I hard bricked my mini

[Maxhenri]

I wanted to go back from custom rom 4.4.2 to official rom. But because of problems with bootloader, and my recklessness, I ended up with an X7 mini with no rom, no bootloader, no anything flashed to it, and an erased NAND Needless to say, I've got no picture from it, no blue light on the box, and it can't be detected by Windows or the various flashtools.
I've tried the trick with connecting the pins 8-9 directly on the NAND chip, and the other trick with connecting T4 and T5 on the board, and I must have followed those guides 50 times now, both using Windows and Linux, connecting with pieces of wire or paperclips, and to no avail.
Only thing I'm getting as a sign of life from it, is a splitsecond of red light at the SPDIF port, when I connect power.
Is this box truly dead?

SOLVED:
I connected it to power while holding a screwdriver connecting the T4 and T5 solderings (I have tried that before), but then I held down the reset button also while powering it up! Used a book to press down on the corner of the board where the reset button is located, to keep it down It lives! Impossible to kill!

[blackstarr]

I wanted to go back from custom rom 4.4.2 to official rom. But because of problems with bootloader, and my recklessness, I ended up with an X7 mini with no rom, no bootloader, no anything flashed to it, and an erased NAND Needless to say, I've got no picture from it, no blue light on the box, and it can't be detected by Windows or the various flashtools.
I've tried the trick with connecting the pins 8-9 directly on the NAND chip, and the other trick with connecting T4 and T5 on the board, and I must have followed those guides 50 times now, both using Windows and Linux, connecting with pieces of wire or paperclips, and to no avail.
Only thing I'm getting as a sign of life from it, is a splitsecond of red light at the SPDIF port, when I connect power.
Is this box truly dead?

SOLVED:
I connected it to power while holding a screwdriver connecting the T4 and T5 solderings (I have tried that before), but then I held down the reset button also while powering it up! Used a book to press down on the corner of the board where the reset button is located, to keep it down It lives! Impossible to kill!

i've been through this. no need to open the device actually. just hold the reset button throughout the reflashing process will do the trick

[Maxhenri]

i've been through this. no need to open the device actually. just hold the reset button throughout the reflashing process will do the trick

Problem was, that the box couldn't even be detected, upon connecting it to the computer, so I couldn't even start the flash.
So I had to short those two solderings, to get it to even show up with the lsusb command in Ubuntu.