[Q] failed update to froyo, now my desire is bricked. help PLEASE - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So US cellular just got the update for 2.2 and i tried to do it on my own. i kept getting error 155 at the very beginning and i would have to recover my phone. after doing that about 3 times i hard reset my phone and took out the memory card. when i tried to update it again it got a little bit farther, but i got the same error, and when i recovered it after that, it just got stuck at the HTC screen when i first turned it on. after trying to restart it with or without my sd card in nothing made a difference, so i went to the boot menu and it would load and say that there was no image. i think when i updated it and recovered it somehow deleted 2.1 and now i have nothing, so if someone can give me a link to a flash of 2.1, i would be very grateful. if you dont think that's the problem, then give me some other ideas.

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[Q] Froyo update, STUCK, HELP! :( (OTA)

I have an un-branded orange HTC Desire which is factory unlocked! I live in India, I got the OTA (froyo) a few days back, When installing phone restarts and then starts looping on its own with white htc screen and a percentage bar, this keeps happening and restarts on its own! No signal can be found! Im puzzled and its very frustrating that i couldnt get it worked after 2 attempts, I flashed back to the generic 2.1 HTC rom, but I would really like froyo on my phone!
I dint use a goldcard when downloading and installing the OTA, do i need to keep the goldcard in when installing? and also if someone can post or link me to the manual installation, I'd be grateful!
And has anyone come across and workaround for the above issue? I found that a lot of people have this issue!
Any answers on this would be majorly appreciated, thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696189
Everything you need to know
I still dont follow! I mean, isnt that a guide to rooting your phone? Im confused as to what exactly to do! :S
(apologies for the newbness)
Basically you need to flash it and start again, you should be able to get a ROM working to start with then after that a good idea is to try rooting it and flashing to a Cooked Froyo ROM from here
Where did your phone originate from, since in india it is not out yet. Because if you got it from an asian country you have to insert a goldcard when updating. See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741836
Thanks for all the help! finally managed to get it working!
fter the OTA Failed and I got the 1-100% count with errors and no radio. I did the following to fix:
*use at your own risk*
I think I already had the WWE_1.21.405.2 with 4.06 radio
so did not bother with the RUU a second time, just downloaded the manual 2.2 rom
renamed as update.zip copied onto gold card
put gold card in phone
rebooted holding back
selected bootloader then recovery
pressued up and power to get menu
selected Load update.zip
at end of update (when prompted) rebooted from menu.
waited while green update screen showed.
phone rebooted itself
came back up with no signal upon unlock it did the 1-100% count took a while but no errors this time.
eventually it displayed a sucsessful update message and all is hunky dory.
Big thanks - had the same issue myself.
Suspected I needed the goldcard in but didn't know if writing the update.zip file to SD card would overwrite the goldcard bit and leave the SD card corrupted, though.
You live and learn, I suppose.

[Q] 5 vibrate no boot inc

Ok so it has happened to me finally.
I was installing a rom. It was unsuccessful so i restored my last backup.
It restored and upon reboot i got 5 vibrates and black screen.
i can get to hboot and hboot usb
hboot ver 92
radio 78
I have tried a couple pb31img. they install all with ok and then 5 vibrate no boot.
I can get to recovery and flash update.zip. 5 vibrates no boot.
I have a replacement on the way.
But i really want to fix it! any ideas?
sorry wrong place mods please move to q&a
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Try reformatting your memory card to FAT32 and then put the PB31IMG.zip to the root and try again.
reformat suggestion
did that. only two files on card are pb31img and update.zip. freshly formatted fat32
This is in the wrong section.
But to answer your question, RUU.
Also, root voids warranty. So if they happen to look into it and see that your device is rooted, you'll likely get charged the $100 insurance deductable. Unless you don't have the insurance.. then you'll end up paying the full $549 or whatever it is.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
un-root and get a refurb. happened twice to me allready/
stoffelck said:
Ok so it has happened to me finally.
I was installing a rom. It was unsuccessful so i restored my last backup.
It restored and upon reboot i got 5 vibrates and black screen.
i can get to hboot and hboot usb
hboot ver 92
radio 78
I have tried a couple pb31img. they install all with ok and then 5 vibrate no boot.
I can get to recovery and flash update.zip. 5 vibrates no boot.
I have a replacement on the way.
But i really want to fix it! any ideas?
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I've had this happen before. I'm not sure why the nandroid restore would fail, but it may have been because of a near-full SD card. I was stuck at hboot for a while, but couldn't get into recovery. I tried to enter recovery like 30 times and it worked once so I wiped and installed my rom.
i can get into recovery but it is the stock recovery. can only flash update.zip. if i had a rom could i rename it update.zip?
stoffelck said:
i can get into recovery but it is the stock recovery. can only flash update.zip. if i had a rom could i rename it update.zip?
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no, root is needed for any rom other than HTC
also, then phone will boot if you have it plugged in. get a refurb, ask for over night delivery, they never say no.
stoffelck said:
Ok so it has happened to me finally.
I was installing a rom. It was unsuccessful so i restored my last backup.
It restored and upon reboot i got 5 vibrates and black screen.
i can get to hboot and hboot usb
hboot ver 92
radio 78
I have tried a couple pb31img. they install all with ok and then 5 vibrate no boot.
I can get to recovery and flash update.zip. 5 vibrates no boot.
I have a replacement on the way.
But i really want to fix it! any ideas?
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I have the same trouble. This happened Monday afternoon after backing up via clockworkmod, full wipe, and flashing cm_inc_full-0.zip. 5 buzzes and green LED flash at boot after the white splash screen.
Previously, I had S-OFF, but after the buzzing, hboot shows S-ON.
I can get the phone to boot completely if I have it connected to my computer, but as soon as I disconnect the cable, the display blacks out, 5 buzzes and green LED flash.
I have flashed the latest Verizon stock PB31IMG (build-3.26.605.1-release-152016-baseband-2.15.00.07.28-hboot-0.92.0000_PB31IMG.zip) and it is successful, but the phone still behaves the same. Trying to flash older stock Verizon firmware does not work, because hboot knows it is older, and refuses to install.
I cannot get adb to recognize the phone, no matter what I do, but fastboot sees the phone at hboot. RUU also does not work, it never sees the phone. Unrevoked starts to run, but quickly stops with a communication error.
From what I have read on this forum and others, this issue is happening quite frequently in the last few days.
I tried the "old school" method for rooting, by running a adb shell loop and trying the eject sd card method. That did not work.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to try?
Alpha Maven said:
I have the same trouble. This happened Monday afternoon after backing up via clockworkmod, full wipe, and flashing cm_inc_full-0.zip. 5 buzzes and green LED flash at boot after the white splash screen.
Previously, I had S-OFF, but after the buzzing, hboot shows S-ON.
I can get the phone to boot completely if I have it connected to my computer, but as soon as I disconnect the cable, the display blacks out, 5 buzzes and green LED flash.
I have flashed the latest Verizon stock PB31IMG (build-3.26.605.1-release-152016-baseband-2.15.00.07.28-hboot-0.92.0000_PB31IMG.zip) and it is successful, but the phone still behaves the same. Trying to flash older stock Verizon firmware does not work, because hboot knows it is older, and refuses to install.
I cannot get adb to recognize the phone, no matter what I do, but fastboot sees the phone at hboot. RUU also does not work, it never sees the phone. Unrevoked starts to run, but quickly stops with a communication error.
From what I have read on this forum and others, this issue is happening quite frequently in the last few days.
I tried the "old school" method for rooting, by running a adb shell loop and trying the eject sd card method. That did not work.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to try?
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yea, un-root, s-on and get a refurb.
It might be helpful to know which ROM(s) were being flashed when this happened, to see if there is any consistency.
i had been flashing the #XX-inc-cm7src-syko-eng packages before I flashed cm_inc_full-0.zip
I am having this same problem, to the letter. I had been running Skyraider and wanted to try MIUI. However, I was only preparing to flash a new rom. I hadn't even put the rom on the sd card yet. It was giving me issues getting into clockwork and when I finally managed to get in, it wouldn't backup. I reformatted my sd card and tried again; it said it succeeded doing the nandroid backup and when I rebooted it started doing the 5 vibration no boot thing. I never actually even loaded a rom, all I did was a nandroid backup, which I can't find on my sd card now so it apparently failed despite the message.
I messed with this for a day and managed to get the stock november OTA loaded with s-on via timely connection and disconnection to my pc, so I shouldn't have a warranty issue. I took it into the verizon store and they overnight shipped me a refurb. Unfortunately, it was evening when I went in so it could apparently take until monday
In the meantime, I can still use it if I turn it on while connected to my pc and disconnect as soon as I see the "quietly brilliant" screen. If you wait until it boots all the way in it will usually shut down vibrating when you disconnect it. Hope that helps someone that just needs the phone to work for a bit. Would love to know if someone finds out what is happening and if there is a way to fix it.
Don't know if this helps but I had been having issues with my phone frequently telling me the sd card was mounted read only leading into this, but it would usually fix itself if I tapped the icon that popped up. I also had lost the ability to unmount the sd card prior to this, and the phone would no longer work as a mass storage device when connected to the pc. I thought it was a problem with Skyraider but now I'm not so sure. Don't know if others are also experiencing this, but even now that I got it running on stock and into the os the 8gb internal phone storage and my sd card no longer register.
This basing on the info I have gather from people smarter then myself...
5 vibs = qualcomm download mode. From what i have been able to gather a simple batt pull should resolve the issue.
The way you get into this download mode is by pressing the vol+/- at the same time. Kinda explains the reason it is becoming so frequent.
I have no proof to back this up but give it shot.
Okay, so do you have CWM at this point?
CWM?
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[Q] Question about RUU

Hi All,
I have a VZW Htc One M8, and I have been playing with it when have gotten the chance recently. I have installed/flashed an RUU before to correct an issue I ran into (trying to take an OTA) and everything went smoothly. As I said I took the OTA, but kept the RUU from the previous time I used it (first mistake). I am s off so I am hoping that is going to save me here.... This brings me to my problem.
I was trying to flash Viper Rom, but at the end of the setup I kept getting a popup saying setup has stopped, and I was unable to see a homescreen, but the phone was working. I decided to revert back to stock using the old RUU (be gentle) and it loaded and I hit yes to begin. About 10 second in it stopped and wanted me to reboot... I was in the middle of doing something else when it happened so I rebooted back to the bootloader and my OS line was in red. I then went back to recovery and restored my very recently created backup of my stock rom, which worked. I then went back to the boot loader to look at what was in red more closely and it is now blank. It says OS but then nothing after.
I have since gotten the new RUU that I should have used, but it seem to hang on the last part of the loading (put in on my external sd card) and my phone works... but the boot take forever and the VZW logo doesn't come up anymore. It almost seem like the phone boots fine but the HTC ONE logo stays until the phone screen turns off and when I hit the power button to turn the screen back on the phone is booted. My question is... should I 1) try the old RUU again and then take the ota since I am s off I have seen that technically it should work. 2) let the phone sit at the loading of the newer RUU and see what happens (I haven't tried seeing if the old RUU will load yet) or 3) count my blessings and deal with a non completely broken phone?
I realize I made a few errors while doing this, but I am hoping that s off will allow me to correct the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Issue should be resolved
Sorry to everyone that read this... I didn't make it all the way through the thread where I found the new RUU, and the thread tells how to resolve the problem with not loading all the way. I am going to try the fix after work.
Edit 1: problem resolved... I am an idiot

[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

Deze All
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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