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[Q] RUU will NOT install, help?

I know I've seen a post simular to this but it's buried and what little was there did not help.
I have a Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit system, and tried installing the RUU that leaked Thursday. I installed the latest HTC Sync prior to running the RUU.
Made it as far as the screen on the phone going all black with chrome looking HTC logo, at which point the PC wanted to reboot and I got the error [170]. Per the instructions on the other post, I rebooted the PC and pulled the battery on the DInc.
Afterward, no amount of plugging, unplugging, running the RUU again, booting into hboot, booting into recovery, etc. would ever even get me back tot he black HTC screen. I just keep hitting the error [170] after the "verifying contents" file.
I managed to just power down the phone and turn it back on, despite seeing that scary looking screen with the Dinc under a big red ! icon, and it boots up like nothing ever happened.. all apps and contacts there.. etc.
Can someone PLEASE help me get this stinking RUU to install properly? Or failing that.. is there a way to put the contents into the internal memory of my phone and trick it into thinking it's recieved the OTA and I declined, so that I can install from the settings menu? Is it possible to even do that? If one of us gets the OTA, can we jack the OTA out of our internal storage and post it here to allow that to be done?
TIA..
NinjaRicky, UberNoob Extrordinaire

This sounds like the same stage I am at, but I am terrified to remove the battery for bricking my phone.
Right now I have the chrome htc screen when plugged in and the hboot ruu screen (mostly white with green text) when not.
My hboot ver is .79 and radio is 1.00.03.04.06. I also have the S-OFF.
What is the best way to return to the stock rom?

If you have S-Off, I'm guessing you have rooted your phone a little. I don't think security off is a default the RUU would have done.
I have zero experience with rooting, so I have no idea how to return you to stock. Honestly, unless you changed your radio version.. which it looks like you didn't.. you probably could run Unrevoked and Forever, then use one of the guides here to flash your ROM with the stock kernal. I'm sure I've seen a zip file of it floating around in the guides.
Hope that helps. I'm just going off what I've read. I think my problem is strictly because of the 64 bit Windows, but I'm hoping for a workaround.

Is your sdcard formatted to fat32
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jdkoreclipse said:
Is your sdcard formatted to fat32
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Not sure if you meant me or Rutledge, but no.. my card is FAT.. not FAT32. I'm about to reformat it now. How does that effect the RUU?

The hboot can only correctly read filed from q fat32 card
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I know I'm going to come off thick witted and slow for this.. but my question is about running the RUU from Windows 64-bit and getting an error [170] indicating that the computer thinks the USB cable isn't connected. I'm not trying to root my phone or install anything from the SD Card.. I wouldn't know what to do with hboot anyway.. I just put the phone in hboot mode and tried running the RUU again because I was grasping at straws.
What does the SD card have to do with the communication error I keep getting?

Use the extracted PB31IMG.zip from the ruu (tis can be found in the thread) and flash feom hboot....that is easier.,
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NinjaRicky said:
I know I'm going to come off thick witted and slow for this.. but my question is about running the RUU from Windows 64-bit and getting an error [170] indicating that the computer thinks the USB cable isn't connected. I'm not trying to root my phone or install anything from the SD Card.. I wouldn't know what to do with hboot anyway.. I just put the phone in hboot mode and tried running the RUU again because I was grasping at straws.
What does the SD card have to do with the communication error I keep getting?
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I'm having the same error and found no way to fix it. I was forced to flash the update via my SD card. I had tried 3 computers with no luck ..

Really want to not root my phone yet.. I have a strong conviction I'd brick it. Just not confident yet.

NinjaRicky said:
Really want to not root my phone yet.. I have a strong conviction I'd brick it. Just not confident yet.
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Just flashing the file from the RUU via your SD card does not require root since its signed by HTC. You do how ever must rename the file to PB31IMG.zip and make sure the card is formatted as FAT32
I did it with no issues but I wont recommend you to do it. I can recommend in this case just waiting the week or how ever long it takes for Verizon to push to the OTA to your phone then.
If you do want to see what I did just look for my question thread in this section called "[Q][RUU]extracting rom.zip file and flashing not rooted and s-on"

And this can be done with a stock DInc with factory defaults, such as S-On and all in place? No Unrevoked first?
Edit: Ignore the above. I R an idiot. Answered the question in your post. And ... it's updating right now witht he ROM.zip renamed. You are the man today, sir. I appreciate all the advice. boomertwo.. this bud's for you!

you need to have htc sync installed to run the RUU.
also your phone needs to be in HTC sync mode with usb debugging enabled.
i have 7x64.

k.electron said:
you need to have htc sync installed to run the RUU.
also your phone needs to be in HTC sync mode with usb debugging enabled.
i have 7x64.
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That does work to get the phone into RUU mode but after that then the program lost connection to the phone completely. This was the wall I hit and found no way around it after trying it on 3 different machines. All running windows 7 but only 2 of them were 64 bit.

boomertwo said:
That does work to get the phone into RUU mode but after that then the program lost connection to the phone completely. This was the wall I hit and found no way around it after trying it on 3 different machines. All running windows 7 but only 2 of them were 64 bit.
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I think someone mentioned that you could just let it do the usb error, the close the RUU and restart it and it should work from there.

[Q] Unprovoked does not work on 2.1

Hi
Unprovoked (latest version) tried on the MAC and PC does not root my HTC Desire running Android 2.1. I have tried everything possible and it just does not grant me root access to the phone.
What are my options, what other software can I try, to root the phone, preferably PC based.
Thanks

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dazdaz said:
Hi
Unprovoked (latest version) tried on the MAC and PC does not root my HTC Desire running Android 2.1. I have tried everything possible and it just does not grant me root access to the phone.
What are my options, what other software can I try, to root the phone, preferably PC based.
Thanks
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#snark
Good Lord, of course it doesn't. There is no rooting tool known as unprovoked.
#endsnark
Please, describe the problem that you are facing, what steps you have taken, etc.
Don't ask stupid questions (or ask questions stupidly) and expect anyone to be able to have a vision of your problem, diagnose it correctly AND help you solve it.

lol a classic typo, I was provoked using unrevoked hehe I wish I could change the subject title now, and of course meant unrevoked (sorry was too tired after trying it for many many hours) ... i know that many people have had success rooting their phones with this tool.
My phone got stuck in a reboot cycle after using unrevoked on 2.2, so I downgraded to 2.1-update1 and tried unrevoked again but the same problem happened and no root access. Then I took the battery out for a few minutes, powered it back on, and so far it's been stable, i.e. no reboots. This morning I also powered off and back on again and the phone has not rebooted. I just can't understand it.
Moving forward, is there another option, a different tool which I could use which can root Android 2.1.

Did you enable usb debugging?
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TheGhost1233 said:
Did you enable usb debugging?
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Yes and selected default connection type to charge only.

Have you installed HtC Sync then removed it? Making sure the drivers are left on?

I tried on both the PC and MAC. The MAC does'nt require messing around with USB drivers.
On the PC, HTC sync was uninstalled with the drivers left installed ( unrevoked modified USB driver ) and then ran unrevoked.
So I now have HBOOT 0.83.0001 and Android 2.1.
I tried unprovoked once more today, and the phone is stuck in a reboot loop.
1.
I take out the battery, and the phone boots and then reboots once i see the multi-coloured HTC background and then goes into that infinite reboot cycle before I can make any changes.
2.
HBOOT is trying to find an image with a name similar to : PB99IMG.ZIP which it can't find so reboots in a loop until the battery in taken out and then returns to 1.

[ROM] Gingerbread for Incredible 2 is coming

RUU(full rom):
http://www.megaupload.com/?c=premium&l=1
It seems an offical version, but maybe a test one.
It includes many languages to select, e.g. Simple Chinese, English and so on..
Update before, you'd better make your phone S-off !!

Drool
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I've flashed this, with out root (Don't need it). Everything is pretty solid. There's a 5th metal skin i've seen included with the incredible S, The Get more htc widgets works, quadrant gives me a 1510 or so.
Anyone who has experienced the 'input lag', where typing to fast will cause the phone to lock up for a sec then spit out the text, should know that gingerbread fixes that.
The only issue I've seen so far is the vzw app crashes constantly if you update it. If you don't update it, it's fine, but you can't access usage info.
This is 2.3.3, so it doesn't have the updated Gtalk video chat, If you root, there should be a way to install it.

excuse me for being such a noob,
i admit. the force is not strong with this young padwon..
how do i go about flashing this update to my stock unrooted dinc2?
i remember how i flashed my OG D1 but was having some troubles with this new beast,
thanks for any advice in advance boys!

This would be done through fastboot... it will will recognize the leak as a real update and flash for you.
But in doing so, like it has been said in other posts: You will lose the capacity to root with Alpharex.

no renaming the file to update.zip or anything? nothings poping up through the fastboot screen other than the standard options

does it do a wipe or is it an actual update (No Data Loss)?

bigslam123 said:
does it do a wipe or is it an actual update (No Data Loss)?
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The installer warns of a full data wipe, but i cannot get the ruu installer to find my phone connected to the system...anyone have any insight?

would it be possible to go back to froyo once s-off is released? i do want to check this out but not at the expense of not being ready for s-off once it is made public.

mikejaret said:
The installer warns of a full data wipe, but i cannot get the ruu installer to find my phone connected to the system...anyone have any insight?
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This is what I did using win7 x64: *BECAUSE I DO NOT CARE FOR ROOT*
First, download the latest version on HTC sync... it has all the drivers you need, and takes care of error 171 (when the phone reboots and the RUU is waiting)
Next, enable USB debugging, this takes care of error 170. You can do this by going to menu>settings>applications>development
If you encounter any other errors, try running the RUU program as admin, and using vista sp2 compatablity mode.
Edit: also, no you don't have reboot into fastboot. The RUU program does some initial checks (software ver. battery %, other bs) then reboots the phone for you.
HTH

bigslam123 said:
does it do a wipe or is it an actual update (No Data Loss)?
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YES. you lose all data (text, phone log, programs).
The programs reinstalls automagically for the most part though, since it's backed up with android market. I thought that wifi passwords would be backed up with this system as well (it does with CM7) but no dice.

cougar618 said:
This is what I did using win7 x64: *BECAUSE I DO NOT CARE FOR ROOT*
First, download the latest version on HTC sync... it has all the drivers you need, and takes care of error 171 (when the phone reboots and the RUU is waiting)
Next, enable USB debugging, this takes care of error 170. You can do this by going to menu>settings>applications>development
If you encounter any other errors, try running the RUU program as admin, and using vista sp2 compatablity mode.
Edit: also, no you don't have reboot into fastboot. The RUU program does some initial checks (software ver. battery %, other bs) then reboots the phone for you.
HTH
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So grab the file.. Then what?
where does the file go? Assuming it's on the SD card? (Sorry, first HTC phone since G1) and then once the phone is detected and in USB debugging then what?

@cougar618, besides for that typing lag fix you mentioned, are there any other upgrades/changes that you noticed so far? i'm real curious and want to check this out but also so eager for root... AHHH!!!!

presence06 said:
So grab the file.. Then what?
where does the file go? Assuming it's on the SD card? (Sorry, first HTC phone since G1) and then once the phone is detected and in USB debugging then what?
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You don't put it on your SD card. The File is actually an EXE file, you run it on your computer. .. it took me quite a while to figure that out when I had the OG inc lol. so dl the file, dl the HTC sync and install for the drivers, and run the RUU program that you dl.
For me, the Typing lag fix was the sole reason for me to install the GB update. asides from that, GPS seems to work much better, and it seems very stable. Batter life is not that geat, but it was not that great for me on froyo (I use my phone as an mp3 player, etc).
and a bit off topic, but I can't check partial wake usage on GB. Anyone with froyo able to? I tried with spare parts, and I know there's a code you can dial, but can't find it.

what's partial wake usage?

cougar618 said:
You don't put it on your SD card. The File is actually an EXE file, you run it on your computer. .. it took me quite a while to figure that out when I had the OG inc lol. so dl the file, dl the HTC sync and install for the drivers, and run the RUU program that you dl.
For me, the Typing lag fix was the sole reason for me to install the GB update. asides from that, GPS seems to work much better, and it seems very stable. Batter life is not that geat, but it was not that great for me on froyo (I use my phone as an mp3 player, etc).
and a bit off topic, but I can't check partial wake usage on GB. Anyone with froyo able to? I tried with spare parts, and I know there's a code you can dial, but can't find it.
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Ok.
According to some including Droid Life, you need to be root to install the RUU? Is that true?

nope root not needed

presence06 said:
Ok.
According to some including Droid Life, you need to be root to install the RUU? Is that true?
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False.
There are two files out there, one on this forum by jcase, for rooted users, and the official RUU from HTC, that removes the root exploit someone found. once rooted, you can do S-off, which allows for you to root the phone later.
As i've said, I don't care for root, so I just used the RUU from htc.
Please do some more research on this before trying anything...
Also, off topic again, partial wake usage is when the cpu is woken from sleep for an application, such as listening to music.

alright guys here we go.
i figured it out ! LOL
you must install the htc sync program so that your DINC2 and SYNC link up through your WINDOWS based pc.
after that you download the RUU in the original post,
run it and it will open on its own.
that is all you gotta do.
however,
I do not think there is a way to uniinstall this update and it has been mentioned that this build may NOT link to future ota's
can anyone provide more insight on the ota part?
I'm going to be one sad panda if i can't get any updates because i jumped the gun with this RUU

cougar618;15134771
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ahh.. icic.. hmm i didn't even know you could see a stat like that in froyo haha.
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[Q] AlpharevX, not working... [SOLVED]

Ok I'm a HTC noob so please bear with me. I setup adb-sdk environment and windows environment variable. After that I obtained Alpharevx and ran it. Everything went fine and I entered the beta key. But then after
'Beta key accepted - thank you for participating!'
, nothing happens. It just stops. Any idea how to get this thing going?

Did you run AlphaRevx as an administrator ... given you're on Vista or Windows7?
Is the phone in USB debugging mode?
Is the Android software on your phone 2.2.1? If it's 2.3 then the AlphaRevX will not work :/

JWhetstone02 said:
Did you run AlphaRevx as an administrator ... given you're on Vista or Windows7?
Is the phone in USB debugging mode?
Is the Android software on your phone 2.2.1? If it's 2.3 then the AlphaRevX will not work :/
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Thanks
Yes my phone is frogyo.
Yes it's in USB debugging mode.
Yes ran as an admin because I disabled the protection so basically all apps as admin on my windows 7.

I've read in the AlphaRevX thread where some people have had to do it multiple times before it Roots their phone. Maybe try that?

Thank you. I will try more :O I hope this won't brick my phone. I heard HTC devices can't recover from brick. With SGS you could just odin back from whatever mess you are in.

Is the phone set to charge only? Also is htc sync uninstalled?
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Yea it seems a lot of Fascinated people are coming to an Incredible phone Many many mentionings on here about yall fazzy people making the switch, per choice or replacement

4GivenByChrist said:
Is the phone set to charge only? Also is htc sync uninstalled?
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Yes, set to charge only mode.
Yes, removed everything and used the drivers from alpharevx's site.
JWhetstone02 said:
Yea it seems a lot of Fascinated people are coming to an Incredible phone Many many mentionings on here about yall fazzy people making the switch, per choice or replacement
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Yea, I just got mine as a replacement after a year of use. So far I'm happy because the screen is up to par with SAmoled. People always hype up SAmoled but imho, SLCD on Dinc2 is not far behind.

Hey, so I am new to this board. I myself have a Dinc2 arriving soon. My brother just got his. We are both former fascinate owners. After researching and following some how to's, my brother was rooting his phone and he got stuck while attempting to get recovery after S-off. He cannot post, but here is what stated happened:
Hey I'm having a problem with my incredible 2.
Before activating the phone (avoiding the 2.3 update) I tried rooting my phone.
1) I downloaded alpharedex and generated the code
2) downloaded the recovery mode application onto the phone
3) and placed the SU zip folder onto my phone
I was stopped at step 3 because the volume down power button procedure was not working. Instead the phone powered on normally. I attempted it many more times and it would not work.
After spending some time on it, I said screw it, I just want to use the phone. So i activated it and OK'd the 2.3 update. It shut down my phone and began to download the file but it was stopped with a exclamation point in a red triangle. I tried doing a hard reset (volume up and power button) but that did not work. So i was forced to take out the battery. When I powered up the phone again, it continued the download: the phone shut down, it began to download and froze up like last time.
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Okay, so yes I know he shouldn't have done this. After consulting with me, I was able to get him into recovery by attempting the volume down + power procedure about a dozen more times.
Should he install the super user package and reboot? Or should he do something now to fix the OTA auto reboot problem while he still has recovery?
Edit: Because he is in recovery, could he just factory reset and flash a new rom? Apparently, when he boots the phone normally it gets to the home screen and then instantaneously reboots and attempts to install the OTA. That is where it locks up.

If he installs a rom it should block the update. Any custom rom will have superuser built in, and I know at least CM7 has OTA blocking built in as well.
Oh, and it sounds like his trouble booting into hboot with power and volume down is because fastboot is enabled. It can be turned off in settings»power.

k_nivesout said:
If he installs a rom it should block the update. Any custom rom will have superuser built in, and I know at least CM7 has OTA blocking built in as well.
Oh, and it sounds like his trouble booting into hboot with power and volume down is because fastboot is enabled. It can be turned off in settings»power.
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But the problem is that now he can't get into settings.... damn.maybe a factory reset is best if that's possible.
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deaffob said:
Yes, set to charge only mode.
Yes, removed everything and used the drivers from alpharevx's site.
Yea, I just got mine as a replacement after a year of use. So far I'm happy because the screen is up to par with SAmoled. People always hype up SAmoled but imho, SLCD on Dinc2 is not far behind.
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You have it working yet? If not I would uninstall the drivers you got and then download and install HTC sync. Then uninstall just htc sync leaving your drivers. Then try again. That wokred for me when I was unlocking a friends phone.
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deaffob, you seem to be pretty computer literate, if it keeps giving you issues, boot ubuntu from a flash drive and do it that way. I messed with windows for a couple hours, and it took me all of 20 minutes to install ubuntu to my flash drive, boot into it and root.

bik2101 said:
But the problem is that now he can't get into settings.... damn.maybe a factory reset is best if that's possible.
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That is what I was hoping for, but I don't think there is a factory reset option in Recovery that doesn't wipe the current rom he is on.
I was pretty sure flashing a rom with superuser in it would solve it, and it sounds like that might be the answer.
Only problem now is somehow getting the rom on to the SD card. I might have to have him swap SD cards in my phone, add the rom to the SD card, and then swap back.

I fixed it by going to alpharev IRC and got a great help from attn1! He was very helpful late at night.
To those of who'd like to know, this was my situation:
-Windows 7 64bit with admin control turned off=everything has admin rights.
-Fastboot off(tried on too)
-installed HTC Sync's driver.
-tried HTC driver that's posted on AlpharevX's website.
-HTC Sync was uninstalled.
-It was froyo
-Correct HBOOT(obvious because the whole point of getting the beta key was to prevent someone using the hack with the wrong version of HBOOT)
-Tried 3 different USB ports.
-ADB SDK was installed
-JDK was installed
-environment variable path for ADB SDK was set.
-tried reinstalling the HTC Driver twice, each time uninstalling with Revo Uninstaller to clean up registry.
So even after all these, the hack still did not work. So attn1 suggested that I should try it different computer or download the flash version of Ubuntu and try it in there. I tried it on my old lap with Windows 7 64 installed. I haven't used the laptop that much so the Windows was pretty clean and new.
It worked on that laptop. The lesson is, no matter how much you take care of your windows system, I practically baby my computer and do everything to keep the optimum performance, it will get screwed up after some time. I would've never thought that it'd be my desktop Windows that was the problem.
So if you are having a problem, please try Ubuntu as that's probably the best bet.

PeterGunz said:
That is what I was hoping for, but I don't think there is a factory reset option in Recovery that doesn't wipe the current rom he is on.
I was pretty sure flashing a rom with superuser in it would solve it, and it sounds like that might be the answer.
Only problem now is somehow getting the rom on to the SD card. I might have to have him swap SD cards in my phone, add the rom to the SD card, and then swap back.
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but there's still the problem of not being able to turn fast boot off, which i think is needed to be able to get into recovery..

get into recovery
To get into Recovery EVERY time, simply do a battery
pull beforehand. That does it.

JWhetstone02 said:
Yea it seems a lot of Fascinated people are coming to an Incredible phone Many many mentionings on here about yall fazzy people making the switch, per choice or replacement
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Yep! And I'm happy I made the switch, the SLCD screen is not bad and has more accurate color reproduction and plus who uses the SAMOLED at 100% brightness anyways..-nobody really lol.
Also HTC sense imho is waay more useable with good functionalities like the ever so good integration of Facebook compared to TW. I still can't get over that since I was conned into thinking that the Fascinate had in-app pictures but atlas it was a link to the website.. whereas HTC has that and more plus notifications!
Sorry I'm just thoroughly impressed especially since this is my first HTC Device. ^__^
Plus the rotating capacitive buttons is just super cool... :3 Now to make it work when using the camera app... >.> Anybody know if this mod exists yet?
Sent from my ADR6350 using XDA App-Dinc2 switched from a Fascinate.. :3

michaelbsheldon said:
To get into Recovery EVERY time, simply do a battery
pull beforehand. That does it.
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You can download a program from the Market called quickboot It allows you to reboot into recovery without doing a battery pull. this is what I use right now in replace of the 4-in-1 reboot menu

I just got su on mine. I am an Android beginner so my experience may help. My system is a laptop running Win 7. I had installed synch and then following advice removed it with all drivers. I installed the htc USB drivers, and plugged in the phone in the proper mode. AlphaRevX will not work. So (this may be vital) reinstalled synch with drivers. Then removed synch. Got AlphaRevX to do its thing at once. So the other drivers must be there!

problem connecting as disk drive

Hi,
Every time I try to connect my HTC DESIRE to my computer as a disk drive, I have to wait years, then the SENSE UI crashes and reboots itself, then I have to set the connection mode to "disk drive" again, then it takes several more years, and only then it connects.
My android version is 2.2, rooted, and I'm using the original Rom.
Is there any way it could be fixed and my DESIRE will connect as fast as the GALAXY S?

a) could try a different ROM
b) could try android commander rather than connecting as disk drive

Thanks for the help, but I'm using linux so I'm not sure that android commander will work, and I have never replaced the ROM so I'm afraid to brick my phone (or anything else which can go wrong in the process...)
Again, thanks for the help, but is there any safer way (=noobproof)?

Don't be too afraid of flashing rom's, it's pretty simple and there are some great guides for first time flashers.
Plus you could always flash a pretty much stock Sense rom which would make your phone almost identical to the way it is now if your happy as it is.
Not too sure how you could get your phone to connect faster as it is. Not heard of your problem before.

Flashing roms is daunting at first but once you've done one its as ready as pie. You should check out this guide, if you follow the steps you can't go wrong.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016084
Swyped from my CM7.1 Desire using XDA Premium App

You can use qtadb on Linux
TouchPal-d from my Desire running Supernova Extreme Rom - 450 apps and counting. .

Try different ports on your pc.