Omnia bricked itself?
 

My fairly new Omnia (flashed to CF03) has apparently committed suicide and is now a brick. Problems started yesterday afternoon with strange behavior with email, try to open a message in one account and it switched to another account. Then the small closure X in the upper right disappeared for awhile, apps started slowing down, etc.

Did a Cleartemp prior to what would have been a soft reset. Cleartemp took awhile, then reported it had “cleared” 245 MB (yea, thats megabytes). Screen was locked up at that point, so did a reset. Phone stopped at password screen and refused the correct password to continue. Repeated resets failed to get anywhere and I could not turn the phone off or do anything to get past the password screen.

Did a hard reset per the manual and got nowhere, the phone will not hard reset. Took the battery out, removed the microSD card and the card had been wiped of data. The 245MB of data reported by Cleartemp was the SD card.

So, battery is out and I’m leaving the phone sit for today, will try another hard reset when I get home. In theory, software cannot screw up a ROM, unless you’re flashing or something similar, but the phone appears to be bricked. This thing is getting to be way more trouble than its worth.

Not happy.

Re: Omnia bricked itself?
 

You can try to reflash to CF03 again as that usually fixes most problems, but in your case it sounds like you have hardware failure. I would take it into Verizon and get it switched out for a new one

Re: Omnia bricked itself?
 

Thought about the reflash, but the shape its in now, I doubt if I could get it to sync at all. It may be a case of infant mortality, maybe the chips in the ROM.

Re: Omnia bricked itself?
 

I'd still try to hard reset before flashing again. Try the alternate method by pressing the reset button then hold down the end and send keys until format displays on the screen.

Re: Omnia bricked itself?
 

Re: Omnia bricked itself?
 

Tried that numerous times. Phone continued to boot and always stopped at the password screen, and that was it. That would indicate hardware failure to me. I can still put in a password, but it sits there for a few seconds, then clears the value I put in and just waits. My name, the date and correct time still show at the top of the screen, the Menu and Unlock buttons work, but nothing is getting me past that screen.

Re: Omnia bricked itself?
 

It's back to the Verizon store for you, then, my son