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how to brick a 6700

my usb port on the phone isn't working. I want to take it in, but I have wm6 on it. I need to find a way to make the phone not come on .... or erase the wm6. Any ideas ?

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you can downgrade via the sd card...

Not sure how but I have seen threads.

I also heard an unfortunate incident of someone accidentally dropping the phone on the ground breaking the screen on the way to bring it to the store.

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i have insurance on the phone..... if i don't break it... i don't have to pay the 50 bucks... so i need it to look like it just quit showing the screen

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What about overvolting it... or electronically damaging it? If you can do that without making it look obvious, that might work for you.

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Originally Posted by tc32brat (Post 228923)

my usb port on the phone isn't working. I want to take it in, but I have wm6 on it. I need to find a way to make the phone not come on .... or erase the wm6. Any ideas ?

I believe the way to do it from the card is to load the image on the storage card. Then put it in bootloader mode and it will look to the card for the image file.

daveede

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Remove Battery. then 3 seconds in the microwave. :violent2:

you're welcome.

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don't forget to remove the battery before you stick it in there though. :)

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I resolved this same problem by disassembling my phone & soldering a usb connection to the traces on the circuit board. VERY fine work, but it can be done. I was able to flash back to wm2003 and get my phone exchanged.

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what the heck will microwaving it do?

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eos,

it will make the 6700 one hell of a brick.

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I think there is a way to SD flash it. Stand by, i'm downgrading my 6700 to stock to make a rom dump for you. If it takes i'll rapidshare it for you.

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Sorry I took so long, I had to install XP just to get the device to recognize through MTTY but unfortunately it will not let me read the flash. My 4GB card is not recognized on my 6700.

If anyone has access to a smaller card here's the steps you can do to help this guy out.

This was taken from Reven on PDAPhoneHome.

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Absolutely it's possible to do a ROM dump. Here is the procedure:

Required: One miniSD card of at least 128MB in size.
WARNING: This process will erase the miniSD card, right down to the level of the partition table. You can reformat it, but sometimes Windows messes up the capacity of the card and will only reformat it to half. To get back all of it, do not reformat it in Windows - insert it into your device and allow the device to format it.

1. Get a copy of MTTY - this is a terminal emulator for communicating through the USB port. It used to be available from HTC directly. I have a copy of it on my ftp site.
2. Disallow USB connections in ActiveSync. Disconnect your device from USB, then in ActiveSync select File->Connection Settings and untick "Allow USB Connections".
3. Open up your task manager (right-click the clock in your task tray, and select Task Manager). Select the Processes tab and locate "wcescomm.exe". Terminate this process (right-click and select "End Process").
4. Insert the miniSD card into your device. This is where the ROM backup will go. I suggest using a small one that you don't use for anything else any more.
5. Hold down the power and voice recorder buttons, and while doing that press the reset button with your stylus. This puts your device in terminal mode. On my unit the backlight goes off - don't panic. If you hold the unit right, you can see what's on the screen still. At the top you should see "Serial", at the bottom, "v2.02". Different ROMs will have different version numbers. WARNING: Remember, if you hold down the power button for too long before you do the soft reset, the device's backlight will turn off first before the actual soft reset occurs. This is the hardware button method for turning off the backlight and it survives soft resets. Thus, if after you finish this procedure and your backlight doesn't come back on, don't panic - it just means you turned it off by accident during this step.
6. Put your device back in the cradle, or plug in the USB cable. If you look closely at the top of the screen, you should see that "Serial" has changed to "USB"
7. Wait a few seconds for the device to register, then run MTTY. Select "USB" for the port, leave all other settings alone, then click Ok. You will get a terminal window open. If you have done all the above correctly, then if you hit Enter now in this window, you should get a "USB>" prompt.
8. Type the command "d2s 74100000 00a00000". Case is sensitive - all lower case. Check and double check that there are no typos, then hit enter. If you have done it right, after a moment you will see:
Code:

USB>d2s 74100000 00a00000
d.total_lba=1E5E00
d.block_size=200
d.RCA=AD2E
d.drv_type=0
d.busWidth=1
Total card size=3CBC0000

SDCARDD2S+,cStoragePlatformType=FF

DOCInfoTableinitHW+
Binary0 Size: 0x100000
FAT0 Size: 0x4000000
FAT1 Size: 0xA00000
FAT2 Size: 0x2840000
All Size: 0x7340000
FAT0_ADDR=0x100000,FAT1_ADDR=0x4100000,FAT2_ADDR=0 x4B00000

Then you will start to see '*' printed, one per line. There will be lots - enough that it will scroll everything off the top of the screen. After a minute or so, you should then see "Store image to SD/MMC card successful." and the "USB>" prompt again.
9. On the screen of your device, in the middle you should see "CheckSum is OK!". Again, it's hard to see because the backlight is off. You can now remove your device from the cradle and soft-reset it to get it back to normal. Remember, if the backlight is still off when it resets, it just means you held down the power button too long in step 5

You are now done. Your miniSD card now contains a ROM image. That's all it has - the image overwrites the filesystem. This means you can't simply copy the image off to use as a backup. If you used a small enough card, you could take a disk image of the entire card and use this as a backup. That's beyond the scope of the instructions here, though. I'll write up a separate tutorial for that.

Any time you repeat step 5 above (putting the device in terminal mode) when a miniSD card is in it that has a ROM dump, you will get a prompt on the screen that says:
Code:

SD Download
=============

Sections=1
Press Power

to Flash.

It will take about ten seconds for this to display after the device is in terminal mode.

This is how you reflash your device with the backup.

From here you can take a imaging program like winiso to make an image to the card (you would however need the same size card) to write the image back. Its a pain in the butt so the 3 second microwave trick might be better in your case but at least with a good flash you can say it's a true hardware problem.

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lol if all else fails just give it a quick pop with 120 out of a wall socket using a small gauge wire to the battery terminals it will be dead real quick.. just dont zap yourself.. we use this all the time to get subwoofers replaced from stubborn companies that think our customers are not worth their time.. wanna see the max xmax of your woofer lol... (please be cautious ive been working with electronics for 15 years this is and should be a final resort if all else fails)

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You can flash your phone back to the original Rom.... The details are in the Apache 6700 Upgrades forum.... You basically extract 2 files out of the original flash program and load it into a certain folder and run a mentioned flashing program... You give up too soon....guess I almost did too...

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i want to thank everyone for the suggestions..... i will let you guys know which one works.... thanks again

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ok here is what i did..... i took the battery out.... wrapped it in papertowel... and nuked for 3 seconds.... phone would not come on.... and to the sprint store i went.... they replaced it with another 6700 .... who would think they would even have on but they have 5 others sitting there.... thanks everyone for your suggestions

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I think 2 seconds probably would do it... all you need is for the magnetron to turn on for an instant and it'll fry it. :) I just did it with the 6700 I just got from Asurion... because for some reason after I flashed it, the radio vanished and decided it was going to be from a different region and wouldn't let me flash anymore. Anyway, now it stinks like exploded silicon. So, I think try 2 seconds from now on.

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Originally Posted by makingmesick (Post 230889)

Remove Battery. then 3 seconds in the microwave. :violent2:

you're welcome.

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Originally Posted by tc32brat (Post 241723)

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Originally Posted by ND4SPD (Post 245342)

Oh you guys are funny. Gives me a good laugh!

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The best part of it is the loud BZZZZZZZAP! that ensues. :D

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Originally Posted by ND4SPD (Post 245862)

The best part of it is the loud BZZZZZZZAP! that ensues. :D

I wish i could do this, sounds like good expensive entertainment!

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This is why I always get Total Equipment Coverage on my phones... because then I can participate in this form of entertainment.

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Originally Posted by ND4SPD (Post 246236)

This is why I always get Total Equipment Coverage on my phones... because then I can participate in this form of entertainment.

Just can't quit LMAO at this one. I thought I was good at this kind of stuff, you guys put me to considerable shame. You must have a lot of time to think of stuff like the damp towel is just perfect. Just perfect. lol

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Look, I just got my phone back today. My service tech couldn't care less if I had a custom rom installed. Heck, they are impressed with the fact that I can do it.

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You guys rock! I've had a 6700 for a little over 18 months, purchased on Ebay and with a Square Trade Warranty. It been hacked and modified over and over and was almost perfect, until I dropped it. The screen was toast and I couldn't get it to sync with the laptop. Of course, I denied dropping it, but I was a little hesitant to send it in for inspection without being able to get my data off of it and there was no way to flash it back to original defaults.....so I microwaved it according to the instructions in this thread and then sent it in. Within 5 days I had a full refund of my purchase price back in my paypal account. Thanks for all the help!