[Q] Reflashing the hboot? - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I myself have a HTC Desire with the following specs:
HBOOT: Alpharev CM7r2,BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF, HBOOT-6.93.1002, MICROP-031d
Rom: MildWild 8
Im very pleased with this setup and with the MW8, every running smooth and fast, good batterylife, all fine.
But now....
A friend of mine also has a Desire with the following specs:
HBOOT: Alpharev ,BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-OFF, HBOOT-0.93.0001, MICROP-051d
Rom: (MildWild 8)
Because my friend had troubles with a previous HTC Sense-rom, i convinced her to try out thhe MW8.
So i tried to setup her Desire just like mine...CM7r2 hboot and MW8 done......NOOOOOOTTTTT
I tried to upgrade her hboot, by simply downloading the CM7r2 img zipfile from the Alpharev site, renaming it andcopying it to her SD root and then booting in bootloader...hoping it would ask me to upgrade the bootloader (just like it did with mine).....but that wont work...it gives some error, but it goes to fast to read.
After some other stuff, and searching the internet and especially this XDA forum...i didnt get any wiser and i didnt get any further with upgrading her hboot.
So i decided to just flash the MW8 rom (clean install)....and ....it worked! :victory:
But after a day, i noticed some small problems..battery wont fill up to 100%...(did a Battery wipe in bootloader)...battery drains rather fast...
...maybe the bootloader is the problem?
SO....THE QUESTION!
How can i reflash this Desire so it has the same specs as mine? I got no problems with mine, so setting this one up the same as mine...must be the solution.
...a short list of steps will do fine thx (i hope )

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[Q] Root PVT4 HBOOT-0.93.0001

I'd appreciate if someone could help me here.
I sent my phone in for warranty, and I recently got it back, they switched the mainboard. Now I'm unable to root. When running Unrevoked 3.3 (both with standard and custom, Amon-RA 2-0, recovery). It's stuck on "pushing recovery".
Hboot info:
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-051D
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Mainversion is 2.29.405.5.
Any help is appreciated.
Read this, might shed some light:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853583
EddyOS said:
Read this, might shed some light:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853583
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Thanks, but I've already read that. I didn't understand it fully out. Does it mean that I can't root?
Bump, please help?
Still no luck, please help?
Thanks
sindrefyrn said:
Still no luck, please help?
Thanks
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Did you tried the last unrevoked 3.32? If it doesn't work, mean u are missing something..check drivers etc..
I have the same phone, and after some problems rooted it with amonra 2.01 through unrevoked. Make sure you remember the unrevoked driver install.
andQlimax said:
Did you tried the last unrevoked 3.32? If it doesn't work, mean u are missing something..check drivers etc..
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I'm pretty sure I have all the drivers properly installed.
ddee said:
I have the same phone, and after some problems rooted it with amonra 2.01 through unrevoked. Make sure you remember the unrevoked driver install.
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What was your problem? Was yours also stuck on "Pushing recovery"?
Thanks alot!
sindrefyrn said:
I'm pretty sure I have all the drivers properly installed.
What was your problem? Was yours also stuck on "Pushing recovery"?
Thanks alot!
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Hey... I think I'm having the same problem with Unrevoked's latest version -- 3.32. Details of my phone's hboot screen are:
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MI CROP-051D
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.10.05.17_2
Aug 10 2010 17:52:10
Plz Help!!!!!!!
It says the root process was triumph. And then, it gives the error -- Validation Error: Back CID is missing.
Other Info:
-- I've no idea how come this is S-OFF -- actually, it's a used device I bought from ebay.in in India
-- Also, how to find out whether this phone is SLCD one or the AMOLED one. My another phone is Galaxy S which has Super AMOLED Plus and looking by its displau quality, I think the desire is AMOLED.
-- It would be helpful too if there is a way to find out its origin -- UK, Germany, etc?
Help!
First, uncheck "disable security" in unrevoked. Second, try custom recovery, amonra seems to be working for everyone. Mine has same specs and i successfully rooted twice, both time with amonra, but unrevoked forever is not supported, hence you have to uncheck that security thingy (can't remember exact wording, it's in unrevoked-file-...security...
Used unrevoked 3.2 Test to solve this!
tinky1 said:
First, uncheck "disable security" in unrevoked. Second, try custom recovery, amonra seems to be working for everyone. Mine has same specs and i successfully rooted twice, both time with amonra, but unrevoked forever is not supported, hence you have to uncheck that security thingy (can't remember exact wording, it's in unrevoked-file-...security...
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Hey.. thanks for pointing it out but I already got it alright by using the 'unrevoked 3.2 Test' file. I know it was very risky and the test file was withdrawn by the developers because of bugs, but I just did it and it's fine now. S-OFF is still S-OFF, recovery installed fine, though!
Thanks you, again!
I believe desire is sold with s-off by default in India and China. Hence,its from one of these two countries.
itskapil said:
Hey... I think I'm having the same problem with Unrevoked's latest version -- 3.32. Details of my phone's hboot screen are:
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MI CROP-051D
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.10.05.17_2
Aug 10 2010 17:52:10
Plz Help!!!!!!!
It says the root process was triumph. And then, it gives the error -- Validation Error: Back CID is missing.
Other Info:
-- I've no idea how come this is S-OFF -- actually, it's a used device I bought from ebay.in in India
-- Also, how to find out whether this phone is SLCD one or the AMOLED one. My another phone is Galaxy S which has Super AMOLED Plus and looking by its displau quality, I think the desire is AMOLED.
-- It would be helpful too if there is a way to find out its origin -- UK, Germany, etc?
Help!
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Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Try Unrevoked 3.21. You can download it after a little search in google. I have same HBOOT and PVT4, and the latest versions of Unrevoked don't work for me, but 3.21 does.
I've successfuly applied new recovery and rooted with the latest unrevoked, but before that it was needed to roll back to 2.2 rom...
pvt4 desire
s-off
hey guys new to android..got ma desire yesterday only..earlier used WM.
Just one query mine is the same bootloader but i sucesfully rooted yestr. using unrevoked,now my query is that can i install custom roms without turning s-off??
I dont want to flash radios or custom bootscreen as of nw just interested in custom roms??
plz help...i have read the whole guides but jst not able to understand whats d proper use of turning s-off..
my bootscrren looks lyk dis-
BRAVO PVT-4 ship S-on
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-051d
Tou....
RADIO-5.09.05.30_2
AUG 10 2010,17:52:18 (what dis date means)
lovemeeveryone2009 said:
hey guys new to android..got ma desire yesterday only..earlier used WM.
Just one query mine is the same bootloader but i sucesfully rooted yestr. using unrevoked,now my query is that can i install custom roms without turning s-off??
I dont want to flash radios or custom bootscreen as of nw just interested in custom roms??
plz help...i have read the whole guides but jst not able to understand whats d proper use of turning s-off..
my bootscrren looks lyk dis-
BRAVO PVT-4 ship S-on
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-051d
Tou....
RADIO-5.09.05.30_2
AUG 10 2010,17:52:18 (what dis date means)
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yes you can install custom roms now. but if there is a rom that requires 'custom hboot' like DATA++ or CM7 hboot etc you would have to s-off first.
also you never MUST flash new radios, it is only if you want to or if your phone doesnt work properly anymore (connection issues).
i was in your situation week ago. and believe me, it was worth S-OFFing my device. it was super easy (as easy as rooting, CD method) and the benefits are... well data++ roms are super-fast, and when i was using a2sd+ or data2ext roms (which is what you will be using) i kinda fooled myself that i dont care bout lags damn, now i couldnt cope with it !
if you want the -new Sense- roms (from desire HD or desire S) go for s-off it is worth it. if you want stock desire sense or non-sense rom, there is no need for s-off, since this roms are pretty fast, but using them with custom hboot will give you more responsivness when you will have lot of apps
all types of roms (new sense, old sense, no sense, miui) are available for S-ON users, but some of them will be kinda slow.
dzumagos said:
yes you can install custom roms now. but if there is a rom that requires 'custom hboot' like DATA++ or CM7 hboot etc you would have to s-off first.
also you never MUST flash new radios, it is only if you want to or if your phone doesnt work properly anymore (connection issues).
i was in your situation week ago. and believe me, it was worth S-OFFing my device. it was super easy (as easy as rooting, CD method) and the benefits are... well data++ roms are super-fast, and when i was using a2sd+ or data2ext roms (which is what you will be using) i kinda fooled myself that i dont care bout lags damn, now i couldnt cope with it !
if you want the -new Sense- roms (from desire HD or desire S) go for s-off it is worth it. if you want stock desire sense or non-sense rom, there is no need for s-off, since this roms are pretty fast, but using them with custom hboot will give you more responsivness when you will have lot of apps
all types of roms (new sense, old sense, no sense, miui) are available for S-ON users, but some of them will be kinda slow.
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Thank you for taking time to reply !!!
Ur words gave me the confidence to move ahead further and apply the method to turn S-off.Now the phone is completely hacked and i installed CM7...what a change it has bought to the device...its definitely very much snappier than stock(eventhough i found it super snappy after my topaz...lolz)...Just like to add that rooting on Android is more complicated than HSPL nd other stuff on WM....but thanks to people like you and friends at xda made things very simple.

[Q] unrevoked3

I tried searching for this but to no avail.. if some one here has better searchfu than me just point me in the right direction but here is my problem.
Im using a 2.2 android HTC desire from O2 I was following the instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788044 here to Root it. I installed the Hboot drivers fine and got Unrevoked working as far as i can tell.
I launch it and it goes through the entire process of restarting my phone into Hboot and then restarting again and stabilising then It starts to root.. says sucess then quickly changes to say "Internal Error: failed to unlock NAND flash?"
It then stops there restarts the phone and has had no effect at all..
Any help will be wonderful
Pete
nereme said:
I tried searching for this but to no avail.. if some one here has better searchfu than me just point me in the right direction but here is my problem.
Im using a 2.2 android HTC desire from O2 I was following the instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788044 here to Root it. I installed the Hboot drivers fine and got Unrevoked working as far as i can tell.
I launch it and it goes through the entire process of restarting my phone into Hboot and then restarting again and stabilising then It starts to root.. says sucess then quickly changes to say "Internal Error: failed to unlock NAND flash?"
It then stops there restarts the phone and has had no effect at all..
Any help will be wonderful
Pete
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Try going into recovery mode and clear storage and then try unrevoked again
whats your radio version ? I recently did this on mine and it game me superuser but nand is still locked.
Heres what it says when i go into Hboot:
Bravo PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
Microp-031d
Touch Panel-synt0101
Radio-5.09.05.30_2
Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18
Are you trying to use Unrevoked forever? That only works on CDMA phones (no sim card). If you just want root and flash different roms normal Unrevoked is fine. To see if it went oke boot in to recovery and see if it says ClockworkMod recovery. If yes, everything is fine regarding rooting.
If after this you want to S-off and have a GSM (sim card) phone use AlphaRev.
Im using the version available from unrevoked.com which i belive is just unrevoked
As for booting into recovery i try that... all i get is the phone symbol with the red triangle and then dont get past that when i push power and vol up..
TheGhost1233 said:
Are you trying to use Unrevoked forever? That only works on CDMA phones (no sim card). If you just want root and flash different roms normal Unrevoked is fine. To see if it went oke boot in to recovery and see if it says ClockworkMod recovery. If yes, everything is fine regarding rooting.
If after this you want to S-off and have a GSM (sim card) phone use AlphaRev.
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This man speaks the truth, unrEVOked forever won't work on the sim card Desire. I you should now have standard super user permissions. if you do want S-off you will need to go the alpha rev route.
tried using a diff version of unrevoked and this time it says failed to flash recovery image
I just went through all of this with my own phone a few days ago. from what I have learned and read Unrevoked will not give you Nand unlock.
Strange. I tried the latest unrEVOked (not forever) on my unbranded Desire, and did not have any errors like these (NAND unlock, unable to flash). I have:
Bravo PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
except the radio is 5.11.05.27
Hmmm could it be the radio causing the play up?
nereme said:
Hmmm could it be the radio causing the play up?
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Maybe.
But i should give it a try. Download the latest unrEVOked from here:
http://www.unrevoked.com/recovery/
Also make sure, you have correctly installed the HBOOT drivers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788044
I do definitely have the latest version of both of those..
Hi folks, absolute novice here.
Apologies for replying to a very old thread, but I am having the same issue here with unrevoked - I simply cannot get my HTC Desire rooted.
I get the msg "Internal Error: failed to unlock NAND flash?"
This is my hboot:
Bravo PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
Microp-031d
Touch Panel-synt0101
Radio-5.09.05.30_2
Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18
I have Android 2.2. I beleive i have followed the instructions. It is an O2 (UK & Ireland) branded phone.
Appreciate any help!!
thanks!
Shhmmooove said:
Hi folks, absolute novice here.
Apologies for replying to a very old thread, but I am having the same issue here with unrevoked - I simply cannot get my HTC Desire rooted.
I get the msg "Internal Error: failed to unlock NAND flash?"
This is my hboot:
Bravo PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
Microp-031d
Touch Panel-synt0101
Radio-5.09.05.30_2
Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18
I have Android 2.2. I beleive i have followed the instructions. It is an O2 (UK & Ireland) branded phone.
Appreciate any help!!
thanks!
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You've searched too far back
Use the guides here to explain everything better: http://androidforums.com/desire-all-things-root/503471-desire-all-things-root-guide.html
Follow it all the way through particularly terminology etc. Everything you need to know is there
Then use the guide to 's-off' using revolutionary. It doesn't technically root but will fully unlock your bootloader which is more powerful.

[Q] Deeply confused by unbrick attempt - can anyone help ?

Hi All,
Apologies in advance... I'm a noob.
Well for a long time I was a happy camper running the excellent Marange MIUI ROMs on my HTC desire (which had been replaced by a PVT4 motherboard version). This was S-OFF and running HBOOT 0.93... but then one day a couple of months ago I got into a boot loop where all I got was the MIUI boot logo... not really a loop more just stuck at the logo.
So I tried several clueless attempts to reimage using the TeamWin TWRP boot loader... but nothing I did worked. So after several failed RUU attempts and random PB99IMG boots and one successful run of:
RUU_Bravo_Telstra_WWE_1.15.841.14_R4_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_123851
I had what I imagined was a stock phone running an ancient Telstra release (it is a Telstra branded phone - the other world wide English RUUs refused to recognise the phone - 130 error).
I tried re-flashing the baseband radio, ClockworkMod v2.5.0.7 Recovery and MIUI... and wound up back to square one stuck in the MIUI logo and the RUU I used to get back to stock is now refusing to do anything) and this time I noticed my phone reports:
BRAVO UNKNOWN SHIP S-ON
HBOOT 0.75.0000
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYMT0101
RADIO-5.17.05.23
Mar 5 2010, 21:12:15
So somehow my PVT4 S-OFF 0.93 changed to the above. Which I don't understand... I thought that only a Goldcard could do something like that. None of the recovery tools seem to want to deal with HBOOT 0.75 and the fact that I'm S-ON would appear to be a pain.
The other thing that really confuses me is that how come if the phone is S-ON it lets me wipe everything and install the latest Marange MIUI ROMs ? Surely if it's S-ON then these would have to be signed (maybe they are for all I know).
Finally, if I use adb when the phone is stuck in it's MIUI boot logo I'm amazed I can get a root shell.
Anyone got any advice on how my phone got into such a mess, how to fix HBOOT and get a decent ROM running again ?
Any help hugely appreciated. The more detail the better.
Many AtDhVaAnNkCsE
Cheers,
Doug
"The big print giveth and the small print taketh away..."
How where you s-off, with hboot 0.93? Alpharev hboots have 6.93 etc.
Anyways, did you try the 2.3 RUU? Check my sig.
You can flash roms with s-on, but you can't change recovery.
Hi abaaaabbbb63
abaaaabbbb63 said:
How where you s-off, with hboot 0.93? Alpharev hboots have 6.93 etc.
Anyways, did you try the 2.3 RUU? Check my sig.
You can flash roms with s-on, but you can't change recovery.
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To be honest I couldn't quite remember the state of my HBOOT I just new that it had been newer than 0.75, possibly 0.80, and that I had S-OFF and PVT4.
Your suggestion worked perfectly! I ran the RUU without issue to upgrade to 2.3 which gave me a new 1.x HBOOT and then I ran revolutionary and was then able to install MIUI. Smooth as...
Thank you so much!
I find the howto guides out there have lots of how but not too much why. I like detail on why things work or don't. Like why did that RUU work when so many others I tried didn't... did HTC make RUU 2.3 more forgiving in it's identification of supported phones ?
Anyway, once again many thanks for your kind help.
Cheers,
Doug
dscoular said:
Hi abaaaabbbb63
To be honest I couldn't quite remember the state of my HBOOT I just new that it had been newer than 0.75, possibly 0.80, and that I had S-OFF and PVT4.
Your suggestion worked perfectly! I ran the RUU without issue to upgrade to 2.3 which gave me a new 1.x HBOOT and then I ran revolutionary and was then able to install MIUI. Smooth as...
Thank you so much!
I find the howto guides out there have lots of how but not too much why. I like detail on why things work or don't. Like why did that RUU work when so many others I tried didn't... did HTC make RUU 2.3 more forgiving in it's identification of supported phones ?
Anyway, once again many thanks for your kind help.
Cheers,
Doug
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the 2.3 ruu is not supported by htc but is there if u wanted it. so they just made a 1 for all update if u like, basically any brand (o2 etc) any region and so on.

[Q] Desire does not boot - no recovery, just fastboot

Hi
I was a happy camper with a HTC Desire GSM PVT4 with cwm and Mildwild.
I had a modified partition with the CM7r2 version and A2SD. Happy
two days ago while on the phone he suddenly whitescreened on me, since then, no boot
I can't boot in recovery any more.
What i did:
- clear storage
- tried with flasher for another recovery, no luck (as explained on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275632)
downgraded to alpharev unlock.
Right now I don't want to go bricking my phone, cause being stuck with a nokia don't remember how old it is is not my cup of tea...
I want to return it to normal stock (or any other rom, but stock would be great)
So:
When boot:
Alpharev Unlock
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT 6.93.9999
TOUCH PANEL SYNT0101
RADIO 5.11.05.27
Aug 10 2010
I prefer to use the PB99IMG.zip method, because I don't have good experiences with USB.
Anyone has any idea if it's safe an if it will work to use this http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...9.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.zip at this stage?
I also read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1172879, and it seems an equal problem, apart from the PVT-version
Thx in advance..
i have 2.3gb upgrade in my sig as PB99IMG
Sent from my HTC Desire
jmcclue said:
i have 2.3gb upgrade in my sig as PB99IMG
Sent from my HTC Desire
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thx. worked like a charm!
i now have a stock unrooted perfectly working desire!

htc desire in RUU mode

Hello All!
I recently purchased a HTC DESIRE BRAVO which was a factory release and working fine.
I then decided to have S-OFF and ROOT the phone, which i did without any problems and in turn installed a fresh ROM and everything worked fine.
Then it started to have boot up problems and so i installed fresh Hboot using ANDROID FLASHER, still having problems, again i installed a different Hboot and after doing this a few times the phone stopped working completley.
I then took it up on myself to install the HTCdevs 2.3 RUU in order to make the phone work again! But things got even worse
The phone now boots to a Black screen with HTC in the middle of the screen and in each corner a triangle with an exclamation mark in it.
I have tried BORTAKS guide using section 5 a) S-OFF (RUU problems) to fix the problem but no luck!
My laptop can see the phone but only as MY HTC not as an interface, so any help or guidance or downloadable links will be appreciated!!!
From what i remember this was the phones internal info:
ALPHAREV cm7r2
S-OFF
Bravo PVT1
HBOOT 6.93.1002
radio 5.17.05.23
Many thanks in advance
Mat.
desirebravo said:
Hello All!
I recently purchased a HTC DESIRE BRAVO which was a factory release and working fine.
I then decided to have S-OFF and ROOT the phone, which i did without any problems and in turn installed a fresh ROM and everything worked fine.
Then it started to have boot up problems and so i installed fresh Hboot using ANDROID FLASHER, still having problems, again i installed a different Hboot and after doing this a few times the phone stopped working completley.
I then took it up on myself to install the HTCdevs 2.3 RUU in order to make the phone work again! But things got even worse
The phone now boots to a Black screen with HTC in the middle of the screen and in each corner a triangle with an exclamation mark in it.
I have tried BORTAKS guide using section 5 a) S-OFF (RUU problems) to fix the problem but no luck!
My laptop can see the phone but only as MY HTC not as an interface, so any help or guidance or downloadable links will be appreciated!!!
From what i remember this was the phones internal info:
ALPHAREV cm7r2
S-OFF
Bravo PVT1
HBOOT 6.93.1002
radio 5.17.05.23
Many thanks in advance
Mat.
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I think you should flash Alpharev Brawo downgrader first.
Never flash a ruu with a hboot other than stock.

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