Please help - hardware glitch preventing me from restoring xv6800 to factory!

[theTastyCat]

Hi all - thanks for reading this.

My xv6800 has gone buggy. I was running a nice, quick No2Chem ROM for a month or so and flew to England. As soon as I got there, the phone would completely power down after 3 minutes or so. In order to resusctitate it, I'd remove and replace the battery, plug in the charger, and reset. Then it would live for another 3 or so minutes. Did a hard reset, same old story. Soon it would begin flashing a red led - surely not a good sign.

Called Verizon and they are shipping me a new one, but here's the catch. If I can't get No2Chem 5069 off this thing before it goes back to the factory, I'm out $500 for a replacement charge (for being so stupid as so load a wonderful custom ROM that allows the phone to do what it should have straight from the factory). Problem is that now when I boot, it will only get 12 seconds into the second splash screen before dying. This way, the phone will live only long enough for any monkey at Verizon to realize that I'm running a custom ROM and the hardward glitch becomes immaterial.

Please help me restore this thing - I manually entered bootloader this morning, but without an Activesync connection, I can't reflash and restore it to factory defaults. Anybody know of a way around this? I do have a storage card that I could use if that makes any difference...

Basically, I think my only shot is to put it into bootloader before it dies and then find a way to get it to talk to my destop so I can flash - any ideas?

Thanks so much - your advice is worth exactly $500!!!!

- Gerry