[Tutorial] Unbrick your softbricked HTC Wildfire S

vbhtt · Apr 27, 2012

Your phone is said to be bricked when you screw up with your radio partition of your phone. This contains the bootloader which loads the operating system. This is a hard brick and needs expensive hardware to fix. I can only help you with a soft brick.

benjamingwynn said:
Most people seen to not know the difference between a soft brick, a boot failure and a total brick.

Boot failure: commonly referred to as 'the HTC screen', 'the white screen' and of cause the 'help me my phone is stuck - problem'. This problem can be caused by many things, including the kernel, library's and ramdisk (think of a ramdisk like a map of your phones internal hardware). This can easily be resolved by flashing a new ROM.

Soft brick: Is where your phone gives out no screen output, but does give out some vibrations or you can access the bootloader utility/hboot, this can be fixed by flashing an RUU

Brick: your phone is as useless as a brick. It does not turn on nor make any vibrations, and you can not access the bootloader utility. There is no way to fix this.

Here's some ways to avoid soft bricking/bricking:

- Don't flash unofficial radio firmware
- Don't flash unofficial hboot software
- Don't throw your phone
- Don't flash anything suspicious in hboot
- Don't flash an RUU not designed for your phone

Here's some common misunderstandings:

- Roms, on there own will never brick your phone
- Kernels will never brick your phone
- The bootloader is not the radio
- Too many flashes will not brick your phone (however, you may make the internal memory smaller by KB because of bad sectors, but that story is for another time )

Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e using xda premium

Thanks to benjamingwynn for the above info. Original post

It is a good practice to keep at least 3 nandroid backups on your sd card or computer. Also, making a goldcard is also necessary to run an RUU and to flash a PG76IMG.zip these things make it easier to unbrick your phone

Install ADB and Fastboot here first.

A Soft brick may be of many types.

The 3/5/7 vibe Brick (common with A510c)

Phone doesn't boot but goes to recovery saying something like E:/ Invalid command argument

Stuck on splash screen (White backgound with green 'htc')

Bootloop (Bootanimation plays repeatedly)

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fr33kachu · Apr 28, 2012

HI I have a 3 vibe brick on my CDMA VM USA HTC Wildfire S. It started with phone restarting and so I tried to recover though CWMod recovery, as I had backed it up when I first rooted my phone. During recovery it failed. I rebooted my phone then was stuck on the splash screen, after that I tried a battery pull and wound up with the 3 vibe brick. I have tried this method 4 times now, nothing seems to change, 3 vibes on power + vol down, wait 5 min, press vol up, wait 5 min again press vol up, no vibe, no nothing. screen stays black, no other vibes, do a battery pull, start over, same thing again. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated cause I have no backup phone at the moment.

vbhtt · Apr 28, 2012

I'm sorry that's my mistake you have to do that with a PG76IMG.zip, not pb31img. Extract it from the ruu of your carrier and then follow the procedure

Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e

fr33kachu · Apr 28, 2012

Ok cool. I was kinda thinking that's what it was, cause every time I was in hboot before this happened that's what it looked for, but I wasn't sure. Not really familiar with android but learning. Thanks again, btw, it works and you rock.

vbhtt · Apr 29, 2012

fr33kachu said:
Ok cool. I was kinda thinking that's what it was, cause every time I was in hboot before this happened that's what it looked for, but I wasn't sure. Not really familiar with android but learning. Thanks again, btw, it works and you rock.

So you're unbricked now? Could you post the PG76IMG for other users?

B3NJY · May 1, 2012

usb connection

Hi, really good tutorial bud, mine is stuck on 7 or five vibe seems random at the moment...transffered zip to sd but I think my battery is dead and does not seem to charge on charger and laptop not recognising usb connection (though red led comes on....do I need to find alternative way to charge battery ? Also if in diagnostics mode would this show in device manager... as I am guessing if it does not that means I aint so phone is truly bricked...
Thanks ahead
Ben

vbhtt · May 1, 2012

So did you try the method shown?

botski · May 1, 2012

thank you mate! really help for us

keep sharing!

Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e using Tapatalk 2

marius.muntean · May 1, 2012

hard brick?

Hey all.

I recently purchased a Wildfire S(no simlock, no branding) from ebay. The touchscreen was responding very randomly so (without giving it too much thought, sigh) I decided to flash it. I'm in Germany so I used "RUU_Marvel_S_HTC_Europe_2.13.401.3_Radio_47.23c.35.3037_7.54.39.28M_release_236989_signed.exe"

I don't know what I did wrong but now I seem to have a bricked phone. When powered on it displays nothing, it doesn't vibrate and it is not recognizes by Windows when connected via USB, it doesn't even show up in the Device Manager as some sort of device. The display keeps turning on and off every 2,3 seconds regardless if I turn the phone on or i just plug in the battery so now it sits with no battery waiting to be salvaged.

Can you confirm that I have a hard bricked phone? I've read that it is possible to unbrick the HTC Sensation by putting it in QDL mode.
Can this be done with the Wildfire S? I saw two little holes near the upper right corner of the battery.

If it is absolutely impossible for the Wildfire S, can you recommend a place in Munich where I could get my phone fixed? What's a reasonable price so I don't get ripped off?

Thank you all! I hope I've posted in the right forum. Should I open a new thread for this?

Ciao.

vbhtt · May 1, 2012

Did you unlock your bootloader? If not, you can claim your warranty

marius.muntean · May 1, 2012

vbhtt said:
Did you unlock your bootloader? If not, you can claim your warranty

I've got it from ebay, so I don't have any receipt, just the phone. Also didn't bother to check that before bricking it.

B3NJY · May 1, 2012

vbhtt said:
So did you try the method shown?

Yes mate I tryed..get as far as 5 vibe sometimes 7 vibes sometimes led on or off, wait 5 mins push up vol wait at least 10 mins push up again and no single buzz..gutted...I am unlocked so screwed there. Is there no way to get usb connection to do it the old way.

vbhtt · May 2, 2012

@ B3NJY What phone do you have (marvel/mavelc, which carrier)? Which pg76img did you use? Did you make a goldcard?

@machofx Can you boot into the bootloader? (remove and replace battery, press and hold vol- and power)

marius.muntean · May 2, 2012

sigh

vbhtt said:
@ B3NJY What phone do you have (marvel/mavelc, which carrier)? Which pg76img did you use? Did you make a goldcard?

@machofx Can you boot into the bootloader? (remove and replace battery, press and hold vol- and power)

I can't boot into the bootloader. As I said, nothing is displayed when I turn the phone on nor does it vibrate, it just turns the backlight on and off every two seconds.

P.S. I tried VolumeDown+Power button after removing the battery, didn't work!

vbhtt · May 2, 2012

machofx said:
I can't boot into the bootloader. As I said, nothing is displayed when I turn the phone on nor does it vibrate, it just turns the backlight on and off every two seconds.

P.S. I tried VolumeDown+Power button after removing the battery, didn't work!

I think the ruu did not install properly. You probably have a hard brick. ( read 1st paragraph of 1st post)

B3NJY · May 2, 2012

I am pretty sure its marvel c and my carrier is 02uk I got it unlocked soff in shop,
I installed .sense rom but didnt like it so restored in recovery and all was fine but always had a problem with ota updates so tryed to do it manually, managed once but tryed latest update and its bricked me to black screen, volume down gives me 5/7 vibes.....

MARVEL PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT - 1.08.0000
MICROP - 0451
RADIO - 7.53.39.03M
S/W 2.13.401.2

I got the rom from here....link proved on this site...
http://www.mediafire.com/?ih6amhh2kzm4q6g which was the correct one I think for europe, I cannot make goldcard if I cannot connect to usb can I ?

vbhtt · May 2, 2012

B3NJY said:
I am pretty sure its marvel c and my carrier is 02uk I got it unlocked soff in shop,
I installed .sense rom but didnt like it so restored in recovery and all was fine but always had a problem with ota updates so tryed to do it manually, managed once but tryed latest update and its bricked me to black screen, volume down gives me 5/7 vibes.....

MARVEL PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT - 1.08.0000
MICROP - 0451
RADIO - 7.53.39.03M
S/W 2.13.401.2

I got the rom from here....link proved on this site...
http://www.mediafire.com/?ih6amhh2kzm4q6g which was the correct one I think for europe, I cannot make goldcard if I cannot connect to usb can I ?

My friend, you have a marvel, not marvelc. ( if it was a marvelc, then the 1st line would be MARVELC EVT1 S-OFF RL & O2 doesn't sell the marvelc). When did you check this?Which PG76IMG is that? It should have a higher s/w number than yours ( you can do it if it is lower also, but that is a much longer procedure). You can make a goldcard by putting your sd card in another htc phone also.

B3NJY · May 2, 2012

Help me

I cannot remember when I copied those details down but I have access to my girlfriends wildfire buzz or card reader can you help me with it please if you have time....I am on shifts at the moment and off to work now till 11.00pm but if you can find time to give me a guide I would really appreciate it....I dont think I am anywhere near as smart as you but I am sure I can follow your links and instructions...it may help a lot more people and in my eyes should be a sticky.
Thank you
Ben

vbhtt · May 2, 2012

B3NJY said:
I cannot remember when I copied those details down but I have access to my girlfriends wildfire buzz or card reader can you help me with it please if you have time....I am on shifts at the moment and off to work now till 11.00pm but if you can find time to give me a guide I would really appreciate it....I dont think I am anywhere near as smart as you but I am sure I can follow your links and instructions...it may help a lot more people and in my eyes should be a sticky.
Thank you
Ben

Well there are a lot of tutorials on the internet on how to make a goldcard. Just use Google

Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e using Tapatalk 2

mfiotrcdh · May 9, 2012

my phone is doing the one where the screen stays white with the green htc logo i forgot to back mine up and flashing any roms are not helping
wildfire s unlocked bootloader with s-off marvelc
h-boot-1.10.0001
microp-0354
radio-0.94.00.0109
please help if u can my girlfriend is gonna kill me and/or steal my triumph lol
thank you for any help

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