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[Q] Another i broke my phone thread. [HTC Desire Brick]

Hoping someone can help me with this.
Ive been searching around various forums and such and the level of info is slightly overwhelming. Im kinda at at loss of which
route to go down. However most of what i have tried has not worked.
I have an HTC Desire, it was origanally running on orange. However, i unbranded it and unlocked it then installed a stock
HTC rom. Eventually updated to Froyo. This was done some time ago and i really dont remember what steps i took.
The Phone has been running fine with no issues, reboots or lockups at all. I had been using a "Three" sim and running fine for months.
I was playing "Angry Birds" (damn addictive game) with the charger plugged in an charging when the phone rebooted and got stuck on the HTC
Boot logo screen.
Im totally unable to boot into android and alas cant access the system.
It seems im unable to access adb in anyway but i seem to be able to run fastboot commands somewhat successfully.
I have no real way to access the SD card, i have no micro sd card convertor and i guess i cant access it if i cant boot into
android?
The only real info i can provide is from the Power+Back Screen:
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNTH0101
RADIO-5.09.05.30_2
Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18
Unfortunately i bought this phone on ebay, so i cant send it back to orange (it was someones contract replacement, and uneeded)
Having read around it seems that HBOOT 93 and SHIP S-ON pretty much makes this unrecoverable?
Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thanks in advance
*Update*
Partly answered my own question. Seems im able to add items to the sd card via fastboot flash /sdcard/ filename
However still not sure what files to add

could you boot into the recovery?
in fastboot mode, use vol down and power button to select.

h3llb3nd4 said:
could you boot into the recovery?
in fastboot mode, use vol down and power button to select.
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Yes, however upon pressing recovery it goes back to the HTC Boot Logo.

Bumping this for my sanity.

have you tried flashing a PB99IMG.zip?

Ive tried sending a few PB99IMG files via fastboot flash /sdcard/ PB99IMG.zip
The file seems to send fine and i can see the progress bar on the fastboot interface on the phone. However i always get a message back about the signature being wrong. Perhaps as a result of the wrong PB file?

your phone crashing without you doing anything except gaming could indicate an hardware issue.
anyways, first of all, going to htc boot logo when choosing recovery is pretty normal - it takes about 20 seconds until recovery is started.
if it doesnt start after that time, your internal data is bugged. install one of those RUU roms, to bring back you phone to factory default os. you have to root it again afterwards, but it should restore a working system.
there are a lot of other ways to restore your phone, but try these first

Murdock thanks for the advice. I had previously tried a a few RUU's however it would never let me install a version older than i already had.
I also had a fair few niggles getting the PC to recognise my phone during RUU install.
I got around this by using the older version of HTC sync which worked great (v 2.0.40)
After searching around i managed to find:
RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.10.405.2_R_Radio_32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2_release_142828_signed.exe
This worked fine and currently the phone is working. However, it has rebooted itself once. I can only hope it stays stable as ive no idea about persistant boot issues.
If anyone is interested in the older version og HTC Sync or the Froyo RUU i shall be happy to upload them

[Q] EVO 4G won't boot, stuck at HTC EVO 4G screen

Hi, hoping someone can help me. My phone seems to have bricked itself. A few weeks ago i had CM6 on my phone then i reverted back to the stock rom from HTC. The phone worked fine for a few weeks then about a week ago i started having random data connection issues, yesterday the phone started resetting by itself, after the third or fourth reset the phone stopped booting at all. all i get now is the white HTC EVO 4G screen or the bootloader when i hold the volume down button.
Here are the version numbers on the bootloader screen.
SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-2.02.0000
MICROP-041f
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.00.09.01
Oct 14 2010, 19:14:47
i can only get windows to recognize the phone through usb by using the HBOOT USB option and installing the android bootloader interface driver. I don't really know how to use ADB and i'm not even sure if it is seeing the phone. All i want to do it get this back to official firmware.
any and all help is appreciated
thanks.

Well, it's not bricked if you get into that menu. Can you get into your recovery? If so, try wiping everything and reflashing the rom.

No i can't get into recovery, i even tried reapplying clockwork recovery trough there and all it does is install it, say it's installed ok then i reboot and try to go to recovery mode and it just goes to the white HTC EVO 4G screen

What version of hboot do you have?
*Nevermind* Apparently I can't read. xD
What root method did you use?

that's if i even installed it right.

i'm not sure if it even is rooted anymore because i had put the official firmware back on, when i had CM6 installed i used clockwork recovery and unrevoked

well if you were able to install a custom rom like cm6 then you are more then likely rooted. you say that you cant get into recovery? you should just try running the ruu.exe and returning to complete stock and then reroot if you want.

the official RUU.exe doesn't see the phone. when i connect hboot in the bootloader, device manager see's the phone as android bootloader interface and it i let the boot normally and let it crash at the evo 4g screen it show's up as "Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM" and doesn't have a driver. I am running Windows 7 x64

maybe you should try slashing the stock pc36img.zip maybe that will get you back on track.
Edit: this is the link to the thread with the stock pc36img.zip
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791019
and just for future reference. it is not that hard to do a search of the information that is needed. while i was here posting these things i found with the search all the info i hae given. just food for thought.

What caguirr4 said. With that file (or since you have s-off you can TRY getting a rom zip and renaming it to pc36img.zip) your phone will read it automatically when you boot using the volume down technique. That should at least get your phone to boot up and you can continue trouble shooting from there if you have more problems.
Remember: Conserve your battery! You don't want the juice to run out while the phone is in the middle of flashing something. THAT is how bricks are made.

i ran the update you gave me, the phone said that all the stages of the update were sucessful and asked me to reboot, i did so and now my phone won't power on and when i plug it into the wall it won't show any charging lights.

zerozr1 said:
i ran the update you gave me, the phone said that all the stages of the update were sucessful and asked me to reboot, i did so and now my phone won't power on and when i plug it into the wall it won't show any charging lights.
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You ran the updates that who gave you? Various things were suggested on this thread.

sorry for not clarifying,i ran the original stock image that was linked to me by caguirr4 in post #9. According to the update it ran fine but after that the phone died when it had me reboot.

zerozr1 said:
sorry for not clarifying,i ran the original stock image that was linked to me by caguirr4 in post #9. According to the update it ran fine but after that the phone died when it had me reboot.
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Ok, so you press the power button, and it does nothing? That doesn't sound good at all. Hopefully, your battery is just dead and the drivers for the USB port didn't install right. In which case, you need this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243
Do you have any extra batteries you can try to make sure that battery isn't just dead?

I ended up taking it to a sprint service center, they tested the phone with thier own battery and the phone was dead. they are replacing the phone for me now. thanks you everyone for trying to help.

You could of just overwritten the ENG bootloader u had installed...

I am having the exact same problem. I can get to the bootloader but not recovery. Here's my specs
SUPERSONIC EVT2-2 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.79.0000
MICROP-041f
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.00.07.21
I had cyanogen 6.1.1 installed on it and it was was working fine. I just felt the thing vibrate and took it out of my pocket to see the "htc EVO 4G" screen and it just keeps rebooting unless I hold the volume button to get into the bootloader.
I REALLY don't want the stock firmware back on here and would like to avoid loosing root if possible.
I tried putting the PC36IMG.zip from here and at first it asked me if I wanted to flash it and after the first thing it restarted and now gives an error Main Version is older!
Update Fail!
Any ideas? I would really like to keep this phone.
Thanks,
Justin

I've tried basically everything I can think of. After attempting to flash the first PC36IMG.zip file I get the main version error for every other one.
Is there somewhere I can get the latest PC36IMG that will be newer and I can try to flash? At this point I don't really care if I lose root (if I haven't already) I just want my phone back.

embmicro said:
I've tried basically everything I can think of. After attempting to flash the first PC36IMG.zip file I get the main version error for every other one.
Is there somewhere I can get the latest PC36IMG that will be newer and I can try to flash? At this point I don't really care if I lose root (if I haven't already) I just want my phone back.
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Just run the ruu.exe and get it back to stock.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

I tried that. I even tried flashing the stock PC36IMG.zip (which flashed successfully) but I had the same problem. I finally gave up after like 8 hours of working on it and took it into Sprint. I am going to pick it up at 7. They said if they couldn't fix it they would give me a new one for $35 since I'm out of warranty which doesn't seem bad.

Yay, another bricked phone!

I've been running Warm 2.2 for a couple of months now, but lately I've been getting a lot of internet connection issues, today - I spent the entire day not being able to connect to 3G, don't know why so I figured I'd update the Radio,
Whatever that means..
managed to find updated versions on this website of the Radio, Wimax, Hboot and all those PIC, PICM, whatever it's called..
Rebooted to recovery, and flashed all the zip files, and now i'm STUCK there. Every time the phone restarts it just brings me back to the same old screen that says:
SUPERSONIC EVT2-2 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-2.10.0001
MICROP-041f
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.00.11.19
Oct 15 2010
HBOOT
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
CLEAR STORAGE
SIMLOCK
HBOOT USB
What do I do now? can I flash a new ROM using the USB cable? I don't think i have a micro sd card reader on me...
Anyway to fix this? I'd rather not wipe my device, but I can do it if I have to.
HELP
THANK YOU.

i might be wrong but i think your s-on means you lost root. but is you see the recovery option, i would go in there and try to restore a backup, hopefully you have one

Ahha.. a backup.. that would be nice :\
no backup here..

yoerz said:
I've been running Warm 2.2 for a couple of months now, but lately I've been getting a lot of internet connection issues, today - I spent the entire day not being able to connect to 3G, don't know why so I figured I'd update the Radio,
Whatever that means..
managed to find updated versions on this website of the Radio, Wimax, Hboot and all those PIC, PICM, whatever it's called..
Rebooted to recovery, and flashed all the zip files, and now i'm STUCK there. Every time the phone restarts it just brings me back to the same old screen that says:
SUPERSONIC EVT2-2 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-2.10.0001
MICROP-041f
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.00.11.19
Oct 15 2010
HBOOT
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
CLEAR STORAGE
SIMLOCK
HBOOT USB
What do I do now? can I flash a new ROM using the USB cable? I don't think i have a micro sd card reader on me...
Anyway to fix this? I'd rather not wipe my device, but I can do it if I have to.
HELP
THANK YOU.
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Go to the following site http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485 and download the EVO_Radio, the WiMAX, PRI and NV "individually". Afterwards, connect your EVO to your computer and boot up. If you're taken to the bootloader screen like you stated in your post, select recovery from the list of options. Hopefully, you're using amon RA v2.3. Anyway, If you can get into recovery, select the MS-USB option. Your computer should detect your SD card shortly afterward. Copy the files you downloaded to your SD card. When complete, eject/unmount the SD card from your computer first and then push the power button on your EVO to unmount from within recovery. Now go to the wipe menu and wipe the cache & dalvik. After that, go to the flash menu and flash the PRI. You should reboot to the radio update screen. Be patient and DO NOT PULL THE BATTERY. When complete, you should reboot back into recovery. If you happen to reboot back to the bootloader, simply select recovery from the available options. Now flash the EVO_Radio. Like before, you will reboot to the radio update screen. Be patient and DO NOT PULL THE BATTERY. After some time, you should reboot back into recovery. If not, get to recovery from within the bootloader screen. Do the same thing for the NV and the WiMAX. You *may* have to reflash the HBOOT. Anyway, after you've updated your radios, reflash the recovery. I HIGHLY recommend RA v2.3 You can download the PC36IMG.zip file for it here: http://files.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=amon_ra/RECOVERY/&file=PC36IMG.zip
After that, see if you can boot to your homescreen. If you can, great. If you cannot, try reflashing the rom. Remember, after flashing the radios and preparing to boot to your homescreen, you will appear to hang at the white EVO screen. Be patient and DO NOT PULL THE BATTERY. It will eventually clear. Hopefully, this will help you. Take care.

emcp422 said:
i might be wrong but i think your s-on means you lost root. /QUOTE]
Great catch!...... I totally missed seeing the "S-ON" in the OP's post and you're right, that usually means he is no longer rooted and need to re-root his device. OP, disregard my last post and RE-ROOT your device.
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yoerz said:
I've been running Warm 2.2 for a couple of months now, but lately I've been getting a lot of internet connection issues, today - I spent the entire day not being able to connect to 3G, don't know why so I figured I'd update the Radio,
Whatever that means..
managed to find updated versions on this website of the Radio, Wimax, Hboot and all those PIC, PICM, whatever it's called..
Rebooted to recovery, and flashed all the zip files, and now i'm STUCK there. Every time the phone restarts it just brings me back to the same old screen that says:
SUPERSONIC EVT2-2 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-2.10.0001
MICROP-041f
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.00.11.19
Oct 15 2010
HBOOT
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
CLEAR STORAGE
SIMLOCK
HBOOT USB
What do I do now? can I flash a new ROM using the USB cable? I don't think i have a micro sd card reader on me...
Anyway to fix this? I'd rather not wipe my device, but I can do it if I have to.
HELP
THANK YOU.
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Well, if you can get to the bootloader, it's unlikely that you're bricked. You *should* be able to recover here. The other guy is correct, since you're now S on, you lost root. Do you still have recovery? When you select 'recovery' from the bootloader, what result are you left with? (do you successfully boot to custom recovery, does it bring you back to the bootloader, or does it show you a black screen with a red triangle in it? If you still have recovery (I doubt you do, for some reason), then you should be able to flash the Unrevoked Forever S off tool, to set you back to S off. From that point, you should be able to flash a new rom.
However, I'm guessing that you lost recovery (for whatever reason), and you'll probably need to run an RUU, to try to flash the phone back to stock. From that point, you could re root again.
You can find an RUU here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060&highlight=hboot-0.97+ruu. Download the newest one, i believe it's the first on the page (3.70 software).
Edit: And about wiping your device, it seems as though that's already happened, ha. I don't think your stuff is coming back. Your only hope to get it back would be a nandroid backup, but you said you don't have one. We don't even know if you have recovery or not. Once you find that out, we'll know a lot more. If you're lucky, and still have recovery, it will be quick and easy for you to get back up and running.
Double Edit: OP. What recovery were you using? Did the radio flash seem to be successful, and then you just couldn't boot up afterward? Did you recieve any error messages when flashing it or anything like that?

Bricked means it won't even turn on...you just lost root. Do what the other posters said and please, read and take your time. You don't seem to have a firm grip on the whole rooting process.

You probably upgraded your hboot which is why you lost s-off and your phone won't boot. You can flash a kernel to get it to boot but you will need to get s-off back before you will be able to flash the radios.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA Premium App

Just put pc36img.zip to root of sdcard and let it do its update then go from there.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA Premium App

[Q] Phone won't boot, can't get into recovery.

I've been looking through threads for hours and have tried a lot of what has been suggested. At first it just started randomly bootlooping ( white htc screen, restart). I then tried some guide on a thread that had me ADB then RUU, once that was all done It got to the white htc evo screen, turned black then vibrated 5 times and the green light started to flash. I can't get into the recovery menu, I click it and it just goes straight to white htc screen. I've flashed multiple PC36IMG's with different recoveries, with no luck.
My fuse is burnin low...
Supersonic EVT2-3 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.79.0000
MICROP-041f
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-1.39.00.04.26
APR 14 2010, 15:41:34

*update-
I tried another RUU, a newer version.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7529500#post7529500
Now it seems to be in a bootloop, no 5 vibrate+ flashing light though..

IxHaku said:
*update-
I tried another RUU, a newer version.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7529500#post7529500
Now it seems to be in a bootloop, no 5 vibrate+ flashing light though..
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OK......so basically you got no RECOVERY?....so when you boot into the BOOTLOADER to install the PC36IMG....does it recognize the image?.......and does it ask u to install and reboot?......we'll start there

What rom were you running? Some users have had a bootloop of death, no coming out of it, on CM7. I think it has happened on other AOSP roms as well, but you mainly see it on CM7 - probably because of the larger user base.
I have yet to see a solution for it, I think everyone else had to report it lost and pay the $100 deductible through insurance. The only hope is to keep running RUUs and hopefully one will stick.
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)

Yeah I can see the image and to install and reboot.
And I was running CM7. FFFFFF I don't have insurance... Don't really want to take it to the sprint store with S-off.. So i guess ill keep trying to run RUU's... probably wont work though

IxHaku said:
Yeah I can see the image and to install and reboot.
And I was running CM7. FFFFFF I don't have insurance... Don't really want to take it to the sprint store with S-off.. So i guess ill keep trying to run RUU's... probably wont work though
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If the pc RUU isn't working, trying using the same firmware RUU, but in PC36IMG file, which you flash in the bootloader.
@plainjane : For those that had the issue on CM7 [some users on MIUI], and they we chalked it up to bad nand blocks? But we still have no 'cure' for it.

teh roxxorz said:
If the pc RUU isn't working, trying using the same firmware RUU, but in PC36IMG file, which you flash in the bootloader.
@plainjane : For those that had the issue on CM7 [some users on MIUI], and they we chalked it up to bad nand blocks? But we still have no 'cure' for it.
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Does it matter which RUU I use? (2.1,2.2)

reverepats said:
OK......so basically you got no RECOVERY?....so when you boot into the BOOTLOADER to install the PC36IMG....does it recognize the image?.......and does it ask u to install and reboot?......we'll start there
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Exactly! Do not worry about flashing a RUU at this time. Click on amon RA in my signature to download the PC36IMG.zip for amon RA and place it on the root of your SD card. Remove any other file with that name. Boot onto the bootloader (simultaneously press the DOWN volume & power button until your device starts) and then follow the prompts to install. Installation should take no more than 10 seconds. Afterwards, enter your new recovery, connect your device to your computer, select the USB-MS option and then copy the contents of your SD card onto a folder on your computer. After that, select the USB-MS option again to disengage. Now go to the wipe menu and wipe EVERYTHING it. When you're done, download a fresh copy of the rom you want to flash and flash it or copy a nandroid backup to your SD card and restore it. Be patient, either way, with the initial bootup.
pecking & swyping from my EVO 4G (XDA Premium)

Alright so I tried everything I could... So I took it into a sprint store. Told the guy this happened when doing the most recent update. Right there he went into the bootloader menu, I thought I was screwed... but he didn't say anything about the S-OFF. Eventually I came back and they ordered me another one.. probably a refurb. He said it was going to be free, and I don't have insurance. Guess I got lucky.
Thanks everyone for the input.

[Q] Boot loop? Help

Ok, so I have an old droid incredible that has not been used in years, I charged it up and when I turned it on, all it would show is the droid incredible logo and it will vibrate, then turn on and repeat.
On hboot it states this
IncredibleC XC SHIP S-ON
HBOOT -0.92
and some other stuff
Ive tried doing recovery, clear storage, factory reset, but they all lead to the same loop again as if nothing happened.
I have also tried installing some other recoveries but all that happens is that it states something like wrong name or not found (something like that)
Anyways, Im like 80% sure that this phone worked before it was sent to sleep till I decided to use it again.
And im 100% sure that this phone was completely stock, no root, nada, probably one of the most squeaky clean phones, at least I hoped it was. Its my bro's and he doesn't root any of his android devices.

sasdas said:
Ok, so I have an old droid incredible that has not been used in years, I charged it up and when I turned it on, all it would show is the droid incredible logo and it will vibrate, then turn on and repeat.
On hboot it states this
IncredibleC XC SHIP S-ON
HBOOT -0.92
and some other stuff
Ive tried doing recovery, clear storage, factory reset, but they all lead to the same loop again as if nothing happened.
I have also tried installing some other recoveries but all that happens is that it states something like wrong name or not found (something like that)
Anyways, Im like 80% sure that this phone worked before it was sent to sleep till I decided to use it again.
And im 100% sure that this phone was completely stock, no root, nada, probably one of the most squeaky clean phones, at least I hoped it was. Its my bro's and he doesn't root any of his android devices.
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Do an ruu thru hboot. Download this file http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip, and place it on your sdcard in no folders named exactly how it is (PB31IMG.zip). Boot to hboot, wait a few secs and it should find the file, parse it, and then prompt you to press vol up to install. Once done it will prompt you to press vol up to reboot. If hboot says it cant find the file, you may need to reformat your sdcard fat32 with a pc and then try again.

Ok, so it seemed to had found it, and a bar on the right appear and it said loading, but once that was done, it would state checking that zip, and then it just showed the hboot screen again.

sasdas said:
Ok, so it seemed to had found it, and a bar on the right appear and it said loading, but once that was done, it just showed the hboot screen again.
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What radio (baseband) version does it say in hboot? Try this one http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.2/PB31IMG.zip.

cmlusco said:
What radio (baseband) version does it say in hboot? Try this one http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.2/PB31IMG.zip.
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This one didnt do anything, stating something like not found, but im unable to reformat the card again since its late now, the previous one worked I believed because I reformat it before I even tried it.
Anyways, the radio states
RADIO-2.15.10.07.07

sasdas said:
This one didnt do anything, stating something like not found, but im unable to reformat the card again since its late now, the previous one worked I believed because I reformat it before I even tried it.
Anyways, the radio states
RADIO-2.15.10.07.07
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sorry for double posting, anyways it turned on and it was loading and everything, it even showed the lockscreen, and just as I was about to unlock it, it went back to boot loop.