Hi my power and volume buttons of my HTC desire failed so i opted to install a custom rom so i could change the wake up key from power to the menu key.
I downloaded rom manager and clockworkmod and installed CM7 via the rom manager download page. after restarting and backing up files and installing it now is frozen at the CM7 loading screen. I have been told this is a bootloader loop or something like this.
My problem is I cant recover my old OS because the power button and volume buttons are still not working so I need a windows based solution to recover my phone with maybe fastboot or adb.
Any help on what rom i need and the commands i need to type would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Michael
Hi Michael,
are you still stuck at the bootanimation? What is the state of your desire? How did you root, are you S-OFF?
To use commandline based tools, you have to get into fastboot first. Fastboot commands only work, if you are S-OFF.
Some more info would be useful.
Regards,
Markus
Thanks for your quick reply. yes i can get into fastboot and hboot and fastboot devices does return my device ID. I hope that means my phone isnt beyond help. I used clockwork and unrevoked to root my phone. Just seen it is s-on can i change this with adb or fastboot
bravo pvt3 ship s-on
hboot-0.93.0001
microp-051d
Is all the info my phone is dispalying but i might be able to get more from adb or fastboot if that will help
You can't flash anything via fastboot, if you still have a stock HTC HBOOT (S-ON). Can you also get into CWM recovery? That would be my choice. CWM recovery can give your windows pc sd-card access. Put a working ROM (*.zip) to the root of your sd-card, wipe everything via recovery and start over with a new flash (install *.zip from sd-card in recovery). You are miles away from bricked... everything will be ok.
Is this your first custom rom experience?
I cant use cwm as my volume and power buttons aren't working. I have rooted it ages ago and installed a custom firmware but didnt like it as it was missing the htc specific stuff and restored it fine using the recovery option but now without the afore mentioned keys working I cant get to the recovery options. Im guessing adb or fastboot cant set my s-on to s-off then.
If you can connect via adb you might want to try "adb reboot recovery". If you have CWM recovery in place (unrevoked should have installed this) you can navigate with your trackpad and don't need vol up / down / power. But I think your phone has to be booted up to receive adb commands.
I get device not found with all adb commands.
I get various different resonses with fastboot commands Ie fastboot devices shows my device. fastboot reboot turns my phone off and on and fastboot reboot-bootloader brings me back to the screen im on at the minute.
My track pad is not moving anything on my phone what is weird about my phone is my volume buttons were working for volume control (before i flashed it) but they weren't turning the pages of my kindle books any more. that happened after my power button problem arrived.
Your trackpad would work in recovery, but your not able to get there. You're stuck at the bootloader options, where you have to navigate with vol up / down / power button. What still will work is flashing of a stock HTC ROM via RUU. You can get signed HTC RUUs here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667. This will wipe your phone and revert it back to stock (no root, no custom recovery).
This sounds promising. Question 1 for me and others that may follow this thread in the future. What is RUU and if i download a vodaphone rom will it be locked to vodaphone as my phone was a vodaphone when i got it but it was unlocked atthe time and I have it on O2 now
mickyjohnston39 said:
This sounds promising. Question 1 for me and others that may follow this thread in the future. What is RUU and if i download a vodaphone rom will it be locked to vodaphone as my phone was a vodaphone when i got it but it was unlocked atthe time and I have it on O2 now
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RUU = ROM Update Utility
It has integrated flash tools and will reset everything to factory defaults. If you want to send your phone in to service, you should flash a ROM which originally came with your phone (Vodafone branded??). Branded ROMs have nothing to do with locking your phone to a carrier (SIM-lock). They are just customized by different carriers with more or less modifications (i.e. preinstalled apps).
Hope you have some luck with RUU, I have to sign off for today.
im downloading the ruu bravo vodaphone uk one its an exe so i figure i put my phone in fastboot mode and run the exe. is that right
Ok thanks for your help markus i will post if this works so others can see its a working method if they have a similar problem
How did you get on? Is your desire up and running?
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App
just about to run the app now domey. I have my phone in fastboot manu with usb plugged in. wish me luck lol
That's how it should work. I hope it will work for you. You can redo rooting / customizing, once you have a booting device
Have a look at LeeDrOiD 2.3d then (leedroid.com). It's based on HTC Sense ROMs, very stable and you can push your trackpad to wake up the phone.
I got an error with vodaphone one so trying a newer one now as vodaphone was 1.4 or something the next one im trying is 2.29
Did you get some useful error messages?
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Premium App
none of the roms from that site update my phone. they all say insufficient version
131 on my last try
Related
Hello All,
my desire hd recently decided to break down (the volume rocker wont work, wifi and bluetooth).. althought its still under warranty and i would like to restore it back to normal before i bring it back to vodafone..
however since the volume rocker wont work, how can i restore back to stock rom? or am i really sc**wed? i believe i am, unless proven wrong?
thank you in advance
You don't really need the volume rocker to get back to stock. Here's some short instructions from this thread. Remember to use a branded RUU if your phone was branded when you got it.
jkoljo said:
To go back to S-ON(/STOCK):
Flash stock ROM (RUU)
Temproot using Visionary
Use my tool, do Stock CID and S-ON (enter brand CID if you had a branded device, see second post)
Enjoy your factory-state phone
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sorry to disturb you again
but to restore the stock rom, i need to get into bootloader,
i cant select stuff from the boot loader as the volume rocker doesnt work?
is there a way i can get around this?
thanks
If I remember correctly there's no need to get to the bootloader. You run the RUU on the computer with the phone connected to HTC Sync.
Sent from my RCMix powered pocketsized supercomputer using XDA App
That is true. Another option is to connect your device to a PC, get my radio s-off tool (for example), go to it's folder in command line and type command "adb.exe reboot bootloader".
If all you want is to get into recovery, you can use Rom Manager to boot you into recovery.
OK I downloaded the Gingerbread RUU Update for the Desire and ran it, the update went fine and said on the screen it had completed correctly.
BUT!! Now when I turn the phone on I sometimes get to the Lockscreen if I am lucky and the phone just reboots or other times the phone reboots after the HTC splash screen.
I have tried running the update again and even re-downloading the update but it makes no difference. I have also gone into the HTC Recovery and selected "Clear Storage" but does not help
Also tried booting without Memory Card or Sim Card but no dice
Anyone know what else I can try?
Details about the phone:
- Bravo PVT3 SHIP S-ON
- HBOOT 1.02.0001
- RADIO 5.17.05.23
Any possible solutions would be great
It's SIM-free version?
Terepin said:
It's SIM-free version?
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O2-UK Version, has all the o2 branding etc.
There you go. Unfortunately I can't help you with that. Wait for someone more skilled in this area.
Branded O2 phone? Possible.
Run Revolutionary.io = Root/S-OFF
Then flash 2.2 Official or if you want, then flash a Custom Rom with 2.3.
davebugyi said:
Branded O2 phone? Possible.
Run Revolutionary.io = Root/S-OFF
Then flash 2.2 Official or if you want, then flash a Custom Rom with 2.3.
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Will revolutionary connect to phone if it wont boot into Android?
Will it work from Bootloader / Fastboot?
Yes, it will. Read revolutionary documentary page.
MatDrOiD said:
Yes, it will. Read revolutionary documentary page.
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Right I maybe being stupid but can't find anything on the Revolutionary Wiki Page about using it in Recovery Mod?
Also I have a working desire which revolutionary detects when android is loaded but the desire that has the failed Gingerbread update (and bootloops) does not get detected in Bootloader or Fastboot mode.
Which stage should revolutionary detect the phone?
It should in Fastboot.
Terepin said:
It should in Fastboot.
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Tried my working and non-working desire but Revolutionary does not detect the phones when they are in fastboot mode.
The working Desire gets detected when Android has booted up and "USB Debugging" is enabled.
Any other ideas?
you might need htc's usb drivers for the pc to detect the phone
kokocabana said:
you might need htc's usb drivers for the pc to detect the phone
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My working Desire gets detected as I have already said, but only when Android is booted.
This is a problem for the phone that bootloops and I am trying to fix as it doesn't make it into Android
Also none of the guides say about using Revolutionary from within Fastboot Mode. Is it defiantly possible?
Right made a little progress!
Managed to run Revolutionary by booting in Safe Mode (Holding Menu while booting)
Next problem is no matter what ROM I try and use they just reboot while booting
- Tried the Stock 2.2 ROM from Modaco but it just reboots.
- Then Updated Radio to latest 5.17.05.23.
- Switched to AlphaRev CM7 r2 HBOOT.
- Tried installing the latest CM7 but that just reboots on boot too.
Have been Wiping Data / Cache and Factory Resetting before installing each ROM but cannot get one to boot correctly.
Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?
That-Guy said:
Will revolutionary connect to phone if it wont boot into Android?
Will it work from Bootloader / Fastboot?
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Revolutionary requires that ur phone boot correctly in order to s-off
Sent from my HTC Desire
Just want to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone for the ideas, the phone is now working correctly.
This was the process I used to get the phone working again after failed RUU Update (phone was bootlooping and had no Recovery with S-ON)
- Booted into Safe Mode (holding Menu Button while booting)
- Ran Revolutionary to gain S-OFF
- Flashed AlphaRev Bravo CM7 r2 using Fastboot
- Flashed Latest ClockworkMod using Fastboot
- Booted into Clockwork and Wiped Data and Cache
- Still in Clockwork Formatted all Partitions (System, Data, Cache, Boot etc..)
- Downloaded latest CyanogenMod copied to SD Card and Installed via Clockwork
Phone is now fully functional so Thanks Everyone
After reading Bortak's guide, I was still unable to fix this bootloop as I don't have a goldcard, and it seems like you need a functional Desire to create one.
The situation is:
> Desire can boot into Fastboot (Power button + back button), but attempting to enter recovery causes a boot loop (Carrier splash screen)
> Attempting to enter recovery directly (Power button + volume down) causes a boot loop
> I lost the MicroSD with this phones' recovery on it, all I have is a spare blank MicroSD
I'm wondering, is it possible to flash a new recovery off the SD card, through fastboot?
Or, can I do this through a USB connection somehow? (I currently have the latest HTC Sync installed)
Thanks for any help!
Edit: My Desire is S-ON (I swear it used to be S-OFF, but who can remember, I haven't picked this phone up for ages) and HBOOT is 0.75.0000
S-on users cant flash a custom recovery through fastboot. It can be done only via the unrevoked method. What exactly did you do to cause this? Dont you have your own RUU?
I've got similar problem, but i don't have root.
I made S-OFF with revolutionary and rovolutionary couldn't flash clockworkmod. Previously, I didn't know that I have to do root... so i wanted to do s-on to do this root. I downgraded phone to hboot 0.80 as they said on alpharev website. But now, I can't get out from fastboot. Every time, when i'm robooting, it goes to fastboot.
Please, could You help me?
Flash 2.3.3 RUU via fastboot and use revolutionary again.
Which one from those
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667
is 2.3.3?
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MatDrOiD said:
Flash 2.3.3 RUU via fastboot and use revolutionary again.
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OK, I found it on official htc site, or sth, and it works!! Thank you very much!
Do not forget to use thanks-button.
Droidzone said:
S-on users cant flash a custom recovery through fastboot. It can be done only via the unrevoked method. What exactly did you do to cause this? Dont you have your own RUU?
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When I got my Desire HD, I flashed Oxygen rom on this Desire and gave it to a friend. I have no idea how it got in its current state. I'm downloading the latest official RUU now.
If someone could provide some instructions on how to flash the RUU with the phone in it's current state that would be awesome
As long as you can get into fastboot not all is lost, there will be a way of flashing it was a stock rom
chongo_au said:
When I got my Desire HD, I flashed Oxygen rom on this Desire and gave it to a friend. I have no idea how it got in its current state. I'm downloading the latest official RUU now.
If someone could provide some instructions on how to flash the RUU with the phone in it's current state that would be awesome
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Boot phone into fastboot mode, connect phone to computer and start the downloaded RUU.exe on your computer.
The RUU recognized the phone, but it refused to update due to wrong bootloader version. Looks like my RUU was not the right one, back to searching again.
If you have GSM and not a hboot with nummber 6.93.1002, the 2.3.3 RUU should work for you:
http://www.htcdev.com/process/legal_download/152
Ok I found the correct RUU (Telstra) and was able to flash everything except the radio, which failed. Attempted to retry twice but same result.
Now I have the grey HTC logo with the exclamation triangles in the corners.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Sorry mate, but radio brick is unfixable (as far as I know).
MatDrOiD said:
If you have GSM and not a hboot with nummber 6.93.1002, the 2.3.3 RUU should work for you:
http://www.htcdev.com/process/legal_download/152
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Thanks, that RUU flashed successfully! It said rom update complete and so on. At least now I'm making progress.
However, the rom doesn't load and I get a bootloop. I've now got the normal white HTC splashscreen appearing, then the screen flashes black, the phone vibrates 5 or 6 times, and I'm back to the splashscreen again.
I'm able to boot into bootloader (HBOOT 1.02.001 apparently) but not recovery.
I'm not familiar with adb and all that, all I can do is follow instructions, but in short, without being able to load a rom to tick the box for usb debugging, is there any way to S-OFF and or flash CWM if I can get the computer to recognise the phone (while its sitting in bootloader or fastboot mode) with the HTC Sync USB drivers or equivalent?
I'm going to say some probably unrelated words and phrases that I've read in the last days forum trawling, maybe it will jog someones memory:
> Fastboot commands
> Revolutionary hboot drivers
> USB brick
I know its probably time to lay the old Desire to rest, but I'd love to squeeze some more use out of it, I loved that phone.
Greatly appreciate the help
You did not get any errors when flashing RUU? Okay, cool. Check if you still have an ext-partition on your SD card. Maybe this let the romboot loop.
With revolutionary you will be able to get S-OFF and root in two simple steps:
http://revolutionary.io
But read the documentary site very carefully before doing anything!
Hi i'm in the same situation (desire branded how boot loop update with RUU 2.3.3 and boot loop again)
had you fixed your desire ?
Xims said:
Hi i'm in the same situation (desire branded how boot loop update with RUU 2.3.3 and boot loop again)
had you fixed your desire ?
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Please read the thread. The solution is in there!
ok i had try revolutionary but it never find the device ( as on hboot or fastboot)
i have the htc fastboot driver so i don't see how i can user revolutionary
If you use Android Flasher while connected to the PC you can flash a recovery in fastboot mode. Either the latest Clockwork or 4EXT Recovery will make you able to flash a Desire(d) rom again
Hi to use android flasher i had to be S-off or woth the RUU of 2.3.3 i'm back S-on and i haven't find a way to go S-off from fastboot or hboot ...
I'm hoping there are some wizardry folk on here who can help with this dilemma.
My wife has an HTC Desire on orange running 2.2
Today the phone rebooted itself and stuck at the green HTC logo.
She took the battery out and restarted the phone.
Now the phone is stuck at the HBOOT screen.
The volume keys and power button do not work so no selection can be made.
I rooted the phone a while back and made a backup of the OS using clockworkmod recovery.
I never got round to putting a custom ROM on it. In HBOOT it still shows as S-ON
Is there anyway to recover this phone or is it officially dead?
All help on this matter would be much appreciated.
Not sure if it can help at this status, but have you tried to apply unrevoked or alpharev?
http://unrevoked.com/recovery/
http://alpharev.nl/
You are SON.
You can get to fastboot mode only if you have gone SOFF.
For getting SOFF you need to run alpharev or revolutionary.
Revolutionary and alphrev require your desire to be up and running.
I do not see any way out of this :-(
Why, you should still be able to go to fastboot mode with back+power. You just won't be able to flash from there ore use any extended commands.
If you flashed a good ROM and your stuck in hboot, use fastboot and use the following command 'fastboot oem boot' that will force your phone to boot.
lmnope1 said:
If you flashed a good ROM and your stuck in hboot, use fastboot and use the following command 'fastboot oem boot' that will force your phone to boot.
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theres many different ways to mess up ur phone and get stuck in bootloader and that command will not solve the problem, if that was the case then bortak's guide would be 1/4 the size that it is
Sent from my HTC Desire
Thanks JMMCLUE for your assistance.
I tried the Goldcard setup using my phone to create it but it still didn't work.
In the end the wife called Orange who took it away and replaced it with a Wildfire S.
Hi all -
The info I've found here on out on web is a little scattered, I was hoping someone might be able to help me confirm the steps to return this phone to stock OEM so I can ship it back warranty replacement....I already have a new phone in my possession from Verizon. Old phone works fine, just doesn't connect to Verizon's 4G LTE Rage Extender I got, so they decided to replace phone.
What I have:
Obv an HTC One M9 that I got nearly 1 1/2 to 2 years ago.
"The clip" which I used to S-Off.
Unlocked bootloader (which I don't remember how I did that).
Firmware 3.37.605.15.
A ROM, which I'm oddly not seeing in the XDA developer section for this phone anymore, but I still have the zip file if that matters - 3/37.605.15_HIMA_WL_M60_SENSE70_VZW_MRDEODEX_DEBLOATED.zip. This ROM is (obviously) rooted. Perhaps it was retired.
TWRP 3.0.2-0.
When powered off, and I hold Vol Up and Power, I get to hTC FTM mode, which offers me menu items of:
reboot
reboot bootloader
simlock tool
device info tool
If I select reboot bootloader, it goes to another screen where up top is says Software Status Official, UNLOCKED, and S-OFF with the following menu:
REBOOT
REBOOT TO BOOTLOADER
BOOT TO DOWNLOAD MODE
BOOT TO RECOVERY MODE
DDR TEST
POWER DOWN
I found a couple links with guides on loading phone back to stock:
https://boycracked.com/2016/10/31/official-htc-one-m9-usa-verizon-stock-rom/
and......
http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-restore-verizon-htc-one-m9-to-stock-using-ruu/
With the understanding that I'm unclear about all the needed steps, I attempted to list what I think *may* be the steps to return this puppy to full stock/OEM:
Install HTC Sync or HTC USB Drivers
Ensure USB Debugging is enabled
Connect device to PC via USB
Get to command prompt with adb and run 'ADB devices' to make sure the device is seen
Reboot phone to bootloader. The article above says Vol Down + Power, but I thought I got to it via Vol Up + Power???? Vol Down + Power seems to get me to Download mode (which I think is OK as well from what I recall)
....or alternatively run adb reboot bootloader
One article above says go to fastboot, but I see no menus that offer me fastboot? Can I just do this part in download mode?
Run 'fastboot devices' from cmd prompt to ensure everything is working
Run 'fastboot flash zip 0PJAIMG.zip' (the RUU file is linked in the article
Now as far as I can gather, that just gets me stock, non rooted stock ROM, right?
Don't I still need to kill off TWRP?
This link shows a stock recovery, would I then flash this to get rid of TWRP?:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-one-m9/development/stock-5-1-resources-2-6-605-15-t3183752
*EDIT#3"* - In the boycracked link I posted above, is just has me downloading adb and HTC fast boot, the loading a zip file, which it doesn't specify, but I'm guessing would be the ODEX 3.37.605.15 firmware linked further below. This contains firmware AND stock ROM I assume since it's like 2.5 GB? Can I assume I still need to worry about flashing stock recovery? Do I need to do anything with the Boot Img? These are the parts I'm getting confused on.
After handling recovery, the only thing I'm missing is locking getting the bootloader from unlocked to locked (how do I do this??), and then I need to use the "clip" to S-ON the device?
*EDIT*: It looks like sunshine app supports Vzn M9 now, so guess I don't have to use my clip anymore?
*EDIT#2*: Didn't realize the Sunshine app cost $25....may as well try and use the clip I guess.
Am I even in the ballpark?? ANY advice or help is so very much appreciated.....
I don't want to brick my mostly working phone and then hafta consider options for buying a now.
Thank you a ton in advance....
Crackface
It's been a while since I did it, and my M9 doesn't boot anymore (I'm assuming it's a hardware defect) otherwise I'd double check. There's a guide here that goes over putting your phone back into s-on (don't remember which one off the top of my head, just do a Google search for htc one m9 s-on. Actually I remember there being a guide on this site that walks through going back to stock. So you do s-on, and re-lock the bootloader (you need to be root to do that the way I saw, since it's done manually by writing blocks with dd). After that you can reflash the stock firmware, recovery partition and the rom (all of which were available in a single RUU in the guide I mentioned earlier). If I remembered everything off the top of my head I'd give more clear instructions, but this should at least set you in the right direction.
I was finally successful at returning to stock last night. If it helps anyone else, I'd like to confirm what I did. I apologize in advance for some of the spotty and generic information my intent with this post is to just confirm the sequence of events, not list every single command (in case I don't have them right and misinformation), as there's plenty of articles you gather for the specifics.
Install HTC drivers on PC (Mine were already installed).
Download a copy of htc_boot and adb onto PC (I found both on this link https://boycracked.com/2016/10/31/official-htc-one-m9-usa-verizon-stock-rom/).
Grab Stock Boot-Img and Stock Recovery from above link.
Use HTC_Fastboot to flast Boot-Img while phone is in download mode.
Use HTC_Fastboot to flash Stock Recovery while phone is in download mode.
Use XTC 2 Clip to lock bootloader (see XTC 2 Clip instructions pdf).
Use XTC 2 Clip to s-on.
At this point if you boot phone with Vol Down + Power and no sdcard in it you should boot to Download mode, which should show in red text at top that you're locked and s-on.
I got 3.37.605.13 Official Signed RUU (https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=65358513&postcount=4), put on sdcard, renamed to 0PJAIMG.zip, went to stock recovery, and flashed that.
I booted ok, but not done yet because I still had stuff left on internal SD card plus SU app was still there.
Used ES File Explorer to remove stuff off internal sd card (be sure to remove from recycle bin too).
Did factory reset on phone.
Done
That finally got me a 100% stock ROM (no SU), locked, s-on, stock recovery, and I'll be honest I'm not sure what the Boot-Img was for. But I compared everything side by side to new phone and they match 100%.
I welcome any corrections to anything I may have stated wrong, simply trying to save the next person 15-20 hours or so I spent trial and erroring my way through the process.
Best of luck!