my phone wont turn on after applied the leaked OTA. does that mean my phone is gone?
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Lesson for all---Flashing Radios and Pulling Batteries = Brick
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Did you apply the OTA twice, if you did naughty naughty. You have a brick.
Also have you tried a battery pull?
no i didnt apply it twice. and yes i tried the pull. after applied the ota it ask me to hit power button to reboot and after that nothing happens.
As far as I know, bricking a radio update would atleast still allow you to turn the phone on, it would just be stuck at initializing the bootloader, correct me if I'm wrong anyone--
Also I would not bring it into a verizon store. Wait until the official OTA is released, then say you had a problem with that.
Just let your service continue as normal.
Also, silly question, I know, but have you tried variations of plugging it in/unplugging with/without battery?
And when you plug the phone in, does the charge light come on?
The update should be here in less than a month. Didn't you get the insurance? Just claim it lost/stolen. If you have a moral dilemma in doing that then just toss it in a dumpster or a lake. Then claim it lost/stolen.
Sent from my Rooted Incredible w/Froyo
Can you hold power + optical button to boot to bootloader and recovery? If so you could possible get it fixed of you follow this guide:
http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
If your phone doesnt function at all you could attempt the following.
You could just say this at a Verizon store.
I charged my phone last night, when I woke up this morning the back of the phone was extremely hot almost to hot to hold and when I tried to turn the phone on or whatever you want to say pressed the power key, etc it would not turn on or you could say your screen came on for a second and then went out and the phone powered down and would not come back on.
Or
if you have insurance just say it was stolen, lost, dropped in a lake, etc.
Strange--i'm not sure if a bricked radio would cause that, but it could perhaps indicate another issue. Does the radio's firmware also control the phones power/charging system?
i didnt bought the insurance. i guess i will use the 2.2 OTA reason. i hope its August 6th!!
yes and yes it could. the radio contains the big bad bootloaders. if it stopped mid update, its gone. you might try connecting usb to pc. and see if you get a device id.
I guess if that gets nuked the only way to recover it would be a manual hot-air removal and a manual reflash of the chip itself (good luck finding the papers for it), and then reflowing the chip back to the board (also assuming here it's one NAND). You'd think with the way these things work they would have a fail-over chip or something, phone falls off desk during OTA, battery goes flying. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
1. i downloaded PB31IMG from the leaked 2.2 thread last night. (old pb31img). installed and got it running. he said install official OTA but none pushed to me.
so i downloaded the new PB31IMG and installed over. BUT after installed, the phone reboot and running great.
2. next, i download the leaked OTA and rename it to update *zip file*
3. i boot into recovery and start the update. after that it said something like, hit power button/reboot to continue the process. so i did. after that a green circle with arrow point counter-clockwise showed up and after a moment it turned off and on *same green icon* and off again. after that nothing happens.
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