Hello All
Having tried to do all my research before getting my new desire, which came today i was quite confident that rooting would go smoothly. How wrong i was..
The Problem is...
I have changed the hboot as you have to with unrevoked and also changed the recovery image as my phone is the slcd version (0.83). However when running unrevoked, and having now completed the 4th attempt, Unrevoked continuously stops an waiting for 5 second after the recovery image is being put on.
Somebody please help, i have gone through the forum and can not seem to find what can help me overcome this problem
Thank you
David
From what I gathered in the unrevoked thread, slcd is not fully supported, might take a few days. Are you sure you have the latest version?
There is another thread (or 2,3,4) in development about slcd and rooting, did you read them?
Download a Ubuntu live cd. Boot up.in it and use unrevoked in Linux.
http://rootmydroid.co.uk/guides/desire/howtolinux-root-your-desire-using-unrevoked-in-linux/
That method worked sweet for me.
For whatever reason unrevoked on windows wasn't as easy as Linux.
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Clockwork supports slcd now.
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Thanks guys, all is sorted now. I just ran unrevoked without a custom recovery image and everything worked out. Took nearly have a day but i got there.
Now struggling with the partition in clockworkmod, as soon as i select partition sd in rom manager it reboots and goes straight to an exclamation mark in a white triangle and an android bot just below it.
How would i overcome this?
Background: I am not new to rooting android devices, have been rooting since the G1 came out, but I am going to be switching to Verizon when my Tmob contract is up. Have my eye on the thunderbolt for myself, but have found a DINC for my daughter that has been rooted, the seller says his SDCard errored and corrupted the SDcard and now the phone boots into bootloader with the skating androids and he can still get into recovery.
My QUESTION is: will the directions for the RUU work in returning the phone to stock (like odin does for my Vibrant) . I have been reading all the DINC threads and this seems the best bet.
Or is there something else wrong with this DINC I am not reading just yet?
Thanks,
Moe
It should, as long as you can get into HBOOT (skating androids), you should be able to reflash the RUU to get back to stock.
The ultimate get back to stock thread by Berzerker7 is the one you read...? I've referenced that more times than I can count, and have used it myself.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=786436
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Ok guys, first of all I'll explain everything from the start.
Back in November I used AAHK to root, ENG S-OFF etc. my phone so that I could flash a custom rom. Installed Android Revolution HD.
A month ago or so I found the IceColdSandwich rom so I NAND-ed my AR and fresh installed that. And I kept switching between the 2 of them from time to time.
Found that there's a free download of clockworkmod touch on their website, but I couldn't flash it via fastboot. Gives me this:
sending 'recovery' (3554 KB) ... OKAY [0.641s]
writing 'recovery' ... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
Same thing happened when I tried to flash a new radio.
Stupid me, I reinstalled the recovery from ROM Manager again in the process as a last resort (dunno why I thought it would work >.< ).
Now the problems start, I was running AR 6.3.1 last night and I wanted to update the ICS rom, so I made a backup to AR rom and wanted to restore the ICS one. Told me the md5 wasn't correct or something. I instantly thought "GAH, probably because I reinstalled recovery." so I decided to finally install the clockworkmod touch if I had allready ****ed it up. Got the same bloody error:
"FAILED (remote: not allowed)"
So what did stupid old me think then? "Yeah, maybe I didn't ace hack it right the first time..." so I decided to use AAHK again. Logged in Linux, started the kit. All fine and well, said there "Rebooting, please wait". I was like "MMkay, I guess it will take a bit, I'm gonna go do something else" and forgot about it for a couple of hours. 2 hours later, same message in terminal, my phone still had the white background with HTC logo on it.
Ok, don't panic, what to do, what to do...disconnected my phone, pulled out the battery, rebooted into h-boot, hit recovery. The horror of it not being there
Rebooted into bootloader again, tried to flash recovery again, still the same message.
While I was there, desperately tried "Factory Reset", shows me a screen with a loading bar or something and next to it a micro sd card with upload download arrows on it (up and down arrows). Afterwords it proceeds to rebooting my phone 3 times and then it dies. Do I need some kind of file on my SD card for it to work or something?
I think I bricked it. :-<
Sorry for the long post.
Any kind of help is apreciated. Thanks guys
PS: H-BOOT says:
ACE PUT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-0.85.0024
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 12 2011, 00:55:45
Hey dude.
Just a quick post, you have not bricked your phone so don't panic.
More in a mo.
Greg.
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Search this forum for a stock PD98IMG.Zip ideally a 1.32 one.
Copy this to your sd card, then boot into hboot.
Hopefully hboot will recognise the image and install it on your phone.
Can anyone qualify/dispute this?
Cheers.
Greg
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Thanks Greg. I'll find the image and tell you in a min if it worked
It has to be an RUU that fits your phone. Do NOT flash a froyo RUU on a phone that was shipped with stock gb. An RUU will revert the phone to stock. After that you should have no probs running AAHK again to gain s off.
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Bought my phone in December 2010, it was shipped with Froyo 2.2. I updated it myself to Gingerbread (only later I found out how dumb that was) so I guess it's okay if I flash a 1.32, right?
Good Guy Greg, I love you man I can use my phone again, thank you so very much!
I have just a question though. Is it by any chance possible to create a PD98IMG.Zip to revert my phone to something more recent? Can I use it to create something like a NAND backup?
dragancla said:
Good Guy Greg, I love you man I can use my phone again, thank you so very much!
I have just a question though. Is it by any chance possible to create a PD98IMG.Zip to revert my phone to something more recent? Can I use it to create something like a NAND backup?
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Glad to help dude.
I think that as long as your phone turns on, even if it bootloops etc... you haven't bricked it.
I think it is possible, but I'm not totally sure how to create a PD98IMG.ZIP.
But I'd suggest is you want something more recent, just flash a new ROM.
Once you are back to stock (this may have broken root) check to see if you're still rooted, if not re root and use CWM Recovery to flash whatever ROM you want.
Regards.
Greg.
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Thanks again, mate I used the AAHK again and I flashed my old rom back, but I still can't flash a different radio or the touch recovery...same error: "writing 'recovery' ... FAILED (remote: not allowed)"
Oh well, glad to have my phone back :>
You can't flash a radio with the way you are doing it (ie fastboot) unless you have the engineering bootloader (Eng soff). For.those of us with just soff we flash them via a pd98img formatted zip. Much easier in.my opinion as you can flash a radio without a PC.
One thing to note is that if your phone cane shipped with gb, DO NOT install the engineering bootloader as it will mess you up big time and cause your phone to.take30 min to boot up. Its fixable but its a pita
dragancla said:
Thanks again, mate I used the AAHK again and I flashed my old rom back, but I still can't flash a different radio or the touch recovery...same error: "writing 'recovery' ... FAILED (remote: not allowed)"
Oh well, glad to have my phone back :>
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Why not buy the Touch upgrade from ROM Manager?
Greg.
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TeamDraven said:
Why not buy the Touch upgrade from ROM Manager?
Greg.
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It's not fun if I don't do it myself It's like saying "Yeah, you ****ed up your phone, better take it to the local repair guy" but thanks to you I learned how to downgrade my phone back to stock and start over, even if I dont have recovery installed any more. I consider learning from trial and error better than having people do it for you...that and I've always wanted to learn to flash .img files like recovery, radios, 4ext themes etc. But I'm glad to report that I have ENG S-OFFed my phone since then and flashed all I need :>
Thanks again, Greg :>
I get what you are saying dude.
But there's no harm in supporting a developer.
Cheers dude.
Greg.
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Desire HD brick
Hi, I have similar problem as dragancla with small differences.
I did root my Desire HD too, but in Ace advanced hack kit. I di mSD card as goldcard, next a put PD98IMG.zip (1.32.X) on sdcard. Then I started with root first three steps going well. After succesfully installing root, clockworkmod and first radio start next step flash new radio and here was the problem. Connection with PC fell and flashing was stoped. Now I have only black background without any mark of starting of device. Only orange LED flashes.
I tryed to remove battery and wait 10 minutes but without any succes.
Please can you help me with this problem?
That sounds like a hard brick.
And what can I do with it?
DO you know?
Brick DHD
Today I have a small changes in the device settings.
When I pushed it to recharger then device start to recovery but only for a few seconds. I can install retore or update but I have so short time for it, then every installation ends in black screen.
If somebody know something about this problem, please help me.
Eltahrel said:
Today I have a small changes in the device settings.
When I pushed it to recharger then device start to recovery but only for a few seconds. I can install retore or update but I have so short time for it, then every installation ends in black screen.
If somebody know something about this problem, please help me.
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Have you used a froyo RUU and your device was shipped with Gingerbread?? if you did that then you have messed your hboot....you need to fix that in order to have a normal phone!!
It's kinda hard to know what's going on with the information provided, but you can come and hit the Hack Kit IRC Channnel to see if we can help...
Hi all.
I bought myself an HTC Desire in the UK not too long after they first came out, not long after getting it I decided to root it. Back then the method I used to root it was by getting a gold card and using an update.zip version of CWM if I remember correctly. The phone is still S-ON and I am currently running the OpenDesire custom rom on there. Now since then I have moved house and managed to lose my memory card that I used with all my backups and CWM and custom roms on it and the like.
My problem now is that I have got myself a new phone and I would like to give away my old one to a family member. He is on Tesco mobile but this handset is locked to Orange UK, I have requested and recieved my unlock code from Orange but it doesn't seem to work. I have done a full day of research and I am told that this is down to my custom rom. So now my problem is getting back to a stock rom so that this sim card will work in it. I have been searching for a long time now and cannot seem to come up with any solutions, because of not being S-Off I cant flash a recovery rom, I can't find the old update.zip style recoveries I used to use and I just don't have any clue on what to do.
I don't really need the phone to be rooted from now on so I was wondering if it would be a safe idea to install a RUU called "RUU_Bravo_HTC_Europe_1.15.405.1_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_121684.exe" that I found as I cannot find any Orange UK ones.
But I am open to any suggestions and help that anyone can offer me.
Thanks.
If you have a goldcard, any RUU will work fine.
Once you're finished with the RUU, follow this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943726
bortak's link...you have tried the HTC Desire SIM-Unlock utility...have you?
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OK, long story short, I need help BAD please! A while back I posted a question if there was a way of fixing my sons Droid inc. stuck in a the white droid inc. bootloop over and over. it was completely stock when purchased on eBay. a system update came up after activation and i accepted it and worked fine for about a week then began having problems when it kept rebooting once and a while then eventually it just started bootlooping over and over. I was told within the forum to flash PB31IMG files which I did and it seemed to do something but it went so fast couldn't really see what it said. so when it was done it asked if I wanted to reboot and I said yes and it just went back to the bootloop. I am extremely interested in android and development and reading all I can take in and have been lurking around for quite a while but never really had any issues till this.
So the next thing which I was told to try is to unlock and root it, well my nephew has dabbled in rooting a couple galaxy S2's successfully but not touched an HTC device but he gave this a try and succeeded to unlock from htcdev and went on to follow the root method and was unsuccessful and it gave some error but I am not sure what it was because I was unable to be present when he attempted it and that is where I am now it is unlocked but still in a boot loop. when booted into hboot/fastboot it says:
***UNLOCKED***
INCREDIBLEC XC SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.07.0000
MICROP-04107
TOUCH PANEL--ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.10.12.20
Apr 24 201,22:58:40
I hope this helps and I hope I posted this in the correct area and I also hope there is someone who could lend a helping hand with a fix for this with some good instructions for a noob!
I am looking forward to any help which someone could give because I really don't have the cash for a new device at the moment and I would also love to learn something along the way.....
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hockeytown said:
OK, long story short, I need help BAD please! A while back I posted a question if there was a way of fixing my sons Droid inc. stuck in a the white droid inc. bootloop over and over. it was completely stock when purchased on eBay. a system update came up after activation and i accepted it and worked fine for about a week then began having problems when it kept rebooting once and a while then eventually it just started bootlooping over and over. I was told within the forum to flash PB31IMG files which I did and it seemed to do something but it went so fast couldn't really see what it said. so when it was done it asked if I wanted to reboot and I said yes and it just went back to the bootloop. I am extremely interested in android and development and reading all I can take in and have been lurking around for quite a while but never really had any issues till this.
So the next thing which I was told to try is to unlock and root it, well my nephew has dabbled in rooting a couple galaxy S2's successfully but not touched an HTC device but he gave this a try and succeeded to unlock from htcdev and went on to follow the root method and was unsuccessful and it gave some error but I am not sure what it was because I was unable to be present when he attempted it and that is where I am now it is unlocked but still in a boot loop. when booted into hboot/fastboot it says:
***UNLOCKED***
INCREDIBLEC XC SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.07.0000
MICROP-04107
TOUCH PANEL--ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.10.12.20
Apr 24 201,22:58:40
I hope this helps and I hope I posted this in the correct area and I also hope there is someone who could lend a helping hand with a fix for this with some good instructions for a noob!
I am looking forward to any help which someone could give because I really don't have the cash for a new device at the moment and I would also love to learn something along the way.....
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Was i the one who tried to help you before?
Anyways if i was i dont remember the details. You said you tried the ruu (pb31img) and it looked like it worked but went by to fast to read it. If it went by that fast, then it did not flash the ruu. It just checked for it but couldnt find it. You can try it again if you want. http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip It needs to be on the sdcard in no folder named exactly PB31IMG.zip. If it dosent find it again, then backup and reformat your sdcard fat32 and then try again with only the pb file on there. Note that if the ruu works, it will relock the bootloader and you will need to use the unlock_token.bin file and fastboot to unlock it again.
Or you can use fastboot to flash cwm recovery since your unlocked. Then in recovery wipe everything in the mounts and storage menu except emmc and sdcard. Then flash a rom of your choosing.
Hopefully one of those options will work and get it to boot.