BRICKED MK908II FIXED

[bricked]

After flashing a ROM with the incorrect bootloader I bricked my device. No display showed up when connected to the HDMI port on my computer, nor was it recognized when plugged into the USB port on my laptop.

Now, having nothing to lose, I took apart my device and located the NAND chip. Following instructions for the MK808 I used a small metal pin to short pins 8-9 from the right side of the NAND chip. IMPORTANT: I am not sure that it was pins 8-9, I was moving my pin around and got lucky. It is possible.

After I shorted these pins, Finless flash tool showed "found rkandroid loader rock usb" which I recognized as the flash mode of the device. My first step once my laptop recognized the device in flash mode was to ERASE NAND IDB. Once I did this my laptop no longer recognized the device. I was able to get it back into flash mode now, using the regular method of holding down the reset button for 4 seconds and then plugging it into a USB port. IMPORTANT: Use USB 2.0 if at all possible, or change your config file (as is documented in other posts).

I then flashed Finless 1.5a and my device once again works!! I am very very new to this and if I can unbrick my device, so can you. Have hope.

[d33]

Glad it worked and you saved your device.

Shorting the NAND pins usually puts the device into MASKROM mode - this bypasses the loader which is why it works. You can restore the NAND in this mode by reformatting as you say or by applying a loader. Then you can reboot back into Loader mode with the NAND reformatted.