Downgrading from 2.2 to 2.1 fails, partition failure [[BRICKED !!]] - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
Could anyone please help unbrick myphone !
I have a problem downgrading from 2.2 to 2.1 using the tool "Downgrade Utility" 2.3b on a European HTC Desire phone (unlocked).
Here is exactly what I did so far :
* Install HTC Sync -> "_HTC Legend_HTCSync.exe"
* Settings / Applications / Development / Enable USB debugging on phone
* Settings / Connection to PC / Default connection type : Charge only
* Settings / Connection to PC / Ask me : Disable
o Downloaded downgrade 2.3b
o Execute : win-down.bat
+ It says it will take a minute, but 10 minutes is more realistic.
# Select FASTBOOT on phone. The Phone loads PB99IMG.ZIP -> This is the 2.1 f/w with HBOOT 0.83
# Do you want to start update : Press volume up
# HBOOT 0.83 installed
# PB99DIAG.zip
# No image!
# PB99DIAG.nbh
# No image!
# Loading PB99IMG.ZIP
* Everything else updates ok *except* Radio_V2 - Fail-PU
* Partition update fail!
* Update fail!
* Do you want to reboot the device, volume up = yes
* Phone stays on the HTC logo
* Disconnect USB cable, pull out battery for 2 minutes and power on phone.
* I will hear 7/8 vibrates
* Phone stays with the HTC logo and does nothing.
When I power on the phone, there is one long vibrate and 7 shorter vibrates.
I don't know what else to try right now... I have gone back into the HBOOT and re-started the update which fails again on the Radio_V2 section.
How can I escape this endless cycle to fix it.
This worked once previously for me, and I went from 2.2 to 2.1 which worked flawlessly. For various reasons I decided to go back to 2.2, so this is the 2nd time that I would like to downgrade to 2.1 so that I can ultimately root it.
The phone has never been rooted successfully.
Note : I think I should of posted to "Desire General", my apology's.

I don't know the answer to your downgrade problem, but to root you don't need to downgrade anymore. Just use unrevoked.

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By placing the SD card in a friends phone, we removed PB99IMG.zip and replaced this with a valid RUU and booted up using the new RUU, which fixed it.
However after running unrevoked 3.2.1 several times on the MAC, we could not root the phone.
It stalled on the "waiting for bootloader" message. I don't understand why some people have immediate success with unrevoked and others
have no luck whatsoever. Any suggestions, is there another method to root 2.2 ?

dazdaz said:
By placing the SD card in a friends phone, we removed PB99IMG.zip and replaced this with a valid RUU and booted up using the new RUU, which fixed it.
However after running unrevoked 3.2.1 several times on the MAC, we could not root the phone.
It stalled on the "waiting for bootloader" message. I don't understand why some people have immediate success with unrevoked and others
have no luck whatsoever. Any suggestions, is there another method to root 2.2 ?
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dude i was having tons of problems in rooting but than i used the thread ... turkeys guide to root and while i was doing so i joined their IRC channel and asked for help .... the moderators were kind enough to establish remote access to my pc and do all the settings for me and helped me out in the whole process and my phone was rooted.. i suggest you do the same

dazdaz said:
By placing the SD card in a friends phone, we removed PB99IMG.zip and replaced this with a valid RUU and booted up using the new RUU, which fixed it.
However after running unrevoked 3.2.1 several times on the MAC, we could not root the phone.
It stalled on the "waiting for bootloader" message. I don't understand why some people have immediate success with unrevoked and others
have no luck whatsoever. Any suggestions, is there another method to root 2.2 ?
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Use Windows...

Does adb work on a 64-bit VISTA included in other-shi??-DesireRoot

unrEVOked works fine in W7 x64 - I've done it numerous times with no issues

EddyOS said:
unrEVOked works fine in W7 x64 - I've done it numerous times with no issues
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Out of curisoity, did you run unrevoked as administrator on W7 ?
That is about the only thing that i've not tried and I can't see why that would make a difference.

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HTC desire 2.2 HELP please

Ok so, this is my first android phone and after being prompted to install the 2.2 update on my European htc desire, i downloaded and started it installing. It gets to about 23% and says process system unavailible and after reading what people said i cleared the phone and tried to install the update manually from the SD card. This didn't work
My phone currently does this
Will boot into what it says is 2.2 but with no wifi, no service, and no SD card showing up
then after about 5 minutes it will reboot.
I have no idea what i can do to fix this? could someone please help me, i'm a noob with android so a clear step by step would be much appreciated
anyone
I am having the same issue... Anyone some help please...
I had a symetrical experience.. I can't post links yet, but you if you look at my posts you should be able to find what worked for me.
Futurian said:
I had a symetrical experience.. I can't post links yet, but you if you look at my posts you should be able to find what worked for me.
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how did you create a blank goldcard, i can't access my SD card on my phone while it's in the phone so how did you do it
Do you have a WIFI connection? I do, and did the OTA 2.2 upgrade over WiFi with no problems, on my Unbranded European HTC Desire.
If youre phone won't boot properly, there are a few answers; 1) Return in to HTC, they're getit working and back to you, 2) Return it to th place of purchase, 3) Root/reflash (but sounds like it might not be an option).
Dale
F3L1X1 said:
how did you create a blank goldcard, i can't access my SD card on my phone while it's in the phone so how did you do it
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I followed the instuctions in the "[TUT]Complete upgrading guide(root, unroot, flashing ROM & updates)" thread within Desire Android Development. (Post #3)
dedlite said:
Do you have a WIFI connection? I do, and did the OTA 2.2 upgrade over WiFi with no problems, on my Unbranded European HTC Desire.
If youre phone won't boot properly, there are a few answers; 1) Return in to HTC, they're getit working and back to you, 2) Return it to th place of purchase, 3) Root/reflash (but sounds like it might not be an option).
Dale
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When I got in touch with HTC they wanted £50 to do a reflash, falsely accusing me of rooting my device..
was that 50$ to send it to them? or can they do it without having it there. Because if THEIR update screwed up my phone i don't see why i should have to pay for a fix
maybe a silly question but did you try a factory reset?
http://www.htc.com/www/howto.aspx?id=805&type=1&p_id=312
HugoTouchHD said:
maybe a silly question but did you try a factory reset?
http://www.htc.com/www/howto.aspx?id=805&type=1&p_id=312
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yeah i did that, about the only advice the australian HTC support guy gave me -____-
F3L1X1 said:
was that 50$ to send it to them? or can they do it without having it there. Because if THEIR update screwed up my phone i don't see why i should have to pay for a fix
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Tell me about it, so thankful I managed to fix it myself!
It sounds like you are alll applying an OTA update for the standard ROM to what was a branded device. There are lots of explanations as to how to fix this if this is the case
In summary
Download update from mentioned here
Copy this to root of your goldcard and rename to update.zip
Turn off phone
Turn on holding down vol down
Select Bootloader then Recovery (an image of device should appear with exclamation mark over)
In menu (sorry forgot how you get in, if it does not appear then try power+vol down or power + back). From there choose apply update.zip
Wait while update applied
After update select reboot and wait for device to boot
Video of it here
jameson_uk said:
It sounds like you are alll applying an OTA update for the standard ROM to what was a branded device. There are lots of explanations as to how to fix this if this is the case
In summary
Download update from mentioned here
Copy this to root of your goldcard and rename to update.zip
Turn off phone
Turn on holding down vol down
Select Bootloader then Recovery (an image of device should appear with exclamation mark over)
In menu (sorry forgot how you get in, if it does not appear then try power+vol down or power + back). From there choose apply update.zip
Wait while update applied
After update select reboot and wait for device to boot
Video of it here
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I've just tried this again, installation looked like it went through ok, rebooted and relaoded into sense, then it shows me a status bar counting, normally this gets to about 10% then says ?Sorry process system is not responing, so i can either click wait or force close, then in continues upto about 97% then reboots and reloads only to load a white screen showing htc and continues counting in percentages, gets to about 15% then says force close, then onto about 91% then reboots this goes on for a while until it just shows me a sorta bricked phone with no wifi, gsm or any real functionailty and it continues to reboot every 5 mins, back to where I started showing 2.2 as installed
One strange thing I have noticed is that my CID is
CID: 00000000000000000049E917D100A69E
Reversing CID
CID: 00A600D117E949000000000000000000
Can't find update.zip on SD card during recovery
Tried all this, thanks. Goldcard created using Gold Card Tool 0.0.5 (awesome job Klutsh) . I get the error message:
"E:failed to open /sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory)" even though it is in the root dir when I look at the card on my PC.
Should it be in a directory called /sdcard ?
chessmaster82 said:
I've just tried this again, installation looked like it went through ok, rebooted and relaoded into sense, then it shows me a status bar counting, normally this gets to about 10% then says ?Sorry process system is not responing, so i can either click wait or force close, then in continues upto about 97% then reboots and reloads only to load a white screen showing htc and continues counting in percentages, gets to about 15% then says force close, then onto about 91% then reboots this goes on for a while until it just shows me a sorta bricked phone with no wifi, gsm or any real functionailty and it continues to reboot every 5 mins, back to where I started showing 2.2 as installed
One strange thing I have noticed is that my CID is
CID: 00000000000000000049E917D100A69E
Reversing CID
CID: 00A600D117E949000000000000000000
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i get this same problem. How do i create a gold card if when i plug in my phone to my pc it won't recognise it and when i put the SD in the phone the bricked 2.2 won't recognise it
F3L1X1 said:
i get this same problem. How do i create a gold card if when i plug in my phone to my pc it won't recognise it and when i put the SD in the phone the bricked 2.2 won't recognise it
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I had to format the card in a card reader in my PC, then use the Gold Card Creator mentioned elsewhere in the thread. You have to install HTC Sync because enough drivers are in there to at least allow the apps to 'see' the card at physical level, even if the bricked Android doesn't. Set the phone to USB debug mode in Settings/Applications - the phone stays 'on' long enough between reboots to do that and get a CID out of it! Then Gold Card Creator works well enough to get the CID from the SD.
I'm trying this again with a 2GB card to see if makes any difference.
Check folder settings when using windows
bearMedicine said:
Tried all this, thanks. Goldcard created using Gold Card Tool 0.0.5 (awesome job Klutsh) . I get the error message:
"E:failed to open /sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory)" even though it is in the root dir when I look at the card on my PC.
Should it be in a directory called /sdcard ?
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Quick update to this. Make sure you have extensions of known file types SHOWING in your folder settings. I was naming the file update.zip.zip!!
Thanks to ALL in this forum for get apps and assistance. I unbricked my phone tonight thanks to you all
well i phoned the shop here in australia that i bought it from and they said they've had alot of desires being returned because they've been bricked by the update and to just send it back and they'll fix it and update to 2.2 for me

How to get to recovery if i can't see the screen?

Can you help me, i've made a mistake attempting to downgrade and root an HTC Desire on Voda UK from hboot 0.93. Downgrade seemed to be successful, but the device was stuck in bootloader mode. Since then i have managed to lose my goldcard and flash an uncompatible RUU. And now the screen is dead but if i pop out the battery and put it back in i can hear the start up animation sounds. What can i do to recover my screen? Your advise would be appreciated. Mat
Old versions do not support SLCD (Your Display) hence it turn black (i had hard time, believe me), i personally installed newest official RUU and everithing went OK. But there other solutions, read here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748498
wish You luck
Wish i could help you but i don't remember. Been pre-occupied with trying to find a fix and move forward. Can't guarantee that i wouldn't make the same mistake again either. Currently flying blind withthe 'SLCD BRICK FIX Method1' without success.
download ADB to your computer
open up a command prompt/terminal window
cd to your adb/tools directory and type:
adb reboot recovery
Thanks for your reply. I downloaded adb sdk etc but my lack of skill in the command promt is holding me back, not to mention that the Device screen is still black and it isn't recognised by my pc when i plug it in. Don't know what to try next..
With goldcard inserted, started phone in fastboot mode (back key and power button). Flashed back to stock htc rom. Screen is back on and i'm up and running.
Thought i had tried this before but it worked this time (so happy!). Thanks for reading and helping.
Woulda been easier following this guide - as should everyone else currently:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768256
]SK[ said:
Can I ask which method you were using? I see your on Vodafone the same as me. I got my Desire yesterday and want to use OpenDesire however I fear that I will make a mistake and end up in the same situation as yourself.
I was going to follow this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768256 guide although I can't as I don't have a SD caddy to plug it into my PC.
*Mods*
Can a mod please fix it so I can post URL's please?
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URL privileges will be working soon.
And if I come across any new members URL issues I put them in for them.

Desire (Virgin Mobile) potentially bricked, please help!

Hey there, I think I've bricked my device and naively thinking it would be pain-free and careless as it was in my DHD, it was an utter brain melter with it's little brother device and I've spent the past 2 days frantically trying to fix it, probably making it worse.
Here's the problem:
- USB responds on PC with notification, doesn't seem mounted
- Unable to access any form of recovery/bootloader
- Attempted VM RUU but at the end it has a 101: File read error, even though the file is intact.
- Attempted latest RUU amongst various others, with an image write error.
- Loaded fasboot via PC & flashed downgrade from http://alpharev.nl/ - although flasher said it was 'successful' the RUU mentions 2.0.x-something and fails again
- Now a black screen that doesn't even show 4 corner error.
So yeah, I'm so lost right now. Any help at all is appreciated, since it's so messed up might as well try experimental methods of recovering this. Thanks a lot.
deolol said:
Hey there, I think I've bricked my device and naively thinking it would be pain-free and careless as it was in my DHD, it was an utter brain melter with it's little brother device and I've spent the past 2 days frantically trying to fix it, probably making it worse.
Here's the problem:
- USB responds on PC with notification, doesn't seem mounted
- Unable to access any form of recovery/bootloader
- Attempted VM RUU but at the end it has a 101: File read error, even though the file is intact.
- Attempted latest RUU amongst various others, with an image write error.
- Loaded fasboot via PC & flashed downgrade from http://alpharev.nl/ - although flasher said it was 'successful' the RUU mentions 2.0.x-something and fails again
- Now a black screen that doesn't even show 4 corner error.
So yeah, I'm so lost right now. Any help at all is appreciated, since it's so messed up might as well try experimental methods of recovering this. Thanks a lot.
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Option A: Create a goldcard (you can use your DHD, or if you alread yahve one use that goldcard) and flash the latest WWE RUU (Link on my guide)
Option B: Less safe. Use the 2.3.3 RUU (Link on my guide)

[Q] HTC Desire Z doesn't boot anymore after failed android update

Hello people,
Background info what I did before problem arose:
I wanted to root my Desire Z, so I figured out what to do:
- downgrade android 2.3.3 to 2.2 using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178912 ; option 4a didn't work, bootloader didn't see PC10IMG.zip while it was on the SD card in root folder. Option 4b did work luckily.
- root desire Z via http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...sion#Rooting_the_Vision_.28G2.2FDZ.29_and_DHD and made it to superCID, simlock off and S-OFF
So now I got a working Desire Z with android 2.2
Wish I stopped there...
I decided to try out android 4.2.1:
- I installed rom using http://genius-tips.com/update-htc-desire-z-to-android-4-2-1-jelly-bean-cm10-1-custom-rom/
It worked. I now have an Desire Z with android 4.2.1. But it was somewhat slowish so I decided I wanted my gingerbread back:
- I tried to install roms but somehow it didn't work, I kept my 4.2.1
- I followed the same steps I did to downgrade to 2.2 as described above, and it worked.
So I got a working Desire Z with android 2.2
- using HTC software update (settings -> about telephone -> software update) I download and install update 1
- download and install update 2
From here it gets interesting for this topic:
- download and install update 3, which is android 2.3; and during the install, while I still have my usb cable connected from laptop to telephone, my laptop battery runs out and update on telephone somehow fails (WTF, it is in charge only mode when it is installing right? The battery was full, or full enough, the telephone downloaded the update itself to SD-card or internal memory, so I assumed there was no connection.)
But now the Desire Z doesn't boot any more, it stays on the htc logo, without the 'quietly brilliant'.
- I tried via bootloader reset to factory defaults: vibrate, htc logo, image of telephone with green arrows above and loader below with image of SD-card on the right of loader. But loader doesn't progress and after some time telephone resets and stays at htc logo.
- I tried recovery via bootloader: vibrate, htc logo, and image of telephone with red exclamation mark and red triangle.
- no connection via sdk/adt.
I also tried to boot CyanogenMod 7.1 from SD-card using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572924 , but same result as above.
What can I do to save my Desire Z, other than replacing motherboard ?!
Please help...
The update failed being it was in the process of writing some firmware when you lost power, this tends to mean a partial update and a brick. The pc10img.zip you tried to flash before was not to be in any folder, so not a folder called root, rather no folder at all.
This may also be your salvation, maybe the only way of fixing, more info here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33917375
Sent from my HTC Vision using xda premium
Thanks, I will try it out this afternoon.
To clarify:
In order to downgrade to android 2.2 I used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178912 in which is stated
I - 4a) Manual Downgrade
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Desire Z: "PC10IMG.zip"
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Place the zip file in the root of your sdcard.
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What does this mean if I am not supposed to have this file on my SD-card ? [edit: Or did my previous post suggest I had a folder called 'root' on my SD-card in which I had the zip?]
Second thing to clarify:
When my telephone has battery AND it is connected to my laptop (charge only I assume) AND my telephone is updating firmware from the SD-card/internal memory of the telephone; why would the telephone lose power / fail installation at the moment my PC tries to shut itself off because of low battery. Or is there something wrong in my assumptions?
Yeah I misunderstood ya, I thought you had a folder named root, if you did don't,
I must have been reading too fast I also thought you were doing an ruu through the computer not an ota update which is what you were doing, if that's the case the power loss on computer shouldn't have mattered unless there is some weird deal that I don't know about when charging through PC.
Can you confirm what is written on bootloader screen, radio, SPL, etc?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
Sure, I posted it on the topic you recommended me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37613472 to continue there.
Conclusion:
Format SD card in FAT32 if it wasn't yet, then bootloader can read images again and flash ROMs. Then telephone is unbricked
Thanks.

[Q] can someone Help with fixing my DINC after Unrooting gone wrong?

Ok, so have a serious issue
at first i was able to successfully root and flash clockwork mod recovery on my DInc using the rooting method from unrevoked 3 and was running Clockwork mod recovery +Cyanogen mod7 through the Rom manager (cannot remember exactly which versions.) it was all running fine, then just decided to unroot it with a few different methods (one didnt work and the others failed as well, maybe because i mismatched the stuff i used during the First try at the unrooting process..but because i tried one method after the other, and it was soo long ago, i forgot exactly how i ran into this problem
basically somehow i screwed up the Unrooting process.
SO now I am Having the System UIDs are inconsistent message every time i start my Incredible, Tried recovery that didnt work, tried factory reset+ erase all data on phone SD card (i probably accidentally erased the recovery image) it seems to reboot and be all restored, like a stock image, but weirdly the Superuser Ninja holding the AR15 still shows up in my app drawer (even after i unrooted and restored everything.) so i i decided to check out if the permissions were still enabled and they were not... SU shows up and doesnt function (just blank). I investigated further by downloading ROMmanager and then everything ended up forceclosing over and over again...I went to download "# Root Checker" and pressed "check" and it proclaims that its not rooted but under "User" it said "root"... i guess that its saying im rooted but im not?!?! LOL
anwhyo here are my DInc Specs as of Right now:
my DInc is an SLCD, running android 2.3.4. baseband is 2.15.10.07.07
Kernel 2.6.35.13-g03546aa
[email protected]#1
Fri Oct 7 10:52:52 CST 2011
software number 4.08.605.2
im still able to Access HBOOT and the screen says
*** UNLOCKED***
INCREDIBLE XD SHIP S-ON,
HBOOT-1.02.0000
MICROP 0417
TOUCH PANEL- ATMELC03_16ac
RADIO-2.15.10.07.07
DEC 21 2011,23:37:16
when i tried to see if i can reflash it through fastboot, the device manager in my W8.1 Pro 64 bit says "Device failed Enumeration" and USB notification popped up from the system tray saying that the device wasn't recognizable
so the drivers provided by Unrevoked for enabling the phone to be detected dont work, and the HTC Sync program doesnt even detect the Incredible.
However,,,,
the Fast boot, Boot Loader, and HBOOT still works upon pressing the Volume-down + Power and am still able to access Internal Phone Memory AND the SD card when the Phone is plugged into my computer via micro USB (so it looks like im able to flash things to it, but stuck as to how and what)
Because im still able to access the the SD card and internal Memory,
I tried putting PB31mg.zip on the root of the SD and ran HBOOT> and i gave it a second to detect the file.. then it said "Main Version is older Update Fail!"
the guy in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286223 seems to have had Similar problems..... I have added symtoms and issues on top of the whole 2.3.4 with S-on and Radio 2.15.10.07.07....
I just want to get back to vanilla-stock on my incredible with absolutely no modifications and without the System UID/feeling lucky pop up bugging me. and dont care what route i take, weather it be rerooting and reflashing , just reflashing. i just dont know what to do to get it that way from here.
Can anyone please help me figure out how to get back to normal with this DInc???
Im sorry if i dont make any sense im having a hard time explaining it. if you do understand me, i would appreciate your help. also if you need me to clarify things just ask me.
I'm a little rusty, but I remember this was the preferred method for rooting because of problem with the 1click unlockers,
(nuts, can't post links yet)... Google, "[HOW TO](gaining root)unlock,downgrade,and achieve s-off with htcDev" and look for it on androidforums.com
Try picking it up from step2, just keep the unlock_code.bin from miniadb_inc files from step1 on the phone. As long as typing 'adb devices' displays your phones serial number, you should be ok. As a long shot, you could try a PC with Windows7.
Try this ruu thru hboot http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip

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