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[Q] Help, semi-bricked DZ

My Desire Z stopped working the other day when trying to update angry birds rio, my phone would just freeze everytime it tried to resume the download (stopped at 92%)
The only way I could use my phone was battery pulls, and disabling all data connections.
After a fair few battery pulls (trying to cancel the download and what not) my phone would stop booting up (stayed at splash screen for ages)
Clockworkmod recovery can't find/mount cache, and won't let me either restore a backup or flash a new rom (I used superwipe).
I've tried everything I can think of, installing different versions of clockworkmod, using RUU's, flashing RUU's via PC10IMG and nothing works.
I can't boot into android to use adb, and I don't think I have an eng hboot so all fastboot commands I've tried have failed.
Hboot:
VISION PVT SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.85.0005
RADIO-26.08.04.30_M3
eMMC-boot
Oct 11 2010,20:10:38
I was running SenseGinger 3 with rmk's oc kernel when this first started.
Any help will be greatly appreciated as I'm onto my third day of not been able to use my phone.
-Nipqer

Do you have a warranty on your phone? If so we can all the way brick it using adb, and get it replaced.
Sent from my shiny metal G2 w/ meXdroid V3

If you can get into recovery you can do adb in there, there is something bout that error in recovery that can fix the error, I jus don't remember where, and purposly bricking phone nor gonna do much, try to fix it you can still get into hboot and recovery which is good, what you could do is downgrade phone and reroot, but that's another option after you try fixing recovery

Nipqer said:
My Desire Z stopped working the other day when trying to update angry birds rio, my phone would just freeze everytime it tried to resume the download (stopped at 92%)
The only way I could use my phone was battery pulls, and disabling all data connections.
After a fair few battery pulls (trying to cancel the download and what not) my phone would stop booting up (stayed at splash screen for ages)
Clockworkmod recovery can't find/mount cache, and won't let me either restore a backup or flash a new rom (I used superwipe).
I've tried everything I can think of, installing different versions of clockworkmod, using RUU's, flashing RUU's via PC10IMG and nothing works.
I can't boot into android to use adb, and I don't think I have an eng hboot so all fastboot commands I've tried have failed.
Hboot:
VISION PVT SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.85.0005
RADIO-26.08.04.30_M3
eMMC-boot
Oct 11 2010,20:10:38
I was running SenseGinger 3 with rmk's oc kernel when this first started.
Any help will be greatly appreciated as I'm onto my third day of not been able to use my phone.
-Nipqer
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1 no such thing as semi-brick
2 flash it ?
3 enjoy ?

I see you posted in the other thread that was started about the cache errors, so your best bet is to stick to that thread since it is directly about your issue. Random people coming into this thread will just throw suggestions out that won't work. Or hit the irc chat and see if someone is online that can help right away.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

HTC Desire Usb brick, no bluetooth, sd not mounting etc

Hi, Firstly i am a huge fan of xda! everything i learnt about android in from this site so thank you already
anyway sorry if i missed something but i been searching forums after forums and couldn't find any solution for my problem. if i missed something please point me to the right direction.
My problem is i have a htc desire. i have s-off and have been using leedroid for few months now. i have backed up my nandrom few weeks ago. today my phone was playing up, it wouldnt let me send any sms. after sometime i decided to restore my phone to the old back up through clockwork recovery.
everything went fine and untill phone rebooted and was stuck on htc splash screen for long time. so i pulled the battery out and went back to recovery mode and tried flashing leedroid from fresh but it kept saying unable to mount the sd card!
i tried all i can think of even back up and formate my sd card.
eventually i decided to use android flasher and flash stock hboot and then run RUU.exe of android gingerbread from htc website. worked fine.
now when am in the phone i have the following problem. sd card does not mount but if i start the phone in hboot (vol down + power) and i have hboot image saved on the root of the sd my phone reads it and prompts me if i want to update to this. so i know my hardware is fine. secondly my sim reads fine but i keep loosing signal. i have to put aeroplan mode on and off to get signal but loose it after few seconds. when i plug into my laptop usb does not work/charge but windows finds my phone in hboot and fastboot mode and my phone charges in hboot and when its off. other thing ive noticed is my Bluetooth does not turn on now!
if anyone can help me please!

if you lost S-OFF try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15120208
foolish of you to run a RUU when usb-bricked
the above thread was written for froyo stock htc rom, no clue wheter this will work on GB htc stock rom.
one way or another you need S-OFF or root access to fix the USB-Brick

Thanks! that sorted it out just fine, am still new to android and rooting. I guess we learn from our mistakes.

[Q] "succesfully" Flashed phone hangs up and gets stuck at HTC splash screen

[Q] "succesfully" Flashed phone hangs up and gets stuck at HTC splash screen
Hi,
I've got an odd issue with my GF's phone.
Specs:
Revolutionary rooted
Buzz PVT Ship S-off
H-Boot 6.01.1002
microp-0622
touch panel - Atmelc03-16ac
Radio: 3.35.20.10
Rom: KWBR Rom android 2.2.1
Kernel: 2.6.32.21-g0f9e9b5 htc [email protected]#1
After I flashed the KWBR rom it ran fine for a week or so untill it hung up. Manually switching off wasn't possible so had to take out the batt.
After restarting it hangs at the white HTC screen (without quietly brilliant) and stays there like forever.
Also resettting it in recovery to factory settings doesn't work out.
Ultimately re-flashed KWBR again but y'day it hung up again and everything described above happened again.
However on a normal restart/reboot/power off-power on it does what it's supposed to do.
Has Anyone experienced this before? and moreover anyone a solution? (because GF's get cranky when phones are messed up)

Have you tried flashing another ROM?
(Don't forget to do a nandroid backup )

nejc121 said:
Have you tried flashing another ROM?
(Don't forget to do a nandroid backup )
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Tried Cyanogen only for a couple of hours after s-off (but madam found it toooo far off from what she was used to) and haven't nandroid backupped. Titanium though

de vetnek said:
Tried Cyanogen only for a couple of hours after s-off (but madam found it toooo far off from what she was used to) and haven't nandroid backupped. Titanium though
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What about other Sense ROMs, like RemPuzzle?

Will do when it hangs up again. however it looks that for Rempuzzle I have to partition my SD Card first before flashing.
if I understand correctly
Partition SD card, Swap 0
Then flash REMpuzzle and I'm good to go?
Can I instantly flash 2.43 or should I first flash 2.40 and then 2.43 ?

Back up your SD card first.
And yes, first flash 2.4.0 then 2.43.

[Q] Im sorry guys, Experienced flasher need some help.

Very Sorry to ask, in fact I feel a little defeated and embarrassed
Working on my sisters Desire, cleared wiped phone, wiped sd card, new repartitioned with ext4 with ext4 recovery. successful partition check.
Flashed Leedroids good ole faithful rom, started up fine, started to load apps, uninstalled some bloat apps (CM recovery) from rom via TB.
..This is where the problem started, restarted phone, stuck on htc white screen, huh strange..
Able to get into bootloader and fast boot, couldn't get into recovery. (Very Strange)..
Found a PB99IMG.zip for recovery (after digging around), flash it, seems to pass through, Still no recovery. Hmm..
Installed fastboot commander v1.51:
SPL/hboot version: 6.93.1002.
Radio version: 5.11.05.27.
Main software version: 2.29.405.5.
cid: vodap001.
cpld: none.
product: bravo.
mid: pb9920000.
security: off.
build-mode: ship.
Tried to flash things with it, gave me this at the end:
"writing 'zip'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)"
Not sure how to fix
Shortly after fiddling it gave me a 7 vibration restart (searched this, means MB overheat?? ) Stuck it in the freezer for 10mins, no luck.
My next port of call is to get RUU and run through that?
Have I missed anything? Please let me know if you need anymore information. Thanks!

what PB99IMG did u use for recovery? i have the latest 4ext recovery in my sig
Sent from my HTC Desire

Hi jmcclue, yep I have used your PB999IMG.zip recovery in hboot but when I go select recovery after it still gives me HTC logo white screen

JLneonhug said:
Hi jmcclue, yep I have used your PB999IMG.zip recovery in hboot but when I go select recovery after it still gives me HTC logo white screen
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So Ive reflashed an RUU via PB99IMG way and reflashed recovery and it seems to be working again! :good:
But now I tried to reflash leedroid and it seems to hang again.. grr!

Try AOSP rom just for troubleshooting... eliminate possible exp partition issue. Might be the EXT partition not working well.
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[Q] Phone started randomly rebooting

HI all, Ive got a desire z and have been running mimicry 1.5.0 for the last month, its all been great, no major porblems and seemed stable. Yesterday voice search stopped working (wasnt picking up anything from the microphone), so I rebooted and it got stuck in a boot loop. It would get just past the animation then reboot back to the HTC screen. This morning I tried deleting caches and user data but that didnt help, so I re-installed mimicry and google apps.
That seemed to work, Id got apps installed again, it had been running for a couple of hours, then the gps stopped working - no satellites found. I did a reset again then it got stuck in another boot loop. Its now in a state where wiping data and re-installing wont fix it. Strangely after reinstalling the first boot will work for a few seconds, enough to select a country, then it just resets and then gets into a loop again, but now it wont get past the end of the animation.Ive just tried 'CM9.1-vision-3.0-Final' and that does the same. I guess this is about the time that its turning wifi on, so maybe its a radio problem?
According to power+vol down:
VISION PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-0.84.2000 (PC1011000)
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.03.02.18_M3
eMMC-boot
Sep 8 2010,15:56:38
Ive been trying a few things:
It doesnt matter if Ive got a SIM and/or microSD card in
Running off power or battery makes no difference
Ive flashed it back to mimicry 1.5.0 (its never rebooted in power+vol down or clockwork recovery) but there is some odd stuff:
Now even wiping everything and then installing mimicry, then google apps, I dont actually get maps etc.
It doesnt seem to want to power down, it says powering down, then reboots instead..
So Ive manged to get it back to a point where it will stay up for a minute or so, but trying to use the GPS / wifi seems to make it go back into a boot loop, although I did have it running for about an hour with wifi on without problems...
Ive captured some logs but none of them have anything that looks like major errors before they finish - none of them finish with similar entries anyway..
Any ideas what I can try to fix this?

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/w7im7e9v23tvm8y/IiSLtQmgF1
Copy the dz one to sdcard, rename PC10IMG.zip and flash through bootloader.
Remove image from SD and boot to recovery. Reformat all and flash ROM of choice (do a fresh download or check md5sum for match)
If it still has issues post a log cat so we can get an idea of issue better
More detailed info in post 30 in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27796375
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium

Thank you so much for the reply and advice. Ive just followed your instructions and it seems to be working!!!!
Im going to give it a good test for the rest of the day, so far it hasnt rebooted unexpectedly at all - thanks
Whats in that zip file thats had an effect? I notice its the 4ext recovery now, was it just that it needed a reformat?

My assumption is that you needed to do a cleaner wipe, usually a good idea between flashes, either a fastboot wipe, superwipe script or the aio tool. At the very least the format option in 4ext is good
But it could have been the radio as well, being you tried a bunch already I figure a start fresh scenario was best or at least simple
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium

The help that I needed!
Thank you so much!
I have a HTC Desire Z since two years. After I read a lot about it the last months i finaly tried to root it and flash CyanogenMod 7.2
A little bit of work, but 6 days ago I did it. But after that I had several Bootloops, again and again. I tried everything, superwipe, different ROMs, searched every possible combination of words with google, asked for help at our german Android-Help site, nothing worked permanently! I could do superwipe and then restore a nandroid backup or flash a differen ROM. It worked only for a short time.
Then, after the last bootloop, I was in the Bootloader and looked at the information on the top.
I gave it a try and searched for "vision pvt eng s-off hboot-0.84.2000 (PC1011000) Microp-0425 RAdio-26.03.02.18_m3 emmc-boot sep 8 2010, 15:56:38"; I got 3 links, the first was this one.
All that I had to do was to flash the zip file you provided, restart and: NO BOOTLOOP!
I hope it works permanently and again:
Thank You!
Heiner