has anyone else haad this problem and if you did were u able to revive it.
I did use the newromupdateutility_wizard_noid.exe with custom ROM (Button's) to flash my O2 Mini S (it was with German ROM 2.21 and i wanted to downgrade ROM in order to unlock CID and reflash with English ROM). The process went Ok and when the phone restarted i got
IPL 1.0. xx
SPL 2.21.xx
OS 1.54xx
and a boot screen with a glass of beer !!!!
Then the phone hang up, i think because of incompatible SPL and OS
I took out the battery trying to get into bootloader and reflash with another ROM but the phone did not power on. Now its totally a DEAD BRICK.

[gambino]

yup thats the same thing that happened to me. Anybody else have any input if this ever happened to them

[titus666]

yup thats the same thing that happened to me. Anybody else have any input if this ever happened to them
I have the same problem. We've been discussing it in another thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=47848&highlight=dead

[fluffcat1]

Hello Richard!
Could you please tell me more about JTAG? What does JTAG stand for and what JTAG can do. Its unlucky that now i have a dead O2 MiniS like Gambino because of doing the same thing he did (downgrade ROM). Will my phone become alive if i change the Flash ROM Chip?
BR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTAG

It is an industry standard 5 pin interface to allow backdoor access to flash roms etc.

TBH if you don't know what it is you have no chance of learning to use it with your wizard as there are no references to it in the service manual etc.

I do not know the order of the test points on the wizard board and JTAG equipment can be very expensive.

Richard

[hendrickwu]

dear friend,
the only way, because O2 cannot support outside UK is go to some pda repair center, and ask them to replace the RAM, the problem is the Ram cannot be formatted from data coming from flash rom. so it stuck.

May be has to pay for some.

Hendrick

went to the tmobile store tried a new battery it still wont come on. I guess have to call HTC on monday. Might have fried te phone.

[lmd0990]

i have the same thing , brick xda mini s
we are working on reflashing by jtag
join us in thread : (dead wizard , let's revive) to share inf.s and reach the goal