Won't connect in USB / Bootloader stuck in Serial

[jdepew]

Hi all,

I tried flashing my Diamond with the newer sprint radio released a couple weeks back that was packaged to not need a hard reset. Like an idiot, forgot to go through the unlock process before hand... the package started working but never completed, but no catastrophic failure, just a graceful fail, no update, no problems it seemed. Until I tried reconnected to my laptop to sync some updated contacts. Now it won't connect via USB and be recognized at all, it just charges. Interestingly as a side effect, previous USB charges like my apple and garmin USB chargers which worked fine with a miniUSB cable to charge the phone now only charge with the extUSB cable,while the stock HTC charger continues to work with miniUSB or extUSB..

So today, in an attempt to avoid hard resetting, which I'd rather not do without knowing that will put it back to USB connect working since then I would have NO contacts on the phone, I pullled up the bootloader and it says 'serial' in the white bar, connecting a USB cable should change it to USB, but alas, no change.

So - the question is - how to you fix a bootloader that is stuck in serial mode?

Thanks!