Sorry if this has been posted, but I can't seem to find much info on phones locked to Orange UK, and I feel my post is quite specific.
I have a black HTC Desire from Orange UK, and as far as I know the black desires are locked to Orange.
Since I bought the phone I've rooted it and I have a custom ROM, (not sure which one, but its software number is 1.15.405.4) I rooted using the goldcard method over at modaco.
I also, whilst playing around with unrevoked, added clockwork recovery to my phone.
There is an OTA update available to me (not 2.2 yet) 1.21.405.2, but when I try to install it, the phone reboots and the progress bar for the update gets to around 20% and the android logo is shown with an exclamation mark.
Then when I press the lock button clockwork recovery appears, and shows an error:
Code:
E:failed to verify whole file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted
So that update doesn't work.
Anyway my question is, can I pay for my phone to be unlocked, and install a standard/generic unbranded ROM to my phone and then receive updates like normal (either rooted or unrooted, I'm not too fussed)?
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I performed the update on my brand new HTC Hero and I found out I am stuck in the middle of nowhere with no chance to root until somebody fixes the problem. During my reading, I tried almost everything, and the closest I got was to try and flash an update.zip with the original ROM back onto my device. Yet, at the moment of truth just a stupid white triangle with an exclamation mark appeared instead of the other icon meaning the thingh is working. I can't wait to root for a number of reasons, if I am getting this wrong and there actually IS another solution please help :-((
Ciao!
Vico
Same Boat
Hi mate,
I'm new to the Android OS and just got my hero as well. The first thing I did with it was to update the firmware (as recommended by Orange). Little did I know that this would prevent me from rooting.
I've tried several steps:
1. The One-Step Root Process
2. Flashing an image with the SDK
3. Rolling back to a previous version of the RUU
Nothing works, anyone have any ideas about how to get round this problem or if there's a way to 'un-update' the device, please help!
FYI: I have an HTC Hero on Orange UK running the latest HTC firmware, unrooted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VZHT389eR4
Thanks in advance.
if your phone is NOT CID locked (no clue about orange) you can go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=559622
and download an older RUU (1.76.405.1_R3) and downgrade, then root and upgrade.
problem obviously is that this only works if your phone is not cid locked, or somebody find away to bypass the cid check on the ruu process or finds a way to do this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=559806
on updated rom versions......
Thanks
Thanks for the link, I'll take a look into it.
closing this one as currently it can't be solved.
I've started a thread that looks into this here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4704200
Hey
I had loads of problems with my desire hanging so i decided to try and download the htc generic roms and run them!
RUU_Bravo_HTC_Europe_1.15.405.1_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_121684
Also tried
RUU_Bravo_HTC_Europe_1.15.405.3_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_121865
but they all hanged during the upgrade so now im totally stuck with a black screen or the White ruu screen saying:
------------------
BRAVO Unknown Ship S-ON
HBOOT-0.75.0000
MicroP-031d
Touch Panel SYNT0101
RADIO-4.05.00.11
Mar 5 2010, 21:12:15
RUU
-----------------
Is there any way to save my desire or is it bricked? and should i send it to htc support? I should have warranty i hope since its merely 2 month old!
One more question, before i ran these roms i HAVE NOT rooted my desire! Do i have to do so? My desire is currently still UNROOTED! Could that be the reason why the rom upgrades are failing or is it possible to do them on unrooted desires?
Although i dont even know if its possible to root it in this state.....
Is your handset branded? If so, did you create a goldcard?
Exactly what state is your handset currently in? Does it boot to use as normal?
If I were you I would read THIS and root your phone. Then install any rom you want. There are official and custom roms galore in the dev section.
If you have tried to install an incorrect rom on the phone and messed it up then I doubt HTC would honour the warranty anyway so there is no fear in rooting it! The only known bricking issue on these phones has a fix now so you haven't lost anything.
My phone boots up to that RUU error message so it doesnt boot!
The problem was it stopped booting all of a sudden with the original rom! It just hanged at the White startup screen with the green HTC letters!
But i could enter the Fastboot, Recovery, etc... menu!
So with that i tried with the USB to download the generic original roms! But after they failed (both of them) now each time i boot i get the HTC blackscreen with the error triangle inside!
But i can still install new roms, through the usb but none of them can finish after like 80% so they can still connect to the phone from the computer through usb!
The phone is unbranded as in not connected to any operator like vodafone or such! and its not rooted either!
so u think i should try to root it?
If it is definitely unbranded then no goldcard is needed. I'd say you should go for it and try to root it. Just to confirm it's unbranded, it doesn't have any network operator software on it at all? No boot screen or any operator apps or anything?
You will need to check the link I gave you and follow the instructions religiously! It's actually a fairly painless process. I found the easiest was the tiny core linux method. You don't need any linux experience to use it as you just type in about 4 lines of text.
Failing that, if it simply never goes past the boot screen then no one will know you tried to root! So it would be a simple warranty return to the place you got it, and as far as you are concerned you got up one morning and the phone was off. You tried to turn it on and the rest is history! I told the carphone warehouse that and was given a new handset there and then, but was within my first 14 days of contract. It was a usb brick in my case and there was no fix for ir then. There is now though..
okay so im getting almost all the way on step 1!
except at the end of every push of files it says
FAILED (remote: 51 partition update fail)
anyone know any fix? also how do i know which bootloader i have 0,75 or 0,8 and which rom i have previously??
before everything i know i had android 2.1 .. is that my rom too? like 1.21?
Zeppan said:
okay so im getting almost all the way on step 1!
except at the end of every push of files it says
FAILED (remote: 51 partition update fail)
anyone know any fix? also how do i know which bootloader i have 0,75 or 0,8 and which rom i have previously??
before everything i know i had android 2.1 .. is that my rom too? like 1.21?
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To check your bootloader, switch the phone on by pressing the volume down button while pressing power. The second line of text will say HBOOT the number after that is your bootloader.
As for that error... No idea. Sorry!
dang... anyone got any ideas bout the error 51? and how to fix it?
try rooting with goldcard method
Also stuck with RUU USB
Did you get a resolution for this? I'm experiencing a bad time with RUU USB too. My phone started out as an unbranded Magic 32A from HK and seems to be a European now, as it only likes installing the European RUUs (and even then only goes as far as 36%)!
EDIT:
I've since had it repaired by HTC themselves. Their engineers couldn't fix it (allegedly) so they replaced the mobo.
Cost me HK$1500! F***!
Hi there,
yesterday I tried to root my HTC desire using unrevoked3 under Linux. It worked so far, phone was rooted and the Clockmod Recovery was installed. But when I switched the phone off and and tries to boot again, only the white startscreen with the HTC logo appeared and sometimes it vibrates, but even after waiting for a while, nothing more happens.
The ROM-version is 2.33.161.2 (branded by Vodafone Germany), hboot's version is 0.93.0001.
Can you help my getting my phone running again? If it's possible I would like to have the default rom, in best case unrooted.
Best regards,
WebRe
WebRe said:
Hi there,
yesterday I tried to root my HTC desire using unrevoked3 under Linux. It worked so far, phone was rooted and the Clockmod Recovery was installed. But when I switched the phone off and and tries to boot again, only the white startscreen with the HTC logo appeared and sometimes it vibrates, but even after waiting for a while, nothing more happens.
The ROM-version is 2.33.161.2 (branded by Vodafone Germany), hboot's version is 0.93.0001.
Can you help my getting my phone running again? If it's possible I would like to have the default rom, in best case unrooted.
Best regards,
WebRe
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hold volume down and press power, select recovery from the list and flash a new rom
2.33.161.2 isn't branded as it's the Vodafone UK vendor code. Everyone here on it is saying there's no branding...not that I'm on it as my phone has always been unbranded
2.33.161.2 isn't branded as it's the Vodafone UK vendor code. Everyone here on it is saying there's no branding...not that I'm on it as my phone has always been unbranded
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Click to collapse
Okay, I just wanted to say that the Vodafone version was installed.
I successfully installed CyanogenMod now, but when trying to install the original HTC or even the Vodafone ROMs, the installation aborts. Sometimes it says "assert failed: file_getprop(...)" and aborts installation with "Status 7", sometimes it just says ""Can't open update_rom.zip (bad)" ...
Hi,
I'm hoping somebody here can help or at least point me in the right direction, I have an O2 branded HTC Desire that was running the latest stock firmware which I rooted via unrevoked. I wanted to update the firmware to the latest available firmware from O2 and I was advised against going the OTA route unless I unrooted my phone.
I tried unrooting via an RUU (RUU_Bravo_Froy2_UK_2.14.207.1_Radio_32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2_release_144166_signed.exe) which failed right at the end with a "file read error" and some text telling me to try a different RUU or try again later, my phone now just displays the HTC logo with a warning symbol in every corner. I've since tried a few different RUU's but none of them work. I can't seem to get into recovery, fastboot and while my computer still detects my phone I've no clue how to get it functioning again.
Any pointers or should I chance it and send it off for repair?
Edit: Managed to get it to boot now, got recovery and fastboot working, now I just need to see if I can get a rom on it that'll support OTA with O2.
Device: HTC One X AT&T USA, Android 4.0.4
HBoot 1.14 (unlocked), S-ON, cid: 11111111 (was CWS__001), rooted (CWM-SuperSU-v0.96)
Hi,
I have sim-unlocked AT&T HTC One X that I bought in USA last year and used it in 'as is' condition. A week ago it got to cyclical reboot. I made factory reset, but of course I lost all my data. In this case I decided to upgrade HBoot and setup lastest CyanogenMod (yeap, I thought I have nothing to lose ).
I re-writed cid to supercid, unlocked flashboot, rooted the phone... but made a mistake and flashed CyanogenMod boot.img before upgraded Hboot *facepalm*.
And now it's unable to load android (it just shows HTC logo with red warning text).
Of course, I tried to restore original Boot from backup, but this didn't help.
I'm able to open Bootloader and custom recovery menu (recovery-clockwork-6.0.3.1-evita.img), but unable to install any ROM (tried to use ROMs that are based on ICS, because my Hboot 1.14) - it always returns me error 7, even if all requirements are met. Tried to remove asserts from updater-script , but in this case it just shows 'Opening update package... Installing update... Installation aborted.'
I tried almost all that I found in web, used different backups and ROMs, but nothing helped.
I also tried to flash stock RUU (european, since I didn't find USA version - btw does it matter?) , but it getting Error 132 - Signature error.
Please could somebody help me to return my phone to a working state? Any advices are truly appreciated!
P.S. Unfortunately on one of the steps I lost my original backup (sdcard was formated).
Thanks.
You CANNOT INSTALL A RUU THAT DOESN'T MATCH YOUR CID !
Also you are in the wrong forum mate, since this is for the international tegra 3 HOX ONLY !, with may be the cause of your trouble
Please visit the AT&T HOX forum and you will find all you need
Yeah go the at+t forum and there you can s-off your evita HTC one XL ! Then you can install any ruu, update and downgrade the bootloader