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[Q] Can I recover to factory from "bricked" ROM?

Hello,
I'm posting a new thread as everything I've seen (naturally) refers to rooting and flashing with custom ROMs etc. I merely want to recover to factory status in order to regain use of my Desire!
I bought an unbranded HTC Desire in July in New York. I'm now in Zambia until end November for work so can't go back to shop. My Desire got the OTA update to Android 2.2 and was working just fine. I've never rooted or flashed it.
But now it's not booting - white screen with HTC, one buzz, then nothing - have to pull battery to stop it. Sometimes it gives seven buzzes.
I have started it into Fastboot and connected USB, confirming USB connectivity using "fastboot devices" from my PC.
But running downloaded RUU from PC gets 170 USB connectivity error. Using adb also won't connect.
I (for now) don't want to root it, I am happy to flash it with the original WWE ROM to restore the phone to factory. Can I do this by putting a PB99img.zip on the SD card? Must I use a goldcard?
Most online guides (though excellent) are for rooting or rooted devices and custom ROMS. I'd greatly appreciate some advice on how to proceed to simply restore my Desire to factory ROM.
Current ROM settings:
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.92.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-.509.00.20
Jul 23 2010, 16:46:44
What's my best way forward (well, back, actually)?!

To answer your question simply: yes you can just use the zip file, if the ruu doesn't work. Whether you will need a goldcard or not is relying on whether your phone is branded.
If you see any carrier stuff it is definitely branded, but to be sure you can post your software number here

mortenmhp said:
To answer your question simply: yes you can just use the zip file, if the ruu doesn't work. Whether you will need a goldcard or not is relying on whether your phone is branded.
If you see any carrier stuff it is definitely branded, but to be sure you can post your software number here
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Thanks for the reassurance, mortenmhp. My phone is unlocked, carrier free - I bought it in a reputable retailer in New York and happily used it with US, Irish and Zambian SIM cards before it went wobbly on me.
Now, the question is - which ZIP file is best. I've seen several different ROM offered in a PB99img zip - any suggestions on the best, vanilla ZIP to use?
If that succeeds, and I get Android up and running on my Desire, am I safe in assuming that I can then run an RUU executable to fully restore the HTC factory ROMs??
Best regards and thanks,
Ronan

Hi,
ok, success with PB99IMG.zip though the restarts and hangings and 7-vibration boots are still happening. Connecting via USB is problematic. But Android is back on the phone and that's progress!
Trying to upgrade now to a HTC ROM using:
RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.15.405.4_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_122704.exe
but getting 170 (USB Connection) errors. This, despite successful HTC Sync and again confirming USB ok in Fastboot mode.
Any suggestions on how to overcome this and RUU the device?
Or should I try OTA using WiFi directly from the device?
Thanks!
Ronan

The ZIP files on Shipped-ROMs.com are 1.21 ROMs so you won't be able to put 1.15.405.4 on it as it's older than the one that's on it...you can only put a newer ROM onto the phone (e.g. 2.10.405.2)

Help reverting to stock rom

First off I've browsed the forums and cannot find an answer to my question. I know there are similar posts but not entirely answering my question.
Originally my HTC desire was running on official firmware on orange UK. Then I decided to root. I installed LeeDroid and then recently switched to MIUI. All I want to know is if I can revert back to how it originally was when I first got the phone. I cannot find anywhere an orange UK ruu. Is there a different one I can safely use and how do I do it?
All I want is all the rooting stuff removed not necessarily meaning I want all of the orange branding and everything back how it was
I want to know this because soon I am selling my phone and want it to be pretty much how it should be.
I am getting the phone unlocked to work on any network as the recipient of the phone is using a different network hence me not being bothered about the orange branding
Any help would be absolutely brill.
Thanks in advance

Well If you want the Orange Branded stuff back, then you need an Orange Official RUU. But I can't help you where to find it.

The HTCdev.com 2.3.3 RUU still comes with warranty so flash that to unroot. There are no Orange RUU's

Do i just flash as i would a custom rom hence going into recovery and 'install zip from SD card'? Is it really that simple? Does that completely make it like it was never rooted?

No its an .exe you run from windows. Connectng the phone via USB. If you are not s-off with a hboot version of 6.x, it re-writes everything. if you HAVE got the custom hboot, you need to flash the alpharev downgare.img hboot first.

Thank you, I will try this in the afternoon, if I fail be expecting to hear back from me cheers again mate

I am currently running AlphaRev
Bravo PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.93.1002
Radio - 5.17.05.23
However, when I try to enter recovery, I get a black screen with a picture of a phone with a red cross over it.
I am trying to revert to the stock bootloader to cure the recovery problem as I have already tried re-flashing CM7 but still get the same problem.
I tried to flash downgrade.img followed by the stock.img using Android Flasher but I can't get it to work.
Any suggestions?

You just need to fastboot flash the recovery.img
Have a read of my adb and fastboot faq in my signature. You dont need to read the adb stuff as it is not relevant

rootSU said:
You just need to fastboot flash the recovery.img
Have a read of my adb and fastboot faq in my signature. You dont need to read the adb stuff as it is not relevant
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Awesome!
Android Flasher kept becoming non-responsive so I followed your instructions to flash via CMD. Now got CWM installed and working

cool. I prefer command line over the GUI myself anyway. Its more resiliant / less to go wrong.

To get rid of root simply install the latest, official RUU which can be found in the Dev Forums

???
I'm dead confused. If i'm honest I don't really understand what you have told me to do. ATM my Desire is running the MIUI rom (Latest version).
When I turn on my phone with the volume buttom held down this is the information shown.
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.17.05.08
As stated before all I want to do is remove the 'rooted' stuff and put an offical version of android on (preferably the latest version - if not, doesn't matter) I really don't understand the steps to undertake to enable this to happen?
I tried downloading and installing 'HTC_Desire_Android_2.3_Upgrade' from the website you gave to me but had no success. the program just keeps saying connection error. I've tried everything but can only get the phone to connect to my PC in data storage mode?? seems to be a common problem with the MIUI rom.
If somebody could please help me step by step I will be so grateful. Getting kinda desperate now. Cheers

NeonVoidJP said:
I'm dead confused. If i'm honest I don't really understand what you have told me to do. ATM my Desire is running the MIUI rom (Latest version).
When I turn on my phone with the volume buttom held down this is the information shown.
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.17.05.08
As stated before all I want to do is remove the 'rooted' stuff and put an offical version of android on (preferably the latest version - if not, doesn't matter) I really don't understand the steps to undertake to enable this to happen?
I tried downloading and installing 'HTC_Desire_Android_2.3_Upgrade' from the website you gave to me but had no success. the program just keeps saying connection error. I've tried everything but can only get the phone to connect to my PC in data storage mode?? seems to be a common problem with the MIUI rom.
If somebody could please help me step by step I will be so grateful. Getting kinda desperate now. Cheers
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Have you tried this method?
This is a pretty good step-by-step guide to installing the HTC standard 2.3.3 Click me.
You can download the RUU for this here: Click me. It is the download at the top of the page.
Simply put your phone into fastboot (power on whilst holding the "back" button), plug your phone in, run the RUU programme and done!
Hope that helps.

[Q] Attempting to flash shipped ROM onto a Desire Z (Vodafone NL)

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)
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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
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[Q] HTC Desire Z "bricked-itself" - please HELP.

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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n00b stuck on old CM because too dumb to be able to upgrade bootloader

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