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[Q] Help with HBOOT

Hi, I have just bought a second hand Desire for my wife. The person I bought it off had changed the HBOOT and put Oxygen rom on it. She wanted it back to sense so I tried to flash the official RUU via HTC Synch thinking it would change the HBOOT at the same time. Now all I have is HTC in the middle of the screen with an exclamation mark in each corner.
Anyone give me a step by step guide of how to get it working again??.
Thanks in advance.....
Scotty.

cant u just flash the alphrev stock hboot or zip. or reflash recovery??

tuktukscotty said:
Hi, I have just bought a second hand Desire for my wife. The person I bought it off had changed the HBOOT and put Oxygen rom on it. She wanted it back to sense so I tried to flash the official RUU via HTC Synch thinking it would change the HBOOT at the same time. Now all I have is HTC in the middle of the screen with an exclamation mark in each corner.
Anyone give me a step by step guide of how to get it working again??.
Thanks in advance.....
Scotty.
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Read the adb and Fastboot faq via my signature (ignore all the adb stuff, read just fastboot).
Set up your computer for fastboot (or download Fastboot flash utility - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794638)
Download this: http://alpharev.nl/bravo_downgrade.img
Boot into fastboot (from off hold back and press power)
Using the knowledge from the FAQ and / or Fastboot flash utility, Flash the bravo_downgrade.img as a hboot (eg fastboot flash hboot bravo_downgrade.img)
Run RUU again
This may not make sense looking at it now, but read the FAQ and it will.

rootSU said:
Read the adb and Fastboot faq via my signature (ignore all the adb stuff, read just fastboot).
Set up your computer for fastboot (or download Fastboot flash utility - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794638)
Download this: http://alpharev.nl/bravo_downgrade.img
Boot into fastboot (from off hold back and press power)
Using the knowledge from the FAQ and / or Fastboot flash utility, Flash the bravo_downgrade.img as a hboot (eg fastboot flash hboot bravo_downgrade.img)
Run RUU again
This may not make sense looking at it now, but read the FAQ and it will.
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Thanks, I'll give it a whirl.

need more help read my guide

bortak said:
need more help read my guide
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I cannot install the android flasher as (on one pc) it says I need .net framework which I downloaded but then it says searching for updates and then says an exception has occured and won't do anything else. And on my laptop it says error checking for updates and then get the exception message.
Any ideas??

Easy way- grab PB99IMG.zip containing bravo_downgrade.img from Alpharev, check md5 checksum (if it's not correct- redownload), put it on SD and boot to bootloader. Hboot will be flashed by bootloader itself

gen_scheisskopf said:
Easy way- grab PB99IMG.zip containing bravo_downgrade.img from Alpharev, check md5 checksum (if it's not correct- redownload), put it on SD and boot to bootloader. Hboot will be flashed by bootloader itself
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I cannot boot to bootloader. None of the buttons do anything apart from the power button.

tuktukscotty said:
I cannot boot to bootloader. None of the buttons do anything apart from the power button.
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This is why we need to use fastboot flash. Try the manual method from the FAQ.

rootSU said:
This is why we need to use fastboot flash. Try the manual method from the FAQ.
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I have downloaded sdk tools and dragged the folder to C: drive but when I right click my computer to put the ;C:\android-sdk-windows\tools The line I get says:
\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Zune\
I do not have zune on my pc.
??????
I am running windows XP SP3 if that means anything

Help with hboot
Hi all.
Download and unzip unrevoked, the easiest rooting method known to man. This works on any HTC phone, so if you have a different phone than the Incredible 2, just select whatever phone you have.
Thanks.

tuktukscotty said:
I have downloaded sdk tools and dragged the folder to C: drive but when I right click my computer to put the ;C:\android-sdk-windows\tools The line I get says:
\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Zune\
I do not have zune on my pc.
??????
I am running windows XP SP3 if that means anything
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Dont worry what is already in there, thats nothing to do with what we're doing. Zune is an MS thing so its not implausable that its there.
1 thing though, is it my sdk tools, or googles? If its googles, check in the folder to make sure adb and fastboot are there, as they may actually be in platform-tools instead. Amend the line you are adding if that is the case. Or just add both, ie:
;C:\android-sdk-windows\tools;C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
---------- Post added at 01:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:43 PM ----------
wyandavidson said:
Hi all.
Download and unzip unrevoked, the easiest rooting method known to man. This works on any HTC phone, so if you have a different phone than the Incredible 2, just select whatever phone you have.
Thanks.
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Well done at reading the thread properly

I used the sdk tool. I added the ;C:\android-sdk-windows\tools;C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools text. Connected my phone and did the cmd,typed adb shell and it said device not found

tuktukscotty said:
I used the sdk tool. I added the ;C:\android-sdk-windows\tools;C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools text. Connected my phone and did the cmd,typed adb shell and it said device not found
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Check if USB is properly connected on both sides. If yes- check if phone is visible in Device Manager and if drivers are installed

gen_scheisskopf said:
Check if USB is properly connected on both sides. If yes- check if phone is visible in Device Manager and if drivers are installed
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I have installed the drivers as described but still does not work.
When the phone is plugged in via USB I get the screen with HTC in the middle and the exclamation in each corner, when I unplug it I get a white screen with:
AlpahRev Oxygen r2 (in pink) and then:
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.93.1002
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-4.05.00.11
Aug 10 2010,1752.18
Then RUU in orange.

tuktukscotty said:
I have installed the drivers as described but still does not work.
When the phone is plugged in via USB I get the screen with HTC in the middle and the exclamation in each corner, when I unplug it I get a white screen with:
AlpahRev Oxygen r2 (in pink) and then:
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.93.1002
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-4.05.00.11
Aug 10 2010,1752.18
Then RUU in orange.
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Remove RUU from sd-card or remove card- bootloader tries to flash it if file is found.
Also in bootloader mode you don't have access to adb- this requires running system or recovery.

gen_scheisskopf said:
Remove RUU from sd-card or remove card- bootloader tries to flash it if file is found.
Also in bootloader mode you don't have access to adb- this requires running system or recovery.
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No bootloader or anything works.
I do not understand all this kinda stuff!.
Wish I'd never touched the bloody thing lol
Think it's going on ebay as parts!!

tuktukscotty said:
No bootloader or anything works.
I do not understand all this kinda stuff!.
Wish I'd never touched the bloody thing lol
Think it's going on ebay as parts!!
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Bootloader works:
tuktukscotty said:
I get a white screen with:
AlpahRev Oxygen r2 (in pink) and then:
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.93.1002
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-4.05.00.11
Aug 10 2010,1752.18
Then RUU in orange.
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This is bootloader screen but it finds update package (PB99IMG.zip) on sd card and tries to flash it- this is normal behaviour.
Remove RUU form sd-card and you will have access to fastboot

gen_scheisskopf said:
Bootloader works:
This is bootloader screen but it finds update package (PB99IMG.zip) on sd card and tries to flash it- this is normal behaviour.
Remove RUU form sd-card and you will have access to fastboot
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Removed the memory card and fastboot still does no show.

tuktukscotty said:
Removed the memory card and fastboot still does no show.
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Wait ~10 seconds after first bootloader screen appears (bootloader searches for SD card and flashable packages on it). Then bootloader menu should appear- check this video how it looks like

[Q] device broken? ==> SOLVED

Hello,
hope you can helpe me...
I'd on my device InsertCoin "installed" an wanted to go back to stock rom.
During the RUU-Process I got a failed (system partition).
Now I can see only a HTC-Logo on a black screen an 4 exclamation marks (one in each corner) - when I plugin and unplug a usb-cable I can see following:
AlphaRev CM7 r2
BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6-93-1002
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Aug 10 2010,17:52:18
..and two exclamation marks (bottom corners)
fastboot devices responses with "SH09CPL01234 fastboot", ALL OTHER fastboot commands resulting with "FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))"
Is there any way the device back? (searching now for two days...)
many thanks
M$

hi, You did not search enough see bortak guide on top of q&a
Or:
download stock hboot from alpharev
flash it via fastboot
then you can run CORRECT RUU according to your cid from shipped-roms

Microsaft said:
Hello,
AlphaRev CM7 r2
BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6-93-1002
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Aug 10 2010,17:52:18
M$
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Flash alpharev downgrader first before running RUU

hmmm...at lease an update
Changed the USB-Cable - now the fastboot commands are working.
Flashed boot and recovery and tried my RUU.
However "my" RUU is not working as the CID has changed to VODAP102. (Error 131).
Searching now for the correct RUU (not found on shipped-roms.com)

As I didn't found a working RUU:
Is there any way to change the CID at the current phone status?
Or how can I create a GoldCard when the phone isn't working? (the way shown at the Q&A didn't work - ReadCID.exe doesn't show any output)
kind regards M$

i dont think a card reader works either. have u another phone or someone u know have a phone with sd card? if so use that to create a goldcard
Sent from my HTC Desire

So the GoldCard can be "created" in ANY phone - it must not be that one where it will be used?
M$

yh because the goldcard is ur sdcard. plug in the phone, run the goldcard tool it should detect the sdcard then press get cid, once it shows cid copy it then click the link below it to take u to the site where u create the goldcard then paste ur cid number and follow the other instructions then once u have the goldcard downloaded go back to goldcard tool, press the load goldcard (i think thats what it says) find the file on ur computer and select it then press patch r something like that and ur done. it should say succes sdcard is now a goldcard r something along those words. hope thats not too confusing lol
Sent from my HTC Desire

Thank's 2 ALL
Got it now back running...

[Q] Bricked Desire? Plz FAST HELP, Im beginner :-/

I tried to go back to the stock ROM.I've downloaded RUU.exe, installed HTC Sync..I ran RUU.exe,all were fine,but at the 99% (this dont have to be the correct number) it said Error 110..Now I cant do anything with Desire..If I try to turn on Desire with power button, its just in the middle logo HTC and on the edges are 4 triangels or something like that..The same when I try to turn it on with power and vol.down ..:-/
I really dont know that to do,cause Im noob with HTC..I only had Samsung and never got something like this..PLZ help me

go to Desire Q&A/Stickies (first post) and read bortaks troubleshooting guide number [4] i think ruu problems
Sent from my HTC Desire

Thx for reply,so I find this:
[4]RUU PROBLEMS
"I tried using a RUU, but it failed, and now my phone is stuck on a black HTC Screen with /!\ In every corner!"
Possible Causes:
- You were S-OFF and you flashed a custom bootloader from alpharev
- You didn't check the MD5 Sums before proceeding, and the download may have been corrupted.
- You tried using the wrong RUU
Fixing your problem
Your phone is stuck in RUU mode. RUU mode is like fastboot mode, and can still receive fastboot commands, therefore it can be easily "fixed". It helps to have a goldcard for this problem, so that you can use any RUU you want.
S-OFF
[STEP1]- download "Bravo Stock" from Alpharev
[STEP2]- download Android Flasher
[STEP3]- use android flasher to flash "Bravo Stock"
[STEP4]- run the RUU again and wait for it to finish
S-ON
If you're S-ON it eliminates the possibility of you having a custom bootloader, and the only possibility now is that the RUU was corrupted or you used the wrong RUU for your device. Therefore, for this process you need a goldcard.
[STEP1]- Create the goldcard from the tutorial
[STEP1]- Use the WWE RUU
NOTE: If you are restoring for warranty purposes, unless you bought an unbranded phone, using the WWE RUU will VOID YOUR WARRANTY, and you should use the 2.3.3 RUU (link available from #resources)
Im really beginner ,I dont know how can I do it..Im S-OFF..They say I need to download bravo stock from http://alpharev.nl/ But there are 2 bravo stock:
bravo_alphaspl.img and PB99IMG_stock which should I download and how can I flash it? I cant turn on my desire and I cant turn it with power+vol.down.. what can i do now?

pull the battery out and put back in, hold volume down then hold power, tell me what happens
Sent from my HTC Desire

As I said in the title and there is same,
"I tried using a RUU, but it failed, and now my phone is stuck on a black HTC Screen with triangle In every corner!"

yes i know but in first post u said power and vol down. just thought u did it wrong. did u try hold back button and hold power? that takes u to fastboot and u can get to hboot from there. u need to get to the hboot menu for the PB99IMG to work
Sent from my HTC Desire

Its the same:-/ Always black HTC Screen with triangle In every corner..I think its totally bricked...

hmm u need fastboot for android flasher to work
Sent from my HTC Desire

Ok, I understand,but I cant get to fastboot :-/ Is there any other way to get there?

lol i dont mean to sound cheeky but when u press volume down then power do u hold them down for bout 4 r 5 seconds? i only ask coz its strange that u cant get to hboot and ur s-off
Sent from my HTC Desire

I said Im beginner and noob,but not idiot Sure,when I try to press anything,always is the same..this guy got same problem...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1256720
I want to try this,but I dont understand :
turn it off, plug it in via usb, hold back and power
if you know where your fastboot.exe is then cd into the path in cmd.
if you don't then unzip my attachment and put it in your c:\ and type these commands
Code:
cd\
fastboot devices
if it gives back a serial then it is not bricked and you can flash a RUU

ok download the file and unzip it, click my computer and drop the file into C: then follow the other instructions
Sent from my HTC Desire

Exactly this I understand :
"ok download the file and unzip it, click my computer and drop the file into C: then follow the other instructions"
But I dont understand to this: if you don't then unzip my attachment and put it in your c:\ and type these commands
Code:
cd\
fastboot devices
if it gives back a serial then it is not bricked and you can flash a RUU
What commands? where should I do it??

click my computer then C: drive find the fastboot file u put there then open it, then in a empty space in the file hold shift then right click and u should see "open command window here" click that to open cmd window then type in those commands that bortak said
Sent from my HTC Desire

I cant open fastboot.exe It says "This application has failed to start because AdbWinApi.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

Nobody knows?? ( plz

Ne_X_uS said:
I cant open fastboot.exe It says "This application has failed to start because AdbWinApi.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."
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Oh god. BTW don't PM me about this kind of stuff next time please, there's a troubleshooting guide for a reason.. and it covers your problem.
What's the bootloader info when you turn on the phone? (when it's not plugged in). And I'll help you out.

I dont know what do you think bootloader info..is it this?
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.93.1002
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Aug 10 2010,17:52:10
RUU

Ne_X_uS said:
I dont know what do you think bootloader info..is it this?
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.93.1002
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Aug 10 2010,17:52:10
RUU
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Yup. Okay so you're good. Did you get the phone on contract? e.g. You pay monthly to Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange etc.? Or did you buy it from a shop and it's unbranded?

Ne_X_uS said:
I dont know what do you think bootloader info..is it this?
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.93.1002
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Aug 10 2010,17:52:10
RUU
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how did u get bootloader up?
Sent from my HTC Desire

[Q] HTC Desire Z Stuck on HTC Logo All ADB Command Not Working

Hi
Sorry for my english is bad.
Htc desire Z stuck on HTC Logo Please Help Me
VISION PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.85.0013
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 11 2011,23:36.27
All Fasboot Command Working
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot devices
SH17DRT00916 fastboot
but all adb command Not Working
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
error: device not found
I did my card Gold Card SD
PC10IMG.Zip downloaded from shipped-roms site was not installed
What else can I do?

yerin6 said:
Hi
Sorry for my english is bad.
Htc desire Z stuck on HTC Logo Please Help Me
VISION PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.85.0013
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 11 2011,23:36.27
All Fasboot Command Working
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot devices
SH17DRT00916 fastboot
but all adb command Not Working
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
error: device not found
I did my card Gold Card SD
PC10IMG.Zip downloaded from shipped-roms site was not installed
What else can I do?
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I have pretty much the same phone. I've bought it in Austria. Once stopped workig... I can navigate in the bootloader menu, but anything I choose, it freezes. OK, it calculates CRC. No image files, just like my mem card also unreadable with PC. No flashes help. I've downloaded stock RUU. It communicates with the PC says fastboot usb, starts to flash and stops at reboot bootloader and never goes any further....

As your bootloader is S-ON you can't flash custom rom's, adb won't work until the device is past the bootloader and starting up the rom.
Not all sd-cards work properly in Gold mode (it isn't correctly made Golden if your pc wants you to format the sd-card), try another one or format your current one in FAT32 and put the latest PC10IMG.zip (Download one of the .zip files here: http://shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Vision rename it to PC10IMG.zip, make sure you don't have extentions hidden in windows for the renaming to be accurate) in the root of it and start the device in the bootloader (holding power and volume down). Then it should flash the PC10IMG.zip as normal.
You can also try to boot into recovery mode and recover your rom from there (as your bootloader is S-ON chances are you've still got stock recovery).
Then, if you still want to, you can try and unlock the bootloader and root your phone.
If the above isn't working for you you can always try to unlock your bootloader via htc (you only need fastboot to work for this). Register at http://htcdev.com/bootloader/ and follow the unlock instructions. After that you should be able to flash a custom recovery like Clockwork mod (http://download2.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.0-vision.img) and install one of the many ROM's available in the android development section of the Desire Z formums.
You can also try and flash this PC10IMG.zip (http://files.virtuousrom.com/vision/misc/PC10IMG.zip) it contains the correct bootloader (S-OFF hboot), clockworkmod recovery and the latest T-Mobile radio (There's no ROM included in here, you can restart the device in recovery and install a custom ROM).
If this doesn't work, post your problems here, I'll take a look at them and try to help you to get further.

[Q] Will I save my htc Desire?

Dear all,
I have been looking around the forums and downloaded a few things and looked at various solutions, but I am stuck at the first hurdle.
I have been given an htc Desire Bravo that just will not boot. I do not know how it failed originally but I can only get it into the boot screens, either the fastboot/hboot logon ot the 5 buzzes and the htc logo lock. Also it takes about 30 minutes with the battery out after every failed boot attempt to restart the boot screen.
I have run adb but it cannot tell me a cid number, I have a micro sd card in it but it does not have the pb99diag.zip on it. When I put such a file on the sd card it does not find it. Communication via adb and the phone has varied success. I suspect it is drivers and what I read is an old adb bug where server is out of date.
I have never done this before this weekend so please be gentle with me!
If I can get it to work, even to use it like a wifi tablet without phone I would be happy. I am in the UK and if we have real success I would get it on tesco PAYG
I get the "cannot find pb99diag.zip etc" dialogue when going into hboot.
The logon says
BRAVO PVT-1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO 5.11.05.27
AUG 10 2010, 17:52.18
Can someone suggest where to start? I have tried a number of guides on the forum but no success so far. Even just getting an os running would be success. I will be looking at this each evening so apologies if I seem slow to respond
Thanks
Adrian

First make S-Off. I forgot how but if i think right, you must it do via revolutionary, If it success, then download 4ext recovery.IMG and flash it via fastboot and reboot in bootloader in your recovery
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Free mobile app

battlekaier said:
First make S-Off. I forgot how but if i think right, you must it do via revolutionary, If it success, then download 4ext recovery.IMG and flash it via fastboot and reboot in bootloader in your recovery
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Free mobile app
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Thank you battlekaier, I will try this out tonight when I get home and will report back.
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ukubuntu said:
Thank you battlekaier, I will try this out tonight when I get home and will report back.
A
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After you s off u can flash hboot the easy way but first s off.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Free mobile app

If u phone does not boot then u can NOT s-off, ur phone needs to be booted.. also if ur s-on and not rooted then all u can do is flash a ruu.
Did u try factory reset from bootloader menu? Try that first, u never know but chances r ul prob need to ruu a ruu.

jmcclue said:
If u phone does not boot then u can NOT s-off, ur phone needs to be booted.. also if ur s-on and not rooted then all u can do is flash a ruu.
Did u try factory reset from bootloader menu? Try that first, u never know but chances r ul prob need to ruu a ruu.
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Hi jmcclue,
Thanks for the comments. I can boot to the HBoot and Fastboot screens, thats how I could find the S-ON and version data. If I get it to reboot, I get either a white screen with just "htc" on it, or 5 buzzes and a screen with no life at all. I am hopeful to get it to S-OFF as I have had some communication through the usb to pc connection. I am not sure if I can do an RUU update as I don't seem to have a CID. I do not have a factory reset option on the HBOOT screen. I have tried clear storage but that has no effect. Perhaps I need the S-OFF first.
Cheers again,
A

Use the 2.3gb update ruu its wwe (world wide english) so dont worry bout cid. U can find it in bortaks troubleshooting guide in resources section and its naned 2.3.3 ruu. U will find it easy enough in google aswell. Search for "htc desire 2.3gb update" its a exe file so just boot ur phone into fastboot, plug in ur phone and run the ruu, hopefully it willvwork. Im a bit worried tho about the 5 vibrations u get, maybe a sign of hardware failure. But try that ruu anyway. And again u can not get s-off unless ur phone is fully working/booted.

jmcclue said:
Use the 2.3gb update ruu its wwe (world wide english) so dont worry bout cid. U can find it in bortaks troubleshooting guide in resources section and its naned 2.3.3 ruu. U will find it easy enough in google aswell. Search for "htc desire 2.3gb update" its a exe file so just boot ur phone into fastboot, plug in ur phone and run the ruu, hopefully it willvwork. Im a bit worried tho about the 5 vibrations u get, maybe a sign of hardware failure. But try that ruu anyway. And again u can not get s-off unless ur phone is fully working/booted.
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Many thanks
Well that was a bit wierd
If anyone can see where I went wrong, feel free to say.
I could not seem to get the link between the phone and the pc so I removed the htc sync and restarted the pc. I could then connect to the phone in some way as abd gave a command error when I sent a fastboot oem readcid which it normally does. So leaving it in fastboot with usb I ran the wwe~.exe file and it all seemed to be doing installing. There were tens of installations going to the phone I guess each reaching 100%. Suddenly I had a web page popup in my browser s.rev2pub.com/ul_cb/player.html?a=19471543&context=c23573548&size=800x600&rt=popunder&ci=10&cb=[CACHEBUSTER] recommending I download latest drivers. The wwe ruu vanished and I have no continuing processes in Task manager that I can see.
So, should I have installed in hboot? Thankfully I can still get the phone to power on. What should happen after the exe file installs?
I am able to get some response from the phone as adb devices returns the phone device number. So I hope I can try again.
Any thoughts?
Many thanks

Revolutionary S-OFF and recovery
ukubuntu said:
Dear all,
I have been looking around the forums and downloaded a few things and looked at various solutions, but I am stuck at the first hurdle.
I have been given an htc Desire Bravo that just will not boot. I do not know how it failed originally but I can only get it into the boot screens, either the fastboot/hboot logon ot the 5 buzzes and the htc logo lock. Also it takes about 30 minutes with the battery out after every failed boot attempt to restart the boot screen.
I have run adb but it cannot tell me a cid number, I have a micro sd card in it but it does not have the pb99diag.zip on it. When I put such a file on the sd card it does not find it. Communication via adb and the phone has varied success. I suspect it is drivers and what I read is an old adb bug where server is out of date.
I have never done this before this weekend so please be gentle with me!
If I can get it to work, even to use it like a wifi tablet without phone I would be happy. I am in the UK and if we have real success I would get it on tesco PAYG
I get the "cannot find pb99diag.zip etc" dialogue when going into hboot.
The logon says
BRAVO PVT-1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO 5.11.05.27
AUG 10 2010, 17:52.18
Can someone suggest where to start? I have tried a number of guides on the forum but no success so far. Even just getting an os running would be success. I will be looking at this each evening so apologies if I seem slow to respond
Thanks
Adrian
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Hey Adrian, I had the same problem as you did, hopefully I can be of help.
First, like everyone else is saying you will need S-OFF.
To do this head to this site on your PC revolutionary.io hit download for windows or Linux or whatever your pc is running, then you will need to fill out information about your device (see attached screenshot). Device, HBoot number, and serial number, (the serial number can be found behind the battery of your device). Once you have done that, click "Generate Key". it will give you a key, remember it or write it down.
Then, open the file that was downloaded, and extract the contents to your documents and Run the revolutionary( should look like the screenshot attached). Plug your device in (assuming you have the drivers) and it should ask you to enter the beta key we had before. Enter that and hit enter. it will then S-off your Desire and soon ask if you would like to install a custom recovery. hit Y and then enter, once that is finished, unplug your device and in HBoot go to "Recovery". Now you can flash a ROM of your choice.
Hopefully I made sense!
Best of luck

Neibaf97 said:
Hey Adrian, I had the same problem as you did, hopefully I can be of help.
First, like everyone else is saying you will need S-OFF.
To do this head to this site on your PC revolutionary.io hit download for windows or Linux or whatever your pc is running, then you will need to fill out information about your device (see attached screenshot). Device, HBoot number, and serial number, (the serial number can be found behind the battery of your device). Once you have done that, click "Generate Key". it will give you a key, remember it or write it down.
Then, open the file that was downloaded, and extract the contents to your documents and Run the revolutionary( should look like the screenshot attached). Plug your device in (assuming you have the drivers) and it should ask you to enter the beta key we had before. Enter that and hit enter. it will then S-off your Desire and soon ask if you would like to install a custom recovery. hit Y and then enter, once that is finished, unplug your device and in HBoot go to "Recovery". Now you can flash a ROM of your choice.
Hopefully I made sense!
Best of luck
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Thank you Neibaf97
Can I confirm that I can do this from the HBOOT screen or the fastboot screen? Also where jmmclue said if I can't boot then I can't S-Off, does that mean boot to the HBOOT screen or into Android? Then if I want to load say WWE, do I put that on a microSD to get it to recover?
thanks again
A

ukubuntu said:
Thank you Neibaf97
Can I confirm that I can do this from the HBOOT screen or the fastboot screen? Also where jmmclue said if I can't boot then I can't S-Off, does that mean boot to the HBOOT screen or into Android? Then if I want to load say WWE, do I put that on a microSD to get it to recover?
thanks again
A
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He means into android.
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lilsafbig said:
He means into android.
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Thanks lilsafbig, that was a little too ambiguous to understand, but I have a few developments.
I am able to communicate to some degree with adb between phone and pc. Before I was unable to get anything back but now with the right syntax I have got back the CID as HTC_001 and the device number. But when I run revolutionary from the fastboot USB screen the revolutionary continues to wait for the device to show. Is it likely that USB degugging was off prior to the failure, is there a way to get it on. I suggest this as when I connect it to my pc it recognizes the device and shows in the device manager as an htc unspecified device (this is progress). As I cannot boot android it does not show as an additional drive in file manger. when I try some of the fastboot oem commands I get bad command errors, whilst fastboot getvars is ok. Could this be why I cannot get revolutionary to S-OFF!
Thanks

additional info, when usb is in an in fastboot usb, the device manager sees it as android 1.0

ukubuntu said:
additional info, when usb is in an in fastboot usb, the device manager sees it as android 1.0
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also tried "fastboot oem writecid 11111111" and got "FAILED(remoteartition is not existed).."

ukubuntu said:
also tried "fastboot oem writecid 11111111" and got "FAILED(remoteartition is not existed).."
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So..... does this mean I am bricked?

BUMP!

ukubuntu said:
So..... does this mean I am bricked?
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If you can still get to bootloader / fastboot screen, then you are rarely ever bricked.
1. Ignore anything and everything to do with revolutionary and fastboot for now. I'm afraid the first few posts while trying to be helpful have been misleading. Get your phone booting up into Android OS first, i.e. into a stock ROM using an RUU
2. Use the 2.3.3. GB RUU, nothing else, it doesn't need a goldcard or care about CID etc.
3. Download it from the bottom here, then use Bortak's troubleshooting guide stickied to the top of Q&A, Point [7] to run it as a PB99IMG.zip from the root of your sdcard. That way you don't need to run it through USB or care about what drivers are installed.

Thank you Eddie, I will try that. I did try flash a PB99IMG.zip before with no success but I will try again.
I found it here Official Stock Sense Gingerbread_v1.2 GB-2.3.3_A2SD – http://androidba.se/J7 for desire (neophyte)
I hope it can work out ok. I guess I format the sd card to fat32 not ext4
Will let you know how it goes.
Thanks,
A

ukubuntu said:
Thank you Eddie, I will try that. I did try flash a PB99IMG.zip before with no success but I will try again.
I found it here Official Stock Sense Gingerbread_v1.2 GB-2.3.3_A2SD – http://androidba.se/J7 for desire (neophyte)
I hope it can work out ok. I guess I format the sd card to fat32 not ext4
Will let you know how it goes.
Thanks,
A
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That's a custom rom.
Here's the link for the 2.3.3 ruu.
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/downl...uu-now-to-update-to-to-the-latest-android-os/
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ukubuntu said:
I did try flash a PB99IMG.zip before with no success but I will try again.
I found it here Official Stock Sense Gingerbread_v1.2 GB-2.3.3_A2SD – http://androidba.se/J7 for desire (neophyte)/
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That did not work because the file is not an RUU...it is a stock rooted custom ROM with A2SD (the clue is in the name). It is designed to flashed in recovery like any other ROM. Renaming it to PB99IMG.zip won't do anything.
Use the actual shipped roms RUU link provided.
Reformat your sdcard to a single FAT32 partition if necessary, then follow Method [7] of the guide, place only the PB99IMG.zip on the root of the sdcard (not in any folder)