Where did I go wrong?
I was trying to use this guide to get the new radio & hboot on a inactive phone when something went wrong and now I have a real brick ie. phone won't boot in any mode and there is no charge led when connected to charger.
Beginning Info:
Phone "T-Mobile myTouch 3G 32B"
SAPPHIRE RE PVT 32B SHIPP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0013 (SAPP30000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.28.25
Oct 21 2009,22:33:27
I finally got root and a recovery then installed an engineering hboot (1.33.2010) to get fastboot commands thinking that would make life easier.
Big mistake. Now phone won't boot and I did not know how get hboot 1.33.0013 back.
So I down graded to an earlier (SAPPIMG.nbh) because there were no links to the latest and I had not found this thread yet.
SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT- 1.33.0006 (SAPP30000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.261
May 27 2009.19:06:41
Now I'm stuck at the sign in screen with out an active sim card
So I followed this guide (
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=547133) and ended up with a
VodaPhone rom and hboot that would boot but wasn't T-Mobile.
SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP30000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-3.22.20.17
May 8 2009,21:02:32
So in a effort to get back the latest radio and hboot so I could install a custom rom I loaded engineering hboot (1.33.2010)
and proceeded to follow instructions in the OP.
While fastbooting the radio (radio-2.22.27.08) I got this in cmd window.
C:\Android\ADB>fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G-cyan.img
sending 'recovery' (4528 KB)... OKAY [ 1.773s]
writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 2.574s]
finished. total time: 4.346s
C:\Android\ADB>fastboot flash radio radio-2.22.27.08.img
sending 'radio' (21120 KB)... OKAY [ 5.989s]
writing 'radio'... FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 20.610s
As soon as I got the last line in the cmd window the phone shut down never to restart.
Any input as to why this happened is welcome. Fastboot flashing the radio was supposed to be the safest method but it did not work for me.
The phone is dead and likely only jtag will revive it and it's not worth that.
I know that I made mistakes early when it would have been easier to recover. However, I would like to know if I made some critical error to cause this or was I just unlucky?