Bricked Situation.

[Chromie]

Well, my phone died on me and suddenly it appears my phone is bricked.

After charging my Evo, now it's stuck on the white HTC screen, it'll keep vibrating but stay there or it'll shut on and off.

When I try to boot into recovery, everything is blank except the white ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.5...

I can't sync my Evo into my computer through USB for it to register...

What should I do?

 

[reverepats]

what did u do before you we're booting your phone up?....did u flash a new ROM, KERNEL, THEME?.....what are you currently running as far as those things?.....and what RECOVERY?

 

[illwood]

I would say that it is worth it to remove SD card and try to boot without it. Some users have had some problems lately with SD cards getting "fixed" by a windows scandisk and it causing some crazy problems.

If that still doesn't work, it may be worth it to re-flash your recovery using the PC36IMG.zip method. If that works, you can try to recover your last nandroid.

 

[reverepats]

so ur saying if the problem pursist and u cant get past the splash screen to try and boot up without the SDcard in?....thats pretty cool....and others had success with that?....good info

 

[SmokeCrawler]

I would say that it is worth it to remove SD card and try to boot without it. Some users have had some problems lately with SD cards getting "fixed" by a windows scandisk and it causing some crazy problems.

If that still doesn't work, it may be worth it to re-flash your recovery using the PC36IMG.zip method. If that works, you can try to recover your last nandroid.

I'm an example of what illwood is talking about. I could make a backup but when trying to restore a backup it wouldn't let me or just trying to more my recovery log to the sdcard it wouldn't let me either. I could still view photos and videos.

I just reformatted my card and put my old stuff on it hopping it work. Well it didn't. I had to take everything off and just run it clean. That DID work!

 

[reverepats]

I'm an example of what illwood is talking about. I could make a backup but when trying to restore a backup it wouldn't let me or just trying to more my recovery log to the sdcard it wouldn't let me either. I could still view photos and videos.

I just reformatted my card and put my old stuff on it hopping it work. Well it didn't. I had to take everything off and just run it clean. That DID work!

OHH WOW....u know, i actaully did make a copy of everything from my SDcard onto my PC, just incase of something like that occuring.....but now that u say that wont work i guees i wont get too excited about that now.....thats some good info though....i never knew anything about that cause ive never had that happen to me...

 

[SmokeCrawler]

The reason it wouldn't work is because I think something got corrupted in a file that was critical. I do have a backup of my sd before all of that happen but I didn't bother putting everything back on. Wanted to save space. So I just put my pics, ringtones, and other nandroids back on that wasn't from the time of corruption.

Everything is running smooth again

 

[illwood]

One potential cause of this is that it seems like every so often if you are running Windows Vista or 7, when you plug in a flash device (memory stick or memory card) it says that the drive has an error and asks to run a scan. If you accept this scan and let Windows "fix" the error, it causes some issues with phone's ability to recognize some files or ability to mount the card.

You can generally get around this by pulling the card, backing up to a computer. Reformat the card, put it back in the phone, and reboot.

 

[SmokeCrawler]

One potential cause of this is that it seems like every so often if you are running Windows Vista or 7, when you plug in a flash device (memory stick or memory card) it says that the drive has an error and asks to run a scan. If you accept this scan and let Windows "fix" the error, it causes some issues with phone's ability to recognize some files or ability to mount the card.

You can generally get around this by pulling the card, backing up to a computer. Reformat the card, put it back in the phone, and reboot.

Yeah that is what my dumbass did, scan and fix. I use windows 7 and said there was problem or something along that line and it wanted to scan and fix or just scan.

Won't do that again. Learned my lesson!

 

[reverepats]

ohh i see....

 

[Chromie]

I wasn't doing anything really. I currently had CM7 32 Nightly on my phone.

The battery died and I switched batteries because I was in a hurry, but all of a sudden, it wouldn't boot pass the HTC screen.

I fastboot and try to go into Recovery, just the words ClockworkMod Recovery would flash in white letters, nothing else.

A fastboot --> clear storage seems to have fixed it though.

 

[SmokeCrawler]

Glad you were able to get passed it