Did I brick my PPC6800?

[mantispid]

This is what happened:

I received a used Alltel PPC6800. It had WM5 installed. I called Alltel to activate the phone. It activated and reset itself... to the bootloader. I couldn't get it out of the bootloader, so I thought what the hell, I'll upgrade to the latest ROM that HTC put out for the Alltel PPC 6800.

The ROM loaded fine, and upgraded to bootloader to SPL-2.07.. However, it was stuck in the bootloader. So, I did a soft reset. Windows 6 started up. Then it went to auto-install the Alltel custom software. Then it reset, and has been stuck in the bootloader screen ever since. It can't be hard reset, it can't be soft reset... reloading the ROM doesn't work. I can't try changing bootloader versions because I need to be in the OS to do that. I can't load an older ROM, because it won't let me do so... it fails at 1% and says something about an Invalid ROM.

Oh, and that titan_exitbl.exe program doesn't work. It just resets the phone back to the bootloader.

I will be mailing it out for an exchange in the morning unless someone here may know of a way to get it working again.

Thanks!

[thakidc]

NO its not bricked, it wouldnt power on. Sounds like its messed up good though, good luck

[mantispid]

Well, I found that I *could* get it to load the OS if I used MTTY and the 'set 0 16', 'boot' trick.

I then upgraded the bootloader to above 2.4. However... it still hangs at the bootloader screen if I reset the device.

So... It seems something else is going on, that is preventing the device from loading the OS on it's own. I can't really be plugging it into a computer and running MTTY every time I need to reset the damn thing.

Any ideas?

[flyers2114]

Well, I found that I *could* get it to load the OS if I used MTTY and the 'set 0 16', 'boot' trick.

I then upgraded the bootloader to above 2.4. However... it still hangs at the bootloader screen if I reset the device.

So... It seems something else is going on, that is preventing the device from loading the OS on it's own. I can't really be plugging it into a computer and running MTTY every time I need to reset the damn thing.

Any ideas?


Have you tried to flash since you upgraded the BL....if not give it a shot and see what happens....use the SD method to flash....put NBH file on card and rename it to TITAIMG.nbh

[mantispid]

Yup, just tried flashing from microSD, and it flashed just fine, but has the same problem.

It won't exit the bootloader. I wish I had a USB headset adapter to see if that would make it boot. I've heard that works for some of these that have this problem.