Today I killed my phone. Or at least turned it into a screensaver machine

DejahThoris · 09/14/2012, 09:24 PM

Tried to flash a different ROM with ROM manager, and now it does this:

And that's all it does.

It's mesmerizing. Not at all a good thing, but damn it looks cool in person. Just thought I'd share my awesome new screensaver machine.

thesteve · 09/14/2012, 09:35 PM

reboot it to recovery and use the stock RUU rom

DejahThoris · 09/14/2012, 09:42 PM

Quote from: thesteve on 09/14/2012, 09:35 PMreboot it to recovery and use the stock RUU rom

I'm trying to figure that out right now. It doesn't have an SD card slot, so I need to find the proper file on here:

http://goo.im/ruu/ace

It's an Inspire 4G.

Found it! Just waiting on the download. Man, what a fun way to mess up a phone! Here's hoping I get it right next time.

thesteve · 09/14/2012, 09:50 PM

http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-inspire-4g-att/software-updates

DejahThoris · 09/14/2012, 10:17 PM

Quote from: thesteve on 09/14/2012, 09:50 PMhttp://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-inspire-4g-att/software-updates

Haha, that would've worked too. Back to stock now. Attempt number two!

Rooting the Inspire kills the sound, so if you want to root you have to flash a different ROM :/.

thesteve · 09/14/2012, 10:20 PM

a bricked HTC normally needs a stock rom to recover

BlueBMW · 09/15/2012, 01:07 AM

That visual effect there looks like the boot splash screen of my galaxy nexus. Is that the rom you were trying to load?

SignOfZeta · 09/15/2012, 02:15 AM

Wow, World's Fanciest Watchdog Failure.

DejahThoris · 09/15/2012, 11:22 AM

Quote from: BlueBMW on 09/15/2012, 01:07 AMThat visual effect there looks like the boot splash screen of my galaxy nexus. Is that the rom you were trying to load?

No, some custom Inspire/Desire HD rom that just happens to have the same boot splash screen. Turns out despite the dev saying it was compatible most of the forum posts I found said it was compatible with the DHD but not the Inspire. After flashing back to stock rom, and re-rooting I managed to find myself in a new rom with ICS and Sense 4.0!