Bricked my phone i think

[dan5.5]

Hey everyone,
i am so upset and lost; words cannot describe it.
So i installed WM6 black shadow and everything was working except for SMS and MMS. So i am like ok i can live with that for a day till custel' rom will come out. SO i decided to upgrade the radio to 1.43 and boom here is where the problem started, No GSM on boot up. Phone doesn't boot up. I tried install 1.40 over again, still nothing. No i tried upgrade the the rom itself, i tired custel 2.5 and nothing and i tried the new Cingular rom, still same problem. the roms flash all the way. I read the wiki, and saw the mtty.exe thing but that doesn't work for me either. I am really lost and don't know what to do.
Specs
cingular 8525
hardspl v7 cid and sim unlocked.
PLEASE HELP

[mrvanx]

4.13?? 4.10??

Where did you download these radios from??

or do you mean 1.41 or 1.43??

[dan5.5]

Yeah thats what i meant, 1.40 and 1.43 sorry. You can see how upset i am.
Thanks Again

[Madcap180]

Well, if your phone turnes on .. it's not a brick.. lol .. it IS fixable... When you turn the phone on does it go RIGHT to the 3 colored screen?

[mrvanx]

@dan5.5

You need to read the unbricking thread about this, all the info you need is there.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=286755

[Madcap180]

If you are superCID I don't see how flashing a radio could have messed up your phone.. that's weird.

[dan5.5]

@dan5.5

You need to read the unbricking thread about this, all the info you need is there.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=286755

I read everything there and nothing seems to be working for me. I woudnt post for nothing. i dont want to be annoying.

[mrvanx]

OK im going to repost what ive said on 4wm:

We need to check if your Radio BL is functional, firstly leave HardSPL v7 on there and connect to the bootloader via mtty (il assume you know how to do this).

Issue the following commands and tell us the results please:
1) checkimage (this shows the CRC checksums of each component...id expect the radio image to show a timeout....

2) info 2 (This will verify that your CID is intact)

3) info 8 (does a bad block check)

Once youve done this, flash SPL 1.10.oli to the device and once again connect up to mtty.

4) 'rtask a' this will enter the radio bootloader you will see "Enter Radio Bootloader" or something to that effect

from now on when you type the text does NOT appear on the mtty screen.

5) 'rversion' this should return your radio bootloader version...now unfortunatly if you see nothing...you radio BL is dead and sorry your device is royally bricked. If you get something returned back onto the screen (most probably containing the text '0108') then your radio BL is fine.

do as instructed in that text, post your results here.

[dan5.5]

I cant falsh spl 1.10 oli. it gives me the 260 error.

[Madcap180]

the 260 error is not connected via USB right? .. weird... have you tried taking your battery out for a couple minutes, then booting into BL mode? sounds weird but this worked for me when I didnt flash hardSPL firsl.. ;)

[dan5.5]

hey mrvanx's
I can't downgrade the hardspl to 1.10, anyhelp.
I cant active sync, the phone doesnt boot up.
Is there anyway to aviod having to respond on the phone.

[dan5.5]

hey,
i can get the phone to boot up into windows and then it freezes within a couple min. what should i do. Still no gsm message and no phone. thanks
Dan

[Lordsmiff]

OK, so let's try and get you to a working state - I've bricked mine a couple of times and it can be quite heart-stopping, eh? :)

The first thing I would do is re-download radio 1.43, just incase your current one is damaged somehow.

Secondly, download Black Shadow - I know it's not the ROM you ultimately want but the aim here is to get you working again and we can move forward from there.

First, boot up into BootLoader mode (hold down the OK button on the left side of the phone and the power button and then press the reset button on the bottom, just in case you didn't know :)

You should come to the three colour screen and it should be reading IPL-1.04 and SPL-2.10.Olipro. If it isn't, stop here and post what it does say.

If it everything is OK at this point, when you plug your phone into your computer, it should change to USB at the bottom. Just wait for the Found New Hardware prompts to clear on your PC and then flash the black rom - choose the hardspl option in the flash program.

Once that has finished and it is at the "tap screen to set up windows..." bit, put it back into bootloader mode as above and flash the radio.

This should hopefully give you a running phone again as I know this combination works OK as I am currently using it.

Fingers crossed, don't panic, and let us know what the results are :)

Cheers,
Smiffy.

[dan5.5]

Nothing is working, can some please help me. Is there anyt way i can restore the spl to the original one so i can send the phone back, i just got it like 2 weeks ago. thanks

Also i have a bad block thats what i think makes the phone freeze after i boot it up.
How can i get around this, thats seems to be the biggest problem.

[dan5.5]

Hey everyone, let me give you more info.
I can fully flash any rom and and radio,
phone will boot up like 1 out of 10 times and then freezes and thats it.
i have a bad block number 6. I have hard spl v7 installed before the phone got screwed up. I cant downgrader the spl to a lower one to check if radio stack is screwed up. Can someone please help me, if you need to ask me more info feel free.