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[Q] Bricked Desire - Can't get past bootloader

After reading Bortak's guide, I was still unable to fix this bootloop as I don't have a goldcard, and it seems like you need a functional Desire to create one.
The situation is:
> Desire can boot into Fastboot (Power button + back button), but attempting to enter recovery causes a boot loop (Carrier splash screen)
> Attempting to enter recovery directly (Power button + volume down) causes a boot loop
> I lost the MicroSD with this phones' recovery on it, all I have is a spare blank MicroSD
I'm wondering, is it possible to flash a new recovery off the SD card, through fastboot?
Or, can I do this through a USB connection somehow? (I currently have the latest HTC Sync installed)
Thanks for any help!
Edit: My Desire is S-ON (I swear it used to be S-OFF, but who can remember, I haven't picked this phone up for ages) and HBOOT is 0.75.0000

S-on users cant flash a custom recovery through fastboot. It can be done only via the unrevoked method. What exactly did you do to cause this? Dont you have your own RUU?

I've got similar problem, but i don't have root.
I made S-OFF with revolutionary and rovolutionary couldn't flash clockworkmod. Previously, I didn't know that I have to do root... so i wanted to do s-on to do this root. I downgraded phone to hboot 0.80 as they said on alpharev website. But now, I can't get out from fastboot. Every time, when i'm robooting, it goes to fastboot.
Please, could You help me?

Flash 2.3.3 RUU via fastboot and use revolutionary again.

Which one from those
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667
is 2.3.3?
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MatDrOiD said:
Flash 2.3.3 RUU via fastboot and use revolutionary again.
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OK, I found it on official htc site, or sth, and it works!! Thank you very much!

Do not forget to use thanks-button.

Droidzone said:
S-on users cant flash a custom recovery through fastboot. It can be done only via the unrevoked method. What exactly did you do to cause this? Dont you have your own RUU?
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When I got my Desire HD, I flashed Oxygen rom on this Desire and gave it to a friend. I have no idea how it got in its current state. I'm downloading the latest official RUU now.
If someone could provide some instructions on how to flash the RUU with the phone in it's current state that would be awesome

As long as you can get into fastboot not all is lost, there will be a way of flashing it was a stock rom

chongo_au said:
When I got my Desire HD, I flashed Oxygen rom on this Desire and gave it to a friend. I have no idea how it got in its current state. I'm downloading the latest official RUU now.
If someone could provide some instructions on how to flash the RUU with the phone in it's current state that would be awesome
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Boot phone into fastboot mode, connect phone to computer and start the downloaded RUU.exe on your computer.

The RUU recognized the phone, but it refused to update due to wrong bootloader version. Looks like my RUU was not the right one, back to searching again.

If you have GSM and not a hboot with nummber 6.93.1002, the 2.3.3 RUU should work for you:
http://www.htcdev.com/process/legal_download/152

Ok I found the correct RUU (Telstra) and was able to flash everything except the radio, which failed. Attempted to retry twice but same result.
Now I have the grey HTC logo with the exclamation triangles in the corners.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

Sorry mate, but radio brick is unfixable (as far as I know).

MatDrOiD said:
If you have GSM and not a hboot with nummber 6.93.1002, the 2.3.3 RUU should work for you:
http://www.htcdev.com/process/legal_download/152
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Thanks, that RUU flashed successfully! It said rom update complete and so on. At least now I'm making progress.
However, the rom doesn't load and I get a bootloop. I've now got the normal white HTC splashscreen appearing, then the screen flashes black, the phone vibrates 5 or 6 times, and I'm back to the splashscreen again.
I'm able to boot into bootloader (HBOOT 1.02.001 apparently) but not recovery.
I'm not familiar with adb and all that, all I can do is follow instructions, but in short, without being able to load a rom to tick the box for usb debugging, is there any way to S-OFF and or flash CWM if I can get the computer to recognise the phone (while its sitting in bootloader or fastboot mode) with the HTC Sync USB drivers or equivalent?
I'm going to say some probably unrelated words and phrases that I've read in the last days forum trawling, maybe it will jog someones memory:
> Fastboot commands
> Revolutionary hboot drivers
> USB brick
I know its probably time to lay the old Desire to rest, but I'd love to squeeze some more use out of it, I loved that phone.
Greatly appreciate the help

You did not get any errors when flashing RUU? Okay, cool. Check if you still have an ext-partition on your SD card. Maybe this let the romboot loop.
With revolutionary you will be able to get S-OFF and root in two simple steps:
http://revolutionary.io
But read the documentary site very carefully before doing anything!

Hi i'm in the same situation (desire branded how boot loop update with RUU 2.3.3 and boot loop again)
had you fixed your desire ?

Xims said:
Hi i'm in the same situation (desire branded how boot loop update with RUU 2.3.3 and boot loop again)
had you fixed your desire ?
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Please read the thread. The solution is in there!

ok i had try revolutionary but it never find the device ( as on hboot or fastboot)
i have the htc fastboot driver so i don't see how i can user revolutionary

If you use Android Flasher while connected to the PC you can flash a recovery in fastboot mode. Either the latest Clockwork or 4EXT Recovery will make you able to flash a Desire(d) rom again

Hi to use android flasher i had to be S-off or woth the RUU of 2.3.3 i'm back S-on and i haven't find a way to go S-off from fastboot or hboot ...

Bricked my phone badly

ok so i wanted to get a custom rom my desire hd 2.3.5
at start i have tryed the old way thats in the sticky but that was for 2.3.4 so that didnt work.
what did work was unlocking the bootloader via htc dev site. after that i was clueless.
I've found AAK to root my phone and downgrade so i had used that, but i forgot that the phone was unlocked and it said it had to be locked.
and now the phone is bricked i've tried all possible ways with wiping data and cache but it doesnt work.
i wanted to relock the bootloader with fastboot.
i had entered this command:
fastboot oem lock
but that gave this error
FAILED (status malformed (1 bytes))
so my phone hangs on the boot screen and i cant do anything?
can you guys please help me?

The fact you can get to the bootloader is a great sign, so don't worry! The only time you need to properly panic is when you can't get anything on the screen or even a charge light.
---Double check with someone else that this is correct, but I think this is what you need to do ---
Do you have a custom recovery (i.e clockworkmod)? Can you boot into recovery? Use the volume keys to select recovery, then press the power button. If you get options like "reboot now" and "install zip from sd card" then flash a rom like Android Revolution HD.
If you get a red triangle, find a zip you want to flash and name it "PD98IMG.zip" then put it on the root of the SD card. Reboot to bootloader and it should flash.
If you truly want to relock the bootloader, flash an RUU and it will restore you to stock.

Tamen said:
If you get a red triangle, find a zip you want to flash and name it "PD98IMG.zip" then put it on the root of the SD card. Reboot to bootloader and it should flash.
If you truly want to relock the bootloader, flash an RUU and it will restore you to stock.
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Simply renaming a ROM PD98IMG.zip wont work it needs to be formatted in a certain way, but if the phone is S-OFF, which wasn't mentioned there are certainly PD98IMG's about for a variety of ROMs. But I suspect Tamens suggestion of flashing the appropriate RUU and starting from scratch is going to be quickest way to get sorted

I had this same problem with mine it got stuck trying to boot up but I had no boot loader or I couldn't get into recovery.so download a took called ANDROID FLASHER and reflash the radio ect.my desire hd is now fine.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XL with Beats Audio X315e using XDA App

well i have tried to flash the ruu but without succes.
ive loaded the PD98IMG.zip on the sd and let the bootloader use it. nothing happened.
also my phone is s-on and could not find a way to go to s-off in recovery mode or boatloader.

Down load the tool above Android flasher.from the tool u can enable fast boot ect from your PC and loads of other stuff.it is a very simple to use and it has loads of folders for recovery, boot loader ect let it do every thing for u.that was the only thing that worked for me
Sent from my HTC Sensation XL

I've tried it but it doesn't work because my phone is s-on...
the description of that utility said that s-off is essential
i am really running out of options..
in short my phone has a unlocked bootloader and after that i've used AAK.
the result is bricked phone with s-on and unlocked bootloader

[Q] Bricked HTC ONE X While Unrooting! I'm Noob!

Everyone just made a trade today for iphone 4s 64gb for a tegra 3 htc one x. I bricked my phone trying to unroot it wanting some old software back. Stuck on bootloader screen. I don't have access to any files or anything. Please leave download links and very detailed steps. I'm a real dummy. I got it relocked so far and basically want to get it back up and running. Looks like a european version not 100% on that.

Which rom were you on before unrooting? Were you trying to flash an ruu ? What did you do to unroot and at which point did you get stuck ?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

I first downloaded the unroot files did the relock by doing the recovery through cmd. I just followed a youtube video and the point it was suppose to restart it gave me that red alert sign and got stuck so I factory reset and it keeps going back to bootloader.

GodKingKnight said:
I first downloaded the unroot files did the relock by doing the recovery through cmd. I just followed a youtube video and the point it was suppose to restart it gave me that red alert sign and got stuck so I factory reset and it keeps going back to bootloader.
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You relock by typing this into your terminal : fastboot oem lock
No additional files needed its just a command
Then download the stock recovery for one x which you can find in a lot of places and this forum as well, put it in your fastboot folder, to make it simpler rename it to something like hoxstockrec.img .. now put your phone in fastboot and in terminal type fastboot flash recovery hoxstockrec.img
I don't know about that unrooting file you were talking about but it probably does its job. Also, are you on stock ROM?
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

hi im in the exact same situation can you help please?did you figure it out?done what the other guy in this post said and still didnt work

You can install the original 1.29 RUU for European HOX. You need to boot the phone while typing vol down+power button, press fastboot and run the downloaded RUU. You need at least 30% of battery. (Relocked bootloader needed)
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA

[Q] Help please!!!!!!!! Stuck at HBOOT cant get to FASTBOOT

I'm hoping there are some wizardry folk on here who can help with this dilemma.
My wife has an HTC Desire on orange running 2.2
Today the phone rebooted itself and stuck at the green HTC logo.
She took the battery out and restarted the phone.
Now the phone is stuck at the HBOOT screen.
The volume keys and power button do not work so no selection can be made.
I rooted the phone a while back and made a backup of the OS using clockworkmod recovery.
I never got round to putting a custom ROM on it. In HBOOT it still shows as S-ON
Is there anyway to recover this phone or is it officially dead?
All help on this matter would be much appreciated.

Not sure if it can help at this status, but have you tried to apply unrevoked or alpharev?
http://unrevoked.com/recovery/
http://alpharev.nl/

You are SON.
You can get to fastboot mode only if you have gone SOFF.
For getting SOFF you need to run alpharev or revolutionary.
Revolutionary and alphrev require your desire to be up and running.
I do not see any way out of this :-(

Why, you should still be able to go to fastboot mode with back+power. You just won't be able to flash from there ore use any extended commands.

If you flashed a good ROM and your stuck in hboot, use fastboot and use the following command 'fastboot oem boot' that will force your phone to boot.

lmnope1 said:
If you flashed a good ROM and your stuck in hboot, use fastboot and use the following command 'fastboot oem boot' that will force your phone to boot.
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theres many different ways to mess up ur phone and get stuck in bootloader and that command will not solve the problem, if that was the case then bortak's guide would be 1/4 the size that it is
Sent from my HTC Desire

Thanks JMMCLUE for your assistance.
I tried the Goldcard setup using my phone to create it but it still didn't work.
In the end the wife called Orange who took it away and replaced it with a Wildfire S.

[Q] Help. RECOVERY FAIL

Hello everyone, i just a new member and try to unlock my HTC One verizon. After my phone was S-Off, i installed ruu for it. My phone can use on T-mobile or ATT. Then I made a mistake that i pressed recovery on bootloader. Now my phone just boot on logo HTC and recovery then loop in that. I meant just HTC logo, recovery and reset HTC logo, recovery and...I can not turn off my phone, and go to bootloader also. In recovery screen show "Restore for NV Verizon". Please help me just go to bootloader and turn off the phone.

Hope is out there!!!
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Hello everyone, i just a new member and try to unlock my HTC One verizon. After my phone was S-Off, i installed ruu for it. My phone can use on T-mobile or ATT. Then I made a mistake that i pressed recovery on bootloader. Now my phone just boot on logo HTC and recovery then loop in that. I meant just HTC logo, recovery and reset HTC logo, recovery and...I can not turn off my phone, and go to bootloader also. In recovery screen show "Restore for NV Verizon". Please help me just go to bootloader and turn off the phone.
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Are you able to use volume down+power to reboot back to bootloader? If so...see if you're still S-OFF and if your bootloader is unlocked. If so I would recommend you follow this thread to get back to S-ON and locked boot loader on a stock rom. Then you can re-S-OFF and re-Unlock your bootloader.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2475216
Hope this helps!!!

[email protected] said:
Hello everyone, i just a new member and try to unlock my HTC One verizon. After my phone was S-Off, i installed ruu for it. My phone can use on T-mobile or ATT. Then I made a mistake that i pressed recovery on bootloader. Now my phone just boot on logo HTC and recovery then loop in that. I meant just HTC logo, recovery and reset HTC logo, recovery and...I can not turn off my phone, and go to bootloader also. In recovery screen show "Restore for NV Verizon". Please help me just go to bootloader and turn off the phone.
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why would you install a RUU for a carrier thatit doesn't support? that's just asking for your phone to be bricked

NEVER return your phone to s-on, there is NEVER a reason to unless you are sending it in for warranty. That is the worst advice anyone could possibly give on this forum.
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[email protected] said:
Hello everyone, i just a new member and try to unlock my HTC One verizon. After my phone was S-Off, i installed ruu for it. My phone can use on T-mobile or ATT. Then I made a mistake that i pressed recovery on bootloader. Now my phone just boot on logo HTC and recovery then loop in that. I meant just HTC logo, recovery and reset HTC logo, recovery and...I can not turn off my phone, and go to bootloader also. In recovery screen show "Restore for NV Verizon". Please help me just go to bootloader and turn off the phone.
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From the bootloader, while hooked up to a pc, use fastboot command "fastboot oem rebootRUU" to enter RUU mode, then use "fastboot flash zip Rom.zip" to flash the correct RUU for your device. Here is a link to the RUU, just put it into your adb / fastboot folder, rename it Rom.zip, and follow those instructions. First attempt at flashing the RUU should fail, and you will have to enter the "fastboot flash zip Rom.zip" again, and it will work the second time(the first time it only sets partitions). Once it finishes and says complete, use command "fastboot reboot" and profit.
Here is a link to an RUU for the m7vzw that will work with any device that is s-off.
http://bit.ly/vzwone10
Hope that helps. ...and NEVER put your phone back to s-on, there is no reason to ever do that. Nothing on the planet requires your phone to be s-on, but almost everything requires you to have s-off. The ONLY reason to EVER go back to s-on is to send in for a warranty replacement.

Thanks guys for helping. I could not do anything to it because I could not go to bootloader. Finally I just sent my phone to HTC that they can repair or fix it, whatever. Thank anyway.