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

[DejahThoris]

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]

reboot it to recovery and use the stock RUU rom

[DejahThoris]

reboot 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]

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

[DejahThoris]

http://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]

a bricked HTC normally needs a stock rom to recover

[BlueBMW]

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

[SignOfZeta]

Wow, World's Fanciest Watchdog Failure.

[DejahThoris]

That 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!