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Unable to load any ROM

OK, I know this sounds crazy, but...
I rooted my Desire late last year and I have tried several different ROMs on it. Most recently I was using Oxygen 2.0.3 and it was fine. I should have left it alone, but no I had to try something else. I installed MS_signed_CM_RC4 and although all seemed OK during the install, on re-boot, it would not go past the splash screen.
Then I saw LeeDroid v3, so I have been concentrating on getting that running. Unfortunately now it seems that regardless of the ROM, I cannot get past the splash screen.
Details of the phone are:
BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.83.0001
MICROP-051D
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.17.05.08
Jun 10 2010, 12:12:05
I have been using CWM 2.5.0.7 for a long time now and it's been just fine. I just tried to update this to 3.0.0.5-bravo, but again, it seemed to install, but I presume that because the phone will not complete a full boot sequence, it reverts back to 2.5.0.7.
I am totally frustrated with the phone and am willing to try anything to get it operational again. I would even consider going back to the original RUU, but I cannot see how I can do that from Recovery, which is the only thing that seems to be currently working.
Any ideas would be welcome.

Graeme748 said:
OK, I know this sounds crazy, but...
I rooted my Desire late last year and I have tried several different ROMs on it. Most recently I was using Oxygen 2.0.3 and it was fine. I should have left it alone, but no I had to try something else. I installed MS_signed_CM_RC4 and although all seemed OK during the install, on re-boot, it would not go past the splash screen.
Then I saw LeeDroid v3, so I have been concentrating on getting that running. Unfortunately now it seems that regardless of the ROM, I cannot get past the splash screen.
Details of the phone are:
BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.83.0001
MICROP-051D
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.17.05.08
Jun 10 2010, 12:12:05
I have been using CWM 2.5.0.7 for a long time now and it's been just fine. I just tried to update this to 3.0.0.5-bravo, but again, it seemed to install, but I presume that because the phone will not complete a full boot sequence, it reverts back to 2.5.0.7.
I am totally frustrated with the phone and am willing to try anything to get it operational again. I would even consider going back to the original RUU, but I cannot see how I can do that from Recovery, which is the only thing that seems to be currently working.
Any ideas would be welcome.
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have you tried to reinstall the Oxygen ROM (seeing that one worked for you in the past)? copy the rom down to your SD card, boot the phone into recovery and see how that goes.

Yes, thanks that was the first thing I tried! No luck - it just gets to that splash screen and hangs.

Do it again but now with a full wipe (data/factory reset and cache) you can try other roms as well but make sure you read some of the rom thread because I believe some other people also have boot issues with leedroid v3.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Premium App

If you had a backup.. just restore via recovery

Well, now I am embarrassed. I had a backup and didn't think about using it. I have just done so and all is well with the world again - Oxygen is restored. Call me stupid!!!!
and thanks, so much!!
Cheers
Graeme

if you still want to go to LeeDrOiD 3.0.2 you'll need to S-off using alpharev for newest HBoot before anything else
but people do need to realise it is beta though so expect problems
AmonRa 2.0.1 | PVT4 40000 S-Off Alpharev 1.8| HBoot 0.93.1000 | Radio 5.17.05.08 | LeeDroid 3.0.2 (A2SD) | HTC Desire A8181 | UOT Kitchen Mods

[Q] HBOOT .92 from .77 , stuck at "HTC Incredible" screen

Hey there ,
I had HBoot version .77 ( I think ) and went right to .92. Did it all as the instructions said to ( download the file,change it to the PBIMG13 or whatever.zip, put it at root of SD, did the update at the HBOOT screen and it says it's fine.) when I go to that Hboot screen now it says it indeed is .92 ( yay! ) but when I let it boot all the way it just hangs at the white HTC Incredible screen. I can get to recovery and all that stuff so it's not bricked just won't move passed that screen. My specs are the following :
Radio : 2.15.00.11.19
HBoot : .92
S-Off
CM7.0.0
whatever kernel comes stock with CM7...
If you have ideas or need more info please post!

So you flashed the newer hboot then tried to reboot but it wouldn't get past the splash screen? I'd say try restoring a backup but that wouldn't work since you're on the new hboot. Try reflashing the rom?

k_nivesout said:
So you flashed the newer hboot then tried to reboot but it wouldn't get past the splash screen? I'd say try restoring a backup but that wouldn't work since you're on the new hboot. Try reflashing the rom?
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So just flash a fresh ROM? Any suggestions with the current specs?

Huh...Out of the blue after I just recovered my latest backup it works fine and I just checked and I am still at .92 for HBOOT... Aaaalrighty my droid just hated me for a while I suppose... All is well!

Hm, I didn't think an old backup would work.. Glad you got it figured out though.

[Q] Struggling to flash new ROM after HBOOT flash...

Greetings All,
So I have a odd problem and have no idea what is causing it and where I should look to begin fixing it other than flash a RUU file.
I want to give my fiance my Desire to replace her ageing Sony Ericsson K800i and to achieve that I want the phone to be as stock as possible before I give it to her. So I flashed the Sense HBOOT from Alpharev's site and that went fine. It now says Alpharev Sense in pink at the top of the screen. I boot into Clockwork Recovery 3.0.2.8 and flashed Insercoin's Gingerbread Sense this after doing all the wipes. Well the phone stayed at the "Why so serious" screen for 30 minutes with no sign of activity. So I tried the flash all over again which still did not work. In the end I downloaded LeeDroid's 2.2 Froyo build, did all the wipes and flashed and still nothing. Sits at the "Why so serious screen".
What am I doing wrong here? All MD5's check out perfectly and I can still access all 3 menu's (HBOOT, fastboot and recovery).
Please help?

Flash the bravo hboot instead. The sense hboot isn't for HTC Sense. You will have to wipe and flash the rom again.
Swyped...

If the Sense HBOOT is not for the Sense phone what is meant for? Very confusing...
Thank you for the reply will redo tonight .

I've no idea. It's just another partition table for if you don't use as much /system, you get a little more internal storage. But the bravo hboot is the stock hboot.

Thanks mate that did it! Now my fiancé is very, very happy.

[Q] Noob with a bricked Desire - please help

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere - I have looked through lots of posts for a solution but haven't found one (or at least haven't recognised anything to be a solution) so here goes...
...I rooted my HTC Desire using Unrevoked and then installed a rom called Redux 1.2. All worked fine for a few days, then suddenly my phone stopped booting (it sticks at the HTC logo). If I hold the volume down key when I power on I get the HBOOT menu, but if I select Recovery from the menu i get stuck with the HTC logo again.
Please can anybody give me an idiots guide (I am not a techie unfortunately) to how i can unbrick my phone without access to the recovery menu? Or if this has already been covered, please post a link.
My phone specs are as follows:
BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
I thought I might be able to use Unrevoked to reflash the phone but it doesn't detect when the phone is connected...
Many thanks in advance for any help!

Well sure it doesn't see your phone as it doesn't boot...
Just flash the original rom updater utility from htc(ruu) and you will be back on a working recovery+system. Then you can root again.
Had you been s-off the solution would be simple but since you aren't that's the way to go.
Download the gingerbread ruu from here: http://www.htcdev.com/process/legal_download/152

Noob with a possibly bricked htc desire
Hi Folks,
i am a noob and have just started picking up the tricks of the trade.i have an unbranded htc desire. Was using the HiAPk rom till now. Then thought of flashing the INsertcoin 1.1.2. Created EXT4 for the same and recopied all data to my sdcard. Now when i try to flash any rom it just gets caught at the boot screen. Hi dont have a recovery image. But i do have a nandroid backup. Restoring the backup is not helping as well. The phone is s-off,rooted with clockword recovery 2.5.0.7. i do have access to recovery but, whatever i do, the phone gets stuck at the boot screen. Please assist. I guess this occured when i accidentally selected/deselected hboot/fastboot option? can that be a potential cause?

Why are you trashing this guys thread and starting a new one?

Thanks so much mortenmhp - that's 95% worked in that I do now have a working phone! However, if I select Recovery from the menu on the HBOOT screen, I just get the HTC logo followed by an image of the phone and an exclamation mark in a red triangle.
I just tried rooting with unrevoked anyway - thought it might also fix the Recovery problem - but got the error message "Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?".
Please can you (or anybody else!) advise what I should do to:
a) fix Recovery
b) get Root
Since installing the HTC gingerbread rom my HBOOT is now 1.02.0001 and my radio is 5.17.05.23
Many thanks in advance!

You cannot root your phone with unrevoked. You fave to use revolutionary.
TouchPaled from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App

tingle769 said:
Thanks so much mortenmhp - that's 95% worked in that I do now have a working phone! However, if I select Recovery from the menu on the HBOOT screen, I just get the HTC logo followed by an image of the phone and an exclamation mark in a red triangle.
I just tried rooting with unrevoked anyway - thought it might also fix the Recovery problem - but got the error message "Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?".
Please can you (or anybody else!) advise what I should do to:
a) fix Recovery
b) get Root
Since installing the HTC gingerbread rom my HBOOT is now 1.02.0001 and my radio is 5.17.05.23
Many thanks in advance!
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Well the "recovery problem" is not actually a problem. What you see is the stock htc recovery(since you put your phone completely back to stock). You can convince yourself by pressing vol up+power(might be vol down+power don't remember) on the screen with the exclamation mark and you should see the actual recovery menu.
This will all be fixed by rooting, which will also replace the stock recovery with a custom one(clockwork mod).
Since i linked you the latest htc release, unrevoked won't work. But Revolutionary will: http://revolutionary.io/
Just follow the simple directions.

"Bricked" word should be banned on these forums.
You have no idea what are you talking about, it's nowhere close to a brick. People open's a Q&A forums and then they see a **** ton of a "Bricked threads" just scaring them away.
/sigh

Sure but I'm not sure you filling support threads complaining will help I agree though.

Desire stuck in fastboot RUU mode

First of all, hello to all forum members!
I had not been particularly active here in the forum,
but I read a lot here and build some knowledge.
so far I have solved all my problems due to browse and read.
But now I am facing a problem, where I need help.
I got a desire from a friend with wrong nexus one blackrose hboot.
I managed to install alpharev hboot on it, but its not booting the rom, neither the recovery.
I decided to get a ruu on it, to reflash boot, system, recovery, etc.
After i did:
Code:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip <rom.zip>
the phone is stuck in fastboot RUU mode. No matter if I pull the battery and power on with vol-, vol+ or back, the fastboot RUU mode starts (Black screen with htc logo in the middle and 4 exclamation marks in the corners).
What Ive done so far:
Tried different RUUs(Europe, WWE) via fastboot. Most of them fail while writing radio image.
Tried to flash the radio image via fastboot. Most of them stuck while writing.
Asked a friend with exactly matching hardware to send me his working nand backup, his hboot is CM7 r2, so I flashed it
to match his nand backup.
I flashed his boot/recovery/system/cache and the latest radio, matching the nand backup.
The latest radio was flashed successfully.
The recovery in his nand backup was 4EXT Touch 1.0.0.3
So, after flashing boot, recovery, system, cache and even misc and userdata (AND erasing them prior on second try), the behaviour stays the same, the phone wont boot the rom or recovery and no matter what buttons I press on power on, it boots at fastboot RUU mode.
I tried
Code:
fastboot oem boot
, but that keeps stucking in the white htc splash1
If I plug in the usb cable and pull it out again, I see the hboot infos:
AlphaRev CM7 r2
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.92.1002
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.17.05.23
<date>
RUU
After a lot of research, Ive found several opinions:
-its a brick (sure it is ;D)
-its a radio brick (ive sucessfully flashed the newest radio, so I doubt it)
Almost all users wo tried it hardly, and havent given up after the second try,
recovered their phone from this fastboot RUU mode.
I can run all fastboot extended commands, and flash RUUs over it.
So: what have I done wrong? Is there anything missing?
Can someone who knows what he says please take a look over it?
Thank you really much
criestr

After "a lot" of research you still haven't looked at my guide, well done.

Sure Ive looked at your guide,
I work with linux, and I hate flashing tools.
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
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Is it any difference to use
Code:
fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl.img
instead of using Android Flasher?
I dont think so, and Ive already done the steps in your guide, except using Android Flasher to flash the AlphaRev stock version.
Or is there another point in your guide that Im missing?
If so, then I am sorry for wasting your time.
I know, I am "new" here, so thats the standard answer for all newbs from you.
Thats ok. But Ive fixed a lot of phones without open even one thread, just with hours of research. But after google search for about 8 hours, several tries and following several guides and tips I didnt find an answer yet.
New update: Ive managed to push and boot the 4EXT Recovery image.

Fair enough, but the guide was meant to be made as easy to use as possible.
All you had to do was flash the stock hboot, or the downgrader, and then try a RUU.
The reason for it being stuck, is because alpharev hboots have write protection (meaning they won't be overwritten until you use the downgrader), and since you had the cm7r2 partition flashed, there was not enough space in /system for the stock ROM.

Hi again,
thanks for your answer.
I had the right stock hboot whilst flashing the RUU, so that wasnt the problem.
The RUU always failed to write the radio. A few hours ago i figured out that
the problem was because of a faulty battery. I changed the battery, loaded it
half an hour, and voila! the RUU was running quite fine.
The stock rom wasnt booting yet, but from then it was possible to go into the HBOOT/Fastboot, so it was making progress ;D
After another research I found out that my misc partition was screwed, maybe because the blackrose hboot, maybe because of the pre-owner.
Fixed the misc partition with cid, kernel commandlines & rom version.
After that I wiped cache and data, and did fastboot oem boot.
The rom was booting, but did random reboots/crashes after about 3-5 mins.
After 3 or 4 reboots the phone is now stuck at htc splash1, and isnt booting anymore.
For now I will try to flash the nand backup again, see if that works out.
Anyone has an better idea?
Thanks alot
criestr

New update:
The phone switched randomly between bootable and non-bootable bootloop/stuck in splash1.
I tried different radios, different boot & system.img from RUUs.
I can flash a new recovery, tried 4 different ones, none of them is booting,
not over hboot->recovery and also not over
Code:
fastboot oem gencheckpt
.
The only thing that worked was to erase cache and immediatly do
Code:
fastboot boot recovery.img
,
so after the stock rom randomly reboots, I decided to install a custom rom for CM7 r2 hboot. So I flashed the CM7 r2 hboot again, erased cache, booted the recovery and flashed rom.
The rom was booting! But again, after fiddling with flashing a new recovery with 4EXT Updater, the rom rebooted into splash1 and stuck there.
After this first time, it has yet never rebooted again. So I twist my fingers that it was a custom rom bug on first boot.
Flashing the recovery via 4EXT Updater worked for me, despite of none of the recoverys flashed via fastboot had booted before.
Anyway, thanks for the help.
Hopefully it helps someone with the same problem,
but I doubt there are many people dumb enough to flash blackrose hboot on a desire
Cheers
criestr

I had a similar problem with my old Magic. I have Desire now but never had that problem. I hope not.
Anyways, the way I solved it was to flash the right radio.img. I supposed you can try to fastboot flash radio radio.img. Make sure you use the right radio.img. That is what I did if I recall correctly and it worked for me on Magic. I don't know if it is will work on Desire that way.
The other thing is when Ruu failed at radio, I think it is because the lower version of radio.
I hope this helps.
Try it and let me know.

bortak said:
After "a lot" of research you still haven't looked at my guide, well done.
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link please