[Q] Stuck on the White HTC screen (of death) - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Please close or delete this -question answered by someone elsewhere - thanks!
Can anyone help me please???
Apologies if this is a double-up post. The only related ones I can find are for HD2 & Evo 4G. The menu items they suggest to follow don't seem to match up with what I am seeing.
I have attempted to install the GingerNinja ROM today using ClockWork Mod from within a working build of 2.2 (LeeDoid). I did this in the normal way I would, performing a back up etc before proceeding.
Once the new ROM was installed (all signs point to it installing OK), I get the White Screen of Death upon reboot. I also get this screen if I use HTC bootloader to enter recovery (i.e. no Green & Black recovery loads).
I have followed the instructions of a number of threads and other sites/forums to try and 'un-softbrick' my device. Including adding a fresh update.zip to SD card, installing the Bootloader USB drivers and running Unrevoked again so I can-reflash LeeDroid, Un-rooting etc...
Everything I can find appears to lead to me needing the device to boot in order to recover/root/flash etc. Except for un-rooting which keeps telling me my battery is below 30%, even if I charge it for an hour at the wall.
Any reliable instructions or links to posts in other threads would be hugely appreciated.
Jeff

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[Q] Desire stays on HTC screen, can't boot!

Hey all,
I decided to root my HTC Desire today, via unrevoked3; everything went alright.
I later installed ClockworkMod Recovery, and flashed the ClockworkMod recovery image. I tried to make a backup from inside the ClockworkMod Recovery app (ROM Manager). The phone reset, loaded the ClockworkMod recovery image, but then failed backing up, complaining about "failed signature verification". (I should mention at this point that my phone could still boot up.)
I searched the forums a bit, and someone suggested to just select backup/restore from within recovery mode. I did so, and the backup completed.
After that, the phone reset... but now, it sits at the white HTC screen and won't go any further. Every 30 seconds or so, the screen goes black for a bit, then the white HTC screen comes back (phone restarts, I assume). Also, I should mention that I can still get into the bootloader & recovery mode (Clockwork), if that helps.
I wouldn't mind reimaging my phone via one of the Desire RUU packages, as I was planning to upgrade my rom/radio anyways...
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm rather new to the android community, so help a newbie out!
Thanks in advance.
If I were you I would first try to clear data/restore to factory settings from recovery.
Failing that I would restore the backup you made.
If that didn't work just flash a custom rom (clear data again).
If all of that still fails flash the RUU.
Hey, thanks for the info & reply.
I ended up doing a factory wipe, and flashing a custom rom (MoDaCo)
Everything seems to be working order... thanks again!
I have a question / issue somewhat related to this. I have the USCC version of the HTC Desire. I have it rooted via unrevoked forever. I created a goldcard following the guide on modaco. I placed the rom I was trying to flash over to on the root of the SD card (leeDrOiD in this case). The rom flashes over successfully, but it will never boot up. It stallsl at the white HTC screen. It will never go past this. I did a wipe before hand as well. I have hboot 0.98.0000. That's the only thing I can think of that is different from the other forums I've seen. My radio is 2.05.10.06.29. I have tried several other roms as well. I can easily flash back to a backup I made of the stock rom, but I really want to use a custom one to get to 2.2. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Q] My phone no longer boots up?

Hi guys
I'm new to the rooting and flashing scene and earlier I rooted my HTC Desire.
At first it worked fine with no problems, as I did not know how to partition my SD card I left it out, and simply installed ROM's to benefit from LeeDroids 2.3 ROM.
then I found that using Rom Manager I could partition my sd card, excited I went along with it, and on re-boot it kept showing the htc boot up screen, switching off and showing it again.
I tried booting it in recovery mode, and what happens is when I press the power button to select Recovery it goes straight to the HTC screen, and sits there for a few seconds before going to the recovery screen.
also I can recal getting errors about missing images or something?
I managed to reflash the same ROM and now when it goes to load on the LeeDroid loading screen it goes to the bit where it says something along the lines of "gaining root access..." and fails and it keep retrying
Please help someone!
thanks
NajimH said:
Hi guys
I'm new to the rooting and flashing scene and earlier I rooted my HTC Desire.
At first it worked fine with no problems, as I did not know how to partition my SD card I left it out, and simply installed ROM's to benefit from LeeDroids 2.3 ROM.
then I found that using Rom Manager I could partition my sd card, excited I went along with it, and on re-boot it kept showing the htc boot up screen, switching off and showing it again.
I tried booting it in recovery mode, and what happens is when I press the power button to select Recovery it goes straight to the HTC screen, and sits there for a few seconds before going to the recovery screen.
also I can recal getting errors about missing images or something?
I managed to reflash the same ROM and now when it goes to load on the LeeDroid loading screen it goes to the bit where it says something along the lines of "gaining root access..." and fails and it keep retrying
Please help someone!
thanks
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I think the safest way is to flash sock RUU (but not the Gingerbread, flash Froyo) and then re-root, s-off (if you need it) and format your SD. The tutorial on the development forum is comprehensive and it should be enough.
Hi
Thanks for the prompt reply.
Sorry for being such a 'noob' which tutorial are you speaking of? I kind of get lost as there is so many on the Development tutorial.
It's really frustrating now, because I can't access my phone!
NajimH said:
Hi
Thanks for the prompt reply.
Sorry for being such a 'noob' which tutorial are you speaking of? I kind of get lost as there is so many on the Development tutorial.
It's really frustrating now, because I can't access my phone!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696189
Hi thanks, after reading through this thread the only ones which apply to me, require me to be able to access my phone! I am unable to get into my phone... I am pretty sure that the actual mod is missing files. I mean the ClockWorkMod must be missing some files, such as an image or something? Is this stopping the ROM's from loading correctly? And has this made it so I have lost root access?

[Q] Unable to go from HBoot to ClockWork Recovery

Hello everyone,
First, I would like to thanks everyone who can contribute or help out with this issue that I've been dealing with all day (literally spending the past 7 hours on forums browsing and searching - wish I can say that this is an overstatement)...but in the end, I still have yet to find a solution so now I turn to you guy....and if not obvious already, I'm a super noob at all this as well as any attempt to use the adb/sdk program
Here's the problem: (I'll try to make it as simple and put the most relevant info on here)
I have a Inspire 4g/Desire HD rooted with S-off that was working fine w/ CM7 until last night...phone just started to act up and restarting by itself and ended up being stuck on the endless blue loop CM7 flashscreen
due to my carelessness and having a old back up, I was just decided to format everything format data/cache, re-flashed the cm7 rom and then recover with the old back up (all done in recovery)
however...here's where the problem starts: (i'm guessing it's likely d/t my bad back-up)
on restart, I am "stuck" at the white/htc screen - I have to hard reset (battery out) everytime
HBOOT is still functional - so I know i haven't bricked my phone yet...so...i tried going back to recovery, but this time i passes the white/htc screen, but briefly goes into the green circle with a down arrow and then permanently to the red caution triangle with the exclamation mark....so I was thinking the recovery must of crapped out on me....(factory reset via hboot was non-functional either, similar result: green circle --> resets to htc/white screen)
Thus, I tried doing an "Clean" recovery using STOCK ATT roms renamed to PD98IMG.ZIP on my SD card (found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191959&highlight=Stock+Rom)...however, it always fails to unzip the system portion (tried with various other "clean stock" roms also, same unzipping problem) - this led me to do some more forum hunting in which that I might have a faulty CWM
So it led me to the discovery of the Android Flasher utility application where I have attempted to flash a new CWM to the phone - however, android flasher doesn't "detect" my device - so I followed the instruction here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=737728 to have my phone recognized by my computer...i attempted to flash CWM again onto the phone via android flasher...but no luck, I'm still getting a "device not plugged in or driver not installed" message...
I am now exhausted and out of ideas...(not to mention angry/mad at myself)
Thanks again for all your helps/comments, I really appreciates it.
Hi mate, wrong forum, this is DESIRE, not DESIRE HD one. Been reported to move to right one, you maybe get more help there
kotag82 said:
Hi mate, wrong forum, this is DESIRE, not DESIRE HD one. Been reported to move to right one, you maybe get more help there
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Either you're mistaken or it's been moved

[Q] help newbie error

i have a wildfire s (rooted with s off)
i was getting memory problems whenever i was installing software. it was saying memory full, so i tried using methods to use ext2 partirion on sd card to use as system memory.
i could not get this to work.
so i thought i would look into putting a custom om on the phone to see if i could do it that way.
i installed clockworkmod recovery on the phone and selected backup, to back up my existing rom.
this was taking hours so i pulled battery and done a factory reset on the phone.
this worked. i then found a rom to put on there and just tried installing rom through cwm in android.
this failed and crashed my phone.
i am now stuck on the htc logo screen while loading. i have tried using the volume and power button to get into boot loader and tried going into recovery and the phone just hangs on me.
is there a way i can install the stock rom back on the device to get it working again just by putting in on the memory card. or is there any other method someone can suggest to me to help me get my phone back working.
i am not very good when it comes to these sorts of things, so if i could be pointed to and idiots proof method of doing this, it would be much appreciated.
sorry to trouble you all if this has been asked so many times.
thanks in advance
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2388800
you need a goldcard
got goldcard
hi i tried putting a goldcard in there and following the prompts. i have a xtc clip. i think the problem occurred, halfway through flashing a new rom to the device, not quite sure.
i reload the phone but it just sticks at the htc boot screen.
is there a way i can put the stock rom for the phone on the sd card and reinstall the rom from there.
i tried going through recovery and nothing happens.
any help in this would be greatly appreciated.
thanks by the way
partially there
i followed and run the rom utility in this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-wildfire-s/general/ruu-marvel-s-htc-europe-2-26-401-4-t2868450
it sounds like the phone is booting up but the screen is blank. not sure what to do now. arhhh
can anyone help. please.
cant even get into booloader. that is blank now
ruu
is there another ruu utility that can restore this. i used the one mentioned above and it partially fixed the phone.
the phone boots up but the screen is black. it was not like this before i used the ruu utility. i cant even see the bootloader, but i can use it's functions
plaease help
thanks
ok . i think i have cured the black screen issue and i hope it is now working.
i download : RUU_Marvel_S_HTC_Europe_2.26.401.3_Radio_47.23e.35.3038H_7.57.39.10M_release_261695_signed(1).exe
i got this from : http://www.androidruu.com/?developer=Marvel_MarvelC
so a big thank you to all them. and thanks to elise_s1 for trying to help me out.
i will try a sim in there now and leave well alone in future i think. lol

M8 is unable to restart, no USB debug on, S-On, please help

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I Have the following issue:
Some days ago my phone started to act weirdly, was getting error messages of all my apps that stopped working. After some searching on the internet I thought the best would be to do a factory reset using the boot menu.
I tried recovery first but this only gave the red triangle with a red exclamation mark. Booted back up but error messages kept spamming.
So then I tried to do a factory reset in the same menu, this started out well but when the loading was done the phone was stuck on the htc-logo screen. I had it there for some hours, but without any results.
I tried this process agqin, but no other result.
I tried some things listed on forums here and there but since I have not ever put the phone in developer mode I cannot get the PC to recognize my phone.
I read somewhere to flash with my SD-card but I did not found a full tutorial on that (considering I am a noob on all this).
The phone just turned 1y old and I really need one for work and other stuff so I am also wondering if there even is a way, if there is not you can give me the hard truth and I will order a new one. But would be stupid to not have tried all the options and found out later it could be fixed easily.
Anyway thanks in advance look forward to your replies
Pieter
have you unlocked your bootloader with HTCDEV and are you able to get in to fastboot?
if so you could flash TWRP and restore with a stock backup.
if not and you aren't able to get the device to be dectected by a computer, you may have to contact HTC for a repair.
I had the exact same problem as you and I tried a million different things but then this man saved my life and came to my rescue!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc...tarting-correctly-tried-t3361256#post66433650
Go to my thread and do those steps as i did and get your phone back

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