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[Q] Another Is IT bricked! question.... please help

my desrie has been running fine until today.
was running the open desire rom but changed the pinky desire 1.8 a few weeks ago.
when using phone today a few apps kept force closing so i decided to reboot the phone.
it kept sticking on the loading screen, it would go black for a second as if it was about to load as normal but then it would loop back to the loading screen.
i tried factory reseting from clockwork recovery console then wiping cache and data and then re installing a rom.
now it just sits on the first HTC screen the one you get after powering up.
EDIT ; i have googled and had a bit of a search for answers. have tried most of them with no positive results.

have probably made things worse,
while waiting for a possible reply on here and various tinternet searches for my problem i was tryingh all sorts to get it working again.
and have now wiped the SD card data completley. so now i cant load a rom from the SD card.
i tried coping my sd card back up data from my pc back on to the card but it cant run the update.zip file to get into the recovery mode.
will i have to use my gold card to get some sort of working rom on my phone now?

OK first thing to try is ensure the SD card is formatted correctly, so boot into recovery and partition the SD card. You want 0swap, 512EXt2, and rest fat32. Then still in the partiton menu upgrade ext2 to ext 3.
Once that is done, while still in recovery you should see an option for usb toggle or or something it's called. With the usb lead plugged in this will mount your SD card on the computer so you can copy your rom onto it.
From there you should be able to flash in the usual way.
Edit: just re-read your second post, and realised you can't boot into recovery. You will need a card reader to put the update.zip on, or you should be able to flash an ruu. You'll likely need your goldcard for that, and then re-root afterwards.

rolfd said:
OK first thing to try is ensure the SD card is formatted correctly, so boot into recovery and partition the SD card. You want 0swap, 512EXt2, and rest fat32. Then still in the partiton menu upgrade ext2 to ext 3.
Once that is done, while still in recovery you should see an option for usb toggle or or something it's called. With the usb lead plugged in this will mount your SD card on the computer so you can copy your rom onto it.
From there you should be able to flash in the usual way.
Edit: just re-read your second post, and realised you can't boot into recovery. You will need a card reader to put the update.zip on, or you should be able to flash an ruu. You'll likely need your goldcard for that, and then re-root afterwards.
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i take it i dont need my gold card if my phone has been debranded?
the stock roms are ruu files and all the guides i have read including
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696189
this one im guessing you need your phone to access htc sync..
if my phone is not loading up how can i put a stock rom or unroot from the recovery console?
i have managed to put back in the fake flash update zip and have that working now at least.. tried installing a custom rom zip from the SD card from recovery console on the phone but it is still stuck on the HTC screen.

Have u tried a stock rom, running an RUU? Do it like this enter bootloader and connect the phone to the computer it should be found by the computer, in your phone should apear fastbootUSB or bootloaderUSB, something like that..
Hope it works
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case closed, thanks for the help and input guys..
i followed the guide
from benko286
1. Download this
2. Turn off Desire and then turn it on while holding back button to enter bootloader(white screen)
3. Once in "white screen" press power button again to enter bootloader
4. Connect Desire with PC
5. Press Volume Down and than Power to enter Recovery
6. Now the red triangle should show up, go to folder you downloaded file and press recovery-windows.bat, recovery-mac.sh or recovery-linux.sh depending on which OS you have
7. Now you are in recovery mode (green screen), press Wipe and than Wipe data/clear storage, than press optical tracker to confirm it
8. After that press Volume Down to go back to main menu in recovery
9. Navigate to Flash zip from sdcard using optical tracker, select .zip confirm it and wait until process finish, after that press Reboot system and unplug you Desire
10. Enjoy your new ROM
and it worked, for some reason i couldnt flash the rom using clockwork recovery mode, but this worked a treat..
was really pooping it cause i thought it was game over and welcome to a posh shiney door stop..

Nice one. Glad you got it sorted.

[Q] PLZ Help

My son rooted his EVO using unrevoked 3 and it worked fine until he created a custom rom when it loaded it wiped out his operating system and didn't load. Now his phone is stuck the boot loader screen. Can someone please tell us how to fix the phone if you need more info just let me know and I will get it. Thanks for any help!

Did he make a nandroid backup? If not here is some advice: Ok, first go into bootloader, hit recovery then hit wipe data/ facotry reset (something to that effect) wait for it to finish and try a reboot. If that doesn't work, take out the micro sd card, insert it into your computer and download a stock rooted HTC evo rom (should be a zip file, don't extract!). Once done downloading, place it on the root of the micro sd.then put the sd back into the phone and boot into recovery again. Once in recovery, hit the install zip from sd and the hit choose file from sd. Find the file you downloaded and hit enter. Wait for it to install and reboot the phone. It should run properly again if these steps were done correctly.
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Musician101 said:
Did he make a nandroid backup? If not here is some advice: Ok, first go into bootloader, hit recovery then hit wipe data/ facotry reset (something to that effect) wait for it to finish and try a reboot. If that doesn't work, take out the micro sd card, insert it into your computer and download a stock rooted HTC evo rom (should be a zip file, don't extract!). Once done downloading, place it on the root of the micro sd.then put the sd back into the phone and boot into recovery again. Once in recovery, hit the install zip from sd and the hit choose file from sd. Find the file you downloaded and hit enter. Wait for it to install and reboot the phone. It should run properly again if these steps were done correctly.
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You're on the right path but a bit off track.
Just use #1 if you have access to Recovery. Just read #2 so you have the correct illustration of what boatloader looks like vs recovery. (The post above was confusing)
#1. Make sure you have a rooted version of a stock ROM on the root of your SD card. If you do not, read the later part of #2.
Next, for to wipe and the wipe data, cache, and dalvik 2x..
Then, flash rooted ROM from the zip. Test...see if it works... if you tried over a dozen times with problems... then try #2.
If you had created a NANDrois back up as the root suggestions imply the here is where yo can restore nanderois as well.
If this still does not resolve the missed, you can try #2 or learn how to flash RUU.
#2. The white screen with the android on the skate board is the boatloader. When your EVO is yrunes off, you can access this by pressing and holding power+volume down. Remember, this is the bootloader.
Now, you can put a rooted pc32 zip in the root of the SD card by either removing the SD card from the phone and using a micro SD card reader.
Or, you can go to the bootloader screen then you can select recovery and go to recovery.
From recovery, toggle to USB and then push it copy the pc32 zip to the root of your SD card.
Once you have the zip on the SD card, turn off your phone or ADB command a reboot bootloader. Press yes to flash thepc32 zip
Did this work?
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FYI the PC32 file that the Op mentioned above is PC36IMG.zip for Evo's.
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[Q] Help please. Everything wiped....

I was using boot manager to install a rom and I accidently wiped system and the rom didn't flash properly. Now I'm stuck in fastboot and can't mount my usb to transfer a rom to get back into my phone. All it does is power down or reboot into fastboot. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Searching for you... really hope we can get your phone working again

So you can not boot into recovery at all?

If you hold power plus volume down can you get to the bootloader?

have you removed your SD card & used a card reader?

SketchyStunts said:
have you removed your SD card & used a card reader?
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Was just going to suggest that. I had a similar thing happen, and I just popped the SD card out, copied a ROM to it and then booted to hboot (vol down and power on) and selected recovery there. I then could re-wipe and flash the new rom.

CTTKDKing said:
Was just going to suggest that. I had a similar thing happen, and I just popped the SD card out, copied a ROM to it and then booted to hboot (vol down and power on) and selected recovery there. I then could re-wipe and flash the new rom.
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If he can't get it to boot into recovery he'll have to try flashing a rom or new recovery in a pc36img.zip.

Thanks for the replies...I really appreciate the help. I can power down and get into the bootloader, but I can't choose recovery to get to my backups. It just loops to fast boot. When I click bootloader it tries to scan the pc36img, but fails...I'm guessing that it got erased. I don't have a card reader, but that's a good idea. I'll got to the store and pick one up and see if I can transfer the files I need to get my phone back on. I'll post back and let you guys know what happens. Thanks again for the help so far.

You just need to put the recovery file on the root of the sd card. Not everything until you see if it got erased.
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eggsack said:
You just need to put the recovery file on the root of the sd card. Not everything until you see if it got erased.
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Just bought the sd card reader and loaded back the recovery file. Looks like all my files on the sd card are still intact. I tried flashing HybridBeta.5...it flashed but kept going back to recovery when I tried to reboot. I'm gonna recover one of my backups and see how that works. Brb...

Once you flash into Recovery
Go to:
- Install zip from sdcard
- Choose zip from sdcard
- Scroll down to BootManager folder
- Select phoneRom and then click update.zip to get Phone Rom back
I have also flashed update.zip files from within rom1-4 when they were known good working installs and had them work as well.

[Q] Can't seem to install SlimBean correctly, help please?

So am trying to install SlimBean on my play, but I am having trouble getting it installed but I don't know if its that or the kernel (Turbo Kernel v3.1) which is causing the trouble. So here is a step by step of what I did;
1. As per Turbo Kernal instructions, flashed FTF in thread for 'vendor-unlocked partition layout'.
2. All fine, booted into stock rom.
3. Flashed Kernel.
4. All fine, boots kernel to welcome screen. (Note: I get the welcome screen all the time, and I don't have to press a key to get to the boot menu, this doesn't seem right to me?)
5. As per Turbo Kernel instructions I did the following - 'Enter Multiboot Menu (Vol-Down key) and go to Internal > Recovery, then format system, data and cache before doing anything else. Very important'
6. Still boots to 'Welcome' screen.
7. Entered the first slot and loaded TWRP recovery.
8. Mounted SD Card and copied SlimBean .zip to the SD Card.
9. Selected 'Install' in TWRP, selected ROM and installed fine.
10. Choose reboot.
11. Phone still boots to 'Welcome' screen.
I have tried the instructions in the Turbo Kernel thread to get rid of the boot loop, (open recovery and choose 'reboot' from there) but still can't get it to load the ROM. Not even sure if it has installed properly. I have also tried switching recovery to CWM, and installing the ROM that way, but I can't get it to mount the SD Card. I also tried the 'Repair' function in Turbo Kernel but that has no effect either.
Does anyone have any ideas where I went wrong, or how I can fix this? Thanks in advance.

Question [Q] Can't seem to install SlimBean correctly, help please?
Right now first of all I am no expert on Turbo Kernel I have used it for a few times on my play but my main phone is arc so I am using a different version of twrp.
Now looking at your instructions one thing I did different than you was never to mount or unmount SD card while in Turbo Kernel,I think CosmiDan even say's not to do this as system .img's are stored on sd card (maybe wrong)
What I used to do was take my SD card out and copy the rom to flash to my SD card with a card adapter or when phone was on via usb never while in recovery!
I would try to flash kernel again delete the system img that Turbo creates on your SD card and do as you have been doing but put Slimbean on SD card first.
Hope that helps :good:

try Clockwork mod recovery and try to install the rom then just give it TIME like 5 min or so till the slimbean logo pops up

crazymonkey05 said:
try Clockwork mod recovery and try to install the rom then just give it TIME like 5 min or so till the slimbean logo pops up
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Thanks for the reply but perhaps I'm not being clear in the OP. The phone always enters the Turbo Kernel Multiboot menu, regardless of if i press anything or not. I can't install via CWM as when i try to i get an error about not being able to mount the sd card to find the ROM file.
@tallman: Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately i don't have a compatible adapter for the card. I will try flashing the kernel again, any thoughts on why i always get the Multiboot/Welcome Screen?
EDIT: I have sorted it. Turns out I needed to partition the SD card in the recovery menu after wiping. Once I did that, USB Mounting and SD Card mounting worked just fine. Installed the ROM via CWM and it booted automatically. Thanks for the replies anyway chaps, now to go an play.

JimmyDeemo said:
Thanks for the reply but perhaps I'm not being clear in the OP. The phone always enters the Turbo Kernel Multiboot menu, regardless of if i press anything or not. I can't install via CWM as when i try to i get an error about not being able to mount the sd card to find the ROM file.
@tallman: Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately i don't have a compatible adapter for the card. I will try flashing the kernel again, any thoughts on why i always get the Multiboot/Welcome Screen?
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On the Mulitiboot/Welcome screen issue only thing I can comment about that is what CosmicDan mentions in is post below
Q) My device keeps going into the Boot Menu, even though I never pressed the key to enter!
A) This is a bootloader thing and is rare, to fix it just enter Recovery (for any slot) and select reboot from there.
But I think you tried that anyway Like I said I looked at your post and tried to think what I did different to what you did to get it working and as I said it was only the fact That I copied rom's to my SD card when not in recovery to be honest I transfer all my rom's that way.
Don't forget if you install again to delete the system images on your SD card that Twrp creates so that you have got fresh images and start by installing Slimbean in 1st slot
Have you tried installing Slimbean with another JB kernel then when you have it installed swap back and install Turbo Kernel

Looks like you missed my 'edit'.
I'm all sorted now. Had to partition the SD card in TWRP recovery. Slim Bean is a little disorientating, I can't seem to add my google account, but I think I need to install the add ons for it.
Thanks again.

HTC desire Clockworkmod corrupted/deleted

Hi people, I have a HTC Desire that I has Clockworkmod installed. I gave it to my girl and she deleted Clockworkmod I think. The phone gets the splash screen but bootlooped, I did the power vol down and got into the bootloader, go to recovery, phone loads into cwm everything i do in cwm hangs the phone, I tried flashing recovery files from fastflash and android flasher but nothing works.
Its like the cwm is corrupted and wont let me do anything how do I get into the phones recovery not Clockworkmod recovery.
Cheers Glenn
sorry i;m new at this

- You can't really accidentally delete a recovery. If you can get into clockworkmod recovery it, it is not deleted
- You can only flash a different recovery if you are s-off, are you s-off?
- Does performing any action within cwm cause it to hang immediately? Can you try to full wipe (wipe data/factory reset), and then flash a ROM.zip file such as cyanogenmod? Does it boot?
- If you can't get it to boot, then you will likely have to flash an RUU to get it booting again. Use the 2.3.3 GB RUU, details how to flash are in the troubleshooting guide stickied to the top of Q&A.
- Once you get it booting and if you still want to install a custom ROM, use revolutionary to s-off, then flash 4EXT recovery instead, use that recovery to (re)partition your sdcard and install the ROM.

eddiehk6 said:
- You can't really accidentally delete a recovery. If you can get into clockworkmod recovery it, it is not deleted
- You can only flash a different recovery if you are s-off, are you s-off?
- Does performing any action within cwm cause it to hang immediately? Can you try to full wipe (wipe data/factory reset), and then flash a ROM.zip file such as cyanogenmod? Does it boot?
- If you can't get it to boot, then you will likely have to flash an RUU to get it booting again. Use the 2.3.3 GB RUU, details how to flash are in the troubleshooting guide stickied to the top of Q&A.
- Once you get it booting and if you still want to install a custom ROM, use revolutionary to s-off, then flash 4EXT recovery instead, use that recovery to (re)partition your sdcard and install the ROM.
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Yes I'm S-off, the phone wont start(boot all the way to working) I get into the (power vol down) menu, I go into recover, anything I do in there hangs the phone all I get is the cwm hat icon, I have to tske the battery out and put it back in. the only thing I think is, I have change micro SD cards the one that used to be in it is in my new phone and have deleted all the old files on it.
WHENEVER I do anything CWM it hangs can I recover without CWM it seems it controlls everything i do....
i had Rom manager installed too thet could be deleted, if rom manager is delete will that stuff up the phone, i think the partition is delete tooo... can i re partition it from windows??

vk2wgw said:
Yes I'm S-off, the phone wont start(boot all the way to working) I get into the (power vol down) menu, I go into recover, anything I do in there hangs the phone all I get is the cwm hat icon, I have to tske the battery out and put it back in. the only thing I think is, I have change micro SD cards the one that used to be in it is in my new phone and have deleted all the old files on it.
WHENEVER I do anything CWM it hangs can I recover without CWM it seems it controlls everything i do....
i had Rom manager installed too thet could be deleted, if rom manager is delete will that stuff up the phone, i think the partition is delete tooo... can i re partition it from windows??
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- I've never seen CWM hang like this. Within CWM, are you using the power button to select the options? You need to push the trackball to select (the middle button on the front of the phone)
- If you were using a custom ROM which used the sdcard in some way like a partition, you can't simply switch sd cards without backing up and transferring the necessary files to the new sdcard
You are s-off, so that's good. Assuming you still want a custom ROM:
- Flash 4EXT recovery using fastboot
- Backup your sd card, and use 4EXT recovery to completely reformat and partition your sd card (maximum 2GB ext4 partition)
- Copy backup back to sdcard, and ROM.zip of your choice
- (Optional but recommended) For maximum app space, flash optimal hboot for your ROM using fastboot, read the ROM's install instructions for information.
- 'Wipe all partitions except sdcard' option within 4EXT recovery (this is a 'full wipe')
- Install ROM.
EDIT: once you get it booting again, DO NOT use ROM manager in any way on this phone. You don't need it, has caused problems on this phone, could have been the reason for your issues in the first place.

eddiehk6 said:
- I've never seen CWM hang like this. Within CWM, are you using the power button to select the options? You need to push the trackball to select (the middle button on the front of the phone)
- If you were using a custom ROM which used the sdcard in some way like a partition, you can't simply switch sd cards without backing up and transferring the necessary files to the new sdcard
You are s-off, so that's good. Assuming you still want a custom ROM:
- Flash 4EXT recovery using fastboot
- Backup your sd card, and use 4EXT recovery to completely reformat and partition your sd card (maximum 2GB ext4 partition)
- Copy backup back to sdcard, and ROM.zip of your choice
- (Optional but recommended) For maximum app space, flash optimal hboot for your ROM using fastboot, read the ROM's install instructions for information.
- 'Wipe all partitions except sdcard' option within 4EXT recovery (this is a 'full wipe')
- Install ROM.
EDIT: once you get it booting again, DO NOT use ROM manager in any way on this phone. You don't need it, has caused problems on this phone, could have been the reason for your issues in the first place.
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Dont know what I did but I got it going, Thanks Eddie for the help, is there a rom that i can download that will take it back to the factory rom...its running cyanogenmod 7 atm, and what about Rom Manager and CWM can I uninstalll them and put 4EXT on it instead?? Thanks heeps man:good::good::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

vk2wgw said:
is there a rom that i can download that will take it back to the factory rom...its running cyanogenmod 7 atm
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A factory ROM is not a custom ROM. If you want a full factory / stock ROM, you will need to flash an RUU (use the 2.3.3. GB WWE RUU)
If you intend to still use the phone, and install a few apps on it without running out of space, then you still need a custom ROM. With CM7, for maximum app space you need:
- cm7r2 hboot (flash with fastboot)
- partitioned sd card (using 4EXT recovery or gparted only, NOT CWM or minitool partition wizard)
- an app such as S2E or Darktremor A2SD to move apps and dalvik to the partition, or flash a compatible app2sd script
Or pick a ROM of your choice. The correct hboot, partition and A2SD method still apply to virtually all custom ROMs
and what about Rom Manager and CWM can I uninstalll them and put 4EXT on it instead
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Like I said, you don't need ROM manager. CWM recovery is ok as long as you only use it to backup, full wipe and install ROMs. don't use it to partition the sd card.
4EXT is better as it can partition and backup/wipe/install ROMs all in one. Flash it using fastboot, or install it using the 4EXT app in the thread.