Tornado stuck in bootloader mode?

[stpete111]

I have a Cingular 2125 which I replaced the ROM with the Imate SP5m one which allows for A2DP... I did that about 4 months ago, and everything worked wonderfully for those several months. Then suddenly yesterday, the phone was responding to my input really slowly, so I did a soft reboot as I hadn't restarted it in awhile. When it started back up, it brought me to the bootloader screen (red, green, and blue screen), and I cannot get out of it... rebooted several times, took out the battery, etc... can only get the bootloader screen.

Is there a way to get back to my phone or did this thing just erase itself?

Many thanks!
SP

[stpete111]

I finally got out of it. After about 25 or so reboots, it finally decided it wanted to start up normally.

But now, the joystick is screwed up??? Of the five functions, it only responds to three: up, down, and right. Left, and select (kind of important!) don't work anymore.

Has anyone else experienced this as a software/firmware problem, or should I just assume that this is a hardware failure?

Thanks again.
SP

[merwin]

My guess would be hardware failure, although you could try re-flashing it and see what happens.

[stpete111]

Thanks. I figured I'd probably have to go that route, but just wanted to see if this happened to anyone else first.

Off I go to re-flash land!

[stpete111]

Yep, hardware is f$^&ed. I just re-flashed to the Qtek 8300 AKU2 ROM as I read that it addressed some joystick issues. Re-flash was successful, but no change in the behavior of the joystick.

Oh well, I was looking for an excuse to get a Tytn anyway.