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My Desire may be bricked

Hi just got my Desire, been a devoted WM user and all android is a bit strange to me. I have a Nexus 1 and love it but i thought i would try the Desire as my friend bought one and was able to use it to sync with our MS exchange server which i was never able to do with the Nexus 1. I was very impressed when i bought the phone that connecting to our VPN and syncing with exchange seemed to work well. I purchased the phone while on a convention trip to prague, as i was needing to connect to our exchange mail. After a few days with the phone It began rebooting on data connections without any notice and would often not reboot some times just flashing the white HTC screen and continually rebooting itself. I decided to try and root the phone to possibley stop this from happening using the excellent instructions from benko286 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696189 .
i'm attempting this on a Windows 32 machine so im using the "Guide to root using Windows" after step 5 and running "step1-windows.bat" my Desire screen appears with HTC in the middle and each of the four corners of the screen has a triangel caution symbol. at the end of running the bat file in the command window just before rebooting to boot loader the last line said "FAILED (remote: 51 partition update fail)
and my Desire went into the aboved mentioned screen. I am able from the command prompt to re-run the step1-windows.bat file so I still have usb connection obviously but the same issue continues. I am not sure where to go from here.
My machine if restarted turned off (remove battery) continually comes up with this above mentioned screen, I am hoping that this is not an idicaction of a bricked device. I have tryed my best to go through the vast amounts of great information on XDA- developers, but can't find any pertaining to my situation. Is there anyone out there that can give me a point int he right direction?
Much appreciated.
Blaiz

I can't really help you with this, but am just posting to give this thread a little bump and keep it on the top of the list.
Hopefully someone here might be able to help you out. Good luck,

What is going on? This is the second time i've heard of this thing with the HTC logo in the centre with four triangles in each corner. No one seems to have any idea what this is and i've personally never heard of it throughout the last few months of owning a Desire.

hi thanks so much for the support, I guess lokoing back i should have put this in the tutorial thread. im not sure where i can go from here other than only using the Nexus lol.
this is what it finished with at the command prompt
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INFO[RUU]WP,system,99
INFO[RUU]WP,system,100
INFOstart image[userdata] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,userdata,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,userdata,100
INFO[RUU]WP,userdata,0
INFO[RUU]WP,userdata,100
INFOstart image[sp1] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,sp1,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,sp1,100
INFO[RUU]WP,sp1,0
INFO[RUU]WP,sp1,100
FAILED (remote: 51 partition update fail)
Rebooting to bootloader...
rebooting into bootloader... OKAY
Step 1 complete - now use the bootloader menu to enter recovery mode.
To do this, press the power button, wait a few seconds, then use the volume keys
and power button to select the RECOVERY option.
C:\TEMP\r5-desire-root-alt\r5-desire-root-alt>
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the step1-windows.bat file seems to run in succession 2 times the first time looks fine then it begins once again to start the flash. at the end of the second run is what i have copied and pasted above. I'm really to much of a newbee to understand what the error is "FAILED (remote: 51 partition update fail)"
as i unplug the usb cable the screen now goes white with
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BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.80.000
MI CROP-031D
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-4.06.00.02-2
Mar 29 2010, 21:34:33
RUU
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with 2 caution icons in both bottom corners, when i pull out the battery and restart the machine it goes back to the original black screen with HTC and the four caution icons in the corners.
Thanks for any suggestions or information from any sources with similar issues.
All the best,
Blaiz

is there a microsd card in the unit when you try this? Is your phone unbranded? Have you created a gold card?

I have tryed with the original SD card inserted and i have tryed with it removed i have also reformatted the SD card and inserted it then removed it again. The phone i bought is from The Czech Republic, Prague, it was bought unlocked and unbranded i believe from an O2 phone shop in Prague 10 days ago.

I will try the gold card method next but im not sure how to go about this state.

as i am unable to boot the device I can't seem to get adb shell to find the device.

Blaiz said:
as i am unable to boot the device I can't seem to get adb shell to find the device.
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Open up the phone in RUU mode and plug in your phone.
Download this and execute it
http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Bra...io_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_122704.exe

thanks abc27 downloading now

only question i have is should i not stay with the a similar rom and use a current stock ROM of 1.21.* instead of the 15 or will it matter to get me out of this situation?
Blaiz

such as the
RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4. 06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe
instead as my original bootloader was 0.80.*

Blaiz said:
such as the
RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4. 06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe
instead as my original bootloader was 0.80.*
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Then you should use that release instead.
I thought you were hboot 0.75 and I didn't want to upgrade your bootloader.

cheers thanks again abc27

is it fixed with it? ^^

i cant believe my luck or lack of it
downloaded the
RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4. 06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe
and i get to about 85% of the Rom image update and it gives me an error!
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ERROR[110]: FILE OPEN ERROR
The ROM Update Utility cannot open the requested files or the files are damaged. The RUU cannot continue with the update.
Please get a complete RUU package and try again.
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I have tryed 5 times to flash and no luck maybe i should try another ROM file but which one?

Hmm that sounds quite odd.
Try redownloading ROM.

try this one http://www.wuala.com/HTC_Desire/RUU...00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.zip
seems the file u downloaded is corrupted

tryed redownloading still exact same issue with
RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4. 06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe
from
http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Bra...00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe
Alkymia the file you are directing me to is a zip file no? it doesnt seem to contain the RUU file.

it is a zip to flash it on ur bootloader, u must put the zip onto ur SD card and then try to flash it as u flashed the rom to root it, r u able to enter into bootloader?

[Q] Help unrevoked just doesn't seem to work, no errors reported

Hi, Apologies if this is in the wrong section.
I hope someone can help. I am trying to root my HTC Desire using the latest Unrevoked software.
I have followed all instructions, (removed htc sync, installed the usb driver). I have run the software and it did it's thing and says root is done. I can see the Superuser app in my apps. I installed titanium backup which requested Root access fine. I granted it, but titanium backup came back saying it couldn't get root access.
I have run the unrevoked software a few times and it doesn't seem to fail, or throw any errors at all.
This is the process:
Plug phone into computer (Windows 7 ultimate).
Run unrevoked sw.
It pushes the recovery image.
Reboots a few times.
Says it is getting root.
Says "Triumph" etc. Finished with Done.
Final reboot goes to normal phone fully booted.
Still cant get root.
If I boot into the boot menu I see the following information:
Bravo PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT 0.93.0001
Microp 0.31d
Touch Panel SYNT0101
Radio 5.09.05.30_2
If I select recovery menu I can see the Clockworkmod recovery menu is displayed.
I have an unbranded Desire running the HTC OTA 2.2 Froyo update.
Android Version 2.2
Baseband: 32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2
Build number: 2.10.405.2 CL226611 Release keys
SW number: 2.10.405.2
Am I missing a step somewhere or should it just work, one button press?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

I did mine on Windows 7 ultimate x86 so it is possible on that OS

¿Have you select "Charge Only" and "Remember this" when you have plugged the USB cable?
¿Are you sure your phone had USB Debugging turned on by having gone to Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development and checking USB debugging?

pr0orz1337 said:
Have you set "USB debug on" and "only charge" mode?
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Yep. I have followed all the instructions. The process runs fine it just doesn't seem to work, or im doing something wrong. Is there anything I need to do in the recovery menu?

I was unable to root my phone using Windows 7 64bit. When I used a computer with a 32bit operating system, I had No problems.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

I installed titanium backup which requested Root access fine. I granted it, but titanium backup came back saying it couldn't get root access.
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That's a bug in Titanium, i had it 2 or 3 times, too.
Check that "Apps from other sources" thing (don't know the exact name in the english rom), restart your phone and run titanium again.

Xeno87 said:
That's a bug in Titanium, i had it 2 or 3 times, too.
Check that "Apps from other sources" thing (don't know the exact name in the english rom), restart your phone and run titanium again.
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Well I've managed to get it working. I had to install the busy box application. Not sure what it does but titanium backup now works.
Thank you for your help.

HTC Desire -- Stuck at HBOOT after RUU

Hopefully I'm just being blind here -- and I have tried a number of guides to fix this -- but I'm pretty stuck.
Couple of days ago the volume down button started playing up, then the menu and search keys stopped working. At the time I had rooted the phone with unrevoked and installed CM7.3 (iirc), and taken the S-OFF with Alpharev 1.8. I figured it was probably a software issue and for some reason decided to go back to run an RUU (rather than just running a different ROM, don't really know why on earth I did that). Kind of having a feeling that I was very dense and ran the wrong RUU, as now the phone is simply stuck at HBOOT.
When I say stuck, I mean as soon as I turn on the phone it goes directly into the stock HBOOT (FASTBOOT -- RECOVERY -- CLEAR STORAGE -- SIMLOCK) yet NONE of the buttons work (so I cannot navigate it at all). Perhaps it is actually a hardware issue, which would make sense as it boots straight into HBOOT, no HTC screen or anything. When it runs the SD check it comes back with wrong / image missing in all the checks.
Tried running ADB, couldn't find the phone. Other RUU's return error 170 as though they can't find the phone. Phone does register "HBOOT USB PLUG" when plugged in though, and my Windows 7 machine does recognise it, but as there's a new RUU on there USB debugging is not enabled and I cannot access the SD card through the phone.
The full info on the HBOOT screen is --
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18
Any help would be much appreciated... Later on today I'll pick up a card reader, figure my only option now is to try and get through to it that way?

Hmmmm!
I'm not sure but it actually could sound like a hardware issue. You have the STOCK HBOOT and then ran the RUU for the HTC Desire? If u did so I cant see it as a software brick. PM me if you need some more help. I had a Desire for some month ago that i bricked A LOT more than yours, and i got it fixed (by myself... took some nights thought :/

Yeah I thought that as well, but before I flashed the RUU, although the phone was powering directly into HBOOT, I could use the buttons to navigate the menu. Now, I simply can't.
I should maybe add that when it checks the SD it returns with wrong / missing image (can't remember the exact wording -- pops up then goes pretty quickly).
Also this afternoon I opened up the desire and checked and reseated the buttons, all seem to be working as normal. Seeing as it's stuck at HBOOT, I think I'll just need to buy a new SD card and put whatever the image it's looking for is on it?
Edit: I was thinking that reformatting the SD card (through a PC USB reader) as FAT32, then placing the PB99IMG.zip from the latest 2.3 HTC WWE RUU might work? I can't see any reason why not -- think the Desire is unbranded so no goldcard required.
Edit2: Still waiting on a new adapter, but was wondering why the RUU failed -- the file was RUU_Bravo_Froyo_Vodafone_UK_2.33.161.2_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_157522_signed.exe from shipped-roms. Don't see any reason why flashing it would have ended up leaving me in this position -- even if it was a hardware issue underlying it.

Sorry to double post...
Tried putting the PB99img from the RUU (and tried the 2.3 update PB99img) to no avail on both the SD card that I'd been using recently and the one that had originally come with the phone -- no luck; once HBOOT detects the img and runs through it, it gets stuck at the "parsing... [1] [2] [3]" etc page.
Any help would be massively appreciated, would be appalled if I have managed to brick this in my enthusiasm for fixing a volume button problem -.-

Already checked bortak's troubleshooting guide?

Yep and anything else I could find really. Starting to think this little droid is doomed.

[Q] can someone Help with fixing my DINC after Unrooting gone wrong?

Ok, so have a serious issue
at first i was able to successfully root and flash clockwork mod recovery on my DInc using the rooting method from unrevoked 3 and was running Clockwork mod recovery +Cyanogen mod7 through the Rom manager (cannot remember exactly which versions.) it was all running fine, then just decided to unroot it with a few different methods (one didnt work and the others failed as well, maybe because i mismatched the stuff i used during the First try at the unrooting process..but because i tried one method after the other, and it was soo long ago, i forgot exactly how i ran into this problem
basically somehow i screwed up the Unrooting process.
SO now I am Having the System UIDs are inconsistent message every time i start my Incredible, Tried recovery that didnt work, tried factory reset+ erase all data on phone SD card (i probably accidentally erased the recovery image) it seems to reboot and be all restored, like a stock image, but weirdly the Superuser Ninja holding the AR15 still shows up in my app drawer (even after i unrooted and restored everything.) so i i decided to check out if the permissions were still enabled and they were not... SU shows up and doesnt function (just blank). I investigated further by downloading ROMmanager and then everything ended up forceclosing over and over again...I went to download "# Root Checker" and pressed "check" and it proclaims that its not rooted but under "User" it said "root"... i guess that its saying im rooted but im not?!?! LOL
anwhyo here are my DInc Specs as of Right now:
my DInc is an SLCD, running android 2.3.4. baseband is 2.15.10.07.07
Kernel 2.6.35.13-g03546aa
[email protected]#1
Fri Oct 7 10:52:52 CST 2011
software number 4.08.605.2
im still able to Access HBOOT and the screen says
*** UNLOCKED***
INCREDIBLE XD SHIP S-ON,
HBOOT-1.02.0000
MICROP 0417
TOUCH PANEL- ATMELC03_16ac
RADIO-2.15.10.07.07
DEC 21 2011,23:37:16
when i tried to see if i can reflash it through fastboot, the device manager in my W8.1 Pro 64 bit says "Device failed Enumeration" and USB notification popped up from the system tray saying that the device wasn't recognizable
so the drivers provided by Unrevoked for enabling the phone to be detected dont work, and the HTC Sync program doesnt even detect the Incredible.
However,,,,
the Fast boot, Boot Loader, and HBOOT still works upon pressing the Volume-down + Power and am still able to access Internal Phone Memory AND the SD card when the Phone is plugged into my computer via micro USB (so it looks like im able to flash things to it, but stuck as to how and what)
Because im still able to access the the SD card and internal Memory,
I tried putting PB31mg.zip on the root of the SD and ran HBOOT> and i gave it a second to detect the file.. then it said "Main Version is older Update Fail!"
the guy in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286223 seems to have had Similar problems..... I have added symtoms and issues on top of the whole 2.3.4 with S-on and Radio 2.15.10.07.07....
I just want to get back to vanilla-stock on my incredible with absolutely no modifications and without the System UID/feeling lucky pop up bugging me. and dont care what route i take, weather it be rerooting and reflashing , just reflashing. i just dont know what to do to get it that way from here.
Can anyone please help me figure out how to get back to normal with this DInc???
Im sorry if i dont make any sense im having a hard time explaining it. if you do understand me, i would appreciate your help. also if you need me to clarify things just ask me.

I'm a little rusty, but I remember this was the preferred method for rooting because of problem with the 1click unlockers,
(nuts, can't post links yet)... Google, "[HOW TO](gaining root)unlock,downgrade,and achieve s-off with htcDev" and look for it on androidforums.com
Try picking it up from step2, just keep the unlock_code.bin from miniadb_inc files from step1 on the phone. As long as typing 'adb devices' displays your phones serial number, you should be ok. As a long shot, you could try a PC with Windows7.

Try this ruu thru hboot http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip

HTC One M8 upgrade failed

I have a problem. I have a tendency to destroy phones, which is why the last 2 phones I owned has been HTC M8. They are rugged enough for me not to destroy them.
However, 10 months ago the first one had problems with the battery, so I replaced the phone because it was cheaper than replacing the battery. The second one have worked fine, but lately the USB plug is worn out, so charging is becoming a problem.
This leads me to my problem. I (ofcause) bought a 3d one. This one was hardly used, and was 1 owner phone.
As it turns out, the previous owner had made 1 mistake. He had done the factory reset, but half way through it, it ran out of power. This means that booting it up, causes loads of errors: Gapps errors, Sense Home errors, Hangout errors and finally Google play service errors.
Now, I have worked with computers from 1991-2016 (including IT support for all the major companies) so I do know how to fix something like this - if this was windows . But since this is Android, I am a complete noob . I am just too stubborn to give up on this phone just because it has corrupt software . But this is a LOT more difficult than working with Windows I think Prior to this I have only rooted 1 phone, and that was in 2013 . I have been working on this the last 2 days .
So here is what I have managed to do so far:
I have unlocked bootloader through the HTC website and I can access the recovery program. Through that I have wiped cache, Ramdump, and done something like 15+ factory reset.
Through this I am able to get into the phone - sort of. I get a box asking if I want to send an Error rapport - and when I do that, I can get into the settings on the phone.
Through the settings, I have enabled developers options + enabled Debug, and disabled Fastboot.
I also tried to cleared cache on Gapps, google play services and Hangout - but that didnt help - so I disabled those things.
Now I can sort of use the phone. I cant update it, and it doesnt find the sim card. It does however connect find through wifi.
After all of that, I have been able to connect the phone to the computer though USB. I get both computer and phone to accept the connection (type in the code) and I can transfer files to the phone. It also works in HTC Sync software.
In Bootloader I can also get it to find FASTBOOT USB, so it does find something.
However, next step was that I had to root the phone using ADB and TWRP but I cant seem to get that connection working. Both programs finds no devices. So I am not able to actually root the phone.
I also tried RUU but had the same problem. Cant seem to get that connection working, so I can flash/root the phone.
Because of this, I tried to install upgraded versions of Android using an SD card. I can get the phone to read those zip files, but it always ends up with an: "Footer error" or "Verification failed".
I even tried the official HTC Android Marshmallow that you can download, but that came with the same verification error.
The only version that got close was an older version of the software on it. That one came up and said it was an older one, and aborted the installation because of that.
I have tried:
crDroidAndroid-6.0.1-20160826-m8
crDroidAndroid-7.1.2-20180117-m8-v3.8.5
crDroidAndroid-9.0-20190315-m8-v5.2
himauhl-3.10.84-perf-g09631a4
m8qlul-3.10.49-perf-g6f6e344
OTA507
So what am I asking help with? The simple answer is that I wanna install new android software - similar to reinstalling windows. The old phone had Android 5, and the first one Android 6. If I can upgrade to something newer, that would be a bonus, but I am good with "just" getting the phone to work .
So how do I get the phone to accept that zipfile for the android software? How do I get passed that Footer Error/verification error?
Oh and please explain the steps I need to take, for complete a complete noob . Simple steps will be greatly appreciated
*** Software status: Official***
** UNLOCKED ***
** Security Warning ***
M8_UL PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT- 3.19.0.0000
RADIO-1.29.214500021.12G
OpenDSP-v 51.2.2-00593-M8974_FO.1015
OS-6.12.401.4
eMMC-boot 2048MB
Dec 17 2015,14:15:48.0

I have done some more testing.
aicp_m8_o-13.1-UNOFFICIAL-20181002
cm-12.1-20150509-UNOFFICIAL-ace
crDroidAndroid-6.0.1-20160826-m8
crDroidAndroid-7.1.2-20180117-m8-v3.8.5
crDroidAndroid-8.1-20180809-m8-v4.6
crDroidAndroid-8.1-20181018-m8-v4.7
crDroidAndroid-9.0-20190315-m8-v5.2
himauhl-3.10.84-perf-g09631a4
m8qlul-3.10.49-perf-g6f6e344
OTA507
And finally the one that gave the best result:
OTA_HIMA_UHL_L51_SENSE70_MR_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.1-1.40.401.8_release_444119
This one came up with a Sideload package error - Status 255. From what I can tell by google, that is an error caused by CM or TWRP. Its suppose to be corrected by deleting some files in TWRP but I dont have TWRP.
So how do I solve this new problem?