bricked G$

[bowlopho]

is there anyway to unbrick a G4 wizard?

[foxenesys]

There are many ways.
But please tell us more about symptoms ?

Bricked how ?
What is on screen ?

[bowlopho]

i was just asking just incase i brick my phone.

[hanmin]

when it is 'bricked', there is no way. It is like, when a person is 'dead' there is no way of reviving him/her. 'Bricked' is a terminal word, it may goes deeper as the gurus here find deeper ways to revive a unit.

[xpcomputers]

It is like, when a person is 'dead' there is no way of reviving him/her.

Jesus might beg to differ... but I ain't arguing! ;)

BOWLOFO:
If you read the sticky thread at top of this forum, you will see how to remove the bootloader from a ROM before you load it.

This means that if a upload goes wrong and you can't get it load normally (eg it might LOOK "bricked"), you can always initialise the loader, an bring it back to life again! (eg it wasn't "bricked" after all.).

"Bricked" literally means = turned into a brick = useful only as a paperweight!

I guess some cases that look like they are "bricked", are actually just a case of needing greater skill to bring alive again.

If you are careful to follow ALL the instructions in that thread, then you should be OK, as there should always be a way to bring it back to life from any "brick-esque" situations.

Is that what "resurrection" means..... :cool:

Mike

[KChauJen]

My Wizard is really DEAD now due to the my to power off during Rom upgrading. I did tried hard-reset but it's always display the bootloader screen without 3-color stripper, so it can't connect to ActiveSync.

Please help with your knowledge...

Thanks,

KC

[KChauJen]

My Wizard is really DEAD now due to the my to power off during Rom upgrading. I did tried hard-reset but it's always display the bootloader screen without 3-color stripper, so it can't connect to ActiveSync.

Please help with your knowledge...

Thanks,

KC

Find out how to enter to Wizard boot mode (Tri-color bootloader screen)
1.Turn your device off
2.Hold the Camera button in and push the power button for 2 seconds
...you should get the 3 color bar screen
3.Plug your usb cable in to the phone

Hope I can revive my device...

KC

[foxenesys]

This looks good to me.

BTW It seems like you can access the bootloader by different key combination + reset, if we except the CommManager + Voice Record + Reset combination wich is intended to make a full format of the user area.

So I'm used to make a Mail + Photo + Reset combination (keep Mail + Photo pushed until magic screen appears).

Once you're in bootloader mode (Rainbow screen), Activesync won't launch synchronisation as the device is no longer identified as a Pocket PC, better ready to be loaded with a new OS.

Oh one thing. If you're stucked somewhere in the boot process and want to revert to a stable version, make sure you use an official release.

It would be nonsense to try to revive a bad upgrade with another one...