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I recently installed Leedroid 2.2d with A2sd on my HTC desire (unbranded) and it no longer boots (it doesn't make it past the HTC logo). It did this with the previous version but if I removed the battery and left it for a while it would eventually turn on again. Before this happened it started randomly restarting and I think that might be the problem.
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I can boot into the fastboot menu but it won't go further than the HTC Logo from there.
I can plug it into my PC and it will display "HBoot USB Plug"
Booting into recovery also only shows HTC Logo, it goes no further.
I have HBoot 0.92.0001 and the radio is 5.10.05.23.
I am trying to work out how I can re-flash in the hopes it will sort this out possibly with the RUU program and connecting from windows.
It has been a few days now and I can't get my phone working and I'm starting to get a little desperate, any help is appreciated as I'm a little overwhelmed by the amount of information available and the endless options.
I have downloaded the RUU from forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667 (RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4. 06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe) and run it.
It starts working and then stops with the message "Error[140]: Bootloader version error". How do I get the correct RUU for my bootloader (HBoot 0.92.0001)?
I have also tried Froyo downgrade (forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768256) but it just returned a whole lot "Error: Device not found" messages.
Tried flashing RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.09.405.8_Radio_32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20_release_140022_signed and received an error about a file not being able to be opened for writing.
Just ran RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.10.405.2_R_Radio_32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2_release_142828_signed.exe and it completed successfully but it still doesn't go past the screen with the white background and the green HTC logo.
RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.10.405.2_R_Radio_32.44.0 0.32U_5.09.05.30_2_release_142828_signed.exe didn't work originally but I charged until it was fully charged and then tried booting it again and it worked.
I had taken my sim and sd card out so I switched it off and put those back in and again it booted up fine. I was then switching Wi-fi on and it suddenly restarted and now it refuses to boot again.
Any ideas?
I can now consistently get it to boot by doing the following:
1. Remove battery
2. Put battery back
3. Charge until full and then leave plugged in for about 15 minutes.
4. Switch phone on.
Unfortunately it is still randomly re-booting while using the phone, could be it be a bad partition on the sd card?
trancehead said:
I recently installed Leedroid 2.2d with A2sd on my HTC desire (unbranded) and it no longer boots (it doesn't make it past the HTC logo). It did this with the previous version but if I removed the battery and left it for a while it would eventually turn on again. Before this happened it started randomly restarting and I think that might be the problem.
Possibly useful information:
I can boot into the fastboot menu but it won't go further than the HTC Logo from there.
I can plug it into my PC and it will display "HBoot USB Plug"
Booting into recovery also only shows HTC Logo, it goes no further.
I have HBoot 0.92.0001 and the radio is 5.10.05.23.
I am trying to work out how I can re-flash in the hopes it will sort this out possibly with the RUU program and connecting from windows.
It has been a few days now and I can't get my phone working and I'm starting to get a little desperate, any help is appreciated as I'm a little overwhelmed by the amount of information available and the endless options.
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try flashing the bootfix on the first post of LeeDroid thread
EDIT: here it is http://db.tt/QLu5cPL
Thanks for replying. How do I flash the bootfix?
Also, I don't have Leedroid anymore and I am back on stock Froyo ROM.
you flash it the same way you flash leedroid. through recovery.
have you rooted after you flashed the RUU? if you have, flash LeeDroid, flash bootfix and then reboot.
w.0.o.t said:
you flash it the same way you flash leedroid. through recovery.
have you rooted after you flashed the RUU? if you have, flash LeeDroid, flash bootfix and then reboot.
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I used ROM manager to flash leedroid so I'll try a that again. I'll have to try it later as luck would have it, I can no longer boot using the fully charged battery method
trancehead said:
I used ROM manager to flash leedroid so I'll try a that again. I'll have to try it later as luck would have it, I can no longer boot using the fully charged battery method
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have you rooted? you can do it manually via recovery. hold down volume button while turning the phone on, then choose recovery. you can choose zip file to install.
i've never flashed anything using ROM manager so i don't know how it works. does it reboot automatically after flashing something? if that's the case, then you might need to do it via recovery. because you need to flash the fix before rebooting.
More frustration. If I take the sd card out it will boot up so that I can see the home screen but then it just reboots again, and again, and again at the same point.
When I put the sd card back again it gets to the HTC logo and stops again.
This is really starting to annoy me
w.0.o.t said:
have you rooted? you can do it manually via recovery. hold down volume button while turning the phone on, then choose recovery. you can choose zip file to install.
i've never flashed anything using ROM manager so i don't know how it works. does it reboot automatically after flashing something? if that's the case, then you might need to do it via recovery. because you need to flash the fix before rebooting.
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I have yet to get recovery to actually run, always stalls on the HTC logo. I also can't get the phone to start with the SD card in so I can't load files onto it.
One thing I've noticed (unless I've missed something) is you've not tried another SD card. I'd give this a go as it may be corrupt
EddyOS said:
One thing I've noticed (unless I've missed something) is you've not tried another SD card. I'd give this a go as it may be corrupt
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I don't have a spare one but I might be able to get a mini sd card reader and then format it via windows. Would that work as well?
trancehead said:
I don't have a spare one but I might be able to get a mini sd card reader and then format it via windows. Would that work as well?
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i'd try that if i were you. this goes without saying but make sure you back up first.
I actually don't think any of the above made any difference...
I just put back my SD card and the phone is working perfectly again. The only thing I can think of is that during the day it is too hot and it is cooler now (at night). This seems to be backed up by this thread - forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=676402
has been running since yesterday evening without a problem. Weird...
Hi. I hope someone can help.
I've been using my desire rooted and S-OFFed running Defrost for sometime, all has been fine. Was playing Angry birds yesterday and the phone froze.
Pulled the battery and rebooted, carried on playing. Froze again.
Pull the battery again but phone stuck on the first splash screen. Fiddled a bit, couldn't get into recovery. So I left the phone on charge until the light went green, then removed the battery and left it overnight.
This morning I put the battery in and switched it on. It booted fine, but froze when I tried to unlock it.
I've tried pulling the battery again and again. I can get into HBOOT, but the phone isn't recognised for ADB or fastboot commands via USB. It often freezes even in fastboot mode.
I tried to do a clear storage, but that froze as well. Although a subsequent attempt appeared to work but the phone still won't boot normally.
So I can't reflash or do anything else. HAs anyone actually sent a phone back for repair with custom firmware/splash screen installed, as I don't think I'm going to be able to revert it to stock.
I've tried numerous restarts with and without a sim and an sd card inserted. Not sure what else to try.
Any help greatly appreciated.
did you wipe the dalvik cache through recovery?
try this if you can.
No I haven't wiped the dalvik cache. I have managed to get in to recovery on a couple of occasions. But the phone has frozen again navigating the menu.
I will try that if I get into recovery again though.
Thanks
Quick update.
After leaving the battery out for a couple of hours. I tried again and the phone started to boot. It got to the splash animation and the wipe had obviously worked because it was the DeFrost default of the X. This then looped a few times then froze.
I pulled the battery and managed to get in to Clockwork Mod recovery and did a wipe from there, which appeared to work, but then it rebooted by itself and I still didn't manage to do a dalvik wipe.
Now I'm back to the same point again. I can't get into recovery.
I guess I'll try again after leaving the battery out for a while.
One thing I did notice when in recovery was that the trackpad didn't work. I had to use vol and power keys. If I get into recovery again, I'll try a keytest if I get into recovery again.
And another update.
I got into recovery again and did a wipe dalvik cache.
I got the following error.
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(No such file or directory)
Dalvik cache wiped.
So I'm not sure if it actually did it or not.
I then tried to do a nandroid restore and got a similar error.
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(No such file or directory)
E:Can't mount /sdcard
Then the phone froze again.
So I'm guessing something is corrupted here.
Should I try formatting the SD card. (I have backed up all the data I could using my PC).
i think your dalvik will have been wiped. i always get the same message.
have you tried it again but without trying to restore a nand?
Yes, I tried it again. I only seem to be able to get in to recovery after leaving the battery out for a while.
This time I did a dalvik wipe then rebooted, but it's just stuck on the initial splash screen again.
I'm pulling my hair out here (what little I have)
have you considered going back to a stock rom using an RUU or PB99IMG?
then you'd have to root again and restore your nand if possible/needed.
I'd be happy to try reverting to stock, but don't you need to get the phone to boot before you can do that?
I have sent this phone back for repair previously and done just that (it suffered from the overheating problem and had a whole new motherboard less than months ago).
After leaving the battery out again for a while, a normal switch on got to the animation splash then rebooted twice before freezing again.
Is this likely to be a corruption in the flash memory, or a hardware problem?
Hello,
I've got exactly the same problem! The phone freezes on the first splash-screen (not the Rom's bootanimation) and I can't get into recovery.
I'm running Oxygen Rom (2.0-RC6) and using Apps2SD in combination with an 8GB Transcend microSD card. I've only "rooted" it once using Unrevoked (long time ago), so I assume it is still S-On. I'm using clockwork's recovery, too.
At the moment I really don't know what to do.
What could I try?
pc99mk:
At the moment I'm leaving the battery out the phone until afternoon, hoping to get into recovery
Thank you in advance for every bit of an answer
Read up on the PB99IMG process if you can get into recovery (power & vol down).
Otherwise, the RUU will work if you can boot into fastboot (power & back key).
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Hi spadoleo.
Sorry to hear you're having similar troubles.
I'm sure mine must have some sort of hardware problem now.
After leaving the battery out for a while again last night, I managed to get into fastboot and flash the latest alpharev hboot, and clockworkmod 3.0.0.5 in the hope that my freezing problems there were due to a slight corruption.
Clockworkmod has definitely updated as the colour of the menu has changed, but it still freezes soon after entering.
I just want to try and get the phone looking as much like a stock phone prior to sending it back now.
Does anyone have a fasstboot flashable image of the following:
UK TMobile 'Pink Circle' splash1 image
Standard HBOOT
Standard recovery
Otherwise I'm just going to have to send it back to HTC as is, and hope they still fix it under warranty.
Or is there any way of getting a RUU to start doing anything with the phone in fastboot?
Or indeed anything else I can try?
See my post above.
You can run an RUU in fastboot.
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Hi mikep99.
Ok thanks for the advice. I'll have a read of the pb99img stuff.
I tried the RUU this morning in fastboot mode, but every time it justs sits at the 'Verifying information on your Android phone' for a while, then times out with a USB connection error.
I seem to have best results after leaving the battery out for a while (no idea why that should make any difference but it does), so I'll try it again in an hour or so.
Cheers
Install htc sync if you haven't already.
And try turning off antivirus and firewall on your PC
HTH
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Ok. I read up on the PB99IMG process.
I found a PB99IMG.zip file posted by Teppic74 which is a stock Froyo.
I copied it to the root of my goldcard and booted the phone.
It loaded the file and came up with
Incorrect CID error
update fail
I then kicked myself. I created the gold card to revert the phone to stock before sending it to HTC previously.
They replaced the motherboard. Would this have changed my CID?
I then thought 'no problem I'll just go through the gold card creation process again'
But although I can do stuff on the phone in fastboot mode, adb doesn't work in that mode. So trying adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
just gives an error.
So if my CID has changed, any idea how I can create a gold card with the phone in this state. Should adb only work when the phone is booted, or should it work in hboot or fastboot?
i'm not sure which PB99IMG you're trying to flash but i'd use this (if its not the same):
http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...9.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.zip
with regards to the goldcard, have you mounted the sdcard when in recovery? and then running
cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
again?
if that doesn't work, you can use another TMobile Desire to create it.
therefore, i don't think the mbo change should affect your goldcard????
EDIT - when you got your phone back from repair, was it completely wiped? Tmobile may have wiped/swapped etc.. the goldcard you previously made.
I think it was that image that I used. But I'll download it again just to be sure.
When the phone was repaired before, I sent to HTC directly and I didn't send any sd card or battery. So it should still be as it was.
So if the CID isn't motherboard specific it should still work.
Is there any way to check whether it is still a goldcard? I may have formatted it again (don't recall).
Although thinking about it, I still have the image file emailed to me when I created the gold card originally, so I could just reapply it and try again.
I'm out tonight, but will try a few things and post back with my results.
Thanks for your help so far.
Another update and things have moved forward.
It turned out I'd trashed my gold card, but I did still have the image file so I recreated it.
I then booted the phone again and it loaded the PB99IMP.zip file.
It then asked me if I wanted to perform the update. I said yes, and it updated the bootloader and rebooted. Then it froze on Checking PB99IMP.zip....
After leaving it 10-15 minutes I pulled the battery again and left it for a while.
I tried again just now.
I can see that it has updated the HBOOT, so I'm no longer S-OFF.
Just now I thought it was going to work it got about halfway through updating the system partition before freezing.
If only it had updated the splash1 image before the system, I might've had the phone in a suitable state to return. But it still shows my custom splash1 screen when powering on normally - then it changes to the piccy with the green arrows.
I'll try it again later after leaving the battery out for a while.
But the fact it freezes in the middle of such an update suggests it's definitely a hardware problem of some sort.
If anyone has any other ideas I could try, please let me know. But once again thanks for all the help so far.
Sounds like you're getting somewhere
Just keep on trying every now and again.
Hopefully it'll go through...
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I've search up and down all night looking for a solution for my problem. The other I let my lil cousin play with my phone. Somehow he got into the recovery and started formatting everything. After I found out my sd card was cleared completely I was like "its ok just put the rom back on the sd card and flash it" lets just say it didn't work. Each time it gets stuck at the splash screen. I was thinking maybe the custom splash is locking it up but I'm not sure on what to do. Anyone got any advice on what to do so I can get my phone back up and running?
IfcYipes said:
I've search up and down all night looking for a solution for my problem. The other I let my lil cousin play with my phone. Somehow he got into the recovery and started formatting everything. After I found out my sd card was cleared completely I was like "its ok just put the rom back on the sd card and flash it" lets just say it didn't work. Each time it gets stuck at the splash screen. I was thinking maybe the custom splash is locking it up but I'm not sure on what to do. Anyone got any advice on what to do so I can get my phone back up and running?
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If it were me ... I would start over, reflash the recovery image, do a complete wipe, and flash a full rooted rom/radio image. Once everything is back working, update profile, prl, and then move on to your custom rom of choice.
i've re-flashed the recovery image and everything
I've tried flashing Synergy but just isn't happening. Could the custom splash be effecting it?
So after a while messing with i stuck my ad card in my friends hero to see if the data,android.secure file etc etc would have any effects but nope
IfcYipes said:
i've re-flashed the recovery image and everything
I've tried flashing Synergy but just isn't happening. Could the custom splash be effecting it?
So after a while messing with i stuck my ad card in my friends hero to see if the data,android.secure file etc etc would have any effects but nope
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When you wiped, did you use something like Calkulin's "format all" zip? If you already did that then I would try going back to a stock splash image. Perhaps something went wrong with the splash image install.
Grab one of these PC36IMG.zip here and put it on your SD card.
It contains the stock splash screen and will basically RUU you. You will still have S-Off. Just get the one that corresponds with your HBoot. Then try reflashing recovery and wiping everything 3 times and flashing the ROM of your choice.
I've been running the CM7 Gingerbread for a while and wanted to update my phone. Read through the 30 page thread on black bean by swiperrat.
I installed smelkus, as recommended.
I rebooted into recovery and got smelkus going (I originally had ClockworkMod but switched to smelkus).
I did the Combo x3 wipe.
I partitioned the sd card - wipe=0, partition to ext2=1024, ext2-ext3, ext3-ext4
When I did this, there was nothing left on my sd card. I had to enable computer-usb connection to load the black bean .zip file
I flashed the .zip file from the sd card
Installed fine, then I reboot the phone.
From there, I'm stuck on the splash screen (android and bubbles). I'm on my third try now and I can't get past this screen. I think the longest I've gone is about 20-25 minutes with no change.
Can someone see what I'm doing wrong? I'm an idiot and did not back up my sd card to my computer. I didn't realize partitioning the card would wipe it all (and therefore lost my TiBa backups, awesome) and now I'm stuck with a phone that's not loading anything. It looks like it wants to work but I can't get past that splash screen...
If you have your USB plugged in when you boot up, that would be the problem
HipKat said:
If you have your USB plugged in when you boot up, that would be the problem
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Thanks for the tip, HipKat! I was keeping the USB plugged in to make sure I wouldn't kill the battery but I was also using the latest version of black bean, which everyone is having problems getting to load. I switched to the 2nd latest and I'm up and running now!
:good:
To answer your other question, yes, you should have backed up your SD card to your computer prior to partitioning it. Partitioning wipes the card clean.
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So, today I booted up my phone, To my surprise, it didn't boot correctly. The Windows logo appeared for a second, and then it went dark. Then, the phone booted again. And it's like this in loop.
I tried to hard reset. Didn't work, the same thing happens.
So then I thought of flashing some ROM. I didn't have Hard-SPL on my phone before that happened, and in order to load it, I have to estabilish an ActiveSync connection... which I simply can't do, since the WMO doesn't want to boot.
So, any solution to that? Thanks.
plrusek said:
So, today I booted up my phone, To my surprise, it didn't boot correctly. The Windows logo appeared for a second, and then it went dark. Then, the phone booted again. And it's like this in loop.
I tried to hard reset. Didn't work, the same thing happens.
So then I thought of flashing some ROM. I didn't have Hard-SPL on my phone before that happened, and in order to load it, I have to estabilish an ActiveSync connection... which I simply can't do, since the WMO doesn't want to boot.
So, any solution to that? Thanks.
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Try flashing the stock rom from the sd card.
wizardknight said:
Try flashing the stock rom from the sd card.
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EDIT: ok, so i downloaded few roms and one managed to flash through exe. i was happy, until i saw that booting the phone took longer than usual - just like before flashing a rom (much longer at the part where it shows all the info about phone)
then it got to that little animation. Windows logo appeared and then......... it went black. rebooted. one time it actually tried to install windows but right at the beginning screen went black and phone rebooted.
EDIT2,3: my battery run out on android and was overdrained. i think this is the cause... it also boots up the phone if i plug any usb cable in.
EDIT4: i just thought - if i managed to flash a rom, the battery IS charged. the bootloader mode was on for at least 20 minutes. so what is really the issue?
Try flashing the STOCK rom from the sd card.
Flashing a rom requires a working charged battery.
Once that works move on to other options.
wizardknight said:
Try flashing the STOCK rom from the sd card.
Flashing a rom requires a working charged battery.
Once that works move on to other options.
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I already flashed one! I just flashed it from my computer to the phone through bootloader, I can't seem to find any stock roms that I can put on my SD card. And as i said, i can't flash a custom one because I don't have HardSPL on my phone.
And the battery seems to work correctly on bootloader.
okay, i'm down. got a new battery, and the problem still remains. i might have tried flashing the stock rom through sd card, if only i could FIND !!!! one (RHOD100, so GSM). any help on that? i'll gladly appreciate it.
EDIT: so i managed to flash the stock rom from htc - .exe is extracting the image file to temp somewhere, so that's how i got it. unfortunately, that didn't change anything. i'll leave my phone rebooting for a night and see what's up tommorow...
EDIT2: phone is dead. i will have to move on from windows mobile... about time.