Think I may have bricked my phone. Help?

[Lyle Ferguson]

Yesterday I finally decided to take the plunge into the world of custom roms and root my phone. I had decided to use cyanogen but I was told I need to flash a new radio to my phone (2.5 radio). After booting into hboot I recieved the prompt to update. I let the update completely finish and rebooted. Now my phone is stuck at the green HTC booting screen.

Did I brick my phone? Some friends of mine raved about these forums and that the community was very helpful. Hope you guys can help me as well!

 

[dragonsamus]

Can you get back to hboot? Try going into recovery and installing cm7 after a wipe.

 

[Lyle Ferguson]

I can get back into hboot but I have to take my sdcard out to get into cm recovery since I still have the radio zip file on the card.

I used a method in the video below to boot into cm recovery and did a wipe and it still hangs at the green HTC screen.
How to unbrick Thunderbolt and how to Fix FORCE CLOSES - YouTube

 

[rot#AC]

delete the zip and flash a new rom is that difficult. quit being lazy and learn to search

 

[mclarryjr]

delete the zip and flash a new rom is that difficult. quit being lazy and learn to search

You need to learn how to treat others, telling them to do a search is not helping.

Try removing the radio from your sdcard using a card reader and try flashing cm7 again, you may even want to download it again because you may have had a bad download the first time.

 

[rufflez]

I highly recommend installing the SDK before doing any rooting/roming. You can communicate to the device through a computer if it is ever stuck. If you have the sdk installed with the update already done navigate to it in either terminal or comand prompt (cd PATH_OF_SDK/platform-tools or \platform-tools in windows). Then type:

adb reboot recovery

if you are using a unix device, insert this before adb:

./

from there you can mount the sd card to the computer to delete the PG50IMG.zip file (mounts/storage and select USB)

 

[rot#AC]

You need to learn how to treat others, telling them to do a search is not helping.

Try removing the radio from your sdcard using a card reader and try flashing cm7 again, you may even want to download it again because you may have had a bad download the first time.

i beg to differ. you will never learn anything if you have people hand feed you. I messed my phone up first time i tried rooting but i didnt go crying and ask for help without searching. there about what 100+ of these threads if he would have bothered to search he would have found how to fix his problem.

You just told him to do what i said other then redownload..:-X

 

[Jude526]

There is nothing wrong with telling someone how to do something. Get off your high and mighty attitude. Some people may be very nervous making a change to their phone and if they aren't very technical it can be over whelming.

sent from my Thunderbolt

 

[deviouslylost]

i beg to differ. you will never learn anything if you have people hand feed you. I messed my phone up first time i tried rooting but i didnt go crying and ask for help without searching. there about what 100+ of these threads if he would have bothered to search he would have found how to fix his problem.

You just told him to do what i said other then redownload..:-X

It's a community where Android users assist other users, and right now you are acting like everyones dog just took a dump on your lawn. I am sorry you didn't think to ask for assistance, but that is no excuse to act like a jerk.

Solutions:

Could have pointed him to a thread where it's already been addressed.

Don't read the question.

 

[Lyle Ferguson]

Thanks for the help guys. I guess it was pretty simple. I was nervous about doing anything else after thinking I may have ruined my phone lol. Gonna try a few other roms now. Not liking cyanogen too much personally.

Oh, and I DID do some searching for a solution.

Again, thanks for the help!