Bricking an Android?

[MyWorld]

I have a question to all the other root and custom rom users, have you been able to brick your phone?

It is virtually impossible with the Motorola Milestone, if you switch it of (remove battery), hold the volume up, camera button and power on the phone you are presented with the "boot recovery" (similar to a BIOS of a PC). No, not recovery console like Open Recovery, the boot recovery.

From here you can use sbf_flash to flash a new SBF, reboot into normal recovery (camera, gallery and volume button pressed while powering on) and do your thing again.

I have no idea if other devices work the same, if someone talks about bricking his XT720 it usually means he doesn't know how to reset it or re-flash stock firmware. So, how does the other phones handle "bricking"?

 

[Elimentals]

I think the only place you can brick other phones(HTC) is when you flash Hboot, but I am sure they must have a way to fix that in house.

Once HBOOT works anything else can be flashed/replaced, from recovery to actual ROMs.

 

[Krypt0n1te]

I think the only place you can brick other phones(HTC) is when you flash Hboot, but I am sure they must have a way to fix that in house.

Once HBOOT works anything else can be flashed/replaced, from recovery to actual ROMs.

+1

Don't fool around with hboot if you don't know what you are doing, you WILL brick your phone. It's not just a case of rooting and flashing roms.

If time permits (I wanted to do it a while ago) I will go and update the posts I made in the Desire thread regarding flashing hboot.

 

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

SE Arcs and Neos are currently getting wrecked by the 0% battery issue after downgrading from 2.3.4 to 2.3.2 and flashing back up to 2.3.4 but other than that it seems most phones are safe.

 

[The Philosopher]

I hard bricked my SGS 1. it was dead as a door nail. no response whatsoever. This happened when there was an interupption when flashing a new bootloader. if that is screwed. you are screwed unless you a device which connects to the jtag pins and then rewrite the bootloader with special software.

 

[Malfeasant]

We just had a blackout right now. i shudder to think what might've happened had i decided to do some flashing tonight. No ups for me, though this occurence really makes me consider one, if only for the peace of mind.

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[Krypt0n1te]

We just had a blackout right now. i shudder to think what might've happened had i decided to do some flashing tonight. No ups for me, though this occurence really makes me consider one, if only for the peace of mind.

Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk

You ALWAYS do this **** on a laptop, NOT a PC without a UPS!

 

[Krypt0n1te]

I hard bricked my SGS 1. it was dead as a door nail. no response whatsoever. This happened when there was an interupption when flashing a new bootloader. if that is screwed. you are screwed unless you a device which connects to the jtag pins and then rewrite the bootloader with special software.

Guys intending do flash HBOOT, take note of this post!
What it boils down to is basically the following...
You FORMAT and RE-PARTITION your device's internal memory and then RE-INSTALL the software. Almost like flashing your motherboards bios...just a bit more risky due to the re-writing of the partition tables.

But on the positive side you can change your HTC Desire's measly Internal Memory from 148MB to 333MB