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Hi my power and volume buttons of my HTC desire failed so i opted to install a custom rom so i could change the wake up key from power to the menu key.
I downloaded rom manager and clockworkmod and installed CM7 via the rom manager download page. after restarting and backing up files and installing it now is frozen at the CM7 loading screen. I have been told this is a bootloader loop or something like this.
My problem is I cant recover my old OS because the power button and volume buttons are still not working so I need a windows based solution to recover my phone with maybe fastboot or adb.
Any help on what rom i need and the commands i need to type would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Michael
Hi Michael,
are you still stuck at the bootanimation? What is the state of your desire? How did you root, are you S-OFF?
To use commandline based tools, you have to get into fastboot first. Fastboot commands only work, if you are S-OFF.
Some more info would be useful.
Regards,
Markus
Thanks for your quick reply. yes i can get into fastboot and hboot and fastboot devices does return my device ID. I hope that means my phone isnt beyond help. I used clockwork and unrevoked to root my phone. Just seen it is s-on can i change this with adb or fastboot
bravo pvt3 ship s-on
hboot-0.93.0001
microp-051d
Is all the info my phone is dispalying but i might be able to get more from adb or fastboot if that will help
You can't flash anything via fastboot, if you still have a stock HTC HBOOT (S-ON). Can you also get into CWM recovery? That would be my choice. CWM recovery can give your windows pc sd-card access. Put a working ROM (*.zip) to the root of your sd-card, wipe everything via recovery and start over with a new flash (install *.zip from sd-card in recovery). You are miles away from bricked... everything will be ok.
Is this your first custom rom experience?
I cant use cwm as my volume and power buttons aren't working. I have rooted it ages ago and installed a custom firmware but didnt like it as it was missing the htc specific stuff and restored it fine using the recovery option but now without the afore mentioned keys working I cant get to the recovery options. Im guessing adb or fastboot cant set my s-on to s-off then.
If you can connect via adb you might want to try "adb reboot recovery". If you have CWM recovery in place (unrevoked should have installed this) you can navigate with your trackpad and don't need vol up / down / power. But I think your phone has to be booted up to receive adb commands.
I get device not found with all adb commands.
I get various different resonses with fastboot commands Ie fastboot devices shows my device. fastboot reboot turns my phone off and on and fastboot reboot-bootloader brings me back to the screen im on at the minute.
My track pad is not moving anything on my phone what is weird about my phone is my volume buttons were working for volume control (before i flashed it) but they weren't turning the pages of my kindle books any more. that happened after my power button problem arrived.
Your trackpad would work in recovery, but your not able to get there. You're stuck at the bootloader options, where you have to navigate with vol up / down / power button. What still will work is flashing of a stock HTC ROM via RUU. You can get signed HTC RUUs here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667. This will wipe your phone and revert it back to stock (no root, no custom recovery).
This sounds promising. Question 1 for me and others that may follow this thread in the future. What is RUU and if i download a vodaphone rom will it be locked to vodaphone as my phone was a vodaphone when i got it but it was unlocked atthe time and I have it on O2 now
mickyjohnston39 said:
This sounds promising. Question 1 for me and others that may follow this thread in the future. What is RUU and if i download a vodaphone rom will it be locked to vodaphone as my phone was a vodaphone when i got it but it was unlocked atthe time and I have it on O2 now
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RUU = ROM Update Utility
It has integrated flash tools and will reset everything to factory defaults. If you want to send your phone in to service, you should flash a ROM which originally came with your phone (Vodafone branded??). Branded ROMs have nothing to do with locking your phone to a carrier (SIM-lock). They are just customized by different carriers with more or less modifications (i.e. preinstalled apps).
Hope you have some luck with RUU, I have to sign off for today.
im downloading the ruu bravo vodaphone uk one its an exe so i figure i put my phone in fastboot mode and run the exe. is that right
Ok thanks for your help markus i will post if this works so others can see its a working method if they have a similar problem
How did you get on? Is your desire up and running?
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just about to run the app now domey. I have my phone in fastboot manu with usb plugged in. wish me luck lol
That's how it should work. I hope it will work for you. You can redo rooting / customizing, once you have a booting device
Have a look at LeeDrOiD 2.3d then (leedroid.com). It's based on HTC Sense ROMs, very stable and you can push your trackpad to wake up the phone.
I got an error with vodaphone one so trying a newer one now as vodaphone was 1.4 or something the next one im trying is 2.29
Did you get some useful error messages?
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none of the roms from that site update my phone. they all say insufficient version
131 on my last try
I have flashed the original 2.3 RUU upgrade from Htc dev. The phone is stuck on boot loop. It stays on HTC logo screen for few seconds and then restart again.
History:
I originally had RCMix installed on my phone. Suddenly the phone restarted and then got stuck on Joker screen. I found out that the memory card was corrupted, so reformatted sdcard through windows. Tried re-flashing but again was getting stuck on joker screen.
I flashed RUU's (initially Amoled one and got blank screen for a while) successfully but again was getting stuck on boot screen with no access to recovery , could only access fastboot.
So as a last resort , tried flashing 2.3 upgrade , so its no more stuck on the htc logo now, but keep restarting from that logo screen.
1) I understand it could potentially be a Mboard or Nand issue, but I suspect it could also just be bad sectors on internal memory or some other internal memory corrupt issue. Any thoughts ?
2) I could delete those partitions using fastboot commander but after using RUU , I have got a S-On device now. Is it possible to do S-Off just with fastboot without access to recovery/Adb ?
(Tried asking this on Revolutionary IRC, but no answers)
Got this device from e-bay and htc customer care says they don't honour the warranty after flashing 2.3 upgrade.
PS: I have tried searching and posting on various threads, but still looking for answers. That's why created a new thread.
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Have you tried flashing the RUU again? It's the only thing I can think of tat might save your phone..
Yes, tried couple of tmes, goes to the boot loop again
ridhavm said:
Yes, tried couple of tmes, goes to the boot loop again
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try leaving it for an hour or so, and then stick it in your freezer for 10 minutes in a plastic bag (no joke), then try again with the 2.3 RUU.. not much else you can do I'm afraid.
So is it a bricked device now even when I can access fastboot ?
try to boot it without the sd card..
as the first boot require some time, wait 15 minutes or more..
Did you DOWNGRADE hboot??? and than intall stock hboot?? which hboot did you used? if the new ones from alpharev.nl you'd probably didn't read this "Downgrade protection, these HBOOTs cannot be overwritten by an OTA or RUU, unless you flash a downgrader HBOOT first." it's not too late for downgrade... just do it on fastboot
adamkx7xdesire said:
Did you DOWNGRADE hboot??? and than intall stock hboot?? which hboot did you used? if the new ones from alpharev.nl you'd probably didn't read this "Downgrade protection, these HBOOTs cannot be overwritten by an OTA or RUU, unless you flash a downgrader HBOOT first." it's not too late for downgrade... just do it on fastboot
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I did S-Off using alpharev few months earlier but don't remember specifically running any downgrade. After installing the RUU, the Hboot got overwritten, so definitely I was not on the latest alpharev's HBoot's.
Now to downgrade or S-Off , the phone needs to be detected by the setup, which uses adb. But I can not access adb, can only access FastBoot.
i think you can try to flash stock hboot on fastboot by fastboot tool and than do the RUU again... you can... try...
adamkx7xdesire said:
i think you can try to flash stock hboot on fastboot by fastboot tool and than do the RUU again... you can... try...
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I don't think that's doable, is it ? I don't think we can downgrade the Hboot just like that with S-On.
The risk is loosing the access to Hboot/fastboot itself.
I tried that and it doesn't work with S-ON. I can't access my phone outside fastboot and hboot and I can't even flash radio that way... So now I have an expensive mp3 player with (occasional) wifi access... Anyone have a solution?
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matus.karahuta said:
I tried that and it doesn't work with S-ON. I can't access my phone outside fastboot and hboot and I can't even flash radio that way... So now I have an expensive mp3 player with (occasional) wifi access... Anyone have a solution?
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Just out of curiosity, how are you playing music in Hboot/fastboot
I think only way for us is to go to HTC now unless otherwise a senior member here sees this post and suggests something else.
ridhavm said:
Just out of curiosity, how are you playing music in Hboot/fastboot
I think only way for us is to go to HTC now unless otherwise a senior member here sees this post and suggests something else.
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Sorry about that, I forgot to add "via USB" over there... I meant that my pc can recognize my phone only when in hboot or fastboot, when connected by USB cable
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matus.karahuta said:
Sorry about that, I forgot to add "via USB" over there... I meant that my pc can recognize my phone only when in hboot or fastboot, when connected by USB cable
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that seems an usb brick..a user solved it easily flashing RMD Recovery (its in dev section) with fastboot, it has built in "USB Brick Fix"
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that seems an usb brick..a user solved it easily flashing RMD Recovery (its in dev section) with fastboot, it has built in "USB Brick Fix"
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Don't you have to be S-Off to flash recovery? I went through the post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1137763 and it seems I won't be able to flash it, since I'm still S-On
Yes, Seems that my device is bricked and only way out seems to be HTC now.
ridhavm,
Have you swapped hboots to Downgrade from alpharev's site?
If not, then you are still S-OFF.
Check your hboot if it's not old one.
If you are desperate, you can msg me on gTalk. I can have a look. I have saved many phones, so if it's not physical damage, we will work it out.
Thanks, Have added you on Gtalk
After reading Bortak's guide, I was still unable to fix this bootloop as I don't have a goldcard, and it seems like you need a functional Desire to create one.
The situation is:
> Desire can boot into Fastboot (Power button + back button), but attempting to enter recovery causes a boot loop (Carrier splash screen)
> Attempting to enter recovery directly (Power button + volume down) causes a boot loop
> I lost the MicroSD with this phones' recovery on it, all I have is a spare blank MicroSD
I'm wondering, is it possible to flash a new recovery off the SD card, through fastboot?
Or, can I do this through a USB connection somehow? (I currently have the latest HTC Sync installed)
Thanks for any help!
Edit: My Desire is S-ON (I swear it used to be S-OFF, but who can remember, I haven't picked this phone up for ages) and HBOOT is 0.75.0000
S-on users cant flash a custom recovery through fastboot. It can be done only via the unrevoked method. What exactly did you do to cause this? Dont you have your own RUU?
I've got similar problem, but i don't have root.
I made S-OFF with revolutionary and rovolutionary couldn't flash clockworkmod. Previously, I didn't know that I have to do root... so i wanted to do s-on to do this root. I downgraded phone to hboot 0.80 as they said on alpharev website. But now, I can't get out from fastboot. Every time, when i'm robooting, it goes to fastboot.
Please, could You help me?
Flash 2.3.3 RUU via fastboot and use revolutionary again.
Which one from those
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667
is 2.3.3?
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Flash 2.3.3 RUU via fastboot and use revolutionary again.
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OK, I found it on official htc site, or sth, and it works!! Thank you very much!
Do not forget to use thanks-button.
Droidzone said:
S-on users cant flash a custom recovery through fastboot. It can be done only via the unrevoked method. What exactly did you do to cause this? Dont you have your own RUU?
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When I got my Desire HD, I flashed Oxygen rom on this Desire and gave it to a friend. I have no idea how it got in its current state. I'm downloading the latest official RUU now.
If someone could provide some instructions on how to flash the RUU with the phone in it's current state that would be awesome
As long as you can get into fastboot not all is lost, there will be a way of flashing it was a stock rom
chongo_au said:
When I got my Desire HD, I flashed Oxygen rom on this Desire and gave it to a friend. I have no idea how it got in its current state. I'm downloading the latest official RUU now.
If someone could provide some instructions on how to flash the RUU with the phone in it's current state that would be awesome
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Boot phone into fastboot mode, connect phone to computer and start the downloaded RUU.exe on your computer.
The RUU recognized the phone, but it refused to update due to wrong bootloader version. Looks like my RUU was not the right one, back to searching again.
If you have GSM and not a hboot with nummber 6.93.1002, the 2.3.3 RUU should work for you:
http://www.htcdev.com/process/legal_download/152
Ok I found the correct RUU (Telstra) and was able to flash everything except the radio, which failed. Attempted to retry twice but same result.
Now I have the grey HTC logo with the exclamation triangles in the corners.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Sorry mate, but radio brick is unfixable (as far as I know).
MatDrOiD said:
If you have GSM and not a hboot with nummber 6.93.1002, the 2.3.3 RUU should work for you:
http://www.htcdev.com/process/legal_download/152
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Thanks, that RUU flashed successfully! It said rom update complete and so on. At least now I'm making progress.
However, the rom doesn't load and I get a bootloop. I've now got the normal white HTC splashscreen appearing, then the screen flashes black, the phone vibrates 5 or 6 times, and I'm back to the splashscreen again.
I'm able to boot into bootloader (HBOOT 1.02.001 apparently) but not recovery.
I'm not familiar with adb and all that, all I can do is follow instructions, but in short, without being able to load a rom to tick the box for usb debugging, is there any way to S-OFF and or flash CWM if I can get the computer to recognise the phone (while its sitting in bootloader or fastboot mode) with the HTC Sync USB drivers or equivalent?
I'm going to say some probably unrelated words and phrases that I've read in the last days forum trawling, maybe it will jog someones memory:
> Fastboot commands
> Revolutionary hboot drivers
> USB brick
I know its probably time to lay the old Desire to rest, but I'd love to squeeze some more use out of it, I loved that phone.
Greatly appreciate the help
You did not get any errors when flashing RUU? Okay, cool. Check if you still have an ext-partition on your SD card. Maybe this let the romboot loop.
With revolutionary you will be able to get S-OFF and root in two simple steps:
http://revolutionary.io
But read the documentary site very carefully before doing anything!
Hi i'm in the same situation (desire branded how boot loop update with RUU 2.3.3 and boot loop again)
had you fixed your desire ?
Xims said:
Hi i'm in the same situation (desire branded how boot loop update with RUU 2.3.3 and boot loop again)
had you fixed your desire ?
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Please read the thread. The solution is in there!
ok i had try revolutionary but it never find the device ( as on hboot or fastboot)
i have the htc fastboot driver so i don't see how i can user revolutionary
If you use Android Flasher while connected to the PC you can flash a recovery in fastboot mode. Either the latest Clockwork or 4EXT Recovery will make you able to flash a Desire(d) rom again
Hi to use android flasher i had to be S-off or woth the RUU of 2.3.3 i'm back S-on and i haven't find a way to go S-off from fastboot or hboot ...
ok so i wanted to get a custom rom my desire hd 2.3.5
at start i have tryed the old way thats in the sticky but that was for 2.3.4 so that didnt work.
what did work was unlocking the bootloader via htc dev site. after that i was clueless.
I've found AAK to root my phone and downgrade so i had used that, but i forgot that the phone was unlocked and it said it had to be locked.
and now the phone is bricked i've tried all possible ways with wiping data and cache but it doesnt work.
i wanted to relock the bootloader with fastboot.
i had entered this command:
fastboot oem lock
but that gave this error
FAILED (status malformed (1 bytes))
so my phone hangs on the boot screen and i cant do anything?
can you guys please help me?
The fact you can get to the bootloader is a great sign, so don't worry! The only time you need to properly panic is when you can't get anything on the screen or even a charge light.
---Double check with someone else that this is correct, but I think this is what you need to do ---
Do you have a custom recovery (i.e clockworkmod)? Can you boot into recovery? Use the volume keys to select recovery, then press the power button. If you get options like "reboot now" and "install zip from sd card" then flash a rom like Android Revolution HD.
If you get a red triangle, find a zip you want to flash and name it "PD98IMG.zip" then put it on the root of the SD card. Reboot to bootloader and it should flash.
If you truly want to relock the bootloader, flash an RUU and it will restore you to stock.
Tamen said:
If you get a red triangle, find a zip you want to flash and name it "PD98IMG.zip" then put it on the root of the SD card. Reboot to bootloader and it should flash.
If you truly want to relock the bootloader, flash an RUU and it will restore you to stock.
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Simply renaming a ROM PD98IMG.zip wont work it needs to be formatted in a certain way, but if the phone is S-OFF, which wasn't mentioned there are certainly PD98IMG's about for a variety of ROMs. But I suspect Tamens suggestion of flashing the appropriate RUU and starting from scratch is going to be quickest way to get sorted
I had this same problem with mine it got stuck trying to boot up but I had no boot loader or I couldn't get into recovery.so download a took called ANDROID FLASHER and reflash the radio ect.my desire hd is now fine.
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well i have tried to flash the ruu but without succes.
ive loaded the PD98IMG.zip on the sd and let the bootloader use it. nothing happened.
also my phone is s-on and could not find a way to go to s-off in recovery mode or boatloader.
Down load the tool above Android flasher.from the tool u can enable fast boot ect from your PC and loads of other stuff.it is a very simple to use and it has loads of folders for recovery, boot loader ect let it do every thing for u.that was the only thing that worked for me
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I've tried it but it doesn't work because my phone is s-on...
the description of that utility said that s-off is essential
i am really running out of options..
in short my phone has a unlocked bootloader and after that i've used AAK.
the result is bricked phone with s-on and unlocked bootloader
Tried to go from S-ON to S-OFF but it failed while updating phone with firmware.zip. Cmd said it was done but phone showed no activity. Rebooted phone and its stuck at HTC logo. Found a way to boot to bootloader but instead of going straight to recovery to restore what I had, I first re unlocked bootloader. Now im stuck at HTC logo with no way to get to bootloader (volume down key not working). Im not a complete noob, just new to this phone. Have tried to use adb to boot into bootloader and recovery but it is not being found by my pc. Is there any way of forcing phone into bootloader? I would appreciate any help given
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IBeKay said:
Tried to go from S-ON to S-OFF but it failed while updating phone with firmware.zip. Cmd said it was done but phone showed no activity. Rebooted phone and its stuck at HTC logo. Found a way to boot to bootloader but instead of going straight to recovery to restore what I had, I first re unlocked bootloader. Now im stuck at HTC logo with no way to get to bootloader (volume down key not working). Im not a complete noob, just new to this phone. Have tried to use adb to boot into bootloader and recovery but it is not being found by my pc. Is there any way of forcing phone into bootloader? I would appreciate any help given
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What method did u use to s-off your dhd?
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yumm91 said:
What method did u use to s-off your dhd?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2221039 used this manual guide but once I flashed the firmware.zip it did not complete. so i rebooted and then unlocked bootloader hoping that i could carry on with the error. turns out firmware.zip actually didn't get pushed to the phone completely and i'm not at S-OFF and phone wont boot