Bricked Phone from Advanced Settings = Glyph Cache 32KB + File Cache Auto (Energy ROM

[JakFrost]

EDITED: Phone started working after coming back to the US and getting a CDMA signal.

I bricked my phone after using the Advanced Settings to change the Glyph Cache to 32KB and enabling File System Cache to Auto. Got prompted to Soft-Reset and phone went into boot screen loop.

Here's what I tried with no help:

1. Reset to Factory Settings (Power + Up)
2. Reflash newer Energy ROM 21916 RHODCDMA Cookie 2.0 Apr 26 2011 from April 19 2011 version that I used before
3. Reset to Factory Settings Again
4. Radio Reflash 2.32.00WU
5. Task29
6. HardSPL 1.01 (1.00 Olinex)

Phone always goes to Touch Pro 2 black boot screen, stays there for a little while and reboots.

I'm baffled on how a setting inside the WM OS can break the phone and make it unfixable after ROM reflashing... twice and factory resets.

Only thing unusual is that I'm on vacation and I now use a SIM card in this phone since there is no CDMA service here. Before this screw-up everything was working great.

Since nothing worked I have to go back to flashing a stock Sprint ROM and start from scratch. Seriously, WTF went wrong with Advanced Settings?

[elesbb]

Originally Posted by JakFrost

I bricked my phone after using the Advanced Settings to change the Glyph Cache to 32KB and enabling File System Cache to Auto. Got prompted to Soft-Reset and phone went into boot screen loop.


Here's what I tried with no help:

1. Reset to Factory Settings (Power + Up)
2. Reflash newer Energy ROM 21916 RHODCDMA Cookie 2.0 Apr 26 2011 from April 19 2011 version that I used before
3. Reset to Factory Settings Again
4. Radio Reflash 2.32.00WU

Phone always goes to HTC Touch Pro 2 black boot screen, stays there for a little while and reboots.

I will do Task29 (Full Reformat of Flash ROM) and try reflashing the HardSPL 1.01 again since that's the only thing left on the phone that I still haven't reflashed.

I'm baffled on how a setting inside the WM OS can break the phone and make it unfixable after ROM reflashing... twice and factory resets.

Only thing unusual is that I'm on vacation and I now use a SIM card in this phone since there is no CDMA service here. Before this screw-up everything was working great.

try flashing back to stock .. first doing a task29 as you've mentioned , then while its flashing remove the battery after 1% then press the power button a few times to eliminate all the power flow , insert battery , then perform a hard reset by holding the end key , the send key and the power button down followed by the vol up butoon twice

[JakFrost]

Bad news, something serious got screwed up on this phone.

1. Task29 done
2. Stock ROM Flashed - RUU_Rhodium_W_WM65_Sprint_WWE_2.04.651.4_RS_2.32WF _NV_SPCS_2.20_0224_PRL60660_Ship.exe
3. Interrupted at 4% and went into ROM Error Recovery successfully, Stock ROM flashed successfully
4. Hard Reset (Power + Send + End) + VolUp + VolUp

Nothing worked! Phone is now stuck at white and green HTC boot screen, same as before black Touch Pro 2 screen.

WTF did Advanced Settings do to brick this phone so badly with Energy ROM?

I've been flashing ROMs and radios and SPLs without issues for years, but one usage of Advanced Settings screwed this phone like a pooch. I'm a bit pissed since this is my Wife's phone and we're away on vacation where we need the phone for SIM card access internationally.

[JakFrost]

I've tried flashing some more things to the phone thinking that the Radio is corrupt or something, but nothing works.

1. Sprint Radio 1.96WV
2. Sprint Stock ROM again

I wonder if the phone requires CDMA signal somehow when it is reflashed with radio or something to initialize some parameters however here there is no CDMA, only GSM. I've rebooted the phone here and it came back up normally, but after the soft-reset from Advanced Settings app it got screwed completely.

[JakFrost]

I tried some more things.

1. Task29 - Works because boot screen changes to black Touch Pro 2 and it gets stuck there permanently.
2. Radio - 2.32.00WU (Sprint) World Unlocked for SIM card
3. Stock Sprint ROM again...

After this, I might have to resolve to finding some mtty commands to see if there is anything that I can do with those.

[JakFrost]

Phone is still bricked. I'm trying some MTTY commands to see if clearing it all and starting fresh might worked. I did task 28 and task 29 twice and below is the output from the second run. I'll reflash the stock Sprint ROM to see if it goes anywhere.

mtty 1.42 to USB

Cmd>getdevinfo
GetDevInfo: Get CID OK

HTCSRHOD4000HTCE

Cmd>task 28
Format start
Fill RSVD information for block 351 to 384
TAG NOT FOUND !!! NOT CLEAR STORAGE !!!
Format end

Cmd>task 29
Format BINFS start
CE start start block=384, total block=3712
ERASE block 768 FAIL !!!
Write 0xFF start page=0x6000, total page=0x3A000
Format BINFS end

Cmd>ResetDevice

[JakFrost]

Phone is still screwed. I couldn't find a list of HardSPL 1.00 Olinex commands and registers either to fix this problem. This has now taken half of my vacation day.

Cmd>set 16 0

Cmd>task 8

[JakFrost]

I'm hoping to find something from within mtty commands to help me. Here's some info about my phone in case anyone sees something not right or some kind of an explanation as to why the phone bricked itself.

md>info 0
Platform Model ID:RHOD40000
Platform HW Board ID:4, UNKNOWN

Cmd>info 1

Cmd>info 2
HTCSSPCS_001ćž7HTCE
Cmd>info 3
HTCSRHOD40000
Cmd>info 4
HTCSSPCS_001ćž7HTCE
Cmd>info 5

Cmd>info 6
HTCST   ÚČŇHTCE
Cmd>info 7

HTC Integrated Re-Flash Utility, Common Base Version : 1.51d
Device Name: Rhodium_W, Bootloader Version : 1.00.OliNex
Built at: Jul 16 2009 21:25:07
Copyright (c) 1998-2006 High Tech Computer Corporation

Board ID=0x4
CPU ID=0x4117B362
TURBO HW =1
TURBO SW =1

Cmd>info 8

--- 2K bytes sector version ---

DEVICE NAME=samsung_kby00n00hm
DEVICE ID=0xBC
DEVICE MAKER ID=0xEC
PAGE SIZE=0x800
TOTAL PAGE SIZE=0x840
BLOCK COUNT=0x1000
BLOCK PAGE=0x40

Checking block information

BLOCK 0 (0x0) is reversed block
BLOCK 1 (0x1) is reversed block
BLOCK 2 (0x2) is reversed block
BLOCK 3 (0x3) is reversed block
BLOCK 4 (0x4) is reversed block
BLOCK 5 (0x5) is reversed block
BLOCK 7 (0x7) is reversed block
BLOCK 8 (0x8) is reversed block
BLOCK 9 (0x9) is reversed block
BLOCK 10 (0xA) is reversed block
BLOCK 11 (0xB) is reversed block
BLOCK 12 (0xC) is reversed block
BLOCK 13 (0xD) is reversed block
BLOCK 14 (0xE) is reversed block
BLOCK 15 (0xF) is reversed block
BLOCK 16 (0x10) is reversed block
BLOCK 17 (0x11) is reversed block
BLOCK 18 (0x12) is reversed block
BLOCK 19 (0x13) is reversed block
BLOCK 20 (0x14) is reversed block
BLOCK 21 (0x15) is reversed block
BLOCK 22 (0x16) is reversed block
BLOCK 23 (0x17) is reversed block
BLOCK 24 (0x18) is reversed block
BLOCK 25 (0x19) is reversed block
BLOCK 26 (0x1A) is reversed block
BLOCK 27 (0x1B) is reversed block
BLOCK 28 (0x1C) is reversed block
BLOCK 29 (0x1D) is reversed block
BLOCK 30 (0x1E) is reversed block
BLOCK 31 (0x1F) is reversed block
BLOCK 32 (0x20) is reversed block
BLOCK 768 (0x300) is bad block
Partition[0], type=0x20, start=0x2, total=0x63E
Partition[1], type=0x23, start=0x640, total=0x980
Partition[2], type=0x25, start=0xFC0, total=0x1AD40
Partition[3], type=0x4, start=0x1BD00, total=0x1E300

CE Total Length(with sector info) = 0xDF5E800 
CE CheckSum Length(without sector info) = 0xDE80000 

Cmd>info 9
Fixed new dwPSImageSize = 0xDE80000
Storage Start Addr=0x5E2C0000, length:0xDF3E600

[JakFrost]

Trying some more things.

1. Stock Sprint ROM - Flashing from SD card with RHODIMG.nbh.

[JakFrost]

Stock ROM flash from SD completed successfully but still same issue. New white green HTC boot screen with same looping reboots.

Never get to the red radio version codes, just like after first reboot.