I know, I know. I took the easy route. It's running cm7 and I love it, but I know at some point I'll want to try another rom. Is that as simple as wiping the phone and flashing another rom with rom manager? Also a question about the recovery image. I have my own sd card in the phone. Would the original recovery image have been on the sd card that is no longer in the card? Do I have to make another one? I'm not sure I quite understand that.
Sorry for the noob questions and thanks for (hopefully) reading this and responding.
If it's correctly rooted recovery is on the device NOT the SD card...
to get into recovery turn off your phone, press and hold the volume down button and then press the power button, that will load the phones HBoot, there will be a list of options (use the vol up and down buttons to choose) one of them will be recovery select it and press the power button..... that will then load the recovery
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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
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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.
I tried this myself to be sure that the EC05 OTA is a little resistant to rooting. Since most new ROMs are EXT4 file system and require CWM3 I will use that as an example.
Run one click CWM3.0.0.6 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=897612
Before booting in Clockwork with the 3 finger salute (Holding Camera, Volume Down and Power buttons) make sure you have downloaded an EXT4 compatible ROM onto your sd card.
Power down the phone and then 3 finger into Clockwork. Let it convert to EXT4. Don't reboot.
Now choose Install zip from SD card, Choose zip, Flash zip.
It will probably reboot after ROM install but if it don't then go ahead and boot.
If there is a boot loop with vibes most ROMs state to reflash or follow their specific instructions.
After booting up just run one click CWM3 again and that will give you back root.
This worked for me, just I restored a Nandroid after flashing the ROM and still needed to reroot. Hope this helps all.
One thing to add here, if you for some reason forget to put an ext4 compatible ROM on your SD card (I did one time), you can wait until CWM is finished converting, and don't reboot, then pull the battery. Then you can remove your sd card and use a card reader to put an ext4 compatible ROM on it. Now put the sd card back into the phone and replace the battery. Pressing the power button will boot you into CWM (as it always does if you pull the battery while in CWM). Now you can pick up where you left off and flash the ROM.
Nice Matt, thanks. With all the issues with EC05 OTA, this should almost be a sticky.
Found out today that you also need to clear data in Superuser if one click doesn't go through.
I haven't changed anything in the phone since I bought it last year, I just rooted it and put Leedroid on it shortly after.
At first, the phone used to randomly reboot. This started a couple months ago. But today it turned off during a call and now stays on the white HTC bootup screen.
What could be wrong?
Falsh another rom via recovery
No, not another one. Flash the same one, so LeeDroid. If that doesn't help you can just do a full wipe then flash LeeDroid.
Thanks for the replies. Much appreciated.
However, theres an update. I cleared storage through the bootloader menu and now rather than hanging on the white screen, it goes on further to a black screen with "android" written in silver.
I'll try the Leedroid flash again. Do I do the original Leedroid ROM or can I do an updated version?
Can anyone help me with how to load a new ROM whilst stuck in this situation? I can get into FASTBOOT USB, just need to know how to transfer the ROM onto the phone's storage.
Thanks!
U can't transfer data threw fastboot either use a SD card reader or some one else mobile n transfer data n then reinstall or install a fresh Rom
Device HTC Desire
Rom RcmMixSv08
SD class 4 6.40gb fat32 / 1gb ext3
S OFF
Radio 5.11.05.14
Hboot 0.93.1000
custom hboot Alpharev Cm7
Recovery Alpharev Cmw 2.5.1.8
Fake Flash Cwm 3.0.0.5
I thought that the update.zip option only works from the internal storage, not the external?
download the newest complete rom - not an update.zip
Shiftone said:
download the newest complete rom - not an update.zip
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I'm stuck on the bit after that.
I've downloaded the ROM. I just need to install it in the phone's current state. I would be grateful if someone could tell me how to install the ROM if the phone doesn't boot.
Assuming you have Clockwork Mod installed, this is what you need to do:
1. Somehow get the ROM (*.zip file) on your SD card (through a card reader or someone else's phone or any other mean).
2. Boot your phone into the bootloader (hold volume down when you turn on the device).
3. Click Recovery (wait a few seconds for the SD card to mount, then press volume down to navigate and use the power button for "click").
4. Then click "install zip from sdcard" and navigate to your ROM and install it.
What version of LeeDroid were you using? If it's one of the latest ones then you need to have USB debugging enabled otherwise you could encounter the problem you describe.
I hadn't yet installed the ROM, and the ROM that I was using previously was one of the early 2. versions.
Chaoticaa said:
Assuming you have Clockwork Mod installed, this is what you need to do:
1. Somehow get the ROM (*.zip file) on your SD card (through a card reader or someone else's phone or any other mean).
2. Boot your phone into the bootloader (hold volume down when you turn on the device).
3. Click Recovery (wait a few seconds for the SD card to mount, then press volume down to navigate and use the power button for "click").
4. Then click "install zip from sdcard" and navigate to your ROM and install it.
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I really hope that it's the solution for me too. I have the same problem, my DS is also dead but i don't know what rom i had.. So i guess i'll just try RUU_Saga_HTC_Europe...blah-blah..
My last Dinc finally gave up, I got the new one today and tried to root with unrevoked3 to no avail the radio on my new Dinc is different, any how-to's to get this rooted with s-off?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1306400
Ok...I got it to S-off, but now I have no back-up for it to boot to, I just keep booting into hboot, I can get to recovery, how can I access the sd card to put my backup on it from recovery? Can I just give you my number and talk to you if you are ok with that?
You need to flash clockwork recovery, you can download the PB31IMG.zip from here (http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=28).
Download and place on sd card in no folders named exactly PB31IMG.zip.
Power off phone and pull battery, then replace.
Hold vol down button and power button untill a white screen appears (hboot). After a couple seconds it will find the PB31IMG.zip file and prompt you to press vol up to install. Do so and when prompted to reboot do so.
Now you should be able to access recovery from hboot, and mount the sdcard to place your old backups on it.
Ok, I followed your instructions to the "T", all was good when it was over, It had installed the downgrade, then I did the update CWM like it stated, when I rebooted into recovery there was no back-up for it to find, and I did a complete back-up of the Original Factory Rom, So what I did was pull my SD card and plug into PC and copied my back-up I put on PC to the SD in the CWM back-up folder and WALA all is good.
Thank you so much for all your help, now my Cyanogen7mod and my Stock works just fine.
Hello,
i have a question: i did a fullwipe and wipe all data, system etc. Now im in the recovery and want to flash the new ROM, but i cant bring my nexus to show me the internal storage on my PC. How can i mount the internal storage. The option mount SD-card dont work (what a wonder^^)
I dont have the new rom on the internal storage.
can anyone help?
€ @mod: can u plz move, i hit the wrong subforum... sry, my mistake
You'll need to push the ROM to your phone via adb.
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=ADB
ok thanks, is there no other way?
so you're rooted.
do you have CWM installed on the phone
if you do you power down the phone and hold the volume down+up button while powering it back on. select recovery and hit the power button, then you should be able to install from sdcard
find the rom .zip there and install.
also you should look into buying Boot Manager-- best app and worth the price all the way... this way when you want to flash a rom you do it via this app and then do boot rom, it restarts your phone and boom you're now on that rom.