[Q] Completely Bricked

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Ok so the strangest thing happened yesterday. I left work, phone fully functional and got in the car to drive away. Where I was parked I was still getting the wifi from the building I work in and I wanted to start streaming music. I turned off wifi and tried to use the data network. No signal. Now, sometimes, it takes a really long time to switch back over to cellular after leaving wifi and especially if I use wifi calling. So, instead of waiting, I pulled the battery like I've done dozens of times before. Only, this time the phone didn't restart. The splash screen comes up and then it shows what appears to be the default android animation. I've never seen this on this phone or any of the roms I've loaded. It never starts the phone; the animation just keeps running. I couldn't get into recovery, it just returned me back to the bootloader screen.

Now when I got home I tried a few things with the all in one tool. I thought if I could load a recovery, I could re-flash my ROM and possibly get the phone working again without data loss. That didn't work. ADB couldn't even identify the device. Then, I downloaded the latest ICS leak onto my sd card, renamed it and put it in my phone. It started to load the file and showed me the 15 or so things that will be updated. I started the update and each of the 15 items said "Fail PU" except nfc. Its as if the partitions are just gone.
As you can see from the image, I have S-off, with unlocked boot loader. So now it appears that the battery doesn't charge on the bootloader screen. I left it plugged in all night in an attempt to charge the battery. I couldn't plug the phone in without it turning on and going right to the bootloader. So, I left it plugged in with the screen on all night and the battery is still dead. Now I can't start the phone to attempt anything further.

I've alreay called T-mobile to do a warranty exchange so there is a new phone on the way. Once I have it I should be albe to get a battery charged and into the old phone and try to restore it. I would like to get it back to factory with S-On with bootloader locked in the event that they decide they don't want to honor my warrany.

Any advice is welcome.

Thanks!

Ok so the image cuts off the S-off and hboot version, sorry.

You should lock your bootloader before flashing ics leak

Try flashing eng bootloader by naming it ph85img.zip and flashing in bootloader. That will give u a locked bootloader. Then try flashing ics ruu

All of this after getting a new battery of course.
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Am I on Candid Camera?

failed pu is full brick. You should check out the unbricking thread in the dev section.

Check it out http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1627882

Thanks for the replies. I don't think that the unbrick tool supports my situation, but I will give it a try as I don't have much to lose. T-mobile is already sending a replacement so either way I should be ok. I have reverted to my trusty HD2 running ICS 4.04. Flashed probably over 100 ROMS onto the HD2 and never had a problem.

Just curious.
You said that ADB didn't recognize your phone. ADB only sees your phone when the phone is in recovery or fully booted up. When it is in bootloader, you can use fastboot as you have done trying to flash the ICS leak.
Did you try flashing the stock boot.img? The faux's kernel may not work as it is designed for GB. Well, I haven't tried it on my ICS so I'm not too sure.

Well, actually, you should try flashing things in the following order.
1. recovery.img from fastboot. If you can get it flashed successfully, at least you can adb shell into the system and see if your data is intact and nandroid back up to be safe.
2. kernel (boot.img) from fastboot.
3. some gb roms starting with something as close to stock GB as possible. Do it only if you can get recovery to work and flash only from the recovery, initially. RUU zips usually contains more stuff and if flashing fails, like in your ICS case, the system may go crazy.

I hope it helps.

well I got the replacement phone and charged the battery up. I put the battery into the old Amaze and it won't even turn on. It's completely dead. I guess I'm gonna just send it back. No hope for my data. Luckily have a backup from 4/28.

Thanks for the helps folks.

Originally Posted by Slavid

well I got the replacement phone and charged the battery up. I put the battery into the old Amaze and it won't even turn on. It's completely dead. I guess I'm gonna just send it back. No hope for my data. Luckily have a backup from 4/28.

Thanks for the helps folks.

Hey, just wondering, sounds like even if you have rooted your phone and install custom ROM T-Mobile will still honor the warranty. Is that correct? I thought they won't if you have rooted your phone...

Originally Posted by Slavid

well I got the replacement phone and charged the battery up. I put the battery into the old Amaze and it won't even turn on. It's completely dead. I guess I'm gonna just send it back. No hope for my data. Luckily have a backup from 4/28.

Thanks for the helps folks.

Hope you have a better luck with the new phone!

Originally Posted by shuvarts

Hey, just wondering, sounds like even if you have rooted your phone and install custom ROM T-Mobile will still honor the warranty. Is that correct? I thought they won't if you have rooted your phone...

By reading many threads relating to unlocking/warranty, I am convinced that they will honor the warranty as long as the problem you are having is NOT related to the unlocking and subsequent modding of the device by you.
Well, sometimes it's hard to tell what happened if your phone is completely dead, though.

Originally Posted by ringochan

Hope you have a better luck with the new phone!



By reading many threads relating to unlocking/warranty, I am convinced that they will honor the warranty as long as the problem you are having is NOT related to the unlocking and subsequent modding of the device by you.
Well, sometimes it's hard to tell what happened if your phone is completely dead, though.

Failed pu means the memory is shot. Nothing will write to the partitions. Warranty job