Phone won't start-no bootloader

[madman34]

Originally Posted by ImCoKeMaN

This state is called download mode, i have 2 devices stuck in it and am working on a solution. It appears that the new GPS radios are protected from overwrite and some attempts to revert can cause this situation. My signature shows the way it happened for me.

Hey Coke,,,,,,,I posted on XDA an idea a little while back to fix this stuff, long before soooooo many people are reporting this. I will sum it up real quick but maybe go look at "The JTAG Project" thread of mine and tell me what you think. In a nutshell, I know that Shadowmite and some others are working on this issue but some proprietary info is needed to get in the way they want, and i am looking for it thru old Qualcomm contacts myself, but I feel that maybe JTAGging might be the answer to getting at least a good bootloader on the thing. I have JTAGed air cards, satellite receivers, car engine control processors, phones, lots of stuff, and have the software and hardware to do it reliably. I feel like the 6800 should also have a JTAG interface as almost everything else I have opened up does, even XM radios Anyway, if we read a total image out of a good working one and then dump it into a bricked one it should bring it back. I do not have a bricked one to open up and probe, and mine is not yet broken (give it time and i bet i will. If anyone has one that can not be replaced under warranty or otherwise fixed, take a look inside for JTAG interface. I have been dying to try, but i am not going to kill mine just to fix it.