HELP! Completely bricked my phone. No life to it at all.

[kitster]

So, I have been using Mik 2.6 for several months now and loved it. But my phone ear speaker shorted out or something, and all calls sound very tinny and "crunchy". Also, every so often when I take photos the lower half of the image gets funky (like over exposure from a real camera). So, I decided to just try and restore to factory and take it to Sprint tomorrow.

Using the RUU gave me a problem. I would get so far then it would tell me (when looking for bootloader) that the usb wasnt connected to the phone or the computer. When I got that error on the computer, the phone screen was just a black screen with larger HTC logo on it. Couldnt go anywhere from there. Unplugging the device gave me the recovery screen with RUU option selected. I had to take out the battery to reboot from there. I tried to reboot the phone in recovery mode and maybe try to get to bootloader menu THEN run RUU. When I did that, I would get the same error. But when I restarted the phone, it would not boot all the way, but get stuck with the wallpaper showing, the power guage, and the 3g bars. It would never go all the way to the time/unlock screen.

So, I tried to reboot into recovery again from there... the phone vibrated three times and shut down. Now, it is completely bricked. It will not turn on normally, or in any recovery mode. In fact, when I plug it in to recharge - the light doesn't even come on.

SO - am I completely screwed? Is there ANYTHING I can do? Any advice, anecodotes, well wishes... anything would be appreciated! Thanks!

 

[kitster]

Overwhelming response! Ha!

Whew! "Soft bricked" my HTC EVO 4G yesterday. With the help of my Blackberry (of all things) got it back up and running this morning. Used the BB and my Evo SD card to put the new ROM on my sd card and put it back in the EVO. Flashed the ROM in recovery and everything is back to normal! Whew!

Now, I will research getting my EVO back to stock factory mode.

 

[dwelder]

Overwhelming response! Ha!

Whew! "Soft bricked" my HTC EVO 4G yesterday. With the help of my Blackberry (of all things) got it back up and running this morning. Used the BB and my Evo SD card to put the new ROM on my sd card and put it back in the EVO. Flashed the ROM in recovery and everything is back to normal! Whew!

Now, I will research getting my EVO back to stock factory mode.

Don't do a factory wipe through the phone. Go through recovery to wipe the phone back to factory. I have seen problems with rooted phones trying to do a factory wipe through the settings and people have bricked their phone.

If you already knew this. cool. If not, I hope I caught you in time.