[WARNING] Do not partition SD card using ClockworkMod | FIXED in 3.0.2.6

[geek7899]

Wow... Never used partitions on SDcard , but thanks for the warning.

I'm curious how the device bricked while partitioning SDCARD, though, as I don't see the connection!

Beats me too....

Bricked my first handset yesterday... Only response from handset was this error message when plugged into Windows 7. Error came up as: QHSUSB_DLOAD No Driver found


I sent an e-mail to Koush explaining everything and the reply I got was:

Hrm, partition SD card may be broken on the Desire HD. Can you try NBHing it?

Koush

I still have nfi what NBHing is

My good luck; that the carrier replaced it under warranty. Reason given was that the mainboard is fried.
Wondering if any other users managed to have it replaced under warranty and what the reason given was ?
I'm sure the expensive paperweights would be an excellent tool for Koush or others to study what happened !!

Anyway, lets have another go and see where it takes us fingers crossed

 

[MegaHz]

Beats me too....

Bricked my first handset yesterday... Only response from handset was this error message when plugged into Windows 7. Error came up as: QHSUSB_DLOAD No Driver found


I sent an e-mail to Koush explaining everything and the reply I got was:

Hrm, partition SD card may be broken on the Desire HD. Can you try NBHing it?

Koush

I still have nfi what NBHing is

My good luck; that the carrier replaced it under warranty. Reason given was that the mainboard is fried.
Wondering if any other users managed to have it replaced under warranty and what the reason given was ?
I'm sure the expensive paperweights would be an excellent tool for Koush or others to study what happened !!

Anyway, lets have another go and see where it takes us fingers crossed

i believe that you cannot do any manual flashing since the phone cannot go into bootloader..

 

[jkoljo]

That is right. It is not possible to flash via PD98IMG.zip in bootloader as your phone does not seem to have bootloader at all.

I am hoping that we will get partitioning-disabled CWM soon in ROM Manager, so that new users do not brick their phones in their lack of knowledge.

If someone sees Scotty2, he might be interested in this. He had some theories about restoring bricked devices, mainly in the debugging/whatever state which we are able to access even in a (hboot) bricked device.

 

[Mr_JMM]

I see there's an update for ROM Manager but SD partitioning is still an option. Nothing in the details about this issue.

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[caanda45]

Maybe one answer (not a permanent fix though) is that we tell people to use Rom Manager and to get CWM and once on the phone delete Rom Manager and go into recovery using the volume down button and power method or the using a advanced power method?

Actually on my Captivate Rom Manager was not used at all and encouraged not be used. We had a update zip with CWM in it and that was used to get into recovery for flashing the rom. It was suggested and encouraged to not use Rom manager. I think it is because of these very problems that are arising here on our DHD`s. Here is the link to FireFly 2.9 and it is at the end of post # 3 the update.zip file.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=914284

I am not sure of the politics here, but it seems Rom Manager is causing all these problems, if it was me as the developer I would have already disabled this feature to stop the threat of bricks as suggested by jkoljo. I for one will not be using Rom Manager only the portion of the program to get my phone into recovery mode only, and not through the program but the other two methods that I know how to do this as mentioned above.

 

[blimpsrcool]

Bricked DHD

I have also bricked my phone after cwm. I was excited at the time too because I had finally rooted it after 4 different memory cards were used to make a goldcard.. I just wanted and ext partition to store data on, not apps2sd. So I hastily chose to use rom manager and it's now dead. Spending a lot of time pressing this power button now just incase. And my network has no stock left of dhd's...

Still though I can't wait to get another one to start all this fun again


Whoa those specs are old!!
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[Bert2662]

Thanks for the warning although I din partitioned it. But tmr j would be helping ny friend who is using HTC desire to partition his memory card. Will this issue affect other device too?

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[jkoljo]

The problem is not in ROM manager but CWM.

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[Bert2662]

Jkoljo bro, is this issue affecting other device as well?

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[caanda45]

The problem is not in ROM manager but CWM.

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So partition SD card from Rom manager is okay? I still stand by my comments above that it is irresponsible to leave this functioning in CWM while it is bricking phones....One has a trust that these programs will not brick a phone..... just dumb actions by users should brick a phone.....Upsets me as something can be done by the developer now and to date nothing has been done and we still are bricking phones!!!!!!

 

[majorassface]

Not to add any confusion but I was able to partition my sd card using CWM a few weeks back. I can't remember which rom I was on, either CleanDHD1.10 or ARHD 3.3. At the time I believe CWM was at 3.0.0.6 or whatever version was just before 3.0.0.6 but again I can't be 100% sure as it was about three weeks ago. I have a Telus version of the DHD, I ended up deleting the partitions on it later and just reverting back to a regular fat formatted sd card as I didn't see much benefit from it. I saw others have reported they were able to as well. Hmmmmm!?

Anyway best of luck to those that bricked their devices, I feel your pain. Can't imagine life without my baby even for a few hours let alone waiting on a replacement.

 

[jkoljo]

So partition SD card from Rom manager is okay?

No, because ROM Manager is just a visual interface for ClockworkMod. When you issue a command in ROM Manager, it just tells ClockworkMod what to do

 

[Mr_JMM]

No, because ROM Manager is just a visual interface for ClockworkMod. When you issue a command in ROM Manager, it just tells ClockworkMod what to do

And that's why I was upset that today's update to ROM Manager still allows SD Card partitions.

Not impressed at all but as I don't know how long it takes to get an update on the market I will give the benefit of the doubt that this update was created prior to this issue surfacing and a new up date will be immanent.

 

[BolecDST]

Good to know. I must be lucky, because I partitioned my sdcard once with CWM, but everything was fine. I don't remember which version of CWM was it. It was a month ago or so. Then I reverted back to normal, since I thought there's no point in having ext or swap.

 

[dstenc]

Again new version of ROM Manager (v4.1.0.0) but SD card partition option is still active and there is still the same CWM version.
Also, "what's new" text only gives info that some PayPal issues for licensing are fixed with new version.
It's sad that there is no at least some pop-up after starting to warn DHD users not to use partitioning option untill it's being fixed.

 

[MegaHz]

well it seems that more and more people appearing with bricked devices after partitioning their dhd through rom manager.

any idea anybody on how to unbrick?

 

[frosty_ice]

well it seems that more and more people appearing with bricked devices after partitioning their dhd through rom manager.

any idea anybody on how to unbrick?

Well the definition of "bricked" pretty much is that it can not be repaired without hardware modifications.

 

[painfull2006]

My phone got bricked

What is my course of action? Im on pay monthly with orange, is it orange i ask for a replacement? Its in warranty still

 

[Xtiro]

What are the chances of a phone still working after using the buggy clockwork to repartition?

I have a friend who's phone is bricked - it turned off whilst he was using it normally. Yesterday he used clockwork to repartition his sdcard and it did boot, but today it suddenly died on him. We don't know if it's connected to this or not.

He was moving apps to the sdcard in the normal stock android way at the time too, although that doesn't use the same partitioning system as far as I know.

EDIT: In fact it's the post above mine ^

 

[rorydaredkign]

Sorry could be leading people down a dead path here, but can any of you with brickewd devices get into the mode where you hold wol up and power on, then it has the flashing orange light?
If so, might have a possibility of a solution. In this mode, if you install the right driver, you can get mtty to recognise the device as a com4 port so you might be able to flash stuff or something.