I have messed up and locked myself out of my phone whilst trying to root it. I was following the guide how-to-root-the-htc-desire-unrevoked-method/ on the theunlockr, I got to the final stage to gain S off and now when my phone boots it loads the O2 screen and then locks up.
I can open up the bootloader no problem and I have tried a factory reset but no luck.
I am rather new to this and I have searched the forums but cannot find any threads helping the same situation. Any ideas are more than welcome.
Thanks in advance
Simonon said:
I have messed up and locked myself out of my phone whilst trying to root it. I was following the guide how-to-root-the-htc-desire-unrevoked-method/ on the theunlockr, I got to the final stage to gain S off and now when my phone boots it loads the O2 screen and then locks up.
I can open up the bootloader no problem and I have tried a factory reset but no luck.
I am rather new to this and I have searched the forums but cannot find any threads helping the same situation. Any ideas are more than welcome.
Thanks in advance
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You can't S-Off a Desire using unrEVOked?
Can you get into HBOOT? If so, try flashing a stock RUU.
Hope this helps?
boot into recovery and flash a rom of your choice.
If you can boot into recovery you're not bricked.
Try clearing your cache and rebooting.
Thanks everyone, crisis over, I over paniced a little when it went wrong. I have just successfully installed oxygen V2.0.3 and so far so good.
Hopefully everything will be smooth sailing from now on.
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Hi guys,
So i researched a few days before trying to root, install a custom rom (LeeDroid) and flash a custom rom
I managed to do it yesterday and everything was working fine. It is a really great rom.
But today I powered down my DHD and I can't boot anymore. The phone keeps rebooting (it vibrates one time, i see the HTC green logo, then a black screen, vibrates and so on...). The only way to stop this process is to hold the vol- key wich takes me to bootloader (so it appears the phone is continuosly powering off and on)
I already tried and bootloader is working fine, but when a I try any option that requires a reboot, the phone starts this process of power up and down.
Does anyone have any idea of whats happening?
Thanks guys!
Did you perm root your phone?
You could try reinstalling the stock rom too.
Go to bootloader, select recovery, do a full wipe and reflash your ROM. If you get a bootloop when you enter recovery, get stock RUU from XDA and use that.
Yeah I permrooted it.
But, how can I install a new rom without recovery?
I thought that you already flashed LeeDroid, and if you did, you have ClockworkMod recovery. But if that is not the case, use a RUU.
jkoljo said:
Go to bootloader, select recovery, do a full wipe and reflash your ROM. If you get a bootloop when you enter recovery, get stock RUU from XDA and use that.
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Sorry man... I overlooked this post...
To better describe what I did:
-Radio s-off
Eng S-off
Instaled Leedroid (followed every recomendation he did in the post)
Flashed the radio he suggested
Got the phone working, tested a little bit, charged and then I powered off
When powered on again I got this bootloop
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So, do you still recomend RUU?
Can I find any guide here on XDA?
Thanks!
edit:Forgot to mention that I get the bootloop even if I choose recovery on bootloader
edit2:
So after I came home I found de RUU post.
So here are some questions:
Mosts of the RUUs are in .exe extension, so I think that's the ones I should be looking for.
Can I download any version?
I'm currently downloading de WWE Asia version since my phone came from India. Only English (india) was available from stock, but I will not try to do anything before I'm sure of what to do.
When I plug the usb cable the bootloader changes to USB bootloader (or something like that). From the little that I found aboutt RUU I should run with the phone on that condition. Is that correct?
Thanks again, and sorry for the constant editing
Really sorry for double posting, but I need to update.
I managed to install the RUU. The program worked fine and I got the confirmation of installed rom, but when the phone rebooted it got stucked on the bootloop again.
Can this be a hardware problem? Is there anything else that I can do having access only to bootloader?
Okay, it is a hardware problem. The RUU wipes everything clean and installs a new system, and as it does not seem to help, the problem is definitely in hardware side.
After I was almost giving up I tried a different version of the RUU and the phone booted!
I already rebooted it a few times and it seems ok.
Thanks for the help jkoljo!
Nice job, which RUU did you use?
I think that there was a bad block in your phone's internal memory, which got fixed when the RUU wrote on it a few times.
jkoljo said:
Nice job, which RUU did you use?
I think that there was a bad block in your phone's internal memory, which got fixed when the RUU wrote on it a few times.
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I used the Asia_WWE_1.32.707.1
I was trying to use a 1.72 version and still got the bootloop, but the asia version worked just fine.
I´m really glad the phone is working now, the only downside is that I´m back to the stock rom.
A friend of mine wanted this phone brought up to speed with 2.3 since it was completely stock. I was working on it rooted the device, s-off. Tried to flash a 2.3 rom but when it started booting it stayed in the HTC logo screen. what did I do wrong and how can I backtrack? I've read the noob guides but there isn't something similar to whats happening here.
Please Help!!!
Thanks guys!!!
You may forgot to configure the sd card for your the rom you flashed. Just boot into recovery, wipe everything, configure sd card and then flash rom again.
just try another rom. see how that goes
shalomhr said:
A friend of mine wanted this phone brought up to speed with 2.3 since it was completely stock. I was working on it rooted the device, s-off. Tried to flash a 2.3 rom but when it started booting it stayed in the HTC logo screen. what did I do wrong and how can I backtrack? I've read the noob guides but there isn't something similar to whats happening here.
Please Help!!!
Thanks guys!!!
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yup. had similar when i hadnt done a full wipe. Also might be dependent on which 2.3 ROM you are trying to flash ... some require new HBOOTs etc .....
Hi, I am not a noob, but my phone seems to be malfunctioning. Specifically it is having this problem:
My Incredible is running CM7 with ClockwordMod and was having many force close problems and the only solution seemed to be to do a factory reset or try getting a backup from recovery. When I tried recovery however, the phone got stuck on the HTC Incredible white screen and never did anything else. I took out the battery and tried factory reset, this produced the same result. I tried starting up the phone at that point again and when it got to the skateboarding android splash screen, it kept freezing and starting the animation over again. I am fine just doing a wipe through the USB if that's possible but I don't know how that is done. Thanks in advance for any help.
I have tried to flash CWM Recovery using the SDK, but it unfortunately has been giving me a different error, and it won't let me. I am wondering if my phone is dead, and there is no chance of bringing it back.
Currently using an OG Droid that I had as a back-up and wait for the Galaxy Nexus to come out.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you.
Your phone is probably fine. Just the recovery needs reflashing.
Go to PvilleComp's site and download a recovery flashable from HBOOT (PB31IMG.zip method). Just boot into HBOOT with the file on the root of the SD card, and it recovery should work again.
Thank you very much! This worked perfectly.
Was able to get back into CM7. Am back up and running.
HUGE HELP!
Hi there,
The other day I decided to S-OFF, root, and flash a custom ROM on to my HTC Desire handset. It all seemed to go perfectly well. I could access HBOOT, Fastboot, Recovery (4EXT), and I could boot into the custom ROM. It worked absolutely fine for approximately 24 hours. Then, the phone restarted and I can't get past the splash screen.
I am able to access the Bootloader (HBOOT, Fastboot etc.) but I cannot boot into the ROM or into Recovery.
I followed the instructions (step 2) found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275632&highlight=can+t+get+past+hboot
I've tried using Method 1 and Method 2. And, although the process appears to be successful (according to Android Flasher's and cmd's response) but I'm still unable to get past the splash screen or access the recovery.
I thought that perhaps it did work fine and that it was just the recovery image I was using so I downloaded the latest Clockwork Mod Recovery image from their website. Unfortunately, this hasn't made any difference.
I used Fastboot to wipe the userdata, system, recovery, and cache but this has still not made a difference.
Does anyone have any ideas or is it busted?
Would flashing a RUU potentially resolve the issue (although, ideally, I don't want to do that and it would be a last resort).
Many thanks in advance.
This problem didn't appeared on its own, did it?
Probably you did something wrong. I suggest you to use RUU and start all over again.
Remember to downgrade your hboot first
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app
paolo-red1 said:
This problem didn't appeared on its own, did it?
Probably you did something wrong. I suggest you to use RUU and start all over again.
Remember to downgrade your hboot first
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Hi paolo,
Well, as I explained, it did all appear to be fine. I didn't do anything else to the phone when it started rebooting. But, clearly, something has gone wrong somewhere.
I've downgraded the HBOOT, and used the RUU. It looks to be sorted now.
Thanks for your help.
Glad that you solved your problem. Cheers
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