The 3 vibrate brick - Please Help {SOLVED}

This is written for the HTC incredible, please ensure you get the proper ruu image for your particular phone. For example, the HTC wildfire will be PG76IMG.zip, not PB31IMG as I have written below. the rest of the steps are applicable to all HTC phones.

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a BIG thanks to wildstang83 for this!

If you are getting vibrates when trying to boot your phone. do the following:

Download (see above comment)

build-3.26.605.1-release-152016-baseband-2.15.00.07.28-hboot-0.92.0000_PB31IMG.zip

google, you will find it.

backup your SD card, format it fat 32 and place this file on the root of your card. Be sure to rename it PB31IMG.zip

Once it is on your sd card, verify the MD5 to ensure the file was not corrupted during the download or during the transfer.

Hold Vol down + power. you will feel 5 vibrations

wait for a god 2 to 3 min. if everything is going correctly, your phone is verifying the IMG file and this takes a bit.

after 2 to 3 min. wait one more min

now, press vol up. this tells the phone to update.

wait 2 to 3 min for the update to happen then wait one more.

press vol up again. you should feel the phone single vibrate and then presto.. working phone again

next time be more careful

Please let me know if this did not work for you.

THANKS WILDSTANG!! You're what these forums are all about

Alright.. This is a new one for me.

I have read almost all the threads on the incredible vibrating 3 and 5 times while booting on XDA and incredibleforum and tho the problems are similar they are not the same so I am unable to find a fix.

I have rooted the incredible , both the amoled and the SLCD version half a dozen times each and am pretty familiar with all aspects of it.

The setup...

Stock Dinc SLCD running latest OTA. totally 100% stock. This is my wifes phone, and she wanted me to root it.

I used Unrevoked 3.3.

The unrevoked process went perfectly. I plugged in the phone, hit "start" , unrevoked did its thing. It rebooted the phone, did what it does.. said "waiting for reboot", it rebooted fine. It said "this has been a triumph!" and then it said it was uninstalling unrevoked processes, then it rebooted the phone again. It did its hboot thing one more time, screen said "doing preboot sequence" it sat for a sec and then said "done!". The incredible vibrated 3 times and the screen was black.

I thought that was odd, I disconnected the USB cable and rebooted the phone (had to battery pull). when i pushed the power button it vibrated 3 times and nothing happened.

I pulled the battery again, held volume up and power , it vibrated 5 times and had a black screen. Battery pull, held optical button and power, vibrated 3 times and black screen.

This is where I sit.

I did nothing more than run unrevoked 3.3.. that is totally it.

when i "boot" the phone and get the 3 or 5 vibrations, and then plug the phone into the PC, the device manager says "qualcomm CDMA device" under unrecognized devices.

I have read that this is some sort of diagnostic mode, but I dont know anything about that.

Let the troubleshooting begin

msticlaru said:

ive always used optical key plus power to boot into hboot, volume down and power works too, but ive alyays just used optical key (easier to press)

hwoever..

volume up + power - 3 vibrates
volume down + power - 5 vibrates
optical key + power - 3 vibrates
and power alone - 3 vibrates

with all of these, the screen is always black

When i plug in the phone after any of these scenarios, the PC recognizes it as Qualcomm CDMA device

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msticlaru said:

The 3 vibrate brick - Please Help {SOLVED}

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Glad I could help you fix this. Don't forget to post what we did to solve this so others can learn from us

nate2830 said:

Is that just the stock ROM? I had this problem a few months ago, unrooted through Hboot using the stock image placed onto the SD card.....it never fixed the issue though, the phone would still not recognize the SD card once booted but since I was unrooted I could at least return it.....

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Yes, this is the stock image method.

nate2830, your case is more typical because your phone was in full-blown Qualcomm Diagnostic Mode. Your device did this because you lost eMMC to corruption. OR you hade hardware failure.

The OP's device '3 Vibed' because when they had rooted with unrEVOked the wrong recovery for there device was installed.

A device with version 0002=Amoled must have CWM Recovery version 3.0.0.5
A device with version 0003=SLCD must have CWM Recovery version 3.0.0.8

If your device is not set-up like above, I highly suggest getting it there now.
Your device has a higher chance of "5 vibe" brick otherwise.

I am led to believe this is the case for our OP do to immediately after root (well actually during the root process if you will) they lost all screen function and the screen would not light. This meens of course: wrong recovery for the device. Also in there post above They had mentioned that Device Manager mentioned Qualcomm CDMA Device. Had there device been a total loss they would have seen Qualcomm CDMA Diag in Device Manager.

We were able to save the OP by doing what we call a 'Blind Recovery'. One must know the steps to take and how long to wait between those steps. Without being able to see the screen. Doing the dougpiston PB31IMG wipes the faulted recovery and reverts back to oem recovery which brings back phone screen function and the device it self.

End result being a device that
A) Functions properly that is now stock s-on ready to root again or whatever
B) Is now s-on with stock image and no trace of ever being rooted that now can be sent back to VZW for warranty replacement.

In any case, if you ever find yourself with a device with a screen that won't light, always try the steps above in this thread.

Things that are important to know:

1. Your devices Hardware version (Reference Above)
2. The md5 sum of ANYTHING your about to flash to your device. Test this after its on your SD Card with any md5 checker for best results.
3. If anything your about to download and flash does not have a posted md5 sum, ask the dev to please post one for verification.
4. A '5 vibe' is 'non-recoverable' and is generally 'hardware related'
5. A '3 vibe' is generally 'software related' and can be recoverable 'most' of the time. We must be careful how we proceed to take action to be succcessful.

I hope that the OP and I have saved someone from a future headache.