Bricked. Out of ideas. - Page 3

djfujiyama · #21 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 08:48 AM

Thanks for the update man, much appreciated.

The only thing that irks me about vista needing some special tweak is the fact that i did it on my original mogul and everything went smooth. I have wasted more hours than i can count on this issue. I knew i should have just kept the original and sucked it up. The only thing wrong with it was a sticky "down" arrow key and the blue led was busted. Now i have a whole bunch of problems way worse than that.

Let's hope that the update hits on the 10th. I can't believe my luck. Not only do i get a bad refurb, but it's only defective with things that it doesn't officially support. Reminds me of those poor guys who got the ONE Celeron 300A chip that wouldn't overclock when they bought it for that sole reason.

If anyone knows how to intentionally brick this phone (without using a hammer), i'd be open to it if the official 3.16 happens to work. I want custom ROMs, damnit.

edit: I'm wondering if i did the SD-card update process wrong. I double and tripled checked that i was following directions though. Will any FAT32 format process work? Do i have to choose a specific allocation unit size? Could there be anything else i'm screwing up? I can't believe stock ROMs work but i can't even get HardSPL to function.

Geckotek · #22 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by djfujiyama

Thanks for the update man, much appreciated.

The only thing that irks me about vista needing some special tweak is the fact that i did it on my original mogul and everything went smooth. I have wasted more hours than i can count on this issue. I knew i should have just kept the original and sucked it up. The only thing wrong with it was a sticky "down" arrow key and the blue led was busted. Now i have a whole bunch of problems way worse than that.

Let's hope that the update hits on the 10th. I can't believe my luck. Not only do i get a bad refurb, but it's only defective with things that it doesn't officially support. Reminds me of those poor guys who got the ONE Celeron 300A chip that wouldn't overclock when they bought it for that sole reason.

If anyone knows how to intentionally brick this phone (without using a hammer), i'd be open to it if the official 3.16 happens to work. I want custom ROMs, damnit.

edit: I'm wondering if i did the SD-card update process wrong. I double and tripled checked that i was following directions though. Will any FAT32 format process work? Do i have to choose a specific allocation unit size? Could there be anything else i'm screwing up? I can't believe stock ROMs work but i can't even get HardSPL to function.

Not getting the bootloader upgraded is most of your problem. Why you can't get it upgraded I can't say, but you should look into trying it on another PC that runs XP if at all possible.

Can you get it to connect to WMDC? If not, I'd take it back to Sprint for that reason alone.

The updated ROM on Monday is pretty much a sure thing. An e-mail sent to the Tier 2 techs has been leaked on here already.

djfujiyama · #23 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 04:45 PM

Yeah it connects fine to WMDC. And i used this same machine to flash 3.16 a week ago on my old mogul and it worked fine. I wonder if this is the reason the phone is a refurb. Like i wonder if someone sent it back for this exact reason.

Hellion · #24 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 04:52 PM

Ok, don't know if this would help, but it did for me and for many others that I shared it with here and other forums..... try downloading the Official ROM for the TITAN from HTC website in the Sprint phones/support section. Then install that one. For some odd reason, it worked. When I was having more trouble down the road with other Roms and such and couldn't get them to install all the way and ended up booting to bootloader, I just did that one and it worked. Make sure after you download it you, reboot computer with phone disconnected. When booted back up connect phone in bootloader, and install the ROM. I would link to it, but i'm on a ship (US NAVY) and internet is very slow..... good luck brotha.... from what I can tell/learn/heard it is F'n hard to brick this phone..=

djfujiyama · #25 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 06:22 PM

Hey Hellion. Yeah, I got 2.17 to work but none of the customs will. Still trying to figure it out.

Geckotek · #26 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by djfujiyama

Hey Hellion. Yeah, I got 2.17 to work but none of the customs will. Still trying to figure it out.

And they won't until you get the bootloader updated to 2.4.

djfujiyama · #27 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 07:16 PM

On my other mogul the rom flash to 3.16 actually worked even without the hard SPL. Of course, it reboot constantly after i did it, and i had to eventually install the SPL, but at least the flash operation went through ok. With this device, the only thing that will even acknowledge there's a connection is the relocker. Everything else (hard spl included) thinks that nothing is plugged in. It won't even START the update operation.