W580i is a brick!

Hi there, my first post! I was told to post here for some help I need with my W580i phone.

I got it last week from my wife, but she got it me on T-mobile (uk) sim, but the rest of the family are on 02 and so is my old sim card. So I tried to unlock it without any success and now it won't even turn on??

I haven't told the wife yet as I am hoping someone could tell me in plain English what I can do to solve this. If it involes money then don't bother posting.

If it helps my son has the exact same phone but he is already with 02. Is it possible to copy the software form his and put it on to my phone? I am using SETool lite.

Hope someone can help or can point me as to where I can get the original software from so at least I can turn it on.

Thx

Welcome to the forum!

But...
...how should we be able to help you if you give no details at all?
...how about telling us what you did and posting up your logs?

Don't bother asking for firmware uploads, that's against the forum rules.

Sry for asking for firmware :o

As for the details what you need to know? Im new to this and I am pretty desperate!

As for the log, here goes

Welcome to SEtool2 ( LITE edition ) v 1.11
supported DB2010/DB2012 CID49/50/51/52, DB2020 CID49/51/52
Loaded 51 flash descriptors

if you like LITE edition - please visit Index of ./ and buy FULL.

ChipID:9900,EMP protocol:0301
PHONE IS RED RETAIL PRODUCT
FLASH CID detected:52
Speed:921600
OTP LOCKED:1 CID:51 PAF:1 IMEI:CERT:RED
FLASH CID:52 COLOR:RED
LDR:061201 1314 HANCXC1329129_DB2020_FLASHLOADER_R2A005
Flash ID check:897E
Flash props sent ok

CID52 BYPASS PROCEDURE STARTED
Processing part1...
CSloader version:
070410 1557 HANCXC1250562_DB2020_CSLOADER_R3A009
Processing part2...
Processing part3....
OTP LOCKED:1 CID:51 PAF:1 IMEI:CERT:RED
FLASH CID:52 COLOR:RED
LDR:061201 1314 HANCXC1329129_DB2020_FLASHLOADER_R2A005
Flash ID check:897E
Flash props sent ok

REMOVE CABLE FROM PHONE
REMOVE BATTERY FROM PHONE, THEN INSERT IT BACK
THEN PRESS "READY"

HOLD "C" BUTTON AND ATTACH PHONE

CID52 BYPASS PROCEDURE FINISHED

ChipID:9900,EMP protocol:0301
PHONE IS RED RETAIL PRODUCT
FLASH CID detected:52
Speed:921600
Trying to launch embedded bootloader...
INT LDR:DB2020_PRELOADER_FOR_SETOOL2
LDR:DB2020 LOADER FOR SETOOL2
Flash ID check:897E
Flash props sent ok
Going to execute VKP script....
Starting to process VKP patch script: C:\Documents and Settings\Simon\My Documents\downloads\vkp\Remove_SIM_lock_W580_R8BA0 24.vkp
VKP script loaded OK. Lines: 6
Patch structure created OK. Determining blocks to read...
New block #0000 added: $44600000
Blocks selected OK. Reading blocks: 1
Block @ $44600000 read error. Have only: 00000000 bytes
Elapsed:497 secs.
ChipID:9900,EMP protocol:0301
PHONE IS RED RETAIL PRODUCT
FLASH CID detected:52
Speed:921600
Flash ID check:897E
Flash props sent ok
OTP LOCKED:1 CID:51 PAF:1 IMEI:CERT:RED
FLASH CID:52 COLOR:RED
set_gdfs_props failed, exiting
Elapsed:0 secs.
ChipID:9900,EMP protocol:0301
PHONE IS RED RETAIL PRODUCT
FLASH CID detected:52
Speed:921600
Flash ID check:897E
Flash props sent ok
OTP LOCKED:1 CID:51 PAF:1 IMEI:CERT:RED
FLASH CID:52 COLOR:RED
set_gdfs_props failed, exiting
Elapsed:22 secs.
RECOVERY MODE STARTED
skipping empty loader...
All possible recovery loaders fail. That phone not supported
Elapsed:2 secs.
RECOVERY MODE STARTED
skipping empty loader...
All possible recovery loaders fail. That phone not supported
Elapsed:7 secs.
ChipID:9900,EMP protocol:0301
PHONE IS RED RETAIL PRODUCT
FLASH CID detected:52
Speed:921600
OTP LOCKED:1 CID:51 PAF:1 IMEI:CERT:RED
FLASH CID:52 COLOR:RED
LDR:061201 1314 HANCXC1329129_DB2020_FLASHLOADER_R2A005
Flash ID check:897E
Flash props sent ok
CSloader version:
070410 1557 HANCXC1250562_DB2020_CSLOADER_R3A009
loader startup: executed
CSloader refused to start GDFS services,error is:29
failed, that is fatal
Elapsed:9 secs.

Hope this helps. As I said my son has the same phone, could I use that firmware?

The problem is that the MAIN firmware gets entirely destroyed by the alternative bypass and you didn't flash it again.

"CSloader refused to start GDFS services,error is:29" This could be fatal, it indicates a bricked GDFS. Did you make a backup of your GDFS before you flashed it?

no i didn't. I know I know I should of read the instructions first but I thought I had!! Anyway is there a way around this? Like I said could I take the firm ware from my son's phone, back it up and then put that onto my BRICK?

I'm not 100% sure about this, that's why I didn't answer your question in my previous post.
Your son's phone would have to have the same CID as your (52). I don't think it's possible with SE Tool lite.

But you won't be able to flash the firmware if your GDFS is bricked and it looks like it really is.

Justme
I would submit a question.
Always I read to backup gdfs first, and so many time I read -your gdfs is corrupted-.
I have worked with so many mobile and never I did a backup and never I had to use it.

It is very important or not to backup the gdfs?

To Dingle
First of all, to apply a vkp patch you need to flash the main together with the vkp patch, otherwise you got a -false- brick.
Have you tried to flash a main firmware?

berthstein:

Yes, it is.
If you want to apply a patch to your phone, add it in the "misc" tab in SE Tool lite and accidentally press "Write GDFS" instead of "Write Script" your phone will be a brick. That may sound stupid but it happened to many users.

If you haven't got a model which is supported by SEMC8.4 or SET2cracked you won't be able flash any other GDFS and restore the important values so that the foreign GDFS will work for your phone.

It's even worse if you screw up the GDFS of a DB2020 phone (from now on you'll need SE Tool 3 Box). Those are really hard to fix. If you've got a CID52 phone you won't be able to format the GDFS area. If there is any trash data you won't be able to revive the phone.
If you've got a CID49/51 phone you can read out the secunits, flash a foreign GDFS and restore the secunits backup. That won't work out if these values have already been altered.

restore is main the fone solution problem

its below the freakin flash IC? thats retarded...
If you going remove the chip why not just put a new one in there and do empty fill?