Brick phone

[killershot20]

I flashed my Tornado's SPL with Typhoon's wm6 spl found here
http://www.geocities.com/gggbitonti/

Now my phone wont even power on. I cant even get it to bootldr mode.
When I plug it in to my pc, I get no lights on the phone. No activity whatsoever.
I bricked my phone didn't I?

[giuseppebitonti]

ohhh... bad thing flashing tornado with typhoon spl...
mhh.. try this.
- disconnect smartphone from usb cable
- in activesync disable allowing usb connection
- press and hold camera button while put the usb cable in
- your device will boot in bootloader mode
- follow the flash procedure flash slp and rom of WM6 ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1372721&postcount=2 )

flashing is a danger procedure.. but you don't have never to wrong rom or spl..

[NiTroGenious]

Oh yeah, you bricked it! And there is no way restoring it by yourself. Check this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294444 :(

[anandoc]

[QUOTE=killershot20;1380230]I flashed my Tornado's SPL with Typhoon's wm6 spl found here
http://www.geocities.com/gggbitonti/
....QUOTE]

Dude, why would you knowingly flash your Tornado's SPL with a Typhoon's SPL ? I mean, you were just looking for trouble. Your phone is pretty much a paperweight now :(

[duke_stix]

NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER EVER NOT IN A MILLION YEARS EVER flash another phones ipl or spl. that is the bootloader. flashing a different phones OS can be repaired but is not easy. flashing another SPL/IPL is not so easily repaired!

[afeudale]

Did the same to my phone about 5 mins ago. Flashed my Tornado with the Typhoon WM6 ROM. I've been flashing phones for years now and for some reason this is the first time I messed up...

I think the names Typhoon/Tornado are too similar :-(

Does anyone have a workable solution to this? Maybe using a mini-SD? Or opening the phone and doing something?

Mine also does not turn on, but it did do something weird (which I can no longer replicate) - the red power light came on and the bluetooth light started to flicker rapidly...

[ducamie]

this stuff happens far too often..

firmware should have some kind of checks that its gonna work with the hardware before it goes ahead and flashes. lots of phones mp3 players modems and stuff all get bricked far too often.

[anandoc]

this stuff happens far too often..

firmware should have some kind of checks that its gonna work with the hardware before it goes ahead and flashes. lots of phones mp3 players modems and stuff all get bricked far too often.

I agree with you. I have previously worked on some HD-FM exciter stuff which had a mainboard and a custom DSP amongst other things. The firmware for these guys were user-upgradable and the upgrade program (designed by yours truly) had a check where-in it would check teh hardware and then check the integrity of the firmware image and then check for compatibility and then flash the ROM. Too bad this hasnt been implemented in the HTC smartphones. :mad:

[karhoe]

this stuff happens far too often..

firmware should have some kind of checks that its gonna work with the hardware before it goes ahead and flashes. lots of phones mp3 players modems and stuff all get bricked far too often.

It has, but when you SuperCID, you remove the protection

[kartam]

exactly like U said.
it's not HTC fault that people remove this protection.