you can still use the RUU without a functional recovery i believe...
guys if you dont know what something is, you probably should just leave your phone unplugged from your computer. or just stay out of recovery mode, lol.
Does anyone know how to unbrick the CDMA Hero?
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guys if you dont know what something is, you probably should just leave your phone unplugged from your computer. or just stay out of recovery mode, lol.
sure, I get that, or he just flashed as a recovery... dont think a exe, zipped and signed would even flash, since it needs a XML file to point to filesystem images and whatnot... either way, as long as you can boot the SPL, cant you RUU?No, what I mean is he zipped and signed the RUU and flashed it as an update.zip
Same boat, replace.. No worries?
No red flag for no boot at all right? Same issue being amber LED while plugged-in(after battery pull), no resets, nothing after power button.
It turns out I loaded the HARD SML(bootloader) "update.zip" before the RC29 update(downgrade for root exploit) which should have been first. I did NOT install the RC29 downgrade though, just SML.
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This is the only flash I made after using FlashRec for recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img, would this cause a BRICK? It must have, I didn't touch anything GSM or even radio related yet, however I'm stuck driving to Sprint tek.
The tech's won't look into this much correct? You can't boot to even see the bootloader or anything at all, so there's nothing to prove it's bricked from hacking. It could have been very easily a transistor fail or voltage leak internally for all they know. Right?
No red flag for no boot at all right? Same issue being amber LED while plugged-in(after battery pull), no resets, nothing after power button.
It turns out I loaded the HARD SML(bootloader) "update.zip" before the RC29 update(downgrade for root exploit) which should have been first. I did NOT install the RC29 downgrade though, just SML.
->......from hxxp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=563679
This is the only flash I made after using FlashRec for recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img, would this cause a BRICK? It must have, I didn't touch anything GSM or even radio related yet, however I'm stuck driving to Sprint tek.
The tech's won't look into this much correct? You can't boot to even see the bootloader or anything at all, so there's nothing to prove it's bricked from hacking. It could have been very easily a transistor fail or voltage leak internally for all they know. Right?
DO NOT EVER UPDATE THE RADIO
! I have had my phone bricked by the same radio you're talking about, from the same site. If you want a 2.1 rom, 1. Don't update the radio, it's only trouble, and 2. Go to theunlockr.com or search the forum for the damagecontrol 2.1 rom. If you don't want to root, there is an official leak on the Sprint website. Plus the radio updates usually screw up reception. Also, flashing a gsm hero rom won't work, in the flashing process, there will be an reoccurring error that says something about the update package being 'bad,' which means the rom isn't compatible for your phone. Also, never experiment with the roms unless you know what your'e doing. BE PATIENT, AND NEVER FLASH SOMETHING IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT DOES, OR THE REQUIREMENTS OF FLASHING, AND THE POSSIBLE RISK THAT FLASHING SOME ROMS ARE DEEMED UNSTABLE ON THE THREAD, AND YOU FLASH AT YOUR OWN RISK. I would only recommend only flashing stable roms that are not still being tested, unless you can afford the $100 insurance deductible or the $400 no contract purchase cost. (PS: Sprint let me off the hook when my phone got bricked and gave me a new one free
, but I have been extra careful since then, and you will need to do the same. Remember, NEVER UPDATE THE RADIO! IT IS ONLY TROUBLE AND A RISK YOU DON'T NEED TO TAKE!)
DO NOT EVER UPDATE THE RADIO
(PS: Sprint let me off the hook when my phone got bricked and gave me a new one free
TL;DR:
If you go "I wonder what this does," don't screw with it.
I have to disagree about the radio flashes though. As long as you don't flash a GSM Radio, and follow the instructions, you'll be fine. Personally, using the new Radio from the 2.1 RUU (Yes, the RUU does re-flash the /radio, so saying don't flash a radio do an RUU is hypocritical. Ah semantics.) I get around -75dBm where as my girlfriend using the stock radio gets betwen -80 and -85dBm.
That's incorrect. If that was the case, nobody would be bricking their phones on GSM roms.
If the rom doesn't have the following line in update-script:
assert getprop("ro.product.device") == "heroc"
This line does a comparison of the ro.product.device to the condition on the right. In our case, if the ro.product.device == heroc (which will in our phone), the package will begin the flashing process. If any other phone attempts to flash this package, they will fail with an error immediately (an assertion failure).
You can build a package without this line in there (Darktremor A2SD doesn't have this line in there). If a Hero GSM rom doesn't have that line identifying that devices named hero (not heroc) can use the rom, then the update-script will blindly flash the rom.
That goes to show how easy it is to prevent someone from flashing the wrong Rom. Most of the Hero CDMA roms have this assertion line. Eris roms (at least the ones I've actually broken down) don't incorporate this line (their device is "desirec"). It's easy, yet I don't see many developers outside our group doing that.
If the rom doesn't have the following line in update-script:
assert getprop("ro.product.device") == "heroc"
This line does a comparison of the ro.product.device to the condition on the right. In our case, if the ro.product.device == heroc (which will in our phone), the package will begin the flashing process. If any other phone attempts to flash this package, they will fail with an error immediately (an assertion failure).
You can build a package without this line in there (Darktremor A2SD doesn't have this line in there). If a Hero GSM rom doesn't have that line identifying that devices named hero (not heroc) can use the rom, then the update-script will blindly flash the rom.
That goes to show how easy it is to prevent someone from flashing the wrong Rom. Most of the Hero CDMA roms have this assertion line. Eris roms (at least the ones I've actually broken down) don't incorporate this line (their device is "desirec"). It's easy, yet I don't see many developers outside our group doing that.
.... sigh ....
I am ****ting it after i read this whole topic... i now don't even want to try to root my phone at all, I'm that scared of it probably getting bricked...
I am ****ting it after i read this whole topic... i now don't even want to try to root my phone at all, I'm that scared of it probably getting bricked...
This has happened to me as well, and I went to the store, and incredibly, they gave me a new device for free???
Why don't you take it in to the store, see what happens?
He could boot up because the gsm radio he flashed fried the circuit board. The gsm radios request more power and in return fried his phone.
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I am ****ting it after i read this whole topic... i now don't even want to try to root my phone at all, I'm that scared of it probably getting bricked...
If you read you will and follow directions you will never have any problems
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Kinda harsh, don't you think. How about, "Please, be more careful next time, and don't forget to flash a recovery image after you root!"
Sorry bout this post guys. I was just starting out and was a n00b when it came to radios. However, I did get an error when I tried to flash a GSM rom, probably a bad download that saved my hero. When I tried a GSM radio, the phone blacked out after about 20 seconds like in this post.
But 1 question; what's dBm? I am running Cyanogen mod 6.0.0, and have a setting that let's me se my dBm in the notifications bar, but I don't know what it means. (I assume it is related to the radio data transmission rate, though I could be wrong.)
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But 1 question; what's dBm? I am running Cyanogen mod 6.0.0, and have a setting that let's me se my dBm in the notifications bar, but I don't know what it means. (I assume it is related to the radio data transmission rate, though I could be wrong.)
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try letting it charge cause i thought mine was brickd it turns out the battery needed more juice
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That's why... incorrect radio flash will brick a phone, and this is not a CDMA hero radio... sorry about that
if you guys have the dev on did you try to dial in and reboot to recovery? i've flashed lots of stuff that shut my phone down.... dialed in via term reboot recovery wipe good to go
