[q] really need help! - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey all at XDA.
This is my first thread, and im excited about the responses.
But.. My problem is, that i cant flash my HTC Desire.. Allthough i got it rooted, with unrevoked..
But evrytime i want to flash it by installing a new rom by using clockworkmod, it just says "installing"
Installing aborted (status 7)
Now i have been searching for some solution, byt without luck.. I would really like to get some remote help in form of Team Viewer, or like that.
Btw, my HTC is a PVT4 40000, not a PVT4 20000. And i tried looking out for some sort of solution for that too.. But still without luck..
I really hope there is somebody that would take some time, to explain me how to solve this problem..
I may sound a bit noobish, but im not much into all this way to flash a desire. Im coming right from a HTC HD2..
Many thanks..
- Kwapper.

AFAIK CWM recovery doesn't work properly with PVT4 devices.
You have to use either AmonRa or try a recovery from my signature, its brilliant.

Thanks!
Ima go try that. But i would like if i could add you on msn, or such.. I could really use som personal help.

Bah, i dont even know how to install that recovery mod you recommended.. I really suck at this, and need some personal help..

Just google how to flash Amon-ra as your recovery.

Download amonra recovery, integrate it in unrevoked (file>custom recovery>choose downloaded amonra recovery) and run unrevoked.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20471345/SUroot/Tools/Android/Recovery/recovery-RA_2.0.1.img
As i mentioned earlier you can also try recovery from my signature.

As you rooted try this with terminal emulator and recovery image placed in root of your sd card
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/name of your recovery image.img

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ClockworkMod broken?

Hey there.
I just got myself a (white) Desire with SLCD:
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Since i want to install oxygen2 RC7 i rooted the phone first with unrevoked3.
It seems that it worked since "Rom Manager" got su. But booting into Recovery gives me following lines:
E:cant mount cache:recovery/command
E:cant find misc:
because of that i cant do a nandroid backup and i guess flashing a new rom also wont work.
so i tried to re-root the Desire with unrevoked several times (using Linux Ubuntu) but nothing changed. Furthermore unrevoked told me, that my firmware was too new (because i'm already rooted?)
so i tried flashing AmonRa 2.0 with unrevoked. wont work and firmware still too new.
so i tried:
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0.img in cmd (after downloading Android SDK)
but it said something about signature verify fail.
After a while i found a workaround by booting the AmonRa recovery first with:
fastboot boot recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0.img
but it told me something about FAILED <remote: not allowed>
I guess flashing the stock rom from shippedRoms and re-rooting the desire wont work since i dont believe that flashing a ROM is possible. Also i'm new to this stuff (rooted and flashe Desire with AMOLED before) and would prefer to not brick my phone
any ideas?
(btw: please excuse my bad english)
edit: i can't even wipe the phone. if i try it gives me the mentioned lines from above.
Have you read the stickie in general? There the pvt4 situation is explained.
Also a ruu (stuff from shiped roms) does not require root.
So you can unroot and use unrevoked again with the right recovery image or if your comfortable S-offing you could do that and use fastboot to flash the recovery image.
Keep in mind that you are the only one responsible for your phone, no one else.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
thanks!!
i overlooked this thread. As soon as the desire gets home (actually it belongs to my girlfriend) i'm gooing to try again by flashing RUU and rooting again with AmonRa Recovery since i don't know if S-offing the device would be the best idea.
Thanks so far. I will report in time.
hey.
i just found out, that the phone is a branded one (vodafone_fr).
So just in case i created a goldcard as long as the device is running.
I downloaded following RUUs:
OTA_Bravo_Vodafone FR_(A1 Österreich)_von 1.21.163.2 zu 2.10.163.1
OTA_Bravo_Froyo_Vodafone FR_(A1 Österreich) von 2.10.163.1_zu 2.33.163.1_R
i renamed it to PB99IMG.zip, put it on the SD Card and restarted the phone while holding volumeDown.
After a while it gives me "PB99IMG.zip.....No image or wrong image"
After reboot nothing changed.
Is there any possibility to get a working RUU for my Desire (2.33.163.1).
Or HAVE i to go via alpharev S-off?
Man, with my PVT1 Amoled Desire the whole procedure was done within half an hour.
greetz
You don't rename the RUU itself, you need to extract the ROM.zip file from the RUU and rename that. Follow this guide I posted on another thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10509780&postcount=102
Hey guys and thanks for your help.
I managed to get root via unrevoked and flash AmonRA by uninstalling zysploit FIRST. Now unrevoked didnt tell me anymore that my firmware ist too new.
Summarizing: If yout get something like this after rooting with unrevoked:
E:cant mount cache
E:cant find misc
than u just have to re-root your desire with unrevoked. This time you have to load a custom recovery (i recommend AmonRa 2.0 since it worked for me) and deinstall Rom Manager and zyploit from your phone before plugging in you phone.
In the Linux Terminal it still says "Error n=-1 ... no such device " three times but it stills works.
Now it was possible for me to run a nandroid backup and to partition the sd
THANKS guys

Recovery Problem

I recently flashed CM7 RC1 and everything was fine minus a few problems with the market so i decided to re-flash the rom in the hopes that it might fix it. then came my issues.
the phone wouldn't boot into CWM recovery through rom manager (stops at red triangle) same thing happens when trying to do this manually.
only positive is that it still boots up CM7.
any idea how i can fix this?
any help is appreciated.
When you can boot into CM7 try install CWM via Rom manager.
sorry i forgot to mention in my opening post that i have tried this several times, it says its downloaded successfully and shows it as my current recovery yet it still doesn't work
Are you S-Off'd? You could try a 'Fastboot flash recovery' command and just flash on the Clockwork recovery IMG yourself.
the phone is s-on
So try Alpharev, or you can install stock RUU rom and root your phone again.
not too sure really how alpharev works so if there is a simpler option ill use that.
unable to use a RUU rom as it comes up with an error.
im stumped
Make sure youve got a file 'update.zip' in the root of your sdcard.
If you haven't, try copying 'recovery-update.zip' from your clockworkmod folder and rename it 'update.zip'
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.Hodgy. said:
not too sure really how alpharev works so if there is a simpler option ill use that.
unable to use a RUU rom as it comes up with an error.
im stumped
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Can you try the unrevoked root method again? Should flash on the recovery image.
AlphaRev is easy, you download the .ISO, burn that to a CD, boot into that Live CD, connect phone, and it'll do the rest.
unrevoked seems to have sorted it cheers for the help everyone.

need Recovery for HBoot 93 SLCD

Hi,
I have a TELUS HTC Desire that was already rooted when I got it.
It has HBOOT 0.93
I didn't know that my phone was SLCD so when I used ROM Manager to flash recovery, it messed up my recovery.
If I go into hboot, and press down arrow to boot into recovery, I get the black screen with the little phone and the red triangle with the exclamation mark.
I was desperate enough to try the ClockworkMod Recovery for the HBOOT 0.83 (ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.1 SLCD)
from hxxp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748618
flashed that on with UnrEVOked but didn't work. Recovery is still messed up.
I googled and searched for a week to find something for HBOOT 0.93 but I never find anything. Everything is for 82, 83 and 92. There are other people who asked about 0.93 in other threads but there are never answers to them.
Does anyone know of a proper ClockwordMod recovery img or ANY recovery img I can flash for my HBOOT 0.93
My phone is already android 2.2 but i would really like to flash to LeeDroid
Should I reflash my phone with the RUU to get rid of any dmg done? The only thing i'm afraid of is that my phone will be unrooted because of the RUU reflash and I can't find a way to root it.
If it's not possible to use UnrEVOked or Rom Manager to install LeeDroid because of HBOOT 0.93, I'm willing to manually do it.
But will the LeeDroid flash properly onto my phone if it's HBoot 0.93?
Does the flashboot thing when i boot into the HBOOT work for installing custom ROMS if I can't get into recovery? I noticed it will load images...but not sure exactly what the fastboot thing is suppose to do.
Thanks!!
HBOOT 0.93 is not the problem, neither is your SLCD. Use fastboot to flash your recovery, I suggest use either AmonRa 2.0.1 or CWM 2.5.1.8.
CWM from ROM Manager isn't the best recovery for your HBoot as I think it flashes 2.5.0.7 which is no good on your HBoot.
You can't flash a ROM from fastboot, you need recovery. Once you've done that, LeeDrOiD will work fine on your setup, but I would suggest you study up a lot more before proceeding, for one thing, it's easy to find a lot of info on HBoot 0.93 on this forum, secondly, get to know fastboot etc as you needs to know this for when things go wrong with cheat/easy methods like ROM Manager.
Take your time, be confident you know what you are doing it before you do it, you don't want to brick your phone.
Both of you need to know quite a bit more, but especially the OP...
But no he can of course not flash an unsigned recovery from fastboot without being s-off, and from the sound of the first post I'm confident he's not.
ghalalb is right though when he states that this has nothing to do with your bootloader version or slcd, and i really can't imagine how you can get the simple instructions on here wrong, but please simply use unrevoked via usb. It comes preloaded with a perfectly fine recovery for you, and also i believe you should really reconsider the decision to hack your phone with this little knowledge on the subject.
Also 2.5.0.7 vs 2.5.1.8 has nothing to do with hboot versions.. Both will work fine if flashed correctly, but the problem with just making rom manager flash the recovery is, that it is not quite up to date, so it does not actually flash anything. It just downloads an update.zip file, which loads the recovery when flashed. This fixed the problem of not being able to flash a custom recovery back before unrevoked came around. And to correct you on another thing you got wrong, yes you can actually flash a zip file containing something like a rom from fastboot if you are s-off. It will probably just not work exactly the same way, as the recoveries does.
That's interesting that you say hboot version and slcd has nothing to do with the ClockworkMod when other threads are very specific about which clockworkmod version you should use depending on your hboot and if your phone is slcd or not.
Also last time I did an update to the phone, it just used the fastboot. Didn't go into recovery.
I followed the exact instructions for unrevoked but an error occurrs when it tries to unroot...All I wanted to do was flash the recovery and not unroot the phone since it's already unrooted. So probably that's why it was having problems. But the recovery was still messed up after unrevoked did it's work.
I wonder if part of the problem is because I'm using a test image and not the actual production image for the phone. Which is probably another reason why the phone was already unrooted.
I'll try to reflash my phone using the RUU for a production image and try Unrevoked again just so everything is clean from the start
Trust me it doesn't matter. The only problem was on slcd phones back when they first came out, where cwm didn't contain the drivers for the new screen.
That is why it says it's for 0.83, as back then 0.83 was equal to slcd and all amoled models had come with 0.75 or 0.80. But now after the newer updates everyone is on 0.93 or so, and all newer cwm recoveries will work for both amoled and slcd. So no there is not a specific recovery for every bootloader, and there is no way a flash from rom manager messed your recovery up, as it never flashes anything.
And i think you might need to slow down and think about what you are doing? Because you talk about unrooting with unrevoked, and unrevoked will probably try to root your phone If you use unrevoked correctly you will have it working fine.
Also you say last time you updatet it, it used fastboot? updatet it officially? As then there is a reason you have the stock recovery. But try using the ruu and then go back to rooting using unrevoked or just keep it stock, as it might not be a good idea trying something without knowing what it does.
edit: and the screen you get with the phone in a triangle with an exclamation mark doesn't mean anything is wrong. It's just the stock htc recovery... If you press vol-up+power(or vol-down+power i don't remember) when you see this screen, you get a simple menu, which lets you flash update.zip and erase data.
mortenmhp said:
edit: and the screen you get with the phone in a triangle with an exclamation mark doesn't mean anything is wrong. It's just the stock htc recovery... If you press vol-up+power(or vol-down+power i don't remember) when you see this screen, you get a simple menu, which lets you flash update.zip and erase data.
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Thanks for your response I thought that the triangle screen was bad since I tried the volume stuff and I couldn't get to the screen.
But if that's the stock htc recovery, then that means the clockworkmod recovery wasn't flashed properly?
I will try the keys again when i get to the recovery state later.
Actually I was having problems with UnrEVOked because my phone was ALREADY rooted. So it was trying to do something that was already done which is probably why it failed. I only needed unrevoked to flash the recovery...I didn't need it to do anything else but the recovery.
What I have on my phone right now is not the official load. It has test keys and crap in it....
Anyways, I'll see if I can get into the recovery menu properly before doing the RUU flash to have a clean start.
Ok Unrevoked should work fine anyway though. It just flashes a recovery and the su binary plus the superuser app. So if you are rooted it will just overwrite them. Your problem is far more likely to be a driver problem.
I rooted the old way as well(the one only allowing test keys signed roms) and then i used fake flash from rom manager until alpharev s-off came along, and now i just flash everything but roms from fastboot, it's far easier.
driver problem?
I followed the unrevoked instructions and my computer recognizes the phone while it's in bootloader
i can also adb shell into it when it's just normally powered on etc
oh and to answer previous question, yes i updated to 2.2 using fastboot
i put IMG99.zip onto my sdcard
powered on while holding the volume down for fastboot
it went and found the image on my sd card and grabbed it...and asked if I wanted to update...and viola...2.2
my phone was...2.0 or 2.1 when i first got it i think...i forgot what it was before 2.2
that's why i asked if anyone just stuck a custom rom into their SD card and tried using fastboot before....seems like everyone these days use things like rom manager, unrevoked etc >_<
I would think that the fastboot would find the zip file and can unzip and load it just like how it did the testkey one i did before....but i thought i would ask before i tried....maybe i should wait next week until i'm at home and have sd card readers in case anything goes wrong so i can recover the phone easier lol
There is a reason why people don't do that.. When you flash that way via fastboot, it only allow zip files signed by HTC, if you are s-on, and those write everything on the system to stock, which means you lose root and custom/modified recovery.
You could potentially do it that way if you were s-off, but the bootloader flashing utility does not allow as sophisticated commands as the custom recovery does, so everything in the original roms is actually packed in .img files for every partition.
All good advice.
I offered mine as my Desire would not accept CWM 2.5.0.7 (to this day it doesn't), and it would only accept CWM 2.5.1.8 or AmonRa 2.0.1. (as they work on PVT4 with a 40000 page) As for unrevoked, the only version that works for my Desire is 3.2.1, the latest (which I think is 3.3.2) doesn't work on my Desire.
It seems the longer these phones are around, the more individualised rooting and recovery has become, so advice should maybe always come with a word of caution.
***this is what worked for my device***
TinyAggie, I hope you are getting there!
Yep new page size will require the modified cwm for it, but it still has nothing to do with hboot version. However the other recoveries should flash ok as well, they just won't work well for installing roms(gave some error), which he hasn't come to yet
ghalalb said:
All good advice.
I offered mine as my Desire would not accept CWM 2.5.0.7 (to this day it doesn't), and it would only accept CWM 2.5.1.8 or AmonRa 2.0.1. (as they work on PVT4 with a 40000 page) As for unrevoked, the only version that works for my Desire is 3.2.1, the latest (which I think is 3.3.2) doesn't work on my Desire.
It seems the longer these phones are around, the more individualised rooting and recovery has become, so advice should maybe always come with a word of caution.
***this is what worked for my device***
TinyAggie, I hope you are getting there!
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I found the same thing that only unrevoked 3.2 would work with my device.
I finally managed to flash the custom rom and is what i did to make it all work >_< Maybe it'll help someone else
I started with a fresh official load by flashing the RUU.
Then I used unrevoked that you can download from their website
I still got an error. CID missing. I go searching for it and it seems like a common enough error that the unrevoked team had addressed it
Because of the error, it was not able to unroot and flash recovery properly. The only thing it did was s-off.
So 2 ways to get root/recovery on your phone
1. Manually....find a PB99IMG.ZIP file that has root in it and flash that, then you can either use rom manager to flash the recovery or do it manually as well.
I created my own PB99IMG.zip with the recovery image of clockworkmod for desire using the android info .txt file I had in my other PB99IMG that contained the root access. Put the PB99IMG.zip into your SD card, go to Flash boot and let it do it's magic.
2. Easier way, get unrevoked 3.2 ... There was a warning for using it. Apparently you should only use the 3.2 version if you get the CID error.
But with unrevoked 3.2 it will give you superuser and the recovery image without you doing anything so it's easier.
So after I finally got Root, I backed up my sd card onto my comp.
Then I partitioned my SD card using ROM manager.
Once that was done, i flashed into recovery to do a backup.
After that I tried using ROM manager to flash leedroid...
it looked ok but it never managed to get past the splash screen after 20mins so I pulled the battery and rebooted
Same problem so I decided to flash manually.
Went into recovery and cleared everything then flashed the rom from SD.
Now I'm on leedroid
So far it looks exactly the same as the stock rom. It has everything I need so I'm happy.
I hope this helps anyone with similar problems.
Sometimes you just can't take the easy way out and have to do things manually

[Q] Cannot flash radio or ROM to HTC Desire

Hi, total newbie here to flashing etc so forgive my dumbness, but its getting on my tits now!! I am trying to flash my phone to Leedroid HD v3.3.3
I have a HTC Desire running 2.3 stock rom on radio 5.17.05.23.
I have managed to get as far as downgrading my HBOOT to 6.93.1002, turning S-OFF and installing Revolutionary CWM v4.0.1.4 recovery.
I have downloaded the recommended radio 5.17.05.08 but that is as far as I can get. When i put the radio zip file (or even just the radio.img file) onto the root on my sd card and load the HBOOT up, it runs through everything saying no file or wrong file found?
When I try and install zip from recovery it tells me that "amend scripting is no longer supported" amongst other things?
Can someone tell me where I am going wrong please??? Thanks
Afaik, you don't need updating radio, during have s-off. Have you tried flash ROM?
Yeah everytime I try to flash anything it doesn't work. Nothing will load up it seems during HBOOT and the Recovery won't load anything, just comes up with that error message.
Another thing is that when I go into ROM Manager, it says that it can't find superuser and that I need to root my phone??? Have I missed something here, i thought I had already done that?
sorted it, seemed I hadn't wiped the phone etc etc
can someone get rid of this post please
Are you solved your problem now?

Problem Flashing Clockwork Recover! :(

Hi Guys , Need a Little help here ,
well currently ive upgraded to Froyo 2.2 , after couple of bad lucks , ive succeeded in rooting my rom ... now the actual problem is that after following all the procedures , i am not able to flash Clockwork recovery ...ive tried putting ESRIMP.zip in the root of SD card with Update.zip ..but its not reading it in HBOOT ...
please help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Please guyz! can some one help ((((((
Have you tried to install CM thru rom manager?
Yup ... ive tired doin so , but no luck , when i go into the recovery mode ..its still the same old Recovery , where i can just flash update.zip ..which is not workin as well
You need the recovery img file and push it through adb.. its easier through terminal emulator but you need s-off for that method
Sent from my fingertips using Android.
I was able to get cwr by putting the update.zip on my sd card and selecting recovery from the hboot menu. once there I just selected 'Apply sdcard:update.zip'.
Once I did that it loaded straight to the cwr menu. I'm still learning all this stuff but I hope that helps
What next?
Hey, all. I'm having a similar problem. I went through the HTCdev process of unlocking my bootloader, and I rooted with SuperOneClick 2.2.. I've installed Clockwork Mod via the market, and tried to flash it, but the bootloader will only access the regular Android recovery screen. When I try to flash via fastboot and/or recovery (and I've tried flashing Clockwork Mod and CM7), I just get an error message.
As is probably obvious, I'm looking for the simplest fix, but any suggestions you can give me are welcome. Thanks!
yes, as stated before you can't flash clockworkmod recovery, or any recovery, without S-OFF on your device. however this is very risky and may brick your phone, so be warned

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