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Urgent help please ... HTC desire

Yesterday, my phone notified me of an available update (probably android 2.3). I downloaded the update, used a file explorer to move the update ZIP from download folder to the SDCard root and renamed it to update.zip. I rebooted into recovery (ClockWork) and selected 'apply update.zip from SDCard'.
It was going fine and looked like a successful update, however ... the phone kept rebooting and never started.
What happened exactly is:
- HBoot became 0.93
- The phone never starts, hangs at HTC logo (no quietly brilliant) for a few seconds then reboots.
- I think I lost the clockwork recovery (I get a picture of the phone with a red rectangle and an exclamation mark instead of the recovery screen).
My phone was rooted using unrevoked 3
Can anyone please tell me what happened to my phone? is there any fix for it or is it gone forever?

Moved to Q&A where you will hopefully get more help than in General.

Never apply OTA updates on rooted phones!
Use a Ruu to go back to stock then root again.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Premium App

I tried using a RUU, but it cannot detect the phone. (I cannot get passed the HTC logo)
Can I apply the RUU whe the phone is in HBOOT?

1st try in fastboot.. and if not detecting than.. in fastboot got to hboot and than try

THANK GOD!!!!
Finally, I got it.
I applied a RUU with the same rom number as the update and I finally got to the Android interface.

Ohh well done..

[Q] HTC Desire HD stuck in bootloop. Will not go past htc logo, total inactivity

My DHD is stuck on HTC logo. Happened after trying to flash leedroid from cyanogenmod 7. previous flashes were successful. Now when i turn it on, the only thing it can do is show htc logo screen.
- The screen wont turn off
- None of the buttons do anything when pressed (including power off)
- Cannot go to recovery, bootloader or use fastboot
- Cannot access SDCard when plugged in the phone to my laptop (recognises a device connected though!)
Going to send it back to the network provider for fixing but i'm sure it is not covered warranty.
Please help me with things I can try to somehow get it anywhere besides the blank htc screen (white background with green htc).....
Much appreciated

With the USB connected there should be a split second where you can type adb reboot recovery to get back into recovery...
You could also try removing the battery and then replacing the battery while to have your finger on the vol- key. That might get you into the boot loader...

yea, like the 'Drew442' said, take the battery out, hold vol down and press power for 1-2 secs. That will take u to bootloader. Select Recovery and that'll take you to CWM Recovery. Then you can restore a nandroid, or flash a new ROM.
I've done this ALOT, once i did it approx 10-15 times in one day (lots of experimenting )!!! dont worry,

CodeNameUnknown1 said:
yea, like the 'Drew442' said, take the battery out, hold vol down and press power for 1-2 secs. That will take u to bootloader. Select Recovery and that'll take you to CWM Recovery. Then you can restore a nandroid, or flash a new ROM.
I've done this ALOT, once i did it approx 10-15 times in one day (lots of experimenting )!!! dont worry,
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Last night I done that 10+ times after my touch screen was toty unresponsive due to flashing a mod. I suggest what the two posters suggested. I don't it will be wise sending it back.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

similar issue - but can't get to cwm
Hi,
I have a similar issue produced by similar circumstances. Mine was during switch from regular ext3 ROMs to an ext-4 CM7 based ROM. To be precise, it was during my attempted flash of an ext-4 friendly version of CWM 3.0.2.8
Now I can get to HBOOT menu by pulling the battery and booting with volume "-" , but when I select "recovery" I can NOT get to CWM recovery very worried. selecting recovery sends me to the white screen with the green HTC logo indefinitely, until battery pull.
What can I do? I have years of *nix use, but this is my first Android smartphone (well i had an HD2 for a couple weeks, and LOVED android so bought the inspire / desire hd) and I've had no problems following tutorials, and experimenting. But I am new, so maybe I'm not trying something that's obvious to all ofyou
is there ANY way to manually flash a bootable ROM to my phone? or force install CWM?
I need help.. so sad.. no phone at all now, as I got rid of my iphone 4 after loving this phone so much!

You can flash a cwm 3...... Recovery from Fastboot then load cm7 rom. As long as you can access the bootloader you're ok, the phone isn't bricked. Download a cwm recovery 3 series and put the .img file in the tools folder of your sdk then turn the phone on in fastboot bootloader mode then open a command prompt on your pc. Navigate to your tools folder then type...... fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
Then fastboot reboot-bootloader
That ought to do it.
Sent from my Motorola Startac running Atari 2600 software!

Well, if you have ENG S-OFF, then you can flash CWM recovery manually .. LINK
IF you dont have ENG S-OFF, or if it fails again, then i suggest trying to put the official 1.32 FW ROM - LINK
flashing 1.32 would be more productive in that case that flashing CWM fails, since its easily rootable (Visionary+)

thanks! will try~
@CodeNameUnknown1 - i do have s-off, but I tried running "install-recovery-windows.bat" with cwm 3.2.0.0, to no avail.
For the brief moment the batch file is running, the terminal window says something about not being able to write the file. It is so fast I can't read it properly.
@pwraggcan - I will give the sdk method a shot. didn't know about it, since I used a "one-click" method initially to root my device and proceeded with rom manager from inside...
thanks! I hope it works!!

Google search for guidance on installing sdk or search within the xda forum. There will be plenty of guides.
Sent from my Motorola Startac running Atari 2600 software!

thanks
hey guys.
in the end i loaded stock rom (1.32) and went from there. worked perfectly.
was trying to do the sdk method (seemed similar to how I rooted my asus transformer - abd etc..) but I keep getting a missing dll error. followed all kinds of guides on rectifying it, but no dice.
anyway, stock rom was faster fix in the end.. lol.
thanks again!!!

Glad it worked for you. I actually prepared a zip file to upload for you with the necessary drivers and files if you needed it but hey.... you're sorted now, so all good.
Sent from my Motorola Startac running Atari 2600 software!

i got a problem here..
my friend recently update his unroot phone to GB with OTA update.. but after the update finished,his phone restarted and got into infinite bootloop..
in this thread,someone said that it can be solved by using stock pd98img.zip
can anyone help me how to do it? because the OP at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905003 said to use the visionary+ first.. but the problem is his phone can't past the bootloop. is there any solution to manually install the stock 1.32 ROM?
thanks

Follow the downgrade guide in the development section. That will sort you out. Make a gold card then flash the pd98img.zip. That will reinstall the stock rom.
Sent from my Motorola Startac running Atari 2600 software!

pwraggcan said:
Follow the downgrade guide in the development section. That will sort you out. Make a gold card then flash the pd98img.zip. That will reinstall the stock rom.
Sent from my Motorola Startac running Atari 2600 software!
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why i must make a goldcard first? my friend's phone isn't a branded one..
and what about the version number? does it matter?
i kind of lost here..
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

Just flash a version which match yr country version or a wwe will do too. Mine also isnt a branded phone, but i also have to do a goldcard too, kinda weird, lol...

sneef said:
hey guys.
in the end i loaded stock rom (1.32) and went from there. worked perfectly.
was trying to do the sdk method (seemed similar to how I rooted my asus transformer - abd etc..) but I keep getting a missing dll error. followed all kinds of guides on rectifying it, but no dice.
anyway, stock rom was faster fix in the end.. lol.
thanks again!!!
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I think that missing dll is located in the platform-tools folder and you could copy it to the tools folder (at least in my case with a similar error). Or you could use adb from the platform-tools folder. Works for me.

sneef said:
hey guys.
in the end i loaded stock rom (1.32) and went from there. worked perfectly.
was trying to do the sdk method (seemed similar to how I rooted my asus transformer - abd etc..) but I keep getting a missing dll error. followed all kinds of guides on rectifying it, but no dice.
anyway, stock rom was faster fix in the end.. lol.
thanks again!!!
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hi ! , i'm an xda noob....
cant get past the htc screen ....
i tried the install-recovery-bat but to no avail..
dint quite get how you loaded the stock rom (1.32) ... can you please post a link to some guide.. i will be greatful.. thanks

hi,
having same problem as sneef there,
only can go to bootloader, can get into recovery
but then i flash recovery using the eng s-off guide and now i can go to recovery (cwm)
but still it cant boot to the rom, i have tried to flash 3 4 roms with no avail.. all stucked in the htc boot logo
this happened to me after flashing superwipe.zip
any solution please?
nb: i have already format and repartition my sd card

interqd said:
hi,
having same problem as sneef there,
only can go to bootloader, can get into recovery
but then i flash recovery using the eng s-off guide and now i can go to recovery (cwm)
but still it cant boot to the rom, i have tried to flash 3 4 roms with no avail.. all stucked in the htc boot logo
this happened to me after flashing superwipe.zip
any solution please?
nb: i have already format and repartition my sd card
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Have you tried the stock ROM?

sneef said:
Hi,
I have a similar issue produced by similar circumstances. Mine was during switch from regular ext3 ROMs to an ext-4 CM7 based ROM. To be precise, it was during my attempted flash of an ext-4 friendly version of CWM 3.0.2.8
Now I can get to HBOOT menu by pulling the battery and booting with volume "-" , but when I select "recovery" I can NOT get to CWM recovery very worried. selecting recovery sends me to the white screen with the green HTC logo indefinitely, until battery pull.
What can I do? I have years of *nix use, but this is my first Android smartphone (well i had an HD2 for a couple weeks, and LOVED android so bought the inspire / desire hd) and I've had no problems following tutorials, and experimenting. But I am new, so maybe I'm not trying something that's obvious to all ofyou
is there ANY way to manually flash a bootable ROM to my phone? or force install CWM?
I need help.. so sad.. no phone at all now, as I got rid of my iphone 4 after loving this phone so much!
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I have tried like you describe holding the volume down but nothing happens. I have earlier had problems with the volume down in bootloader, but it has worked in htc sense. you know what the volume down problem is about? how it could be fixed?

[Q] Can't update a 2.2 o2 HD to 2.3

Whenever I try and upgrade my rooted HD it just shows a green android and exlamation mark, is there a way to get a log to see why it failed?

nekosune said:
Whenever I try and upgrade my rooted HD it just shows a green android and exlamation mark, is there a way to get a log to see why it failed?
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Could you tell me where EXACTLY you see this?

When it restarts to do the update it just shows the Green android holding an exclamation mark, indicating an error.

Have u done all the Pre-requisites?
1) S-Off
2) Install CWM Recovery
3)Install rom ??

I don´t know that much about the logging part - maybe there is some adb command...
I flashed my O2 DHD a few months ago, maybe I can help you with the procedure. Could you provide a few more details? (E.g. are you on stock O2 ROM / is your device still branded / are you trying to update via OTA / did you try to redownload the update / ... )

[Q] Noob with a bricked Desire - please help

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere - I have looked through lots of posts for a solution but haven't found one (or at least haven't recognised anything to be a solution) so here goes...
...I rooted my HTC Desire using Unrevoked and then installed a rom called Redux 1.2. All worked fine for a few days, then suddenly my phone stopped booting (it sticks at the HTC logo). If I hold the volume down key when I power on I get the HBOOT menu, but if I select Recovery from the menu i get stuck with the HTC logo again.
Please can anybody give me an idiots guide (I am not a techie unfortunately) to how i can unbrick my phone without access to the recovery menu? Or if this has already been covered, please post a link.
My phone specs are as follows:
BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
I thought I might be able to use Unrevoked to reflash the phone but it doesn't detect when the phone is connected...
Many thanks in advance for any help!

Well sure it doesn't see your phone as it doesn't boot...
Just flash the original rom updater utility from htc(ruu) and you will be back on a working recovery+system. Then you can root again.
Had you been s-off the solution would be simple but since you aren't that's the way to go.
Download the gingerbread ruu from here: http://www.htcdev.com/process/legal_download/152

Noob with a possibly bricked htc desire
Hi Folks,
i am a noob and have just started picking up the tricks of the trade.i have an unbranded htc desire. Was using the HiAPk rom till now. Then thought of flashing the INsertcoin 1.1.2. Created EXT4 for the same and recopied all data to my sdcard. Now when i try to flash any rom it just gets caught at the boot screen. Hi dont have a recovery image. But i do have a nandroid backup. Restoring the backup is not helping as well. The phone is s-off,rooted with clockword recovery 2.5.0.7. i do have access to recovery but, whatever i do, the phone gets stuck at the boot screen. Please assist. I guess this occured when i accidentally selected/deselected hboot/fastboot option? can that be a potential cause?

Why are you trashing this guys thread and starting a new one?

Thanks so much mortenmhp - that's 95% worked in that I do now have a working phone! However, if I select Recovery from the menu on the HBOOT screen, I just get the HTC logo followed by an image of the phone and an exclamation mark in a red triangle.
I just tried rooting with unrevoked anyway - thought it might also fix the Recovery problem - but got the error message "Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?".
Please can you (or anybody else!) advise what I should do to:
a) fix Recovery
b) get Root
Since installing the HTC gingerbread rom my HBOOT is now 1.02.0001 and my radio is 5.17.05.23
Many thanks in advance!

You cannot root your phone with unrevoked. You fave to use revolutionary.
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tingle769 said:
Thanks so much mortenmhp - that's 95% worked in that I do now have a working phone! However, if I select Recovery from the menu on the HBOOT screen, I just get the HTC logo followed by an image of the phone and an exclamation mark in a red triangle.
I just tried rooting with unrevoked anyway - thought it might also fix the Recovery problem - but got the error message "Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?".
Please can you (or anybody else!) advise what I should do to:
a) fix Recovery
b) get Root
Since installing the HTC gingerbread rom my HBOOT is now 1.02.0001 and my radio is 5.17.05.23
Many thanks in advance!
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Well the "recovery problem" is not actually a problem. What you see is the stock htc recovery(since you put your phone completely back to stock). You can convince yourself by pressing vol up+power(might be vol down+power don't remember) on the screen with the exclamation mark and you should see the actual recovery menu.
This will all be fixed by rooting, which will also replace the stock recovery with a custom one(clockwork mod).
Since i linked you the latest htc release, unrevoked won't work. But Revolutionary will: http://revolutionary.io/
Just follow the simple directions.

"Bricked" word should be banned on these forums.
You have no idea what are you talking about, it's nowhere close to a brick. People open's a Q&A forums and then they see a **** ton of a "Bricked threads" just scaring them away.
/sigh

Sure but I'm not sure you filling support threads complaining will help I agree though.

[Q] Unbricking HTC Wildfire

Hello.
This is really scare and after hours and hours of searching and reading I decided to ask here - all the problems I found were similar but not exact...
So here is my situation:
I have an "HTC Wildfire", which was updated to Android 2.2.1 official update. After that I understood how wrong was I doing so. Anyway just recently I managed to root it by following tutorial. I stopped when I got root - in other places it says that Revolutionary installs CWM itself.
So when I completed the rooting and confirmed it - everything was fine. I was very happy. But I did not try to reboot again until yesterday when I figured I'll install a new system font.
It installed the font and asked to reboot. I pressed YES and everything froze. I waited for 5 minutes and decided it froze - so I pulled out the battery (had no other choice), waited a minute or two, putted it back in and powered on the phone.
It gets to the white screen with green letters saying "HTC" and that is as far as it would go - waited for half an hour - nothing.
So did some research and figured I'll install a custom ROM.
I downloaded the latest CyanogenMod 7 with Google apps, renamed to update.zip, placed in the root of SD card, booted up the HBOOT screen (volume down + power button) and selected RECOVERY. It went into another screen where there is a phone picture with red triangle and exclamation mark in the middle, at the bottom it says "E:can't open /cache/recovery/command". I googled it up and many said to just ignore it, so I did.
Then following video guide I got up to the point where I have to install from update.zip and it fails there saying:
Finding update package
Openinng update package
Verifying update package
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted
So now I have no data, no cache partition and no phone.
These are the specs of the phone reported by Revolutionary HBOOT:
BUZZ PVT SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.01.1002
MICROP-0622
TOUCH PANEL-SYN3KY_01
RADIO-3.35.20.10
Nov 17 2010, 12:08:53
Sorry but I cannot provide links to external websites for now

Relax, it isn't bricked. FAR from it.
The reason you get that error is because you are using the stock recovery. Flash a new one via PC49IMG process (recovery file (place on your SDcard, and reboot into HBoot Mode. It will detect the file, and ask to install. Simply select Yes.)
Then, reboot into recovery, wipe data, cache and system (although I don't suppose you have these anyway), then choose install zip from SDCard, choose your CM .zip, let it run, then choose the GApps .zip and let that run, then reboot.
Problem Solved.

Well that one worked. Thanks. I'll enjoy now my new toy

jacktyler1807 said:
Relax, it isn't bricked. FAR from it.
The reason you get that error is because you are using the stock recovery. Flash a new one via PC49IMG process (recovery file (place on your SDcard, and reboot into HBoot Mode. It will detect the file, and ask to install. Simply select Yes.)
Then, reboot into recovery, wipe data, cache and system (although I don't suppose you have these anyway), then choose install zip from SDCard, choose your CM .zip, let it run, then choose the GApps .zip and let that run, then reboot.
Problem Solved.
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hi, please can you reupload this file? multiupload won't work
http://www.multiupload.co.uk/74EW2VPNHL

it is attached to this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12188132&postcount=15

you just have to flash another recovery via unrevoked and then open recovery and flash cm7 and google apps from it
and your phone is temporarily bricked not permanently.

nishantsikri13 said:
you just have to flash another recovery via unrevoked and then open recovery and flash cm7 and google apps from it
and your phone is temporarily bricked not permanently.
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That is not the definition of bricked. Bricked is when the phone cannot boot, probably not into the boot loader and definitely not recovery.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using xda premium

usaff22 said:
That is not the definition of bricked. Bricked is when the phone cannot boot, probably not into the boot loader and definitely not recovery.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using xda premium
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hi
I got the problem in my htc wildifre buzz while rooting!!
Firstly I rooted Htc wildfire buzz 2.2.1 to CM7!! But i din't like the look of CM7 then I tried to revert back to my previous version of phone so i tried to install RUU_Buzz_hTC_Asia_TW_1.18.709.2_C_Radio_13.45.55.24_3.35.15.31_release_141439_signed on the phone!! However I installed it but as I powered on the phone then it starts normally till "'HTC"' appear after that i can't unlock the phone and can't enter into phone!! In other word touchscreen got frozen so i can't unlock!! If i get calls i can't even answer using any method!!
Then i bothered the google to search for solution then i get solution that i must enabled usb debugging!! I even can't unlock the phone and enter how could i enabled usb debugging!!
Then i found solution in xda developers
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1468840
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12188132&postcount=15
I read the methods and perform same things in phone as mentioned in above thread but i couldn't succeed!! Whenever I tried to update i found
Finding update package
Openinng update package
Verifying update package
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted
So whether my phone is bricked or not can anyone tell me please!! How to fix these problem!! As i entered into HBOOT mode my phone shows following info
buzz pvt ship s-off
hboot-6.01.1002
mircop-0622
touch panel-syneky_01
radio-3.35.15.31
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usaff22 said:
That is not the definition of bricked. Bricked is when the phone cannot boot, probably not into the boot loader and definitely not recovery.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using xda premium
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hi
I got the problem in my htc wildifre buzz while rooting!!
Firstly I rooted Htc wildfire buzz 2.2.1 to CM7!! But i din't like the look of CM7 then I tried to revert back to my previous version of phone so i tried to install RUU_Buzz_hTC_Asia_TW_1.18.709.2_C_Radio_13.45.55.2 4_3.35.15.31_release_141439_signed on the phone!! However I installed it but as I powered on the phone then it starts normally till "'HTC"' appear after that i can't unlock the phone and can't enter into phone!! In other word touchscreen got frozen so i can't unlock!! If i get calls i can't even answer using any method!!
Then i bothered the google to search for solution then i get solution that i must enabled usb debugging!! I even can't unlock the phone and enter how could i enabled usb debugging!!
Then i found solution in xda developers
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1468840
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...2&postcount=15
I read the methods and perform same things in phone as mentioned in above thread but i couldn't succeed!! Whenever I tried to update i found
Finding update package
Openinng update package
Verifying update package
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted
So whether my phone is bricked or not can anyone tell me please!! How to fix these problem!! As i entered into HBOOT mode my phone shows following info
buzz pvt ship s-off
hboot-6.01.1002
mircop-0622
touch panel-syneky_01
radio-3.35.15.31
---------- Post added at 05:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:45 PM ----------
usaff22 said:
That is not the definition of bricked. Bricked is when the phone cannot boot, probably not into the boot loader and definitely not recovery.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using xda premium
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hi
I got the problem in my htc wildifre buzz while rooting!!
Firstly I rooted Htc wildfire buzz 2.2.1 to CM7!! But i din't like the look of CM7 then I tried to revert back to my previous version of phone so i tried to install RUU_Buzz_hTC_Asia_TW_1.18.709.2_C_Radio_13.45.55.24_3.35.15.31_release_141439_signed on the phone!! However I installed it but as I powered on the phone then it starts normally till "'HTC"' appear after that i can't unlock the phone and can't enter into phone!! In other word touchscreen got frozen so i can't unlock!! If i get calls i can't even answer using any method!!
Then i bothered the google to search for solution then i get solution that i must enabled usb debugging!! I even can't unlock the phone and enter how could i enabled usb debugging!!
Then i found solution in xda developers
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1468840
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12188132&postcount=15
I read the methods and perform same things in phone as mentioned in above thread but i couldn't succeed!! Whenever I tried to update i found
Finding update package
Openinng update package
Verifying update package
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted
So whether my phone is bricked or not can anyone tell me please!! How to fix these problem!! As i entered into HBOOT mode my phone shows following info
buzz pvt ship s-off
hboot-6.01.1002
mircop-0622
touch panel-syneky_01
radio-3.35.15.31

Try turning off Signature Check/Verification.

nejc121 said:
Try turning off Signature Check/Verification.
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How can i do so can you tell me steps please!!

You could've atleast tried looking for it yourself.
It's under.
Install zip from sdcard ->toggle signature verification.