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[Q] Recovery Problem

I tried to update my EVO radio this mornig. Now everytime I turn on my phone, it gets stuck in the boot animation. When I reboot to recovery, I get hboot, but when I choose recovery, it gets stuck on white HTC screen. I tried fastboot but after three re-installs of SDK, it still give me a this application fails to start because AdbWinApi.dll was not found. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!!!!!

captainphoenixx said:
I tried to update my EVO radio this mornig. Now everytime I turn on my phone, it gets stuck in the boot animation. When I reboot to recovery, I get hboot, but when I choose recovery, it gets stuck on white HTC screen. I tried fastboot but after three re-installs of SDK, it still give me a this application fails to start because AdbWinApi.dll was not found. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!!!!!
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Have you tried using an RUU?

How do I load it to my device?

captainphoenixx said:
How do I load it to my device?
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You don't load it to your device. Plug phone in with usb to computer. Launch RUU.exe and see if RUU finds the phone. If it does, then follow onscreen instructions.. Make sure phone is powered on when you launch RUU otherwise it will not recognize... Phone can be on white screen and still possibly be recognized depending on exactly what the problem is... If it is recognized follow onscreen instructions and at the end your phone will work again.

leenypost said:
You don't load it to your device. Plug phone in with usb to computer. Launch RUU.exe and see if RUU finds the phone. If it does, then follow onscreen instructions.. Make sure phone is powered on when you launch RUU otherwise it will not recognize... Phone can be on white screen and still possibly be recognized depending on exactly what the problem is... If it is recognized follow onscreen instructions and at the end your phone will work again.
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If this method doesn't work you need to figure out how to get adb to work again.

Can you get to bootloader? When powered down hold volume down and power button at the same time...if so you can use the 3.30 pc36img posted somewhere in here or I have a copy with Amon recovery....if your rooted.

I Have Amon recovery, but after the update, it still gets stuck, and yes i can get to bootloader, just cant recover or flash

captainphoenixx said:
I Have Amon recovery, but after the update, it still gets stuck, and yes i can get to bootloader, just cant recover or flash
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If you can get to bootloader an RUU should work for you. Give it a shot.
Here's a link to the thread. RUU link is in first post. Download it and follow the instructions I gave you earlier.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=874091
This is the newest RUU though that you flashed the radio from.. Once you get it working you will have to wait on a Root method that works to re-root the phone. Shouldn't be long. You can try an earlier RUU if you want but you'll have to find that in the Rom Sticky Post.

All you gottado is.put the pc36img on the root of your card and the bootloader will read it for you. Just let it run....
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lawnguy said:
All you gottado is.put the pc36img on the root of your card and the bootloader will read it for you. Just let it run....
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
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Yep, that should work too. I forgot about that as I frequently just RUU'd and then re-rooted, LOL... Good call.
Get a pc36img.zip, place it on the SD card (not in a folder) and start up bootloader. The rest will be taken care of automatically.

If I was at home id send you one with Amon Ra its saved me a bunch if you don't get it tonight I can send it to you tomorrow ... I will keep checking this thread
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[Q] Desire Z Rooted or not?

i have purchased a 2nd hand desire z from someone, i noticed it has clockwork and rom manager installed, i think it also has super user rights. I also noticed that the rom is Virtuous 1.0.1. Thinking this meant that the phone was already rooted, i used rom manager to download and install CM7, however it caused the phone to be semi bricked, then i also realised that the phone was also S-ON.
Fortunately i managed to reboot the phone into CWM and restored the previous image, so now the question is, what is wrong?
PS. new to this whole android thingy..

hmmm... sounds like MAYBE you had a temp root?? Is you had superuser you definitely had some form of root, however, i am not sure you can flash a new rom if you dont have S-off (but i could be TOTALLY wrong here)
I have an Evo (and dont have this temp root issue), but i am helping a friend with a similar problem with his G2.
Can you get into recovery? (while phone is off, hold the volume down and power on the phone) If you can, do you have Clockwork recovery or stock android (says 3e at the top i think)?? If you have CW, just enable USB, download a CM7 through your computer, put it on your SD and flash it. SHould be good to go.
If you have stock recovery and S-on.. WELCOME TO MY BOAT... I am trying to find a solution to this for my friends phone. If i figure it out, i can let you know (please do the same??)

I am having the same problem, with the same rom. I can use all root apps, but it says S is ON? I can't put any other rom on my phone with out it going into boot loop or just staying on, HTC screen. Some one please help us, I know there are many phone guru's on this site. Any help would be over the top. O-yeah and I can not get the wifi to connect either says error or turns it self off after scanning? Please please please help. Thank you in advance.
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[email protected] said:
I am having the same problem, with the same rom. I can use all root apps, but it says S is ON? I can't put any other rom on my phone with out it going into boot loop or just staying on, HTC screen. Some one please help us, I know there are many phone guru's on this site. Any help would be over the top. O-yeah and I can not get the wifi to connect either says error or turns it self off after scanning? Please please please help. Thank you in advance.
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If you can boot to an OS, you are WAY ahead lol. Here is description of my problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009593
CHeck the links in that post. MAY be able to help if you can boot to OS?

frettfreak said:
Can you get into recovery? (while phone is off, hold the volume down and power on the phone) If you can, do you have Clockwork recovery or stock android (says 3e at the top i think)?? If you have CW, just enable USB, download a CM7 through your computer, put it on your SD and flash it. SHould be good to go.
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tried using CW to flash CM7 again.. no go.. just stuck at HTC screen after rebooting...

i was also reading thru the goldcard portion of the guides. Should i create one so that i can downgrade my phone back to an earlier ROM? Would appreciate some help to get permaroot.

ok.. i have managed to downgrade to an older rom and did a full root after that.. finally managed to get cm7 working..
was using this guide all the way..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905261

unsuccessful root

hey guys i bought this evo off ebay for 100 bucks. the guy tried to root but failed. which made the evo a "soft brick"
S-ON so its not actually rooted its still stock
hboot-2.16.0001
radio-2.15.00.05.02
when i tried to boot normally by just pressing the power button it come to the screen saying evo 4g then it goes black and comes back to the evo 4g screen. its in a loop
i tried this guide from another forum
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ht...568-how-unbrick-your-soft-bricked-evo-4g.html
unfortuneately it did not work.
this is my first android device. but i did flash/root lots of winmo phones which is kind of a similar process.
so any ideas that could help me out to try to get this workinng again?
thanks alot

you can't root your phone yet. and since you have s-on you might want to take it in. have your tried and pull the battery and boot up?

ocnbrze said:
you can't root your phone yet. and since you have s-on you might want to take it in. have your tried and pull the battery and boot up?
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im not necessarily looking to root just trying to get it out of the loop..i might take it in tomorrow.
how can i boot without a battery??? i doint understand

well pull the battery out to stop the bootloop then put it back in and reboot

tried that now and its not working..I guess ill just go to the sprint store tomorrow.

You'll need to flash the RUU to restore it. Do you know what he tried to get it like that? It sounds like he was able to do something even if he couldn't finish it

xHausx said:
You'll need to flash the RUU to restore it. Do you know what he tried to get it like that? It sounds like he was able to do something even if he couldn't finish it
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no i dont know but i can ask him.. i cant ruu through the computer so i put the pc36img on the sd and tried that way multiple times and its installs everything but then doesnt boot

when i try to re flash it from the sd card everything goes fine. i can even flash to a different radio software but the when it actually tries to boot it just loops.
so u think it might be hardware?????

just run the ruu

I had insurance on mine and dropped it in the bath on purpose....they replaced it
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

vabeachfc3s said:
just run the ruu
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it doesnt go past the htv evo 4g screen. so how should i connect it??? via hboot??

i kinda forgot about this i still didnt solve this problem.
does anybody have any ideas on what i should do??

afgomar said:
i kinda forgot about this i still didnt solve this problem.
does anybody have any ideas on what i should do??
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IDK if this will help but you can check out this thread on how to root 2.3 .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1218386
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linsalata28 said:
IDK if this will help but you can check out this thread on how to root 2.3 .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1218386
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yeah ive already gone through that thread...the problem is i can't get past the boot loader and the computer can not recognize the device.
btw its s-on so its not rooted which makes things even harder.

afgomar said:
yeah ive already gone through that thread...the problem is i can't get past the boot loader and the computer can not recognize the device.
btw its s-on so its not rooted which makes things even harder.
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Yeah sorry I didn't know if you saw that. I have no idea how to fix that problem sorry.
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Boot into HBoot. Run an official RUU like this one: http://goo-inside.me/supersonic/ruu/RUU_SuperSonic_S_Sprint_WWE_3.26.651.6_Radio_2.15.00.07.28_NV_1.40_release_140444_signed.exe. Then go to www.revolutionary.io and download and run the utility. Install the recovery and congratulations you're rooted. I hope this helps you.

nickelghandi said:
Boot into HBoot. Run an official RUU like this one: http://goo-inside.me/supersonic/ruu/RUU_SuperSonic_S_Sprint_WWE_3.26.651.6_Radio_2.15.00.07.28_NV_1.40_release_140444_signed.exe. Then go to www.revolutionary.io and download and run the utility. Install the recovery and congratulations you're rooted. I hope this helps you.
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so when i run the ruu it doesnt work because it cant recognized the phone. thats my main problem.
does you evo get recognized by the computer when its in hboot/bootloader???
I might have a bad usb port on the phone. (its not the laptop cuz its brand new)

afgomar said:
so when i run the ruu it doesnt work because it cant recognized the phone. thats my main problem.
does you evo get recognized by the computer when its in hboot/bootloader???
I might have a bad usb port on the phone. (its not the laptop cuz its brand new)
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Try running the ruu from fastboot, it should recognize it then. Fastboot is the first option in hboot.
Sent from my Evo + MIUI using Tapatalk!

plainjane said:
Try running the ruu from fastboot, it should recognize it then. Fastboot is the first option in hboot.
Sent from my Evo + MIUI using Tapatalk!
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okay so i booted into hboot then clicked on fastboot while i am plugged in via usb. then ran the ruu and it still does not recognize the device.

afgomar said:
okay so i booted into hboot then clicked on fastboot while i am plugged in via usb. then ran the ruu and it still does not recognize the device.
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Actually heading out, but make sure you have the drivers installed, and I think you need htc sync installed while running the RUU; so try that.

[Q] Desire HD Not Booting (Flashing Orange LED)

Hi Guys, hoping someone can help me:
I have a Desire HD that has been rooted with S-OFF, after flashing a new ROM, the device wouldn't boot, when trying to start the device up, it will vibrate 3 times and flash the LED. If I try boot into recovery, it vibrates 5 times with a flashing green LED.
At the moment all I have is ADB access (no fastboot) and can't boot into the bootloader screen.
Through ADB I was able to reflash the recovery using the flash_image tool and I can boot into recovery by connecting the USB cable, I have flashed a few different ROMS through recovery, but the device will still not boot after this, I'm thinking the issue might be the radio image, which I have not been able to flash through flash_image (get -1 error code when trying this).
Any suggestions on how to proceed or what to try would be much appreciated, I'm also not fully clued up on what all can be done through ADB, so any suggestions on that front would also be appreciated.

Did u try runing a ruu.. use AAHK it will help u to flash the ruu provided ur phone is recognised by the computer..
Sent from my Desire HD using xda premium

adilrenzu said:
Did u try runing a ruu.. use AAHK it will help u to flash the ruu provided ur phone is recognised by the computer..
Sent from my Desire HD using xda premium
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Thanks for your response.
I have tried running RUU from the PC, which I got from here:
http://shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Ace
The utility gives an error saying it cannot connect to the device, does the update utility not require me to boot into the bootloader to work?
I also tried downloading a few of the RUU zips there, but so far I haven't been able to flash them, just get an error "Can't to open <Filename>.zip (bad)", however I have checked that the zips are not corrupt, and I am able to flash other custom roms, not sure why it fails on these.
I also tried a bit with AAHK, but couldn't get it to flash anything, I put the custom rom in the folder as per the instructions, but it failed... perhaps I'm doing it wrong? maybe a bit of a walk through on how I would just flash the ROM through AAHK would help.

When you rooted phone did it say if its s-off in hboot. Try entering hboot. Power phone off then power up phone holding power button and volume down button at same time. If you can enter hboot and it says s-off get the rooted stock pd98img zip which also includes radio. Place on root of sd (no folder) power back up into hboot and let it do its thing. Volume up for yes when asked to install power button when asked to reboot.
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Reinaldo33897 said:
When you rooted phone did it say if its s-off in hboot. Try entering hboot. Power phone off then power up phone holding power button and volume down button at same time. If you can enter hboot and it says s-off get the rooted stock pd98img zip which also includes radio. Place on root of sd (no folder) power back up into hboot and let it do its thing. Volume up for yes when asked to install power button when asked to reboot.
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Yip, my phone was rooted with S-OFF a good while ago, only got the issue recently after flashing a new rom. I can't get into HBOOT, when I try, it vibrates 5 times and flashes the green LED with a blank screen.

Sounds like your bootloader is messed up and not the radio. Search how to push the bootloader img.
Edit: sorry I'm on way to work or I would help you search. But I know there is a thread how to fix bootloader since you cant enter hboot which sounds like its your problem. You need to fix the bootloader. Do a google see what comes up from xda.
Sent from my ICE COLD Inspire 4G

Reinaldo33897 said:
Sounds like your bootloader is messed up and not the radio. Search how to push the bootloader img.
Edit: sorry I'm on way to work or I would help you search. But I know there is a thread how to fix bootloader since you cant enter hboot which sounds like its your problem. You need to fix the bootloader. Do a google see what comes up from xda.
Sent from my ICE COLD Inspire 4G
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Ok, thanks, have looked around, not found anything yet, but I'll carry on looking and see what I come up with, appreciate the help.

Any luck with this. I'm in the same pickle. Running JellyTime and it just stopped working. Will not boot, and recovery mode just flashed amber light. It is an android desire hd.

I would say that its a fried emmc chip, if that isn't the case (I doubt) you can use a JTAG and a riff box to recover the phone over OPST, the equipment needed can be quite costly, so taking it to a mobile repair shop that does jtagging, should work
Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk 4 Beta

ftj2006 said:
Ok, thanks, have looked around, not found anything yet, but I'll carry on looking and see what I come up with, appreciate the help.
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Are you able to flash any rom at all? I would try flashing a stock rom if possible. The re-root.

thekool said:
Are you able to flash any rom at all? I would try flashing a stock rom if possible. The re-root.
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Nope, can't flash anything, gave up on it a while ago now though and got a new phone on my contract upgrade.

raczyk said:
Any luck with this. I'm in the same pickle. Running JellyTime and it just stopped working. Will not boot, and recovery mode just flashed amber light. It is an android desire hd.
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Didn't manage to get the device working unfortunately... seemed like the issue may have been hardware related though, hope it's not the same for you and you get it sorted.

raczyk said:
Any luck with this. I'm in the same pickle. Running JellyTime and it just stopped working. Will not boot, and recovery mode just flashed amber light. It is an android desire hd.
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Think it might have been, read that a few places as well but just wanted to try what I could first, thanks for the input though.

[Q] HELP - dhd stuck on ClockworkMod recovery

Hi,
I just installed the the Revolution ROM on my desire HD and then when i rebooted it it went straight to the revolution reboot menu....
As i am a NOOB i downloaded the Clockwork recovery, reinstalled the revolution rom but same thing happens...
When i reboot the system it starts up (HTC screen) turns off starts back up again and goes straight to "clockworkmod recovery" menu...
I cant even go to the original boot menu...
To make things worst i can only connect usb as storage...
Can anyone please identify my problem and make a step by step solution, as my knowlege on android phones is close to nothing :crying:

madskor said:
Hi,
I just installed the the Revolution ROM on my desire HD and then when i rebooted it it went straight to the revolution reboot menu....
As i am a NOOB i downloaded the Clockwork recovery, reinstalled the revolution rom but same thing happens...
When i reboot the system it starts up (HTC screen) turns off starts back up again and goes straight to "clockworkmod recovery" menu...
I cant even go to the original boot menu...
To make things worst i can only connect usb as storage...
Can anyone please identify my problem and make a step by step solution, as my knowlege on android phones is close to nothing :crying:
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Did you do a full wipe (system, data, and cache) before flashing? Are you S-Off with AAHK or S-On with unlocked bootloader?

bananagranola said:
Did you do a full wipe (system, data, and cache) before flashing? Are you S-Off with AAHK or S-On with unlocked bootloader?
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Yes, i did a full wipe before flashing...
I cant see if i´m S-ON or Off because i can´t go to the original boot menu, but i think its S-Off because the Rom that was in the phone before i messed with it was not the original

madskor said:
Yes, i did a full wipe before flashing...
I cant see if i´m S-ON or Off because i can´t go to the original boot menu, but i think its S-Off because the Rom that was in the phone before i messed with it was not the original
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An unlocked bootloader with S-On still permits flashing of custom ROMs. Is your recovery updated? If not, do that.

bananagranola said:
An unlocked bootloader with S-On still permits flashing of custom ROMs. Is your recovery updated?
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i dont know as i said i´m a huge noob when it comes to tecnology
isn´t there a way to do everythig again, but the right way ?
i already installed revolution 3 or 4 times and it installs just fine but wont start up the right way.... always comes back to this menu....

madskor said:
i dont know as i said i´m a huge noob when it comes to tecnology
isn´t there a way to do everythig again, but the right way ?
i already installed revolution 3 or 4 times and it installs just fine but wont start up the right way.... always comes back to this menu....
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The guide in post #7 of the guide in my signature is pretty clear. Read that. What is important to know is whether your phone is S-On bootloader unlocked or S-Off. Since you didn't hang on the boot splash when you flashed ARHD, I'm guessing S-Off. But just to be safe: to find this information, reboot while holding power and volume-down. That is your bootloader, known as hboot. What does it say? Finally, my hunch is that you need to update your recovery. The guide has instructions for that, but basically, download the image to your computer and flash it from fastboot.
Oh, and you may need to install your drivers on your computer. Install HTC Sync from the HTC website.

bananagranola said:
The guide in post #7 of the guide in my signature is pretty clear. Read that. What is important to know is whether your phone is S-On bootloader unlocked or S-Off. Since you didn't hang on the boot splash when you flashed ARHD, I'm guessing S-Off. But just to be safe: to find this information, reboot while holding power and volume-down. That is your bootloader, known as hboot. What does it say? Finally, my hunch is that you need to update your recovery. The guide has instructions for that, but basically, download the image to your computer and flash it from fastboot.
Oh, and you may need to install your drivers on your computer. Install HTC Sync from the HTC website.
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I´ve tried to turn the phone on wli holding power + volume, but the result is the same.... powers up then down then up again straight to clockwork...
can you give me the link to the instruction? i cant find them
What image do i have to download?
Sorry for all the questions..... and thanks for your patience

madskor said:
I´ve tried to turn the phone on wli holding power + volume, but the result is the same.... powers up then down then up again straight to clockwork...
can you give me the link to the instruction? i cant find them
What image do i have to download?
Sorry for all the questions..... and thanks for your patience
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1824379. But if power and volume-down (you're using down, not up, right?) boot into CWM, sounds like a problem with your volume buttons.

bananagranola said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1824379. But if power and volume-down (you're using down, not up, right?) boot into CWM, sounds like a problem with your volume buttons.
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OMG.... huge noob mistake.... i was using the volume-up button.... you must be so mad at me right now
I can see it now.... on the top of the boot menu says: *** UNLOCKED *** ACE PUT SHIP S-ON...
so i guess you were right.... whats the best ting to do then?
I think it may something to do with the boot image but dont know how to fix it

Update recovery. Guide has instructions.

bananagranola said:
Update recovery. Guide has instructions.
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Thank you for your patience... i´ll give it a try...
I´ve been trying to solve it by myself for the past 12 hours... i´m exausted
Hope this will fix it....

madskor said:
Thank you for your patience... i´ll give it a try...
I´ve been trying to solve it by myself for the past 12 hours... i´m exausted
Hope this will fix it....
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When you're tired, it's best to get some sleep. Most mistakes happen when sleepy and tired (been there!) so I'd suggest a little shut-eye and continue then
Sounds to me like the problem will get solved pretty soon, just read the guides and don't rush things. If unsure, read the guide (for what-ever you are doing) a second or a third time and don't try doing many things at the same time (ie.don't try updating your radio, rom, & recovery all at the same time ).
Pretty much anything can be fixed as long as you got recovery working so don't stress too much. Best of luck and hope you get your phone working soon :good:

Still havn´t found a solution for my problem, but i think i´m on to something....
I think the problem with my phone is the boot.img.... i can´t flash it correctly...
Dont know what program to use or what file to download.... i tried openning a command list but i and type "fastboot flash boot boot.img" as i´ve seen on other posts but i always get "this is not known as an internal or external command, etc...."
What can i doooooooooooooo?!!!! going crazy with this

Hey buddy, stay calm haha. I had the exact same problem. The problem is that although you tried to flash it, you nee to have the boot.img and some files including fastboot.exe. All of the files you need and how to flash the rom are in a guide by glevitan. You can just google it.
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TheJurgenp1 said:
Hey buddy, stay calm haha. I had the exact same problem. The problem is that although you tried to flash it, you nee to have the boot.img and some files including fastboot.exe. All of the files you need and how to flash the rom are in a guide by glevitan. You can just google it.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using xda app-developers app
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I´m trying to keep my cool .... hehehe
the problem is just that... i already googled so many solutions an tried so many things i´m starting to loose hope...
I´m a noob when it comes to these things...
and the fact that english is not my native thong doesnt help either... there are some expressions i dont understand...
Do you still have the link to that solution you mentioned?

You need drivers. Install HTC Sync from the HTC website.

bananagranola said:
You need drivers. Install HTC Sync from the HTC website.
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already done that... on clockwork recovery mode i can mount usb storage and have access to sd card... that means the drivers are ok... right?
also tried to instal fastboot on my pc but when i clic on the application it doesnt open the cmd window....
what else should i do?

You need to type fastboot from the cmd.

bananagranola said:
You need to type fastboot from the cmd.
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already did but it wont recognize the command

Then your drivers aren't working. Uninstall and reinstall with the phone unplugged.