Hello everybody.
First of all I would like to state, that I read a lot of threads here and there and tried moreless anything what made sense, but without success. So I decided to post a new thread, because I wasn't able to find any help in any other thread.
My device:
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HBOOT says
VISION PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.85.0013
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 11 2011, 23:36:27
The ROM release is most probably: Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.42.405.4 (that's what RUU says, if I try to flash)
My problem:
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I was using my HTC Desire Z as usual. It ran on stock ROM, not rooted, nothing changed and except a few self-reboots it worked OK to my satisfaction. The lasat think I did (after standing up from the toilet :laugh was downloading and installing some game from the Market (if necessary I can find out what exactly). I remember the game downloaded and started to install and then the system froze. No reaction, nothing. I waited some seconds and considering it is a normal system freeze I just removed the battery and put it back.
I pushed the power button and ****! The phone won't boot. It stucks on the HTC (right before writing "Quietly brilliant") and that's it.
What I tried so far:
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1. hard reset - no reaction, bootloader stuck, does nothing
2. flash a stock ROM
- I found and page with stock ROMs (of course via XDA) (cannot post the outside link). None of them works. I get a fault message about Model ID incorrect. I tried a few of them (EXE or ZIPed versions). ZIPed said "ID incorrect", EXE version says waiting for bootloader and does nothing
3. using UNREVOKED to get a Clockwork Recovery - start in FASTBOOT, connect to PC, wait for USB connection and start the "reflash_package.exe" (unrevoked3) - said "Waiting for device", no reaction
4. install custom recovery via FASTBOOT.exe - of course doesn't work because S-ON
5. install custom ROM via FASTBOOT.exe or flash-card - of course doesn't work because S-ON / stock recovery
6. unlock the bootloader via HTCdev tool: this looked promissing, but when I send request "fastboot oem get_identifier_token" I receive and error (command error)
Since the device doesn't boot, I cannot use ROM Manager or any other tool requesting running system.
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I am sorry to post this even though there might be a similar thread. I read the forum for HOURS (until 3 am, even refused nasty proposals of my GF :laugh but didn't find any help, just a lot of very helpful information, which don't work.
I feel like I am close, but I don't know, how to proceed. PLEASE HELP.
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Background: I am skilled in ECU development (for automotive) as well as SW development, flashing and testing, so even not being an expert to Android, I can understand pretty much. I am ready to try quite a lot. If the phone doesn't work at the end, OK then. I could send it for warranty, BUT I moved from Europe to China and closest Global Warranty is in Hong Kong. Sending the phone for repair might be equally expensive like buying a new (actually I bought already a HUAWEI U9508, rooted and flashed custom ROM).
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Thoughts: I think if I can put into the phone Clockwork recovery or at least unlock the bootloader, I should be able to flash any ROM (stock or custom) and fix the phone.
Any suggestions welcome!!!
Cheers,
Jaro
unfortunately you are showing the signs of a fried emmc, it looks like you have tried everything possible in your situation and really there is nothing you did to cause this, just a bad batch of chips put in some of these phones.
if possible its still probably worth sending it to htc, but that choice is yours
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Hello XDAer's...
I am a long long time reader, first time poster. I am of the mind that if I have a problem there has got to be someone on a forum that has had it too, and I work it out myself by reading the 100's of other solutions. It has served me well... until today. I've rooted a few phones in the past, including a DHD, but this time I've managed to get myself in a bit of a bind.
I ran the latest AceHack kit on a branded Vodaphone Australia Desire HD. I read the effen' manual but I'm sure I missed something. The process SEEMED to end on it's own accord ('press any key to exit'), though when the phone rebooted it loads the HTC logo... then fades to black. From what I've pieced together it has something to do with the screen type being SLCD and I'm running a version of recovery that doesn't support it? Just a guess.
Bootloader info:
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.85.0024
MICRO-P-0438
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 12 2011,00:55:45
Good news (as far as I can tell):
* I can use the SDK tools to run Fastboot
* I made a Goldcard (probably useless anyhow)
Bad news (apart from the obvious):
* I can't run ADB
I'm medium-n00b: I can work my way around most things, but this has me beaten after 6hrs of playing. From what I can tell most of my options require me to have S-Off, but I don't... and it's becoming apparent that I can't do this via Fastboot.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, and I will do my best to repay the favour forward.
Ryan
welcome in the club!
Hello chr0nic2k11
Well, I think, we are in a comparable situation. Exept you seems to have a goldcard - i think, i wrecked mine with formating it. :-(
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23193664#post23193664
It's kind of frustrating, because I'm sure, for a xda-pro, it is a thing of minutes, to get our DHD's back to life. I already tried for hours and don't even know, if there is a chance for rescue at all.
Good luck to us!
mfazza
If you can somehow get your phone into fastboot, (don't know if u can still load up hboot), you can flash a stock ROM (thru USB cable). This worked for me to unroot my phone and put back to stock. It should work if you can get the right ROM, google stock roms and nav the site to your model (DHD is code named ace)
Hope this helped and good luck
EDIT : http://shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Ace << shipped ROM for DHD
Sent from my HTC Desire HD A9191 using XDA
hey, dont know if it will help, but i got stuck in a boot loop last night and i pulled the battery.
i couldnt get back into recovery by holding power and volume up or down, but when i restarted the phone by holding power button and volume up and down at the same time. this got me into bootloader, from there i was able to get to recovery and reload a nandroid backup...
If you flashed a good ROM and your stuck in hboot, use fastboot and use the following command 'fastboot oem boot' that should force your phone to boot.
http://unlockroot.com/
I saw this site by accident and the site says the tool supports rooting the Desire HD.
maybe it works like super one click
downloading it right now to test it, because I can't root my phone using AAHK!
feedback later.
edit:
wow, this tool definitely rooted my phone, I now have superuser on my phone and busy box tell me I'm rooted!
process was a breeze much like "super one click"
spent 6-10 minutes
further updates later.
I checked HBOOT and I still have S-ON (guess I still can;t flash roms right?
I do have clockworkmod already
chachoi said:
I checked HBOOT and I still have S-ON (guess I still can;t flash roms right?
I do have clockworkmod already
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You can still flash ROMs, you just have an extra step. It sounds like it roots it like HTCDev.
Flash the rom like usual, then come back to the bootloader, plug into the PC, pull boot.img from the ROM zip, open Command Prompt to the folder where fastboot is, and type 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'
mouse_man said:
You can still flash ROMs, you just have an extra step. It sounds like it roots it like HTCDev.
Flash the rom like usual, then come back to the bootloader, plug into the PC, pull boot.img from the ROM zip, open Command Prompt to the folder where fastboot is, and type 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'
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This is what he has done
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30709084
Sent from a dream.
History of my Desire HD
Hi I'll be telling you exactly about my device, and maybe you guys have inputs on how I can flash a custom ROM on this.
I just need a little more info/Push/
1. I bought this phone about a week ago from an online buying site
2. the phone was branded ( I can see the logo of "3 network logo" every boot up)
3. I have a general Idea on how to flash custom Roms ( I have had 6 android phones so far, all of them rooted and flashed with custom roms)
4. So I immediately wanted to root and flash this phone and found out about AAHK, which downgraded my phone from Android 2.3.5 down to 2.3.3, but cant seem to root my phone. It did however, flashed clockworkmod unto it (v5.0.27) and busybox was installed. The phone also became unbranded, but still I have S-ON
5. to root my phone I used the tool form www.unlockroot.com. Superuser was installed. Still I have S-ON
I have been reading for the past week and I found out I can't install a custom ROM if I have an S-ON
So to have my S-OFF I have been reading this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857537
the problem is I'm not sure if this device was shipped with gingerbread or froyo. Is there a way to find out?
here are some details as well
Android version: 2.3.3
HTC sense: 2.1
Kernel : 2.6.35.10-gd2564fb, [email protected]#1
Software number : 2.50.405.2
on Hboot
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.85.0024
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 12 2011, 00:55:45
S/N: HT0CFRX17365
my reasons for rooting/flashing custom ROM
1. the Phone's proximity sensor is not working well si i wanted to flash another ROM with a different kernel since my current kernel seems unsupported by the DHD proxomity sensor re-calibration tool. I didn't expect DHD would have this problem before buying
2.Also I have an addiction of flashing ROMS and trying new stuff
can you guys point me to the right direction?
I also have a question, can I flash a kernel by HTC even if I have S-On?
mouse_man said:
You can still flash ROMs, you just have an extra step. It sounds like it roots it like HTCDev.
Flash the rom like usual, then come back to the bootloader, plug into the PC, pull boot.img from the ROM zip, open Command Prompt to the folder where fastboot is, and type 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'
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I have the same '3' phone and have a similar problem (But caused by HTCDev - Still have S-ON but phone is rooted). You say that I can flash as per normal and then fastboot the rom.img - I have no problem doing this but many of the custom ROMs I have tried did not load - they got stuck on the developers splash screen and even if left the phone for over 30 mins the ROM did not move forward.
Are there any ways to get through this? So far the only ROMS that I have managed to load ate PrimoS and Virtuous infinity - However with both of these I cannot get the camera or wifi to work - Even using the patches available here.
Any help appreciated
But are you running 2.3.5 by "3"? I downgraded mine to 2.3.3 using AAHK. And after that I can no longer try AAHK, it says radio download failed.
I wannna flash a custom ROM! sense is not that slow but not fast either!
r_usty said:
I have the same '3' phone and have a similar problem (But caused by HTCDev - Still have S-ON but phone is rooted). You say that I can flash as per normal and then fastboot the rom.img - I have no problem doing this but many of the custom ROMs I have tried did not load - they got stuck on the developers splash screen and even if left the phone for over 30 mins the ROM did not move forward.
Are there any ways to get through this? So far the only ROMS that I have managed to load ate PrimoS and Virtuous infinity - However with both of these I cannot get the camera or wifi to work - Even using the patches available here.
Any help appreciated
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Click to collapse
i'll bump this one up
attn1's AAHK is still out there. He's just left XDA. It doesn't take much to find him out there, and his kit is still as good as usual.
his kit works still, you just ahve to contact him on the irc channel that i dont know the adress for
It doesn't work for all I think, lots of post here about unable to root their phones, I've tried it countless of times on 2 laptops both doesn't have HTC sync nor itunes and Anti virus or firewalls were disabled.
I was able to downgrade using AAHK but I can't root or S-off my phone
so I used www.unlockroot.com to root my phone but I'm still S-ON
problem solved thanks to attn1!
he maybe a douche sometimes but he's a good egg
thanks attn1!
I need an Obi-wan here. I'm a noob -- though I've gotten a solid four day education
hacking at this problem.
My wife's Android Desire Z - Stock ROM, S-ON, got stuck looping with a failed
android.process.acore message and after trying a cache clear that didn't help
I set out to factory reset it. Figured the nuclear option would be dead simple. Nope.
Factory Reset from the Hboot menu simply froze the phone
at the HTC menu for an hour. Not good.
From there dozens of resets and reboots and fastboots would sometimes successfully boot
to my wife's setup (so nothing was reset at all), only to get stuck in the acore loop again.
I was once quick enough to put it into
airplane mode and that stopped the error message loops. YAY! I could try a reset
via software! But when I attempted
Settings > SD & phone storage > Factory data reset it rebooted to HTC screen, Vodafone
screen, HTC screen, vodafone screen. ANOTHER loop.
OK, next try was to flash the ROM with an original shipped version.
Couple forums in Dutch said the shipped ROM for the Vodafone Desire z in NL was Bravo/Froyo World Wide English
so I located this file:
RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.2_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_151783_
signed.exe
and attempted reset by running that on a pc.
But the USB connection failed after the unit reset: Error 171, Error 170.
Tried installing HTC Sync AND the Universal boot drivers
and the Android Booloader Driver, as per the helpful advice from Bob Denny at Phandroid. (As a noob, I can't post links here, sorry)
And yep, I disabled anti-virus, had a fully charged phone (I'm hoping you get
the picture here -- I've done my due dilligence and googling before asking for help.) but
nada. RUU rebooted the phone, waited for the bootoader, and either the phone never pings the USB
port to say it's there or the PC doesn't see it.
FINE. I can put a PC10IMG.ZIP on the SD card and dispense with the frustration of messing with windows, right? Well, no.
I extracted ROM.ZIP from the RUU renamed it PC10IMG.ZIP and slapped it in the root
directory of the SD card. I booted to Hboot with the volume down and power buttons, chose
Fastboot and watched the the Zip load (blue verticle progress bar upper right of screen),
check it (brown progress bar upper right), then NOTHING -- back to the Hboot menu.
No error message, and no invitation to
update. Reboot takes me back to screen loop. Normal power-on does the same.
Further searches make me question if this is the right shipped ROM.
The RUU reports that I'm running version 2.42.161.22
(of what? Vision Gingerbread?) and the Bravo/Froyo WWE Rom reported itself to be version 1.59 something.
As this is an S-ON phone, I know I can't roll back to earlier ROMS, and can only install
the exact version as shipped.
So the questions I THINK I need answered:
1. Does anyone know for certain, or know where I can find out, which ROM
shipped with the Vodafone NL Desire-Z in 2010? I can get Kernel source for it at the HTCDev site,
but I see no compiled ROM there -- anything I can do with kernel source?
2. Anyone know where can I get the right PC10IMG.ZIP file to flash the unit from the SD Card? (I tried Shipped-Roms.com and
dozens of google permutations)
3. Is my methodology for flashing the SD Card right or is there anything in the
description above that lends anyone to believe my problem or solution is anything
other than the one I'm obsessing over?
Any help deeply appreciated.
Info from Hboot screen:
VISION PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.05.0013
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.10.51.26
eMMC-BOOT
Apr 11 2011, 23:36:27
Image CRC:
osbl: 0x1B4C7A4C
amss: 0xEF10821B
hboot: 0xCCCC4C36
recovery: 0x9627D8E8
system: 0xB6CE69CE
Please tell me I'm a stupid Noob and I've missed something so obvious I'll leave a
facepalm scar on my forehead, then tell me what it is so I can fix this dang phone and
get my life back. I'd be one appreciative noob.
-b
Try again with the PC10IMG.zip, this time don't extract the rom image, flash the entire zip. If this doesn't work you may need to make a goldcard. This means you will need to boot the phone and get into setting to turn debugging on and will will also need to get the proper window drivers up and running in order to use adb. (Try holding the s key on the key pad while powering on, this may keep the bootloop away)
Sent from my MyTouch 4G Slide using xda premium
demkantor said:
Try again with the PC10IMG.zip, this time don't extract the rom image, flash the entire zip.
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Yeah, sorry wasn't clear I extracted the zip from the RUU, not the rom itself, so I've tried this one already.
Safe boot doesn't boot -- gets me the HTC screen and freezes there. I'll keep trying, as I think gettting debugging on and going gold card may be my only hope if the problem isn't incorrect ROM (or if there's no finding the correct one).
Here's a simpler question: If in my hboot screen I see
VISION PVT SHIP S-ON
Does that mean the shipped ROM was vision gingerbread and that's the only one to try,
or could my wife's "system updates" upgraded the phone from a Bravo shipped ROM?
And when I get a CID Incorrect error on a Vision Gingerbread ROM, does that mean the WWE Vision Gingerbread ROM I tried to install isn't good because it's not Vodafone, or because it's not the shipped ROM?
Any help will be thankfully appreciated!
Sorry it took so long to get back,
ship s-on is referring to you have a shipped bootloader and your security flags are on, that line is not specific to any version of the desire z
You won't be able to flash any ROM like that unless it is an upgrade from current version. I believe if you go to HTC website the latest ruu was not released as an ota and may work for you as its probably newer. If it doesn't work then you will need to get super cid in order to flash something older, which means you need to get adb working
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
- sorry mistake in title - I have NOT got access to recovery, only hboot and fastboot
My situation (why I need help)
I am on holiday so I have only limited access to the intenet (wifi but slow and often failing to download files bigger than 5Mb).
I really need my phone as it is my only camera as well as needing to talk to my insurance etc...
I decided to install Ubuntu for this trip (first time I have used it) and didn't intall the full suite of Developer tools for android.
I need a new phone soon (the desire is my backup as my sensation was stolen on this trip) but cannot easily buy one here.
My Problem
I was using the phone as 3G router when it overheated and reset, this has happened before without permanent damage, this time however the phone would not get past the HTC white screen.
It can get to the hboot and fastboot menus but NOT into recovery.
I bought the phone rooted (in China) but it is s-on.
The OTW updates did not work even when the phone was working fine.
My progress
I may be able to create a goldcard, if I can download the images etc.. but it will take me days to get that working I think. I can get the information I need from fastboot. I assume I need an image which I am struggling to download.
I have tried to flash several recoveries in fastboot but with s-on none have worked, I have tried to find a signed recovery (which I think may be possable to flash over fastboot) but with no luck.
I have managed to get the RUU.exe 2.3.3 from the HTC developer site but I have only Ubuntu and the internet cafes wont let me install HTC sync for the drivers. I have not got a windows I can install in virtualbox and wine doesn't work.
I have searched for a PB99... that I can use, with some possibilities but its really getting annoying with downloads failing constantly.
My analysis
My phone is probably ***ed, but its getting to hboot and fastboot so something in there must work, hopefully its a corruption that can be overwriden.
If its not ****ed I just need to flash something, anything, anything at all that will run.
Fastboot seems useless due to s-on.
I can but a file on my SD but getting the right file is really dificult here.
I have the RUU.exe and it is possible to strip the image, but that would then not be signed I believe so I would need a goldcard.
My questions
Do you think there is hope for my phone or should I throw it in the lake?
Is it possible to flash genuine HTC stuff via fastboot.
Is my best chance the RUU and somehow finding a windows computer I can put the drivers on?
Does anyone know of a approprate PB99... for my phone on a link that has not expired that might fix it?
Is my best chance extracting the image from the RUU and making a goldcard even though that's a massive pain.
I have been working on this for days (yes thats how slow both I and the connection here are) and I would usually try all these before posting as I know a lot has been written about this already, but I am going mad with all the additional difficulties my location is causing and this is supposed to be a holiday. Any expert (or slightly more knowledgable) advice would be appreciated.
Also does anyone know if it is possible to get the HTC drivers separate from Sync as that will be easier to download and convince people to let me put on their computers.
More information
BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.83.0001
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.09.00.20
JUNE 10 2010,12:12:05
cid T-MOB101
mid PB9920000
Thanks a lot
Mistake - without recovery
Sorry the tittle should read WITHOUT RECOVERY - but with only Hboot and fastboot
SOLVED
Thanks for all the help guys .
I managed to download the PB99000.img from this thread and its worked great.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2262852&highlight=hboot+only
My ATT HTC One M8 was rooted using the 'official HTC' method soon after purchase and I was able to get CyanogenMod installed via their windows install tool back in the day so I didn't have to really understand what I was doing. It still runs CM11 quite well, but I'd really like to upgrade to CM12 if for no other reasons then the security updates. When I try to upgrade to CM12 though I get this error:
This package supports bootloader(s): 3.18.0.0000, 3.19.0.00000; this device has bootloader 3.16.0.00000, Installation aborted.
My recovery is ClockworkMod Recovery v6.0.4.8
Here's my bootloader screen:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
M8_UL_CA PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-3.16.0.0.0000
RADIO-1.16.21331931.LA11G
OpenDSP-v38.2.2-00542-M8974.0311
OS-1.58.502.1
eMMC-boot 2048MB
Apr 18 2014,16:06:33.0
I don't know what I'm doing.
After six months of occasionally messing with this I still haven't figured out how to upload the boatloader. I only barely understand the stuff I read on this site. Most things have pointed me to do this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/development/firmware-flashing-panic-attacks-t2824048
But I'm not s-off, there is a ton of downloads and steps and 150 pages of comments (!) so if there is something burried in there that will help me I can't find it. I tried blindly applying one of the firmware downloads but it didn't work. and it was probably the wrong one anyway.
Everything else pointed me to return to stock and accept the OTA update with this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2696282
But I again got lost, and never got this working. Once I got brave and spent the better part of a day trying to return everything to stock, but I couldn't figure out how to do it in the end and was super-happy to get back where I started and have a working phone again. I don't recall the exact problem I had, but I remember trying several RUUs - not being sure which one was the right one - and they wouldn't apply and that was after changing recovery versions and types several times and following random forum advice and thinking I bricked the thing a dozen times.
My question is: Is there a simple way to upgrade my bootloader ? Simple meaning exact steps to follow to just upgrade the bootloader without doing a bunch of other stuff that could brick me and I don't understand? I'm not really sure where to begin, even though I've tried a bunch of stuff, this stuff is so confusing.
Is there any help for noob like me?
You have AT&T - those threads are not for you.
You need to see this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2751432
1. Download RUU 4.28.502.2 RUU
2. Boot your device to bootloader/fastboot and connect to PC
2. relock bootloader - command fastboot oem lock
3. Install RUU
4. re-unlock your bootloader with the unlock_code.bin that you got from HTCDev
5. reinstall custom recovery
6. install your preferred custom ROM
To run a RUU .. you need USB2.0 and latest HTC USB driver installed. If not sure, download HTC Sync Manager - http://www.htc.com/us/support/software/htc-sync-manager.aspx
install it as it will install the latest HTC USB driver then uninstall the HTC Sync Manager but leave the driver.
This will wipe everything on internal storage - backup your photos, musics & etc to PC first.
Wow, thanks for taking the time with specific steps and links! I'll try again this weekend and let you know!
thanks!
This worked perfect! I think the key was the ATT RUU, which I definitly wasn't using it before. Once done getting back to CM was a snap and I'm now in great shape! Thanks so much!
You're welcome.
Correct RUU for correct device always fix things