We’ve all been there. Sitting at our desks, hunched over some gadget when suddenly, you have the “Oh sh*t” moment. You might know what went wrong, you might not… but all you know is you borked your device. At this point, you can either rage-quit and smash your device to smithereens, or you can consult the all-knowing-internets for a solution.
Nilay Patel from engadget recently had his own little “oh sh*t” moment when he bricked his Droid X while trying to downgrade from a leaked Froyo build to Android 2.1, all so he could just grab the official Froyo build OTA. What he didn’t know was that while in the bootloader, the phone doesn’t charge, so mid-upgrade… POOF the phone shuts off and that, my friends is a textbook way to brick your phone.
Nilay, feeling that his nerd-fu was strong, decided to take matters into his own hands, did a little internet reading, and produced what you see in the picture above. Stripping a USB cable, he tricked the phone to thinking it was charging and then, using some more h4ck3d goodies, got his phone back to default 2.1 and grabbed the 2.2 update. Bravo Nilay, bravo.
For the full story with more details, hit up his editorial at engadget
How to brick a Droid X & bring it back to life
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