PirateRum Bricked my desire - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Can anyone help.
I applied the PirateRum Rom from the list on the rom manager app. After installation it is stuck on the setup wizard. Everytime I try to sign in to my gmail or set up new account it says Wizard has crashed and forces close so i cant get into the phone. I have tried a factory reset and the problem persists. I have also tried to reflash several roms in recovery mode without sucess. I have got as far as receiving the same error message each time "E:signature verification failed". I have tried naming the file update and update.zip to no avail. Does anyone know how i can either:
1. Get passed the setup wizard on PirateRum Rom, or
2. Sucessfully flash a rom in recovery mode
Any assistance would be much appreciated

You havent bricked your desire, as you are still able to load a ROM, broken or not.
The term bricked means its now as dead as a brick. I.E wont even load the bootloader or any ROM.
If you are getting sig verification issues, then it sounds like you need a GoldCard, even if your desire is unlocked and unbranded.
At any point, you can always go back to your original RUU rom from HTC, though it will un-root your desire.

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RUU bricked my phone... I think?

Hi all,
I was trying to unroot my phone so I can send it back to Sprint as I'm doing an exchange and I think RUU messed up my phone.
I opened RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.1_Radio_1.39.00.04.26_release_171253.exe to unroot my phone... my phone restarted and got the HTC loading screen. The ruu application on the computer then stopped then said something like "please get the correct ROM update utility & try again".
I tried rebooting the phone but it is stuck in a reboot loop at the HTC evo splash screen.
I can access recovery via bootloader. I have tried wiping and reloading the rom that I had on there (damagecontrol 3.2.3) but it still keeps on rebooting on the HTC evo splash screen.
Again, I do have fastboot and recovery access.
Any ideas?
[problem solved]
Papichulo06 said:
Hi all,
I was trying to unroot my phone so I can send it back to Sprint as I'm doing an exchange and I think RUU messed up my phone.
I opened RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.1_Radio_1.39.00.04.26_release_171253.exe to unroot my phone... my phone restarted and got the HTC loading screen. The ruu application on the computer then stopped then said something like "please get the correct ROM update utility & try again".
I tried rebooting the phone but it is stuck in a reboot loop at the HTC evo splash screen.
I can access recovery via bootloader. I have tried wiping and reloading the rom that I had on there (damagecontrol 3.2.3) but it still keeps on rebooting on the HTC evo splash screen.
Again, I do have fastboot and recovery access.
Any ideas?
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yea... try flashing a stock rom with root. that should fix your issue
Papichulo06 said:
yea... try flashing a stock rom with root. that should fix your issue
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Good to see that you solved your problem. Anyways, with access to bootloader, your phone is almost never bricked.
I had the exact same issue... the only thing that worked for me was to restore a nand backup of a pre OTA rom... in my case a fresh 0.3 backup.
if you have the drivers installed and it errors out you just gotta re try the ruu.exe file while its on the htc screen
happened to me, and worked the second try perfectly.
jerryparid said:
Good to see that you solved your problem. Anyways, with access to bootloader, your phone is almost never bricked.
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Yea, I figured as much but I didn't understand why I wasn't able to boot up the new/different rom. Oh well, I hope you all find this thread if ya'll have this problem

Cannot install new ROM

Hi all,
before I was running the LeeDroid ROM, but if I played with my phone while is on charger, sometimes it would restart itself couple of times and then get stuck at the HTC logo. The only solution was to reinstall ROM.
Thinking that the ROM may be cause of this, I unrooted my phone and installed the latest generic version. I also installed the latest update, 2.10.
Anyway, this morning while playing with my phone while on charger, again it rebooted itself and now I am again stuck at the HTC logo.
I cannot boot in recovery either.
I tried following this instructions, created goldcard, placed the PB99IMG.zip file on the card, the phone reads the file but then the update fails with reason "main version is older".
My question is: can someone help me? I don't need to install another ROM or anything, I just need to boot up my device.
I was thinking of reinstalling the latest ROM, but cannot find the RUU. I found one, but again I was getting that the version I am trying to update to is oldest then the one I currently have.
Thanks in advance.
I also cannot boot in recovery. So the only open options I see are either to reinstall the ROM through EXE (which I don't have and can't find, because it's the latest version) or through PB99IMG.zip.
The guide you followed won't work because you installed 2.10.405.2. However, if your phone was rebooting randomly after you installed an official RUU it has a fault, you should contact HTC.
I cannot contact HTC because the phone is bought in UK and I live in Macedonia.
I don't need to downgrade or get root or anything, I would just like to reinstall the OS.
BTW, I found why my phone was rebooting.. bad USB cable. It didn't hold tight while charging, so probably that was causing the phone to reboot.
Bloody great! I solved my issue.
What I did was:
1. Installed this ROM - I know it's O2 branded, but all I needed was to be able to boot up my device.
2. And then, followed this instructions to downgrade/debrand.
I'm happy again

Attempting to remove cynogenmod cannot re lock bootloader or reflash recovery

I was having issues with my version of cynogenmod (apps crashing, random reboots) so I decided to downgrade to an earlier update of it. While doing this my phone restarted I guess corrupting whatever was on there. It won't boot and gets stuck at the HTC logo. I can still enter HBOOT, so I tried reflashing ROMS in CWRM from there this was presenting errors also, so I used CMRW to clear out the partitions on the phone. I then thought reflashing to recovery would help it didnt I now cant enter recovery at all it just goes to fastboot. I also tried to flash a stock recovery ROM, that also did nothing. Trying to lock the bootloader also throws an error "FAILED status read failed <no such file or directory>". So im stuck as to what I can do from here I just want to put it back to stock and forget CM until more stable releases are out. I hope I haven't made a brick, any help is appreciated.
robelsayer said:
I was having issues with my version of cynogenmod (apps crashing, random reboots) so I decided to downgrade to an earlier update of it. While doing this my phone restarted I guess corrupting whatever was on there. It won't boot and gets stuck at the HTC logo. I can still enter HBOOT, so I tried reflashing ROMS in CWRM from there this was presenting errors also, so I used CMRW to clear out the partitions on the phone. I then thought reflashing to recovery would help it didnt I now cant enter recovery at all it just goes to fastboot. I also tried to flash a stock recovery ROM, that also did nothing. Trying to lock the bootloader also throws an error "FAILED status read failed <no such file or directory>". So im stuck as to what I can do from here I just want to put it back to stock and forget CM until more stable releases are out. I hope I haven't made a brick, any help is appreciated.
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RUU

'Unfortunately setup wizard has stopped' after trying to return to stock

Hello,
need a lot of help trying to get my EU HTC 10 working again.
Im very new with this kind of stuff and have obviously messed something up on my device. I was running LeeDroid on my HTC 10, (bootloader unlocked, twrp recovery installed), however i wanted to return to stock and followed guides on xda.
I flashed a twrp recovery backup and rebooted my device, i then flashed stock recovery and re-locked the bootloader. After rebooting my device again a message pops up onto the screen saying 'unfortunately setup wizard has stopped'. I cannot get past this message and do not have twrp installed anymore to re-flash any rom, and do not have usb debugging enabled in settings and cant enable as i cant get into device.
I have tried using an RUU.exe to restore phone how ever the installer give me error 170 (device not detected). I have also tried to ruu.zip from my sd card however i get error '19 RU-MAIN-VER-FAIL os-version in android-info missing or i'.
anyone have any ideas on how to proceed.
Thank you!
orangeali said:
Hello,
need a lot of help trying to get my EU HTC 10 working again.
Im very new with this kind of stuff and have obviously messed something up on my device. I was running LeeDroid on my HTC 10, (bootloader unlocked, twrp recovery installed), however i wanted to return to stock and followed guides on xda.
I flashed a twrp recovery backup and rebooted my device, i then flashed stock recovery and re-locked the bootloader. After rebooting my device again a message pops up onto the screen saying 'unfortunately setup wizard has stopped'. I cannot get past this message and do not have twrp installed anymore to re-flash any rom, and do not have usb debugging enabled in settings and cant enable as i cant get into device.
I have tried using an RUU.exe to restore phone how ever the installer give me error 170 (device not detected). I have also tried to ruu.zip from my sd card however i get error '19 RU-MAIN-VER-FAIL os-version in android-info missing or i'.
anyone have any ideas on how to proceed.
Thank you!
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I've never wanted to return to stock, especially after running leedroid. So not 100% but have you tried a factory reset?
squ89r97 said:
I've never wanted to return to stock, especially after running leedroid. So not 100% but have you tried a factory reset?
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Yes i have tried a factory reset but i still cannot get past the 'unfortunately, setup wizard has stopped' screen.
Thanks for the fast reply!
Any other ideas?
Ok Solved!
used official ruu.zip like in a thread on here.
Running nougat on stock.
Thanks for your help!

[Q] Note 8 no way to flash a working stock rom

Hello,
i have a note 8 with 64gb memory and originally wanted to run it with the ligthrom v50. I installed twrp and the rom, unfortunately celluar network didn't work after that. So i decided to go back to the stock rom.
I downloaded the latest fw via samfirm and wanted to flash it via odin. This worked too, but the phone only showed 16Gb memory, so I read that a wipe/factory reset would solve the problem. Unfortunately without success. When I reset the phone, it is always stuck in boot mode. If I then go to recovery I always see "dm-verity verification failed".
I tried to fix this error with flashing e.g. according to this instruction, but unfortunately without success.
i tried other tutorials, but nothing helped. as soon as i do a wipe/factory reset the phone won't work anymore...
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