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[Q] Bricked htc desire

Hi all,
I'll give a quick outline here then go into more detail below if you need it. i've tried things suggested in the other bricked htc threads but none seem to work.
I've basically follwed the root guide at droiden, made a gold card and rooted my htc desire phone which went ok. problem was i then installed the suggested rom in the tutorial which was for an amoled screen but i 've got an slcd screen (i'm thick).
The upshot is my htc desire will only start up sometimes and when it does just goes to a loading screen with a bright colourful x then switches off. holding volume down and power or back and power doesn't bring up the boot menu or fast boot. i've tried to flash from one of the ruu.exe files but it just keeps saying my phone has less than 30% charge (it doesn't) and quits the ruu. Is there any way to recover my phone via another method? I've got the coldcard used to root the phone.
Many thanks
Detailed description
i've basically followed the guide to root here at droiden
and installed the rom here de frost rom it suggests.
rooted fine then i flashed the rom (the de_frost one suggested in the tutorial) - got stuck on a colourful X screen and now won't turn on. it'll only turn on if i connect to a pc and open unrevoked but then it just boots to the colourful x screen until it goes off and then i'm back to the begining.
going off that other thread it sounds like i've used the amoled rom when i've not got an amoled screen.
to make matters worse i've followed these two steps here in other threads on here which suggested a new ota or ruu. ota wais a broken link and with ruu.exe i get an error saying my battery is below 30% (it's not) and so it won't go any further.
are there any other options available to me to restore my phone bearing in mind that volume down and power doesn't bring up the boot screen (just white htc screen then colourful X screen) so i can't even do a hard reset that way. Not bothered about wiping the phone's memory just want to get it back so i can start from scratch with the right rom. i have the gold card used to root the phone.
any help appreciated - thanks.

Download
http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...9.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_151783_signed.zip
Just rename it 2 PB99IMG.zip
( make sure the name is not .zip.zip )
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tidy said:
Download
http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...9.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_151783_signed.zip
Just rename it 2 PB99IMG.zip
( make sure the name is not .zip.zip )
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Then what to do

ali_loly10 said:
Then what to do
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then put into SD and reboot into HBOOT (arrow down pressed + power on)

noobandroid said:
then put into SD and reboot into HBOOT (arrow down pressed + power on)
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Needs to be a gold card if your phone is network branded
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ok i did it and it worked first time - it let me get to the boot screen but then after it rebooted it just won't switch on at all now.
any ideas?

Did you let it run till the phone booted?
Take the batt out for a min and pop back in and try. And also make sure you got a good charge
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yeah it said it was rebooting but then never came back on. i'll give it a good charge and try again.

right it will now turn on everytime but won't go to the boot screen. Volume down power and back power just start it up and it sticks on the loading screen with the x for hours.

What radio have you got installed ? What network and version Rom did you have before ?
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tidy said:
What radio have you got installed ? What network and version Rom did you have before ?
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i'm not too sure. i bought the desire from ebay. it's an orange branded htc about 2/3 months old. i followed the root guide here (can't post full links as i'm a new member- just stick a www dot infront of)
droid-den.com/phone-guides/phone-guide-how-to-root-the-htc-desire-hboot-0-80
and install the radio & rom here
droid-den.com/phone-guides/phone-guide-how-to-install-rooted-android-2-2-on-your-htc-desire
if it would just go to the boot menu i'd even wipe the thing and start again!

What do you see on the boot screen if any can you get in hboot ?
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What hboot are you running if you can get on the hboot screen please post what numbers you see on the screen your phone is not bricked I own a riff box so if wost case. It will get fixed
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tidy said:
What do you see on the boot screen if any can you get in hboot ?
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ok for some reason after 24 hours of trying it will now let me go into the boot screen
for some reason i left the room and came back and it's working.
i've no idea what has happened.
it's completely debranded and rooted with a basic rom.
can someone advise me of a good stable rom which will work with a slcd screen?
many thanks

Best Rom I find is MIUI takes a bit to get used to but you will love it if you miss the clock just download fancy widget .. for the HTC clock and weather. just Google it and get the.apk
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hmmm. can't download anything from the android marketplace. just says download unsuccessful.

for any who has the same problem - think it was a schoolboy error. when it sticks on the x screen the options must be in the background. press volume down then press power and it boots.

[Q] CM7 RC2.0 - Phone boots up, but splash+boot animation never display

Hi. I've searched many forums - XDA, cyanogenmod, but no one seems to have this problem, and I'm not sure if it's a software problem or a hardware problem. Here's the problem...
Up until a while ago, my CM7 RC2 DZ has been fine, but because I don't boot my phone all the time, I don't remember when it started happening (but it must have started after RC2 was released). Upon booting up the phone - whether it was reboot, power on from off state, or anything, the phone first VIRBATES. normally, after that I'm presented with a WHITE SCREEN with green HTC in the middle, shortly following that, the Cyanogenmod Boot Animation. Now however, i don't see that screen anymore, nor do I see the boot animation. But, the phone still boots into the system normally, albeit having a issue with the display still not activating (the button's lights go on, but the screen is off. something I've read about, and still can't fix). This didn't bug me too much, but now that I"m trying to flash CM7 stable, I realize it's a problem - I can't boot into HBOOT or Recovery, because I don't SEE anything... it's just all black after I reboot. Can't boot into HBOOT or RECOVERY to do any troubleshooting or flashing new firmwares(so i can't navigate because there's no control to "Unlock" or "wake" the screen up in HBOOT or RECOVERY mode). All I see is that the display doesn't even have a backlight - it's almost as if the phone is "off" because there's no indication that it's on.
Somebody please help me =( my phone is still functional and usable... so long as I don't try to access RECOVERY or HBOOT.

So what you are saying that when you Hold volume down + power the hboot doesn't show up?
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correct. The phone does it's boot up "vibrate". the screen does not flicker, does not light up, nothing happens. So i can't boot into HBOOT, RECOVERY, i CAN boot into the phone itself (I know it's booted because my buttons light up). But I no longer am presented with any sort of startup screen ( or any screen for that matter )... making it impossible to access any sort of backup utility, etc ...

pmajin said:
correct. The phone does it's boot up "vibrate". the screen does not flicker, does not light up, nothing happens. So i can't boot into HBOOT, RECOVERY, i CAN boot into the phone itself (I know it's booted because my buttons light up). But I no longer am presented with any sort of startup screen ( or any screen for that matter )... making it impossible to access any sort of backup utility, etc ...
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That's not good. So if you go to rom manger and click on reboot to recovery you just get a black screen? Also do you have eng-hboot?
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luckily, I wrote down all my phone's information IN CASE something happened...
VISION PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT - 0.84.2000 (PC1012000)
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
KERNAL VERSION
2.6.32.28
baseban
12.28b.60.140eU
this is my configuration.
So when I go to Clockwork Recovery, and I try to ask it to boot into RECOVERY, it'll reboot, vibrate, and... that's it lol
It goes without saying that I cannot perform a hard factory reset, ... that requires me to get into HBOOT.

pmajin said:
luckily, I wrote down all my phone's information IN CASE something happened...
VISION PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT - 0.84.2000 (PC1012000)
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
KERNAL VERSION
2.6.32.28
baseban
12.28b.60.140eU
this is my configuration.
So when I go to Clockwork Recovery, and I try to ask it to boot into RECOVERY, it'll reboot, vibrate, and... that's it lol
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Hmm... I wonder if the hboot file got messed up somehow.You have eng-hboot. Do you know how to use ADB by any chance? I was asking if you had the eng-hboot because you need it for adb. I just want to see if adb can find your device because that would be helpful
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lainvalenajr said:
Hmm... I wonder if the hboot file got messed up somehow.You have eng-hboot. Do you know how to use ADB by any chance? I was asking if you had the eng-hboot because you need it for adb.
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I am somewhat familiar with ADB... I haven't tried anything yet ( because I don't know what to try )

pmajin said:
I am somewhat familiar with ADB... I haven't tried anything yet ( because I don't know what to try )
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Yea I would try to see if Adb can see your phone so you can flash the stock rom and if you can do that you would have stock hboot again. Anyways what method of prem rooting did you do?
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lainvalenajr said:
Yea I would try to see if Adb can see your phone so you can flash the stock rom and if you can do that you would have stock hboot again. Anyways what method of prem rooting did you do?
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adb still can detect my device. I just punched this into my Mac Terminal:
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
HT0ARRV02688 device
I don't quite remember the name for it... but was it called Z Combined Root? Had to Temp ROot and then Perm Root using a special file with filename wpthis-Z.ko (this is the only file I remember that was special esp for the DZ)
As for flashing stock, I don't actually know how to do that via adb...

pmajin said:
adb still can detect my device. I just punched this into my Mac Terminal:
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
HT0ARRV02688 device
I don't quite remember the name for it... but was it called Z Combined Root? Had to Temp ROot and then Perm Root using a special file with filename wpthis-Z.ko (this is the only file I remember that was special esp for the DZ)
As for flashing stock, I don't actually know how to do that via adb...
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That's good that adb can see it because people with some type of issue don't have eng-hboot and the can't flash the stock rom, well that what's I've been reading. Also by any chance you used visionary to get temp root? If not I think you used the rage method.
Also am not really good using Adb. Sombody will sure come to help you with this part. Anyways let hope we can fix this issue.
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Yes that's what it was called...I rooted with Visionary! Not rage. Did mine early on. Any other help much appreciated!!
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I think I read something that mentioned that the home,menu etc..are not ppart of the screen. Perhaps ur screen went out or may it got disconnected. Have you dropped the phone recently?
Or maybe I missread?
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I have..dropped my phone I suppose, but it didn't affect the display when I'm actually using the phone... that's the weird part. If the display gave out, I would assume I wouldn't be able to use the phone at all. There's no physical damage to the exterior of my phone at all... it was a pretty light drop, but I didn't see where it landed on the phone...
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pmajin said:
Yes that's what it was called...I rooted with Visionary! Not rage. Did mine early on. Any other help much appreciated!!
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Alright think you used the gfree method. You should be able to flash the stock rom... Can anyone help him with ADB. I don't really know how to flash stuff using ADB. Sorry bro. If I knew how to use it I would surly help you.
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bump. i still need help on this... it won't turn on. miraculously, the boot worked ONCE. Coincidentally it was the time I called in to Bell Customer Service/Technical Support. Felt really stupid when it ONLY worked when I was on the phone with the technician and he told me to VOL DOWN + POWER. it worked when He was on the phone with me =_=... therein after I flashed Cyanogenmod 7 Stable, and I have resumed having these problems once again. So I can at least confirm it's not only on RC2 - it's on CM 7 as well. I'm starting to think it isn't the software, but probably a corrupted bootloader.

If you want to be directed to the ClockworkMod menu but can't navigate to it use ROM manager or Quickboot plus to get there. You might to need a ROM on your sdcard or have one installed. The reason for your boot trouble is a file might corrupted in the folder that contains your boot animation. This might not be fixed by flashing a new ROM but its worth a try. Use third party apps like ROM Manager and Quicknoot plus to open up your ClockMod Recovery Menu if necessary to install a new ROM. Hope I helped

I AM VS4 said:
If you want to be directed to the ClockworkMod menu but can't navigate to it use ROM manager or Quickboot plus to get there. You might to need a ROM on your sdcard or have one installed. The reason for your boot trouble is a file might corrupted in the folder that contains your boot animation. This might not be fixed by flashing a new ROM but its worth a try. Use third party apps like ROM Manager and Quicknoot plus to open up your ClockMod Recovery Menu if necessary to install a new ROM. Hope I helped
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thanks, but I"ve already tried that. Because i cannot access clockwordmod, i've been using ROm manager ever since, and it's still difficult to manage because I kind of have to trust that the phone does what it's doing when i tell it to backup or flash something... in the end, it still ends up having to restart to do the flashing, but like I said I can't see the screen to actually know if stuff is actually getting done. I want to know how I can reflash the boot animation, because i'm also quite positive it's a problem with the boot but not the firmware..

[Q] [HELP] PrimoS-v3

hi, i've just flashed PrimoS-v3.3, booted my phone and i'm stuck..can't do anything on the main screen because i've got the transparent stuff saying "Pull down to see notifications...Press....."
I've got a cross on the top bottom of the monitor but it doesnt work..
Anyone, help?! :\

Pull the batter reboot if it doesn't solve do a fullwipe and reinstall...
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tommy2601 said:
Pull the batter reboot if it doesn't solve do a fullwipe and reinstall...
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Dude i've done what u said, i formatted everything, now the phone doesnt boot :x ...
When trying to boot into recover, power+up volume all i got is a blinking red light :x

so i managed to flash the rom again, and i think now it's working!

i tried to install this rom on my dhd.i make full wipe and install,but when i reboot.i see htc logo and after the blacvk screen.Anyone can help for me?

wifi disconnects when open Facebook app
When I open Facebook app after few sec's wifi disconnects. It's like ON but not scanning and there are no available networks.
I must restart to be in normal.
Anyone else have this problem.
I'm on a 3.3 and DHD

3.3 version slow processing speed

On 3.3 during call when the screen is off volume buttons regulate Media volume instead In-call volume.
Desire HD

be sure that you have s-off and bootloader unlocked in the mean time this rom is a port so i suggest you try a normal rom while this rom is still work in progress

ghalyoum said:
be sure that you have s-off and bootloader unlocked in the mean time this rom is a port so i suggest you try a normal rom while this rom is still work in progress
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Be sure that you never try to run S-OFF tools while your bootloader is unlocked...

straight to recovery

My boss handed me a HTC desire today and asked me whats wrong with it, it's not rooted or anything but it goes straight to recovery it seems... this usualy isn't a problem but i cant seem to navigate in the recovery. the text clearly say vol up down and power to navigate as it usualy is in most recoverys but it's like it's stuck...
any ideas why this is? is this a common problem? i'w never had a HTC myself since i tend to stick to my samsung phones.

kieeps said:
My boss handed me a HTC desire today and asked me whats wrong with it, it's not rooted or anything but it goes straight to recovery it seems... this usualy isn't a problem but i cant seem to navigate in the recovery. the text clearly say vol up down and power to navigate as it usualy is in most recoverys but it's like it's stuck...
any ideas why this is? is this a common problem? i'w never had a HTC myself since i tend to stick to my samsung phones.
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Can you get into the bootloader?
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lilsafbig said:
Can you get into the bootloader?
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He is in bootloader.
kieeps said:
My boss handed me a HTC desire today and asked me whats wrong with it, it's not rooted or anything but it goes straight to recovery it seems... this usualy isn't a problem but i cant seem to navigate in the recovery. the text clearly say vol up down and power to navigate as it usualy is in most recoverys but it's like it's stuck...
any ideas why this is? is this a common problem? i'w never had a HTC myself since i tend to stick to my samsung phones.
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Erm, strange that u cant select anything, try pull the battery out then put back in then press and hold volume down + power, then see if u can select anything, if so u can try factory reset. If not then the only option i can think of is run a ruu from fastboot coz ur s-on + not rooted

Help me to fix Bricked Device

Hello
Please some one help me fix HTC wildfire mobile as its not giving me any option

luvlastcall said:
Hello
Please some one help me fix HTC wildfire mobile as its not giving me any option
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Your in the stock recovery pal. Hold down the power and volume keys and you will eventually get some options on the screen. Once they come up use the volume buttons to scroll and power to select. Btw, i suspect you have a htc wildfire S not the htc wildfire. So this would be the wrong forum for you if your phone does not have a trackpad at the bottom of the screen (looks like a circle with a dot in it) then you have the S model.

HTC Wildfire
Thanks for Replying back Its not letting me to run recovery and on the top of it if the phone boots up it take almost 20 minutes to get to the home screen and it hang sup their itself you can't even do anything on it and i am trying to unlock the boot loader to run recovery and install custom rom on it but nothing working out. I do have a trackpad on this mobile and i checked over the internet also and its Model number is A3333. So Please help me what all option that i can use on this mobile right now as i am totally new to Flashing Android Mobiles.
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Your in the stock recovery pal. Hold down the power and volume keys and you will eventually get some options on the screen. Once they come up use the volume buttons to scroll and power to select. Btw, i suspect you have a htc wildfire S not the htc wildfire. So this would be the wrong forum for you if your phone does not have a trackpad at the bottom of the screen (looks like a circle with a dot in it) then you have the S model.
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luvlastcall said:
Thanks for Replying back Its not letting me to run recovery and on the top of it if the phone boots up it take almost 20 minutes to get to the home screen and it hang sup their itself you can't even do anything on it and i am trying to unlock the boot loader to run recovery and install custom rom on it but nothing working out. I do have a trackpad on this mobile and i checked over the internet also and its Model number is A3333. So Please help me what all option that i can use on this mobile right now as i am totally new to Flashing Android Mobiles.
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Okay, pull the battery out. Then put it back in after 5 seconds. Hold down volume down, then power and keep both pressed down until a wite screen with some writing comes up. There it should say hboot, a version number and s-on or s-off. What does yours say?

HTC Widlfire
Well I am sharing the screenshot
heavy_metal_man said:
Okay, pull the battery out. Then put it back in after 5 seconds. Hold down volume down, then power and keep both pressed down until a wite screen with some writing comes up. There it should say hboot, a version number and s-on or s-off. What does yours say?
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luvlastcall said:
Well I am sharing the screenshot
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Ah ha! Fantastic whoever else had this phone before you has done most of the hard work and security unlocked the bootloader already. http://dl-1.va.us.xda-developers.c...zip?key=kzoSRLwAaSgJsyXiuKJS4A&ts=1431506306 download this and place it onto your sdcard. Reboot into hboot and your hboot should request you to update the recovery. Select yes with volume up. After this you should reboot back into hboot without the sdcard in. Then select recovery from hboot and boot into it.
Once your in recovery you could either:
1. Wipe the data, cache and dalvik cache and then reboot the phone. This will reset the phone and hopefully fix and voot related issues.
2. Wipe the phone entirely and install a new rom. Cyanogenmod 7 is a good lightweight rom. Please look at the development section for all the roms available.
Just one question though, that screen damage looks like bad. Do you know what happened?

Hello Bro
Link that you have shared is not working so please share some other link and please help me to get the best rom for this mobile and please provide me step to step instruction to do it.

Ok

Already Tried
Well Bro tried that and its now working no option i am getting in recovery and just a phone logo with red mark that what i shared in first screenshot in this thread

luvlastcall said:
Hello Bro
Link that you have shared is not working so please share some other link and please help me to get the best rom for this mobile and please provide me step to step instruction to do it.
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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?398dklf1uzss5f6 Updated link.
As I have said I recommend Cyanogenmod 7. Read the thread here Its a custom version but its more recent.
Now your screen, I suspect that those marks are from heat damage. Most likely from whoever else had the phone overclocking it. This could be a telltale sign of hardware damage through excessive use and it may never boot properly. I thought I should mention that.

Well i thats case would like to ask one more thing we will be able to fix it or not or its not worth it.

luvlastcall said:
Well If that's case would like to ask one more thing we will be able to fix it or not or its not worth it.
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Depends, this phone is an old model as far as mobile phones are concerned. the cost of a motherboard and new lcd + digitizer could be the same cost as the phone in a used condition.
I work it out as £23.13 as the cheapest you could get the parts but then you would need to do a full tear down of the device in order to replace most of it. I mean basically your only keeping the frame, trackball, camera and some rubber bits.
Cheapest I can find to buy it in the uk is £25 ( with you needing to sim unlock it).
But I would add that you might as well try get cm7 on the device. The only thing it will cost you is time and you never know, the phone might be usable with CM7 on it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

OK bro let me first give a try with the cm7 rom and see if its work and hoping for the best

luvlastcall said:
OK bro let me first give a try with the cm7 rom and see if its work and hoping for the best
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Good luck pal, keep me posted

Sure Bro and thanks a lot

Well Not sure what happened to screen as my brother was using and i tired to run the recovery and not able to go further only getting this screen while wiping all the data through recovery/Users/Hacker/Downloads/IMG_0170.JPG

Well Not sure what happened to screen as my brother was using and i tired to run the recovery and not able to go further only getting this screen while wiping all the data through recovery and stuck on this screen now

luvlastcall said:
Well Not sure what happened to screen as my brother was using and i tired to run the recovery and not able to go further only getting this screen while wiping all the data through recovery and stuck on this screen now
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Sorry, i forgot to mention, the controls for the recovery are different from hboot. Push trackball to select items, power is now the back button.

let me give a try and see if its work i installed the rom from Sd card ad restarted the mobile and hoping this will work now

I tried to install stock rom that i have downloaded from HTC Website and that is not getting installed lets hope CM7 will work i can see the ultrabeam revolutionary Logo on the screen right now its still thinking up