I Bricked my Dell Streak 7, Please Help

[illdill]

Streak 7 Stuck at Dell Logo

Formatted the System and Data and reflashed the system and boot.img files but now stuck at dell logo.

No power on key combination produces any other result.

Only have two options that I can think of.

1) Somehow boot from sd card

2) Get the nvida/tegra chipset sdk which I can't find a download for anywhere

Any other suggestions?

 

[thatruth132]

I posted it in the other thread

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[illdill]

I posted it in the other thread

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Thanks, installing now. I called Dell and they are sending me a new one, but I would still like to resolve this so others don't have to do this.

Any tips on how to use this?

 

[illdill]

I am going to try the QDL tool that can be downloaded here: http://www.streakdroid.com/repairtool.zip

This may get me back up and running, we'll see. If so, I will post the procedure.

QDL is supposed to be a rom recovery utility that can communicate with the device in almost any scenario. Since ADB can see the device, I might have some luck.

 

[thatruth132]

Good luck

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[graffixnyc]

I am going to try the QDL tool that can be downloaded here: http://www.streakdroid.com/repairtool.zip

This may get me back up and running, we'll see. If so, I will post the procedure.

QDL is supposed to be a rom recovery utility that can communicate with the device in almost any scenario. Since ADB can see the device, I might have some luck.

instead of going through all that just call dell.. play dumb and just say after the update you got stuck at the dell screen.. they will try to get it to boot in recovery but that wont work.. so then they will issue a warranty exchange.. and it's not a refirb they are sending.. it's the full retail package again I'm going to "forget" to send back the charger and have two.. I never send back the chargers to dell when I do a replacement.. so if they dont ***** about a $100 charger missing they wont ***** about a streak charger missing.. as a matter of fact with my old laptop I forgot to send the charger back and called them, they said "na, it's a minor part. Onky send it back if we contact you abaout it" They never did

But all this time you're doing all this.. you could have a new one on it's way to you with pretty much no questions asked.. just say you got the update.. it said it would reboot.. it rebooted and now youre stuck at the dell screen..

 

[thatruth132]

instead of going through all that just call dell.. play dumb and just say after the update you got stuck at the dell screen.. they will try to get it to boot in recovery but that wont work.. so then they will issue a warranty exchange.. and it's not a refirb they are sending.. it's the full retail package again I'm going to "forget" to send back the charger and have two.. I never send back the chargers to dell when I do a replacement.. so if they dont ***** about a $100 charger missing they wont ***** about a streak charger missing.. as a matter of fact with my old laptop I forgot to send the charger back and called them, they said "na, it's a minor part. Onky send it back if we contact you abaout it" They never did

But all this time you're doing all this.. you could have a new one on it's way to you with pretty much no questions asked.. just say you got the update.. it said it would reboot.. it rebooted and now youre stuck at the dell screen..

but it is worth it we might find better ways of not bricking or having this happen to others

 

[illdill]

So no luck with QDL tool yet, but I did read about other devices using the method 'Volume Up + Down + plug in USB'

When I tried this my computer recognized an APX device. Will see where this gets me if I can install the propper drivers.

 

[thatruth132]

So no luck with QDL tool yet, but I did read about other devices using the method 'Volume Up + Down + plug in USB'

When I tried this my computer recognized an APX device. Will see where this gets me if I can install the propper drivers.

i found them but have to find where i stored them or what os i downloaded them in but once you do you can setup the in flash but i am going to tell you know i did it all and the issue i came up wit that made me give up was the bootloader.bin which you will have a hard time finding not unless one of the more talented people here can extract it for you the nvflash wont work properly it uses the the boatloader.bin to reflash the streak but i couldnt find it but i ended up getting my new one from dell after 3 or 4 days

 

[illdill]

Ok, will wait on your search...

Found a driver that would install as NVIDIA USB Boot-recovery driver. Does that sound right?

I'm also in a bit over my head. From what I understand, I need to restore the boot image on the device. The NVFlash is for flashing the hardware ROM. In what way does/will that help me? Is the hardware ROM part of the boot and system images? Or is it seperate.

Thinking in PC terms, the rom would be the motherboard drivers/software and the System and Boot files would be like installing windows... Does this make sense?

Also, what is the ROM version on the Streak 7?

 

[illdill]

QDL tool is giving me this error:

ERROR[D10]: no com port found, not in dload mode.

Another question; are the boot, & system files considered "rom's" to NVFlash? Is it a matter of changing the extension to .rom?

OR, like I was assuming earlier, is the rom a totally different file?

Anybody there? I need to understand how this stuff relates to know what to troubleshoot for?

 

[azados]

Dear ,

i need help ; i am going crazy with my dell streak 7

i have Dell Streak 7 - T Mobile version

and i have been messing with it ; i put clockwork mod recovery

any how i tried to install the updating yesterday from the dell official update and something went wrong and i am stuck in the clockwork mod ; however i starting messing it more so i chose every wipe in the menu , and after that i i messed more so i formatted everything ( i know that am an idiot by now )

but please i have little bit ignorance in such stuff ; so please can you help me !!!!!!

i tried connecting the device to the laptop win 7 x64 ; it shows me in the device manager that i have android mobile boot mod but again it shows me that i have portable devices ; and also i messed with the sd partition issue .


so i beg u all ; anyone help ..step by step ...am sorry for the trouble

 

[thatruth132]

Search and read before posting I made a thread just for this

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[azados]

Sir ,,

i swear i read more than 5 websites and i tried everything ...

i just reached to a point that my computer is not identifying the streak as fastboot and when i give the orders to flash it always give wating for device

and when i try to put the dell orginal 3 files on the external sdcard 2 and click back and restore ...nuthing happen as well ...

so please am kind of begginer in such stuff ; can u help

thank you

 

[thatruth132]

Read the threads there is a guide and also you cant flash a stock image with a custom recovery ....you need to search on these threads or my threads
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[azados]

am sorry sir ,

but i didnt get '' you cant flash a stock image with a custom recovery ....you need to search on these threads or my threads'' you have to excuse my ignorance ...can you explain to me more ..

thank you

 

[thatruth132]

That really doesnt matter you need to read the threads some loser just "made" a rom you can flash that might help you

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[azados]

am really sorry sir to bother you with my stupidity and my ignorance but please bare with me here ; isnt there a simple way to just flash my strea7 to orginal settings like it was 2.2 and i cant get the old normal fastmode ; note by that my streak is locked on t-mobile and i bought from amazon.com ; and i cant use the 3g cuz of that ; and this is my first time i am using andriod system ..

i tried reading alot of this but still am not getting how to do ; so again am asking is there simple steps 1- 2- 3- ..and flash your streak 7 and get it back like it was ?

sorry for inncovince ..

 

[thatruth132]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1006829

 

[illdill]

Guess I'll just keep talking to myself Anyway, if anyone has some suggestions, feel free to jump in.

So I have to use nvflash in DOS mode, no problem. BUT, (how) can I install the nvidia boot-recovery drivers in DOS mode? Starting to wish I had a linux box.

I managed to answer my earlier question about the ROM and correct me if I am wrong, but the rom is several files packed together INCLUDING the system, boot, etc.

Now is this just a standard zip file? I have my CWM backup, can I zip that and give it a .rom extension?

Hey guys, I realize my situation is bad and that I am a newb, but I did want to thank you all for your help. Without these forums we would all be lost.