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[Q] Stuck in hboot after manually applying OTA update.

I tried a manual install using "[Guide] How to apply the new OTA 3.29.651.5 when you have clockwork and s-off" (posted there too)
After the update, I'm stuck in HBOOT and can't start the phone at all.
Booting into recovery gives me a red exclamation. Doing up+volume, starts the stock recovery. It shows the error "E:can't open/cache/recovery/command"
I tried updating to a stock rom or a custom recovery (renaming each one to update.zip) but all of them fail the signature verification. I do have the "show known file type extensions" option set to visible, so I don't think it's the update.zip.zip problem I saw here.
Phone was rooted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm phoneless

InflateoMonkey said:
I tried a manual install using "[Guide] How to apply the new OTA 3.29.651.5 when you have clockwork and s-off" (posted there too)
After the update, I'm stuck in HBOOT and can't start the phone at all.
Booting into recovery gives me a red exclamation. Doing up+volume, starts the stock recovery. It shows the error "E:can't open/cache/recovery/command"
I tried updating to a stock rom or a custom recovery (renaming each one to update.zip) but all of them fail the signature verification. I do have the "show known file type extensions" option set to visible, so I don't think it's the update.zip.zip problem I saw here.
Phone was rooted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm phoneless
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What H-Boot version do you have? I would try going here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791019 and downloading the PC36IMG.zip file posted, rename it to PC36IMG.zip (make sure that if you hide file extensions in Windows, you don't have .zip on 2x) put it on the root of your SD card, go into bootloader...it will detect the file and when it asks you if you want to run the update, do it and it will update your system. Should fix you right up!

Thanks for the help! I actually just figured it out myself. I renamed the file I tried initially on the OP of the thread I mentioned and renamed that to update.zip. Updated in the stock recovery and it worked from there. Unrevoked still worked after (though S-Off didn't)
I tried the way you mentioned before, but it told me "old version." and wouldn't go through. I have hboot 0.97 now, which is probably the cause of the problem, plus S-ON, which I thought was OFF before.

[Q] Can't boot or flash anything on HTC Desire

Hi guys...
Well, I'm a total noob when it comes to Android in general, but I know a thing or two about rooting... The thing is... I managed to flash Oxygen ROM and it was all good... But then I tried to flash a stock HTC ROM and now I can't boot (red triangle) or even get into the recovery! All I can access is fastboot, HBoot and Android recovery. Whenever I try to flash files it sais "Signature failed" or something like that, and even when I tried to do it with the HBoot menu using a stock HTC ROM it kinda went like this: everythin OK except Radio_V2 (Bypassed) and HBoot (Error) so yeah... My Desire is now unusable and I have to use my crappy Xperia X10 Mini... HELP!
SOLVED: Thanks for the help!

Have you tried putting the update.zip (recovery) back on the sd card?
And what rom did you use?
If that does not work use a RUU, there are plenty of threads in Q&A on how to do that.

TheGhost1233 said:
Have you tried putting the update.zip (recovery) back on the sd card?
And what rom did you use?
If that does not work use a RUU, there are plenty of threads in Q&A on how to do that.
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Tried the update.zip you provided, got the following error:
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:Signature verification failed
Installation aborted
Before my problems I used the latest stable Oxygen ROM, after it was the newest (European) Stock ROM for HTC Desire I could find.
And yeah... How do I use an RUU when I can't even boot the phone? I mean, it's an exe, is it not? Can u help me out a little more? sorry for my newbieness n_n
(GAH, I miss my Desire already T^T)

First disable signature verification in recovery, option can be found under 'install zip from sd' and try again.

TheGhost1233 said:
First disable signature verification in recovery, option can be found under 'install zip from sd' and try again.
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The only option I have to "install from zip" is "Apply sdcard:update.zip" from the Android System Recovery (2e) menu, since yeah... Amon RA was removed when I tried to flash the stock rom... I've screwed up quite bad, haven't I?

Well yes you screwed up but it should not be to much trouble fixing it. Next time you flash a rom make sure it's designed to be flashed on a rooted desire.
But this guide should help to get the phone unrooted and working again, then you should be able to root again.

TheGhost1233 said:
Well yes you screwed up but it should not be to much trouble fixing it. Next time you flash a rom make sure it's designed to be flashed on a rooted desire.
But this guide should help to get the phone unrooted and working again, then you should be able to root again.
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Thanks! I'll give it a go and post here with the result! I'll be more carefull from now on, lol

TheGhost1233 said:
Well yes you screwed up but it should not be to much trouble fixing it. Next time you flash a rom make sure it's designed to be flashed on a rooted desire.
But this guide should help to get the phone unrooted and working again, then you should be able to root again.
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Tried to use that method now, got the following:
Reads the zip file and asks to update using it, I press Vol+ (yes) and the process of updating starts... After a while it vibrates and I see the following:
BOOT OK
BOOTLOADER Bypassed
RADIO_V2 Fail-PU
RADIO_CUST OK
RECOVERY OK
SPLASH1 OK
SYSTEM OK
USERDATA OK
Partition update fail!
Update Fail!
Do you want to reboot device?
<VOL UP> Yes
<VOL DOWN> No
I press VOL UP...
Aaaand I'm met with an infinate HTC boot screen... nothing happens.
When I try to enter recovery...And it's the same deal, met with the HTC boot logo... nothing ever happens... What can I do?! : /

Okaaay, this is embrassing... Just had to run an offical RUU with the phone in Fastboot... God I'm so stupid... Thanks anyways, guys!

Hehe, grattis Erik!

lol good to hear u solved it out

[Q] Rooting gone wrong/ I've made a big mistake

Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me out here because I've screwed up somehow and would like to un-do whatever it is I've done. I'm trying to think straight so I hope what I type out ends up making sense .
1. Right now, my phone works. I'm stuck on a rooted pre-OTA stock rom. I unrooted once, but was not able to flash the OTA update via the stock recovery. I still have a use-able phone so I'm doing better than some people in threads I've read about.
2. I tried to root it with gfree. I don't think it worked, and some errors came up during the process. I used the first method then skipped to 0.2 per the wiki. Using g-free verify tells me everything is alright. supercid, sim lock, etc.
3. I am s-off, but earlier I couldn't get gfree verify to work (my own error I'm certain) and assumed I screwed up. Rom manager and root explorer never gave me prompts for superuser permissions, but I was s-off. I didn't think I rooted correctly and used the rage against the cage method.
4. Right now, I'm apparently s-off and rooted. I can't flash any roms though. I use rom manager to flash the latest recovery, it says it works and then when I reboot to recovery it stays stuck on the HTC splash screen. Battery pull takes me back to the pre-OTA rom. Recovery only recently stopped working though.
Ultimately, I need to get recovery back somehow, and then I'd return my phone back to an unrooted state with the stock 2.2 rom since I can't seem to handle rooting to well. Since I have no clockwork mod recovery, not really sure what to do to get this process rolling. If someone can help me get recovery back, and then help me flash roms again I'd definitely appreciate it. I have noone to blame but myself here.
If it ends up mattering, I do have adb installed and can use that if need be, and like I said my phone still boots up. I don't have a brick but something crazy is going on.

tjmarchand said:
Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me out here because I've screwed up somehow and would like to un-do whatever it is I've done. I'm trying to think straight so I hope what I type out ends up making sense .
1. Right now, my phone works. I'm stuck on a rooted pre-OTA stock rom. I unrooted once, but was not able to flash the OTA update via the stock recovery. I still have a use-able phone so I'm doing better than some people in threads I've read about.
2. I tried to root it with gfree. I don't think it worked, and some errors came up during the process. I used the first method then skipped to 0.2 per the wiki. Using g-free verify tells me everything is alright. supercid, sim lock, etc.
3. I am s-off, but earlier I couldn't get gfree verify to work (my own error I'm certain) and assumed I screwed up. Rom manager and root explorer never gave me prompts for superuser permissions, but I was s-off. I didn't think I rooted correctly and used the rage against the cage method.
4. Right now, I'm apparently s-off and rooted. I can't flash any roms though. I use rom manager to flash the latest recovery, it says it works and then when I reboot to recovery it stays stuck on the HTC splash screen. Battery pull takes me back to the pre-OTA rom. Recovery only recently stopped working though.
Ultimately, I need to get recovery back somehow, and then I'd return my phone back to an unrooted state with the stock 2.2 rom since I can't seem to handle rooting to well. Since I have no clockwork mod recovery, not really sure what to do to get this process rolling. If someone can help me get recovery back, and then help me flash roms again I'd definitely appreciate it. I have noone to blame but myself here.
If it ends up mattering, I do have adb installed and can use that if need be, and like I said my phone still boots up. I don't have a brick but something crazy is going on.
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Download ClockworkMod Recovery straight from Koushik's page and put it on the root of your SD card. Open up Terminal Emulator on your phone and type in the following:
su
flash_image recovery recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img
reboot recovery
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Post the results in here.

blackknightavalon said:
Download ClockworkMod Recovery straight from Koushik's page and put it on the root of your SD card. Open up Terminal Emulator on your phone and type in the following:
Post the results in here.
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Hey thank you so much for a response! I tried this with two sd cards because I didn't have any luck. I tried that exact command and flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img and each time it returns flash_image: not found
It definately is on my sd card.

tjmarchand said:
Hey thank you so much for a response! I tried this with two sd cards because I didn't have any luck. I tried that exact command and flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img and each time it returns flash_image: not found
It definately is on my sd card.
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Do you have the engineering bootloader? If not, you may have to try it with ADB.

blackknightavalon said:
Do you have the engineering bootloader? If not, you may have to try it with ADB.
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Im fairly certain I had to flash it to root with the rage method, vol + pwr screen says "vision pvt eng s-off hboot 0.76.2000 (pc1010000)"
With adb it gives me the same error, but I used rom manager to flash 2.5.1.3 so I have a recovery again. I have one good nandroid of the rom im stuck on.
My next issue is that I tried to flash the stock rom with root from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836042 and something isn't right. I wipe data/cache and then go to install zip from sdcard (manual recovery) and select the rom. What happens after is it tells me the normal messages it gives when flashing and "welcome to vision" but when the flash is done instead of giving me the option of "reboot system now" it goes back to the install zip for sd card menu like the flash never happened (and it will not boot past the htc screen)

tjmarchand said:
Im fairly certain I had to flash it to root with the rage method, vol + pwr screen says "vision pvt eng s-off hboot 0.76.2000 (pc1010000)"
With adb it gives me the same error, but I used rom manager to flash 2.5.1.3 so I have a recovery again. I have one good nandroid of the rom im stuck on.
My next issue is that I tried to flash the stock rom with root from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836042 and something isn't right. I wipe data/cache and then go to install zip from sdcard (manual recovery) and select the rom. What happens after is it tells me the normal messages it gives when flashing and "welcome to vision" but when the flash is done instead of giving me the option of "reboot system now" it goes back to the install zip for sd card menu like the flash never happened (and it will not boot past the htc screen)
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Maybe it's a bad recovery. You said you flashed 2.5.1.3, so ROM Manager should work. Try flashing 3.0.2.4 through there now. If not, I suggest downloading Fastboot.

tjmarchand said:
Hey thank you so much for a response! I tried this with two sd cards because I didn't have any luck. I tried that exact command and flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img and each time it returns flash_image: not found
It definately is on my sd card.
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flash_image isn't part of the stock ROM, I made a guide for using it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902493

raitchison said:
flash_image isn't part of the stock ROM, I made a guide for using it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902493
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Thanks for the guide! I followed it with no issue, I rebooted into recovery; it first hung on the HTC screen, rebooted, vibrated and then booted back into the OS. So anyway, instead of 2.5.1.3, I'm on 3.0.0.5 now.
I went down to 2.5.1.3 and downloaded cm6.1 via rom manager. It told me this : E: can't open '/sdcard/..location (bad) installation aborted. tmp/recovery.log was copied to sdcard
I tried enom's froyo themed rom next, heres what recovery tells me:
Installing update...
Formatting cache
Copying files
Formatting SYSTEM
Copying files...
E Can't symlink /system/bin/su
E Failure at line 19:
symlink /system/xbin/su SYSTEM: bin/su
Installation aborted.
I also tried to download an updated superuser from the market, it says installation unsuccessful package file was not signed correctly.

Use Titanium to update your Superuser.apk
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blackknightavalon said:
Use Titanium to update your Superuser.apk
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That worked, so thank you. I ended up unrooting and putting s back on so I can retry. Now, I can't flash the OTA update via stock recovery. Any ideas for that one? Thank you so much for all the other help as well.
"E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" -when I first enter recovery
--Install from sdcard...
Finding update pacakge...
Opening update pacakge...
Verifying update package...
E:failed to verify whole file signature
E: signature verification failed
Installation aborted. -after trying the OTA (named update.zip of course)

tjmarchand said:
That worked, so thank you. I ended up unrooting and putting s back on so I can retry. Now, I can't flash the OTA update via stock recovery. Any ideas for that one? Thank you so much for all the other help as well.
"E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" -when I first enter recovery
--Install from sdcard...
Finding update pacakge...
Opening update pacakge...
Verifying update package...
E:failed to verify whole file signature
E: signature verification failed
Installation aborted. -after trying the OTA (named update.zip of course)
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If this is the Gingerbread OTA, you'll need everything as stock. If it's the "OTA" with Superuser thrown in, you'll need CWM Recovery 3+ (2.5* formats the system in yaffs, 3+ formats it in EXT).

This is just the ota update with wifi calling still 2.2, Im unrooted and stock recovery again
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Help flashing - having huge problems

I'm really not a noob to flashing ROMs, in fact, I got pretty good at it with my Evo before I upgraded to the Galaxy 2.
So I got the phone rooted using Odin, now I need to install Clockworkmod recovery so I can flash some custom ROM's. Everytime I install clockworkmod using Odin, when my phone reboots, I can't get service, and the buttons on the bottom aren't working. The search button now turns into the menu key.
So how can I get this working right? Do I need clockworkmod to be able to install custom ROM's? Is there another way to install clockworkmod aside from using Odin? Because Odin just isn't working.
Any help is appreciated.

Why dont you get it off the market?
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I'm using ROM Manager now.
Now I keep getting:
"E: failed to verify whole-file signature"
and: "E:signature verification failed"
This comes up every time I try to use ROM Manager to backup/flash a new ROM.

What method of root did you use?

The one in this thread; from the video:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1265429

saj1jr said:
I'm using ROM Manager now.
Now I keep getting:
"E: failed to verify whole-file signature"
and: "E:signature verification failed"
This comes up every time I try to use ROM Manager to backup/flash a new ROM.
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my phone is the same way, using the app, or booting into CWM it wont let me back up. I just flash the rom anyway... whatever. Not the best method, but ive installed plenty of roms and never had a problem. It would be nice to find out why though.

yeah, the problem is it isn't flashing. It just gives me that error which eventually forces me to reboot.

rom manager doesnt support this phone yet u have to odin eb30 with clockworkmod 4.0 which supports back up and restore .

Problem in installing a custom recovery for HTC Desire HD

Hello!
In the middle of the process in Advanced Ace Hack Kit something went wrong and the cmd window closed. So now when I turn on the phone it hangs in htc white screen. And now in recovery mod I only have htc default recovery with an option: “Apply sdcard:update.zip” but I get “signature verification failed”. From the forums I understand that I need somehow to install a custom recovery to get rid of signature verification and be able to flash rom again. I tried this thread: http ://android modaco com/topic/323305-18-nov-2512-r2-clockworkmod-recovery-for-htc-desire-hd with Paul's ClockworkMod recovery but unfortunately I get this error when trying to install it(image in attachment). Any ideas how to boot up the phone? Thank you in advanced.

s0me0nelv said:
Hello!
In the middle of the process in Advanced Ace Hack Kit something went wrong and the cmd window closed. So now when I turn on the phone it hangs in htc white screen. And now in recovery mod I only have htc default recovery with an option: “Apply sdcard:update.zip” but I get “signature verification failed”. From the forums I understand that I need somehow to install a custom recovery to get rid of signature verification and be able to flash rom again. I tried this thread: http ://android modaco com/topic/323305-18-nov-2512-r2-clockworkmod-recovery-for-htc-desire-hd with Paul's ClockworkMod recovery but unfortunately I get this error when trying to install it(image in attachment). Any ideas how to boot up the phone? Thank you in advanced.
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if you can access stock recovery. Try resetting data/factory reset. It often solves the bootloops caused by software problems.

thank you for the suggestion but I have already tried every option in the stock recovery no changes so far. Does anyone know how to install custom recovery without apps from the market. And why do i get error(image in attachment) when trying Paul's ClockworkMod recovery. Are there any roms which I can flash with stock HTC recovery mode?

Problem solved. Needed to make a goldcard and then been able to flash with default RUU. Now my phone boots like it should!