Think i have bricked it....

[declantg]

So as everyone on here already knows my mums phones been playing up for months (see previous thread)

decided today i would try and fix it so got looking, found a forum which told me to install this update onto the phone and "flash" it? think its called.

all of that complete and now im left with a phone which just flickers from black to grey over and over.

Any ideas? or is it just a brick now?

its an htc wildfire s BTW

[Diggers]

Sorry but ill say what I tell everyone that fucks stuff.
If you don't know what your doing, don't do it.

Sent from my HTC Wildfire using Tapatalk

[Toms306]

Sorry but ill say what I tell everyone that f*cks stuff.
If you don't know what your doing, don't do it.

Sent from my HTC Wildfire using Tapatalk

Then how would anyone ever learn anything? :?

[declantg]

yeah i know, but it was f*cked anyways so worth a shot, wouldnt let her open pictures, messages, emails, or even any apps, even thought it has a 16gb card in it

[4WayDiablo]

Sorry but ill say what I tell everyone that f*cks stuff.
If you don't know what your doing, don't do it.

Sent from my HTC Wildfire using Tapatalk

Then how would anyone ever learn anything? :?

research my dear tommay

[Toms306]

Then how would anyone ever learn anything? :?

research my dear tommay

You can read all the book and forums you like, it's nothing compared to actually doing things though.

[puglove]

yeah i think yu now have an expensive paper weight

[declantg]

mer, no real loss, as soon as my other phone comes back she is just using that

just wanted to make sure its dead

[Scott]

There are probably some guides on xda-developers to help unbrick it (if that is the case). I would say you've probably installed the wrong update and it could well be stuck in a boot loop. Did you take a copy of the phone's firmware beforehand?

I know very little about those phones, but being a HTC you can probably boot to the bootloader by turning it off and then turning on the phone while holding down the volume key, which should allow you to restore to factory settings. If everything is on internal memory then I'd say that's pretty much lost, though if it's on external (SD/MicroSD) then it should be fine.

[declantg]

thank you for the helpful post Scott

Have now taken the whole thing apart and put back together, the screen just keeps cycling through and through. i have tried the volume button thing and such a while and still no prevail.

The update was definitely the right one as i didnt want this to happen!

Will have a look about now

[Scott]

By the way, what did you actually flash? Was it a new radio, or was it a new rom? I'm guessing you were doing the radio update rather than a new rom...

Anyway: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... ?t=1622178

[tsotd]

xda-developers.com - FTW !!!!!

updated my other halfs galaxy s1 to ICS

[declantg]

its hardbricked! no real loss but hey ho!

[cully]

drop it down the shitter and claim on the house insurance!

[kernow_joe]

my galaxy s was in the same state, now happily running ics android, no experience with wildfire though, as scott says xda is the place to look, hopefully you can get it into download mode and copy needed files across to sort it, I had to buy a usb jig to sort it, think thats just a samsung galaxy s thing though
good luck with it

[Eeyore]

i put the swedish spring rom on my orange san francisco and got stuck in a boot loop. was fine the second time.