I bought my desire last week, besides no warranty as it is suppose to be sold here. Anyway, I am happy that I got a AMOLED one but when I get to the part flashing custom rom. It failed everytime when writing boot.img to the boot partition. Most rom give the following error message, where xxx is the line of the flash boot.img part in the update script.
E:Error finishing BOOT:
E:Failure at line xxx:
write_raw_image PACKAGE: boot.img BOOT:
Installation aborted
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Some rom can boot up and the other can not and stuck reboot loop. I then have some search in XDA and modaco and find out that might be a problem in the boot partition, the internal flash memory got bad block. After trying to flash the boot.img in command line and confirmed with the following output
flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00000000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00020000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00040000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00060000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00080000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x000a0000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x000c0000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x000e0000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00100000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00120000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00140000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00160000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00180000; skipping
mtd: MEMGETBADBLOCK returned 1 at 0x001a0000 (errno=0)
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x001c0000; skipping
mtd: MEMGETBADBLOCK returned 1 at 0x001e0000 (errno=0)
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00200000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00220000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00240000; skipping
mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00260000; skipping
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x001a0000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x001e0000
error closing boot: No space left on device
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While returning is not an option for me, it is just .
But I am not sure why I can use some rom and use RUU to flash it to stock. I am not confident with the custom rom as I am not sure why it work even when the boot.img is not flashed correctly. I stick to RUU for the moment, but lacking root really make it less fun with my desire. From the search in the forum I find some work arounds, like fastboot using boot.img in sdcard, flash boot.img in recovery(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731657). There are also people using custom mtd partition for their G1, don't know if that work for desire though(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717874). Has anyone got any luck with these methods?
I am wondering why some rom could work, it seems most rom have the flash boot.img part at last. Also if the boot partition have bad blocks, why does the RUU can work too. I do notice that I am stuck with the HTC first boot screen for all the rom, Is that just that boot screen not write successfully made the boot.img work for those custom rom ?
Last, any suggestion, and any others got the same problem and have a solution ?
Best Regards,
Kelvin
Seems this is a rare problem.................
Heard of this a few times, I managed to shrink the boot.img a little in my latest 1.9a build for y'all
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
LeeDroid said:
Heard of this a few times, I managed to shrink the boot.img a little in my latest 1.9a build for y'all
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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Very nice, downloading, will try it later.
HTC Desire - I have the same problem. Bad blocks? Solution?
Currently my Desire fails to install or boot any ROMs and I believe this is due bad blocks in boot partition preventing T-Mod rom installation using clockworkmod recovery.
I have throughly read and followed t-mod.org (full wipe of phone first, format of sd and other partions, including boot partiion etc) and the radio rom always flashes ok but installing any of the T-mod rom zips right near the end of the T-mod installation I get this:
Copying Boot Files...
Writing Boot..
E:Error finishing BOOT:
E:Failure at line XXX.
Understandably, different T-mod roms provide different XXX line numbers for the failure. I have googled this error and it seems reasonably common but I have found no solution. Some posters suggest the cause is due to bad blocks in the boot partition of some phones and suggest that a smaller boot.img be flashed in to get around the bad blocks.
Does anyone know how to do this or have any further ideas? Currently the phone is unserviceable (only boots to the clockworkmod recovery menu. My Nandroid restore fails and I can't return to use the RUU stock exe since it won't detect the phone etc etc.)
What to do? Thanks
Depends on what you want next. If you really need root, I suggest you try CM6 , because it has a smaller boot.img. It might give the same error, but in my case, CM6 can boot up.
If you are going back to RUU, then you have to check what is you LCD, SLCD or AMOLED. Both of them can use the H.boot downgrade (0.92 -> 0.80) method (in the dev forum tutorial) to return to 2.1 rom and then you can RUU flash the official rom. But you would be operating in the dark if you have SLCD, but there are post describe how to do that.
Related
So a few of us wildfire users are trying to use Alpharev X to get S-off and are met with the following frustrating error:
Acquiring root (method 1)...
Sending in Caroline...
Retrieving Caroline from certain doom...
Retrying Caroline...
Caroline failed, but had this to say: An error occurred while writing the partit
ion.
Errors (if any):-
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
Press (almost) any key to exit.
This was pasted from another post, I'm sure the error I get is 0x00020000 rather than 0x00040000, but either way the issue is bad NAND and alpharev team are aware of this. My question is how many other users are experiencing this and has anyone had any success with getting past this? I dont think its very high on their to do list, but I'm sure if enough people are experiencing this they will take it more seriously.
I'm on a Telstra branded Wildfire (A3335) with HBoot 1.01.0002, so I wonder if its specific to this model or is it completely random (and simply bad luck)?
I've done a downgrade using the downgrade guide at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1132028
This got me HBoot 1.01.0001, but the problem persisted. It must have taken me 20 attempts to actually get this guide to work and I think the reason for this was also because of the bad NAND. during step 1 (gaining temp root) it would complain about not being able to write to the flash (sorry don’t have any exact error messages). The fact that it eventually worked makes me wonder if continuously running Alpharev X (and rebooting phone after every fail) would eventually work..
Would be good to hear suggestions and please reply if you are also getting this error or have managed to find a work around.
have you solved this issue yet ?? i got same problem but there is no way to solve it so far !
I have an HTC Evo 4g and I tried to root it using the Revolutionary tool and I got the same error message. My phone was upgraded to gingerbread OTA without my permission. Has there been a fix yet?
I am encountering the same problem and it's quite annoying
Tried both unrevoked and revolutionary methods without any success. Unrevoked comes back with: "Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?" whilst revolutionary comes back with below:
C:\revolutionary-0.4pre4>revolutionary.exe runas administrator
=============================================
| Revolutionary S-OFF & Recovery Tool 0.4pre4 |
=============================================
Brought to you by AlphaRev & unrEVOked.
Waiting for device...
Found your device: HTC Wildfire (buzz-1.01.0001, Android: 2.2.1, ROM version: 2.
22.405.1)
This is a beta release and requires a beta release key.
Enter beta key [ serial: <###SERIAL HERE###> ]: ##KEY HERE##
Beta key accepted - thank you for participating!
Zerging Root... this might take a minute or so.. Root acquired!
Sending in Caroline...
Retrieving Caroline from certain doom...
Retrying Caroline...
Caroline failed, but had this to say: An error occurred while writing the partit
ion.
Errors (if any):-
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
Press (almost) any key to exit.
In order to get revolutionary to work, I also ended up downgrading my hboot to 1.01.0001 from 1.01.0002.
In case this helps, my phone is on the three network in the UK. Looking forward to a solution to this issue since quite a lot of people seem to be encountering it.
never root??...
Desire(A8181) Hboot 1.02.0001, firm 2.3.3 stock. Have a 100% same problem. NO root, no s-off.... i Killed my brain. Nothing helpe, absolute.
From Russia, sory for my english)
I have the same problem with Wildfire bought in Poland. :/
but there is also an official way to unlock bootloader.
has sb tried (with bad block issue) unlock bootloader via HTCdev?
maskim said:
I have the same problem with Wildfire bought in Poland. :/
but there is also an official way to unlock bootloader.
has sb tried (with bad block issue) unlock bootloader via HTCdev?
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I don't think you will have any problems unlocking via HTCDev. I also think that there is a thread regarding this somewhere in the q&a section forum.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using Tapatalk 2 Beta-5
Hi, I got the slide on taobao (chinese ebay)
It is with s-off, a strange froyo with "xda market" instead of google's and a custom recovery, 2.5.0.9 by nduoa.com
The recovery is in chinese, and I would like to get that in english...
I downloaded the clockworkmod update.zip, but I get error 2 while flashing from the recovery
I connected the phone via fastboot to flash the recovery.img, but I get this:
fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-espresso.img
sending 'recovery' (2964 KB)... OKAY [ 0.683s]
writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.687s
How I could change the recovery?
edit: i solved the problem, but i would like to add that rom manager did not allow to flash the recovery, as it saw newer version flashed
Tipika said:
Hi, I got the slide on taobao (chinese ebay)
It is with s-off, a strange froyo with "xda market" instead of google's and a custom recovery, 2.5.0.9 by nduoa.com
The recovery is in chinese, and I would like to get that in english...
I downloaded the clockworkmod update.zip, but I get error 2 while flashing from the recovery
I connected the phone via fastboot to flash the recovery.img, but I get this:
fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-espresso.img
sending 'recovery' (2964 KB)... OKAY [ 0.683s]
writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.687s
How I could change the recovery?
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You could try flashing it from terminal emulator. I forgot the command though. Just search around. Try looking in the G1 forum for the Amon RA thread and there should be the commands to flash through recovery.
EDIT:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
the commands. Just change the name of the recovery to recovery.img (.img is the extension. make sure you don't make the file name recovery.img.img
yes! this time worked!
Thanks for the suggestion!
# su
# flash_image recovery recovery.img
flashing recovery from recovery.img
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00000000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00020000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00040000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00060000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00080000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c000a0000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c000c0000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c000e0000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00100000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00120000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00140000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00160000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00180000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c001a0000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c001c0000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c001e0000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00200000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00220000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00240000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00260000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00280000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c002a0000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c002c0000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c002e0000
mtd: successfully wrote block at b10c00000000
# reboot recovery
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Root acquired!
Sending in Caroline...
Retrieving Caroline from certain doom...
Retrying Caroline...
Caroline failed, but had this to say: An error occurred while writing the partit
ion.
Errors (if any):-
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00060000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00060000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00060000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00060000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00060000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00060000
Press (almost) any key to exit.
CAM SOMEONE HELP ME WITH THIS ERROR ? I'VE FOLLOWED THE TUTORIAL TP THE LETTER AND STILL END UP SHORT ... E-MAIL ME AT [email protected]. THANKS ALOT
are you in usb debugging mode? are you in charge only mode? did you uninstall htc sync, but reinstall the drivers?
yes I did all of that .....
Code:
=============================================
| Revolutionary S-OFF & Recovery Tool 0.4pre3 |
=============================================
Brought to you by AlphaRev & unrEVOked.
Waiting for device...
Found your device: PC36100 (supersonic-2.16.0001, Android: 2.3.3, ROM version: 4
.24.651.1)
This is a beta release and requires a beta release key.
Please visit: http://revolutionary.io for more information.
Enter beta key [ serial: ********** ]: *************
Beta key accepted - thank you for participating!
Root acquired!
Sending in Caroline...
Retrieving Caroline from certain doom...
Retrying Caroline...
Caroline failed, but had this to say: An error occurred while writing the partit
ion.
Errors (if any):-
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00060000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00060000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00060000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00060000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00060000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00060000
Press (almost) any key to exit.
Any Ideas?
@ ww3 i GET THE SAME THING, ONLY i HAVE AN evo 4G
PC36100 is a evo 4g as well
Anyone ? seems like i had bad blocks.
I'm having problems on my EVO..I'm running the latest MIUI Rom 1.8.26...I've done full wipe & all that stuff, I've done all the proper steps...But everytime i click on something i get "The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
ShowTimeGraham said:
I'm having problems on my EVO..I'm running the latest MIUI Rom 1.8.26...I've done full wipe & all that stuff, I've done all the proper steps...But everytime i click on something i get "The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
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Redownload & reflash the rom. Be sure to wipe boot, system, data, cache, dalvik, sd-ext, and .android_secure. What recovery are you running?
And next time you may want to start your own thread or search a little further. This has nothing to do with the OP other than the fact that you're getting an error message.
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
Hi Everyone,
I just rooted my Htc Desire by using unrevoked and have superuser permissions in my app menu. Now before I would like to install a rom which I have never done before I believe I would need to turn the s-off. When I try to do that through revolutionary 0.4pre4 I am getting errors as below. I did install Htc drivers, restart my laptop & phone but still the same error keep coming up. I also downloaded the Hboot tool called alpharev but not sure what to do with it. Please guide me and I would really appreciate it.
Sending in Caroline...
Retrieving Caroline from certain doom...
Retrying Caroline...
Caroline failed, but had this to say: An error occurred while writing the partition.
Errors (if any):-
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
S-Off Instructions
The AlphaRev HBOOT tool (assuming you got it from here?) from what I saw on their site is an .iso file, which you have to burn the image to a CD, then follow the instructions for the link above. My gf got a USCC Desire, so using Unrevoked/AlphaRev's Revolutionary, I was able to S-OFF and then root all at once. Pretty easy.
I have not tried the method posted in this link. It's an explanation of what to do with the .iso file.
I'm assuming you used the AlphaRevX tool? If you didn't then do so. Also, did you read the FAQ on the main page with the AlphaRevX download links? If not then I suggest you do as you've likely not installed the Android drivers that are included in the FAQ page.
guptavar said:
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
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This seems say all...Bad (damaged) block sectors in ur hboot internal partition..not good..ask in the revolutionary IRC channel http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=revolutionary
s-off problem
hello, i am trying to s-off my desire with revolutionary but i get the error msg :
caroline failed, but had this to say: an err occured when writing partition
errors:
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
i tried revoked too and alpharev with no luck.
i updated with the official RUU to 2.3 and the 1.02 Hboot but still the same errors.
i read it might be hardware issue.
i actually want to use the stock rom but just want to use a script/prog to increase the internal memory.
any solution to s-off? or any script that needs no root to work?
thanx!
akoutsakas said:
hello, i am trying to s-off my desire with revolutionary but i get the error msg :
caroline failed, but had this to say: an err occured when writing partition
errors:
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000
i tried revoked too and alpharev with no luck.
i updated with the official RUU to 2.3 and the 1.02 Hboot but still the same errors.
i read it might be hardware issue.
i actually want to use the stock rom but just want to use a script/prog to increase the internal memory.
any solution to s-off? or any script that needs no root to work?
thanx!
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Write down all you have in bootloader.
guptavar said:
Hi Everyone,
I just rooted my Htc Desire by using unrevoked and have superuser permissions in my app menu. Now before I would like to install a rom which I have never done before I believe I would need to turn the s-off. When I try to do that through revolutionary 0.4pre4 I am getting errors as below. I did install Htc drivers, restart my laptop & phone but still the same error keep coming up. I also downloaded the Hboot tool called alpharev but not sure what to do with it. Please guide me and I would really appreciate it.
Sending in Caroline...
Retrieving Caroline from certain doom...
Retrying Caroline...
Caroline failed, but had this to say: An error occurred while writing the partition.
Errors (if any):-
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000
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Click to collapse
Hi, you don't need to be s-off to flash a rom. You can just install it from clockworkmod recovery (which will have been installed during unrevoked rooting process).
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app
Have problem
im trying to S-OFF & Recovery by Revolutionary
and it always give me
Root acquired!
Sending in Caroline...
Retrieving Caroline from certain doom...
Retrying Caroline...
Caroline failed, but had this to say: An error occurred while writing the partit
ion.
Errors (if any):-
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
Press (almost) any key to exit.
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and my device Info. is
(bravo-1.02.0001, Android: 2.3.3, ROM version: 3.14.405.1)
and as shown in RootWiki
my device is officially supported
Revolutionary currently supports the following Android phones and HBOOT versions:
HTC Desire (bravo) 0.93.0001, 1.02.0001
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im just asking is there way to avoid writing in bad sector ??
i contact with revolutionary (IRC)
and they told me your device is defective and i must get a new one
Ask in revolutionary irc channel.
SwiftKeyed from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
I have EXACTLY the same problem
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
with desire with HTC's "official" gingerbread.
Can somebody give us any advice - is there any other way to write a different rom/S-OFF?
help
GreenToad said:
I have EXACTLY the same problem
mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00040000
with desire with HTC's "official" gingerbread.
Can somebody give us any advice - is there any other way to write a different rom/S-OFF?
help
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go to htc care center and tell them i have internal memory problem and some apps goes away and brick, they should replace ur mother board with new one
thats what hapeend with me ,,