Program to brick phone? - Page 2

EtherealRemnant · #11 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008, 05:57 PM

I think he wants to walk in to a store with a bricked phone and walk out with another one, rather than going through insurance.

Protonus · #12 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008, 08:10 PM

Why were you using olipro 1.2?! It's wayyyyy outdated.

**puff** · #13 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by EtherealRemnant

I think he wants to walk in to a store with a bricked phone and walk out with another one, rather than going through insurance.

if thats the case then it wont happen. chances are that the store will give u another 6800 or worse even, they might give u the touch! same with asurion. perhaps u could get a treo, but good luck getting a diamond

remlle · #14 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008, 08:54 PM

one way to easily get sprint to replace your phone is to try to load a default sprint rom. during the rom install unplug the cable. it will always go to boot loader and not leave.

anotherv8blazer · #15 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008, 09:33 PM

if you want to brick a phone take the battery out then walk out to your car or any car and hook up a wire to both the pos and neg side of the battery then run the other end of the wires across the battery termanals... pooff red led light...

works also but if they open it up they will see the soder is burnt and might give ya hell...the battery trick works and only frys the chips or so i got told from my buddy that did that to get a touch a few months back

EtherealRemnant · #16 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008, 09:52 PM

Wasn't there a way to brick the Mogul so its stuck in download mode? I can't remember how it was happening. Haven't heard much about it lately... Wasn't it from people trying to relock and going GPS?

**puff** · #17 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by EtherealRemnant

Wasn't there a way to brick the Mogul so its stuck in download mode? I can't remember how it was happening. Haven't heard much about it lately... Wasn't it from people trying to relock and going GPS?

Downgrading the Radio from GPS to Non-GPS was the 'brick' warning you're talkin about.

To briefly rehash this topic...the thing is that is it possible to downgrade but due to difference in physical location of the radio, the 3.X Radio will never be completely overwrote by a 1.X Radio, leaving behind some traces of code... which could cause problems (like download mode) and which could also never be noticed.

That being said, you can try to brick it, but good luck

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Originally Posted by gguruusa

These things are like tanks...how'd you brick one?

**ImCoKeMaN** · #18 (**permalink**) 09-19-2008, 10:46 AM

I don't think we should condone things like this so i'll just comment that it is very possible to recover your phone from this condition using the stock 2.17 exe from sprint with radio. Use the SD card method referenced earlier. There is a danger as puff said about that bricking it, but its also quite possible that in this case it will be fine. For you either outcome should be ok as you want a brick, but i want you to at least be trying to fix not trying to brick. Give that a shot and i'm closing this thread, you can create a new one about how to "recover from 1.20 bootloader flash" if you decide to change your tone.