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[Q] my desire boots, resets then does nothing?

Hello,
yesterday i tried to root my Desire, but i forgot to remove HTCsync, now the phone boots sometimes untill screenlock/pincode. then the phone resets itself, and just vibrates 7 times and boots/reset for aprox 3 or 4 times then it dies.
unrevoked worked fine until it was waiting for a reboot it never installed clockworkmod so i dont have a clue how to fix it, i tried to flash PB99IMG from different stock roms, the Desire was simlock free, but now it tells me wrong CID,
now i have:
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.02.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCHPANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Jul 22 2011,16:19:16
So i can go in to the first stage of recovery, (vol down plus powerbutton) but when i want to continue to RECOVERY the phone gets stuck in the white screen wit HTC logo and thats it.
thanks in advance,
best regards,
Marcel

Search for a user called 'bortak' and look for his troubleshooting guide, it should give you enough info to get your phone working again!

It sounds to me like you should have read and learned more before you did this. If you can press volume down + power and you get the Clockworkmod Recovery then you can stop worrying. Plug the phone into the PC via USB cable and then using the trackball or the volume +/- buttons scroll down to 'Mounts and storage' then press either the trackball or power button to select. Once there scroll to the bottom option, 'Mount USB storage'. Your PC will hopefully recognise it as a disk drive now.
Now go pick any ROM that will work with a stock hboot, they will quite clearly say 'stock'. I personally use LeeDroid 3.3.3 HD wotsit, Apps2SD. Runs well, battery life is good but don't feel that you have to copy my choice, any ROM with a 'stock' version will work.
Download it and copy it across to your phones SD card - you did remember to connect the phone as I detailed above right?
Ok, once done press the back button on the phone, press back again to get to the main menu then select factory reset, then wipe cache then select 'Advanced' and wipe Dalvik cache. Press back, install zip from SD card, select the file that you copied to it, let it do its stuff and click reboot when prompted.
Hopefully, you'll have a working phone.
A couple of caveats though :-
1) You will lose all apps and data and have to start afresh
2) You will lose all contacts and messages (unless already backed up to Google)
3) I am assuming that you have created an EXT partition on your SD card. If not then you have REALLY jumped into this too fast!
And finally, don't try flashing different hboots via the pb99.img method until you have a clue what you're doing.
Good luck.

Hi there thanks for the quick reply,
the problem is i can get in to fastboot, but when i try to go in to recovery the phone stays stuck in the white screen with the htc logo and thats it.
i already rooted a different desire and that went smooth. no probs what so ever.
So i repeated the same steps on this desire and everything went exactly the opposite
way that it should have been.

Volume down + Power on is not fastboot, that's recovery.
I'm out anyway, all of the answers are available.

You have to create a goldcard:
http://android.modaco.com/topic/308798-pc-application-goldcardtool/
You can this with another working desire as well, because goldcard is only connected to goldcard and has nothing to with the phone.
When done, put this in your desire and then flash ruu via PB99IMG.zip file again. The goldcard will avoid CID error.

will it work if i use my Legend for making the goldcard?

Don't see why not. Just give it a try.

vibrates 7 times... that's a bad sign :S

now i keep getting main version is older???

now i'm stuck with the htc logo and the for reclamation marks in every corner.
i cant use android flasher because i'm S-on
if i try to update i get : radio v2 failed.
then partition failed?
i have created a gold card without any problems. but now the phone doesnt even give me the chance to select fastboot or recovery, it only says RUU and then the 4 exclamation marks.

DAMA0707 said:
now i'm stuck with the htc logo and the for reclamation marks in every corner.
i cant use android flasher because i'm S-on
if i try to update i get : radio v2 failed.
then partition failed?
i have created a gold card without any problems. but now the phone doesnt even give me the chance to select fastboot or recovery, it only says RUU and then the 4 exclamation marks.
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Could be radio brick. Hope for you that it is not!
Did you use the PB99IMG.zip method with your goldcard?

is it possible that the gold card i created with my htc legend doesnt work in my HTC desire?

Don't see why it shouldn't work. But not 100% sure.

Desire Help

Work colleague has nailed her Desire, only boots as far as the HBOOT screen, cant use volume rocker to select fastboot, recovery, clear storage or simlock.
Have followed various threads, downloaded Android SDK, AlphaRev etc etc which dont recognise the device has been connected, all tried without HTC sync drivers installed and uninstalled, even HTC Desire 2.3 RUU rom update attempted.
Colleague advises it is rooted, i suspect this is not the case, out of my comfort zone - will leave handset charging - will it take a charge from HBOOT menu using microusb mains charger ?

poweroff, hold back & power. It should boot into fastboot. then run the 2.3 RUU

Please try to keep subject lines descriptive. "Desire help" in a Desire help forum doesn't give much to go on. You may not attract helpful members as they want to know a brief synopsis of the issue before opening a thread.
I only opened the thread to type this tbh.

apologies, unable to use volume up or down to select
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.001
MICROP-031d
RADIO-5.11.05.2
So looks like S-ON is enabled after all, ah well

Just to clarify, S-OFF and root are two different things.
It does sound like either a hardware of software issue, possibly the latter.
Like Bortak suggests, it may be worth running a RUU from fastboot (ROM Upgrade utility) from a PC to wipe and completely set everything as default.
If Hboot still broken, probably hardware but should be good for a warranty return.

Ok shes fessed up shes dropped it a few times lol
I suspect battery is not holding its charge unable to flash with HTC RUU constantly advises under 30% battery charge, stuck on bootloader screen.
Handset is missing the rear cover and has a dirty big scratch across the screen... yes my thoughts.
Unable to detect handset in linux environment (vmware)

Sometimes with certain issues, the battery does report that. Only other way is to get a PB99IMG.zip on the root of the SD card. Hboot prompts to install but you need volume button functionality to work.
I am betting it is a hardware issue though, due to accidental damage.

[q] boot loop/ semi brick Desire z not rooted S-ON

Hey guys.
I have the problem with the boot loop /semi brick. Expect I never had any problem before, with the phone. I have tried taking out the sd card, starting it agian. I have tried without simcard. I have tried to flash the ROM with RUU_Vision_Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.42.405.2_Radio_ 12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_199043_signed
via Hboot Fastboot USB PLUG mode (which was the only mode the aplication was progressing in until it want to restart the phone in bootloader), but the phone frezzes and the aplication on the computer just keep working, without progress.
The factory reset just frezzes the phone.
The only thing that really seem to not frezze the phone is the revocery option. Here the phone react with restart showing a image of a phone with two green arrows bent around, over a image of the phone. Then it turns off the display and vibrate 4-5 times, og stays turn off not reacting to anything other then taking out the battery and you can start the phone once again.
VISION PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.85.0013
MICROP-26.10.04.19_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 11 2011, 23:36:27
Have no idea but the version of android. I know that usb debugging is NOT on Any hjelp is a big help. I'm a noob, And I have been searching for 3 days for a solution, so I just hope you can help my, otherwise it is going for a repair at the place I bought it.
Thanks

[Q]Completely unresponsive Desire

Hi everyone. My friends Desire seems to be completely dead. What we did:
- we s-offed desire with revolutionary
- we tried several ROMs with no problem
- the last ROM was the Sandvold ICS ROM
- in one day desire doesn't response - whatever you do it ends up in bootloader. Problem is, that we cannot use volume up and down to enter recovery or fastboot. We also wanted to reflash hboot by renaming it to PMG... with no success. It recognized the file in SD card and showed only - "PARSING" for more than half an hour. And nothing else. After taking battery out and power on again it shows only following:
- REVOLUTIONARY-
BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.93.1002
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.17.05.23
Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18
It seems that the phone has broken navigation arrows (hardware) or something, because you cannot do nothing - if you want to power off the phone, you must take the battery out.
Do you have any idea what we can try? (I also made a golcard and I have working ADB - if necessary).
Many thanks for any reply.

It would seem the phone is hanging in bootloader which is not a very good sign. Some suggestions:-
- Let the phone cool down and try booting.
- Pull battery, start phone with back+power to go directly to fastboot. If it enters fastboot mode this way then there is hope.
- What hboot was in PB99IMG.zip? Was the md5 ok ? With hboot and radio there are no second chances. Did the problems occur after this procedure or before.

handy5876 said:
It would seem the phone is hanging in bootloader which is not a very good sign. Some suggestions:-
- Let the phone cool down and try booting.
- Pull battery, start phone with back+power to go directly to fastboot. If it enters fastboot mode this way then there is hope.
- What hboot was in PB99IMG.zip? Was the md5 ok ? With hboot and radio there are no second chances. Did the problems occur after this procedure or before.
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Thanks for quick answer. Unfortunately, phone didn't boot into fastboot after pressing BACK+POWER ... Yes, it was PB99IMG.zip. MD5 was for sure correct because I flashed this exact file several times before with success.
This problem occured before trying update hboot.
It looks like R.I.P. for Desire - isn't it?

The phone first boots the radio (modem processor) and thereafter the bootloader(hboot) (application pocessor). They both are the starting points. Without them booting successfully there is no easy access to the phone. Maybe somebody has got better suggestions.

[Q] Need HELP PLEASE!!!...USB Issues/Stuck in HBOOT

My mother powered down her phone and when she turned it back it comes back up to this screen
Bravoc DVT2 Ship S-0N
HBOOT-1.06.0000
MICROP-051e
TOUCH Panel-SYNT0101
Radio-2.15.00.02.17
Dec 22 2010 16:16:39
HBOOT USB PLUG
<vol up> to previous item
<vol down> to next item
<power> to select
FASTBOOOT
RECOVERY
CLEAR STORAGE
SIMUNLOCK
a few secs after the phone starts up it flashs PB99diag.zip and pb99img.zip missing
the buttons on the phone do not function
I have tried installing android-sdk, htc sync, hboot drivers and cannot get the phone to found when on my Windows 7 64 bit machine, so I can push a new pb99img.zip to the phone...but i cannot get the phone to be found.
In device mananger it shows up as Android 1.0.
I can manually install the drivers but adb will still not show the device as listed.
The phone is not in USB debugging mode since none of this was intentional.
If anyone has any tips or advice it would be most aprreciated.

Did you root the phone previously? Did you install a custom ROM on it?
What you see is the HBOOT menu. To move the marker down you press the volume down button, to move it up you press the volume up button, and to make a selection you press the power button. Can you tell me if this works?
What happens if you take out the battery, put it back in and press the power button? I doubt it that the phone enters the HBOOT menu on it's own. Is that what you are saying? Normally you need to press and hold down the volume down button and the power button to enter this menu. So to stop entering the HBOOT menu just stop holding down the volume button when you power it on. If it enters HBOOT menu by its own will then something is wrong.
When you enter the HBOOT menu the phone will automatically look for a file called PB99img.zip or PB99diag.zip. This is sort of a fail-proof mechanism. It allows you to flash images or diagnose the phone when everything else fails, like in the case you loose button control. If it doesn't find any such file it will skip the operation. This is normal. It's the equivalent of putting a bootable CD or DVD in your Windows computer - if it's present at system boot it will boot off the CD/DVD and if it's not it will just skip it and continue booting current OS.
As for the ADB driver, check this out. You may need to change the hardware IDs in the driver INF file (android_winusb.inf).

Fractalogic said:
Did you root the phone previously? Did you install a custom ROM on it?
What you see is the HBOOT menu. To move the marker down you press the volume down button, to move it up you press the volume up button, and to make a selection you press the power button. Can you tell me if this works?
What happens if you take out the battery, put it back in and press the power button? I doubt it that the phone enters the HBOOT menu on it's own. Is that what you are saying? Normally you need to press and hold down the volume down button and the power button to enter this menu. So to stop entering the HBOOT menu just stop holding down the volume button when you power it on. If it enters HBOOT menu by its own will then something is wrong.
When you enter the HBOOT menu the phone will automatically look for a file called PB99img.zip or PB99diag.zip. This is sort of a fail-proof mechanism. It allows you to flash images or diagnose the phone when everything else fails, like in the case you loose button control. If it doesn't find any such file it will skip the operation. This is normal. It's the equivalent of putting a bootable CD or DVD in your Windows computer - if it's present at system boot it will boot off the CD/DVD and if it's not it will just skip it and continue booting current OS.
As for the ADB driver, check this out. You may need to change the hardware IDs in the driver INF file (android_winusb.inf).
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Thank you for the quick reply...apparently my mother spilled something on the phone and it was acting up a little so she powered it down and when you powered it back up it came up to the HBOOT screen. The phone is stock it has never been rooted and no custom roms either. When I pull the battery the phone turns off, I can then put it back in and press power and then i am stuck at HBOOT. Once on the HBOOT screen none of my buttons function, not the volume or power buttons none of them. I have made sure to only press the power button when powering up and yes it still enters HBOOT. Thanks for the link on the adb driver info I will check it out with all haste.
Thank you for ADB driver info it was truly appreciated...my Hardware IDs are correct...the driver installs as Android ADB Interface yet adb or htc's ruu utility neither one acknowledges the phones existence. Is is possible that the phone is hosed?

have you tried selecting fastboot and then selecting reboot?

Flash the stock HBOOT image
sadklown2 said:
Thank you for the quick reply...apparently my mother spilled something on the phone and it was acting up a little so she powered it down and when you powered it back up it came up to the HBOOT screen. The phone is stock it has never been rooted and no custom roms either. When I pull the battery the phone turns off, I can then put it back in and press power and then i am stuck at HBOOT. Once on the HBOOT screen none of my buttons function, not the volume or power buttons none of them. I have made sure to only press the power button when powering up and yes it still enters HBOOT. Thanks for the link on the adb driver info I will check it out with all haste.
Thank you for ADB driver info it was truly appreciated...my Hardware IDs are correct...the driver installs as Android ADB Interface yet adb or htc's ruu utility neither one acknowledges the phones existence. Is is possible that the phone is hosed?
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I'm thinking that maybe... only maybe... the spilled liquid was sticky (and surely conductive) so that the volume down button is kept depressed, so when you press the power on button it acts as you are pressing volume down and power button. It's probably far fetched but it is possible that the volume down button is depressed for one or another reason.
Yes, I think it will say like "Android ADB Interface" when you plug the phone in while in HBOOT. It will say something else I think when you plug it in while in recovery, etc.
I don't think you can use ADB commands while in HBOOT. I think ADB commands only work when the phone is booted up. If you can enter fastboot mode you can use Fastboot commands to flash a new HBOOT for instance.
But since you can't control the interface at all and no button seems to work on the phone, I think you have to try flashing a new HBOOT by placing a ZIP file on the SD card.
Go to AlphaRev website.
Download PB99IMG_stock.zip
Rename it to PB99IMG.zip.
Take out the SD card and put it in the computer.
Copy the PB99IMG.zip file to the SD card.
Take out the SD card and put it in the phone.
Insert the battery and power on the phone.
It will now automatically flash it with stock HBOOT image. Keep in mind that this may or may not erase personal data from either the phone or the SD card. I don't take any responsibilities for any data loss. I know you can't access the phone apps and internal data right now, but you can at least take a backup of the SD card, most apps are storing data on the SD card so you could use that to restore at least parts of the data later.

Fractalogic said:
I'm thinking that maybe... only maybe... the spilled liquid was sticky (and surely conductive) so that the volume down button is kept depressed, so when you press the power on button it acts as you are pressing volume down and power button. It's probably far fetched but it is possible that the volume down button is depressed for one or another reason.
Yes, I think it will say like "Android ADB Interface" when you plug the phone in while in HBOOT. It will say something else I think when you plug it in while in recovery, etc.
I don't think you can use ADB commands while in HBOOT. I think ADB commands only work when the phone is booted up. If you can enter fastboot mode you can use Fastboot commands to flash a new HBOOT for instance.
But since you can't control the interface at all and no button seems to work on the phone, I think you have to try flashing a new HBOOT by placing a ZIP file on the SD card.
Go to AlphaRev website.
Download PB99IMG_stock.zip
Rename it to PB99IMG.zip.
Take out the SD card and put it in the computer.
Copy the PB99IMG.zip file to the SD card.
Take out the SD card and put it in the phone.
Insert the battery and power on the phone.
It will now automatically flash it with stock HBOOT image. Keep in mind that this may or may not erase personal data from either the phone or the SD card. I don't take any responsibilities for any data loss. I know you can't access the phone apps and internal data right now, but you can at least take a backup of the SD card, most apps are storing data on the SD card so you could use that to restore at least parts of the data later.
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No, no, no. Whats flashing hboot going to do? the phone is "water damaged". Also his phone is s-on and never rooted and u can only use alpharev hboots while s-off. Also he has a BravoC so i dont think Alpharev hboots work. Please learn some basic stuff before telling other to do things that r wrong and wont work.
@ OP i have no solution really apart from taking the phone apart and cleaning it maybe. but its water damaged so i think the only solution would be to run the correct ruu for ur phone and hope it boots or take it to a repair shop. If it was me, i would take it apart, clean it, put back together and try the ruu for ur device. But thats just my opinion. Seeing that the phone is not working then its prob worth a shot.

jmcclue said:
No, no, no. Whats flashing hboot going to do? the phone is "water damaged". Also his phone is s-on and never rooted and u can only use alpharev hboots while s-off. Also he has a BravoC so i dont think Alpharev hboots work. Please learn some basic stuff before telling other to do things that r wrong and wont work.
@ OP i have no solution really apart from taking the phone apart and cleaning it maybe. but its water damaged so i think the only solution would be to run the correct ruu for ur phone and hope it boots or take it to a repair shop. If it was me, i would take it apart, clean it, put back together and try the ruu for ur device. But thats just my opinion. Seeing that the phone is not working then its prob worth a shot.
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Ooops!! Me bad... sorry! Thanks for correcting me though. So his only option is running the RUU for a BravoC?
Where can you find RUU for a BravoC? On Shipped-ROMs I can only find BravoC for AllTel, Verizon and VZW. Do you have to take carrier name into consideration when choosing RUU? Are there no BravoC that are not locked to a carrier?

Nice suggestions, but I'm pretty sure the phone is just physically broken. Take it in and see if you can get a replacement/fix. BravoC is hard to wrestle with.

droid_<3er said:
Nice suggestions, but I'm pretty sure the phone is just physically broken. Take it in and see if you can get a replacement/fix. BravoC is hard to wrestle with.
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Thanks for all the suggestions...I had tried running the ruu from htc, but since i could never hammer out the usb issues the utility kept saying that the phone has less than 30% power and would promptly fail...anyway mom decided to turn it in on the insurance so its all a moot point now...again thanks to every one who tried to help and all the great guides/info on this site at least i learned quite a bit...