[Q] Bell WFS Bootloop ONLY When Not Connected to USB Cable - HTC Wildfire S

Hey guys,
So I've spent the last 48 hours raking my head on this one. I'm an intermediate user (Samsung whiz - Ace, i9100, T989, I747, S4 Canada, knowledgeable in HTC's - S-OFF HTC Evo 3D GSM / S-OFF HTC EVO 4G, experience in Experia devices), so I'd say I've done some things, but this one has totally stumped me.
I've successfully:
- Managed to upgrade the HBOOT before unlocking the bootloader (required an RUU update > "PG7611000_Marvel_Hboot_1.08.0099_1.36.666.5.exe"
- Flashed TWRP/CWM (currently running TWRP) using "fastboot oem flash recovery"
- Created a backup of the stock ROM
- Flashed latest version of SuperSU
Now, I restarted the WFS to finalize all my work and hand it back to my friend, but it just bootloops. I do have access to the bootloader still, and always have. I try to load recovery through the bootloader and it bootloops.
Here's the real kicker:
- If I keep the USB cable plugged in, it runs beautifully. Both booting normally into any ROM I've flashed, and to the recovery.
- If I unplug the USB cable when booted into the ROM, it'll run fine until I restart/shut down.
- If I pull the battery and start it up normally, it bootloops. Vibrate, HTC logo, sits for about 5 seconds, goes black, repeat.
Attempts:
- I've tried to create a Gold Card, but the website making the *.img file is down. Tried the other site that just asks for your CID and spits out the *.img file, but neither forward/backward works.
- I've downloaded the only full Bell RUU > "RUU_Marvel_BM_1.36.666.5_Radio_47.10a.35.3030_7.46.36.14M_release_189856_signed.exe", then tried pulling the ROM.zip from the temp folder. It's the only one where the archive appears to be broken. I've tried different download locations and confirmed the md5 matches.
- I've tried just running the Bell RUU thinking that it might work, but it doesn't when it's an older release or equal to the existing one.
- I've tried the latest European RUU > "RUU_Marvel_S_HTC_Europe_2.26.401.3_Radio_47.23e.35.3038H_7.57.39.10M_release_261695_signed.exe" and I can pull the ROM.zip, but because the phone is BM___001, it won't allow the flash. I would need a Gold Card, which as I've mentioned is unavailable.
The only thing I haven't done (scared to do so)
- I haven't tried flashing it directly using "Method 3" in This Link because I'm afraid to really brick the device.
Because I can't unzip the Bell RUU (corrupted), I'm afraid to try using even the generic European RUU. Would this even work? There's also this Link which I've checked, but again, I don't think I can even do this one without the Gold Card working.
Leave it to Bell for only having one RUU.
Any thoughts on this very peculiar issue? I've seen a few threads that talk about other HTC devices with this issue, but only an RUU can be performed. And back to the "only-one-Bell-RUU" and "Gold-Card-website-down" issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Stats:
- Bell HTC Wildfire S (Bell Branded, BM___001)
- Unlocked Bootloader from HTC Dev
- TWRP 2.2.2.0
- Marvellous-Sense-3.5_07.10.13_FIXED
*** UNLOCKED ****
MARVEL PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT - 1.08.0099
MICROP - 0451
RADIO - 7.46.36.14M
Nov 28 2011, 19:09:21

I'm working from memory, and I'm only going by what you typed, but I'll suggest 2 things for your consideration/research:
I'm unsure how you used, "fastboot oem flash recovery". In my wildfireS (Marvel) the command, "fastboot oem..." doesn't have a flash command option. I'm wondering if this has got you stuck in a bootloader bootloop. You can see the available fastboot [bootloader] commands by hooking up to your PC and in fastboot, type, "fastboot oem ?" without the quotations of course, and it will list the commands. I wonder if you flashed your recovery without that oem in the command line if that might help??? I've always just done straight, "fastboot flash recovery [recovery].img"
The second thing is I've read that either ChainsDD superuser or the superuserSU by Chainfire doesn't play well with TWRP. I don't remember which. Although that's less likely to cause a bootloop, I'm just throwing it out there for consideration.
I'm sorry I can't say anything definitive, but those 2 things came to mind reading your post. Good luck.

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Stuck with branded Bootloader 0.80

edit: It finally worked. I cleaned the microsd with diskpart and made a new goldcard, then I flashed a HTC WWE 2.29 Image, with the PB99IMG method. Now Im on bootloader 0.93.00. Back to business (I don't know exactly why the goldcard worked this time, or maybe the goldcard wasnt the problem)
Hello,
I tried to go back to the original state (TMobile germany branded). The phone was S-Off and rooted and I had a cm7 partition table.
At first I just tried to flash over an original T Mobile Rom (RUU_Bravo_TMO_UK_1.21.110.4_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_127570a_signed.exe).
Everything worked, and after that I did put the newest OTA Update on the phone. Checking to see what bootloader I have I saw that I was still Security Off. So I flashed a downgrade HBoot from the alpharev page. After that I flashed the same T Mobile Rom again to have an original HBoot.
Somewhere in the middle of the procedure though it stopped and I was stuck in that screen with four triangles on the sides and HTC written in the middle. At first I thought now its totally bricked without hboot, but I was able to reboot into HBoot. Also i can get to fastboot and the standard recovery mode. The current Hboot is 0.80 and S-ON.
Now from there on I tried many things:
- Downgrader from xdadevelopers does not work because one has to be in a working system
- Unrevoked does need a working system
- Tried same TMobile Rom numerous times with the installer on PC (gives bootloader version wrong 140) and as update.zip in recovery mode (signature verification failed)
- Tried RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe and RUU_Bravo_HTC_Europe_1.15.405.3_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_121865.exe
- I made a goldcard and tried to flash these roms from the goldcard in recovery mode
- Tried to flash the ota update I installed through recovery mode
- Also I tried all of these things with the rom.zip named as PB99IMG.zip in Bootloader
- Fastboot commands do not work, So I should have a locked Bootloader now
- The old root method with goldcard which did not work
- I tried to get into an adb shell in recovery mode with various drivers to get the cid of the sd card to make a new goldcard but the device is listed as offline
I am not really sure why the goldcard does not work, maybe my saved goldcard image got messed up for some reason. Unfortunately I can't get the cid of the phone, because I can't use adb meaning the phone is recognized with "adb devices" but shown as offline.
If there is some other way to get the cid that I have not found as of yet, that might help.
Otherwise I am out of ideas... I hope its not bricked, help is greatly appreciated
edit: official update utility tmobile rom shows that I'm coming from 2.12.110.2 and going to 1.21.110.4 so it seems like the room still exists somehow but cannot boot, bootloader starts and deletes user data, sends data, updates signature=> bootloader version error 140

[Q] Desire won't boot (now: Radio_v2 failure)

Hi All,
Sorry another n00b making a n00b thread.
I bought a second hand desire very cheap under the understanding that "stopped booting one day" - so first thing first, if it is bricked, so be it.
Currently it only gets as far as the white HTC screen.
Now, when booting with PWR + Vol Down:
-Revolutionary-
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.93.1002
RADIO-5.17.05.23
Obviously the PO has been playing around given the unlocked bootloader. I can get into fastboot fine. fastboot devices shows the Serial of the device.
So following the Troubleshooting guide here I attempted to flash a Recovery image as per recommendation. It shows sending and writing recovery.img OK, and the two progress bars display on the phone in line with that. However, when rebooting (fastboot oem gencheckpt), I still can't get into recovery - it goes back to the HTC screen again. Same with fastboot reboot-bootloader if it matters.
***EDIT - kept looking on this forum and it seems as if this bootloader would be write protected against RUU updates? So you can probably disregard what was here. I'll keep looking around, but if anyone has advice feel free!
If I'm missing something silly here, feel free to abuse me while you tell me what it is. Just thought I'd check to see if I'm on the right track or I've failed miserably.
Thanks.
Download the HBOOT downgrader from alpharev.nl (and the stock HBOOT, too).
Flash the
1. stock HBOOT,
2. the downgrader
3. then the RUU of your choice (2.3.3/2.2 depends on you).
As you said, you can get to fastboot, it'll work.
You'll get a stock, unrooted device, but you can root it later on.
davebugyi said:
Download the HBOOT downgrader from alpharev.nl(and the stock HBOOT, too).
Flash the
1. stock HBOOT,
2. the downgrader
3. then the RUU of your choice (2.3.3/2.2 depends on you).
As you said, you can get to fastboot, it'll work.
You'll get a stock, unrooted device, but you can root it later on.
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Thanks for that - I flashed these in this order from fastboot and then rebooted - I can see that it has taken effect due to seeing "AlphaRev Unlock" now, however, can't get the RUU to go - gets to Rebooting to bootloader, phone reboots and gets stuck in a bootloop (I suppose - HTC screen, black screen, and so on). Eventually it gives up and gives [171] USB CONNECTION ERROR. "Reboot Bootloader" from the fastboot menu does the same thing.
I actually have an Atrix so this is not my daily driver, so nothing too urgent, or in fact tragic if it is a hardware issue. I do appreciate any help though all the same!
Hmm - can be the cable, the drivers.
Even some people said, that using win7 64Bit will get you this error.
I'd check first the drivers. Maybe you have USB Brick as well - search the Dev Thread for a fix - basically 2 commands.
I was just reading up on the USB brick actually, as you say doesn't seem like too much effort anyway.
I am using Win 7 x64 in fact... I will copy all the necessaries to a USB stick and use a WinXP box at work just to make sure. Thanks again!
OK, update -
Same result on a WinXP machine trying to flash via RUU.
When I try fastboot oem enableqxdm 0, I get:
partition_read::Too many bad blocks(out of range)
It does say OK after that though?
If I try to flash a mtd0.img via fastboot (I assume I can't use an SD card given I can't boot) with SuperCID as the CID (either hex edited or with the script) I get:
sending 'misc' (640KB) OKAY
writing 'misc' (640KB) ... FAILED (remote: image update error)
It's late here so I'll search more in the morning, but any guidance would be appreciated.
Should I be erasing the misc partition before attempting to flash mtd0.img? If that's where I've gone wrong I'll kick myself, but thought I should confirm before I break the phone more.
Update:
I grabbed the rom.zip from the temp folder, renamed it to PB99IMG put it on a MicroSD and let the phone do its thing. It worked, in that it performed the update, but Radio_v2 failed - so I assume this means either I have a branded handset that has nothing on the outside (how do I check?) or there is a hardware fault?
Of course, I have S-ON now because everything else worked...
radio failure means you're kinda fu*cked IMO... I mean I know a user who kept trying a RUU who eventually undid the radio fail but ermm.. yeah usually it means a real brick
I figured that might be the case. Given the bootloader was already unlocked when I received the phone, one can assume the previous owner actually knew what they were doing and had already tried to fix it and come to the same conclusion.
I'll update the thread if I manage to fix it, but if anyone else stumbles across this due to similar circumstances, looks like you have your answer.
PS: bortak your troubleshooting thread was an amazing help.
Thanks to all!
yeah just try the RUU a couple of times (like 10 or something) and see what happens.. if you're lucky you might get a break..
or what you could do is flash the 2.3.3 RUU, hope it works, and if you do get stuck in splash HTC will cover you warranty!! just tell them you try to upgrade and it broke!

Another RUU thread - sorry!

Hi
I've spent the last hour trawling the forum trying various combinations of things but without any joy, so sorry for asking the same question as others! I really have tried finding the answer elsewhere in the forums and tried all the suggestions I stumbled across.
Current situation:
HTC One X (not locked to any network)
I'd unlocked the device via HTC Dev, installed latest version of Clockwork Mod and mike1986's Android HD ROM.
However, I'm looking at selling the phone now and want to put everything back to as it was. Unfortunately RUU isn't able to recognise the phone in either FastBoot USB mode or (as detailed in the RUU instructions) when phone is booted up and connected to PC.
CID: None
MID: PJ4610000
Steps I've taken:
1) fastboot flash recovery endeavoru_recovery_signed.img to revert to stock recovery partition
2) fastboot oem lock to relock device
After relocking the phone stays stuck on the FastBoot screen and RUU won't recognise it (note that fastboot devices shows phone okay). If I then unlock the phone again it will boot successfully but RUU won't recognise it then either.
I've tried fastboot erase cache as well - no joy
I've also tried the steps outlined here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1599748
RUU file I'm using is RUU_ENDEAVOR_U_ICS_40_HTC_EUROPE_1.26.401_2_Radio_1.1204.90.13_release_251208_signed.exe
So basically I'm wondering what to try next!
Thanks
Pete
A-ha ... fixed
Finally found some posts mentioning that the drivers from HTC sync were required for the RUU program.
Didn't want to install the entire HTC Sync suite so found the drivers separately in this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604439
I'm currently watching the RUU thermometer bar whizzing along so I think I'm back in business!

[Q] Bricked- 3 Vibrates, LED flash on boot. Hboot 2.10, amonRA working - Please help!

Hey everyone.. any help on this would be greatly appreciated, has caused a lot of stress.
The phone was successfully downgraded to hboot 2.10 from hboot 2.18 a while back, s-off was achieved, all things were working perfectly with gingerbread roms and the sort.
I decided I wanted an ICS rom as my main boot-up, but was having difficulties installing it and finding a cooperable kernal/radio to get it to flash..
(looking back this probably wasn't the real issue as to why the ROM wouldn't load, and this base ICS rom that I was drawn to was not at all the one I should have been getting conclusion/direction from)
Anyways, I see now that I was trying to flash an Evo V 4G ICS rom, and in install this rom led me to update an EVO V 4g radio.
This was the rom I was trying to install:
http://androidforums.com/evo-v-4g-a...om-harmonia-3-17-17nov12-ics-sense-3-6-a.html
And in reading up on that lead me to this link
http://androidforums.com/evo-v-4g-all-things-root/648747-update.html
where I flashed the 'OTA_Shooter_ICS_35_S_Sprint_WWE_VM_1.14.652.0-1.13.652.2_release_291083f0wrax77ry0w073p' update.
Soon thereafter I found myself back with S-ON (previously was s-off), with no roms able to install.
I can get adb/sd functionallity in fastboot/hboot and have amonRA 2.3 installed as my recovery that I can get too.
In fact, in amonRA gingerbread roms say they install correctly, and I also have a nandroid backup of 'system' 'restore' 'data' 'cache' 'boot' which I believe I performed before the radio update.
They both say installed/updated correctly (new rom flash/nandroid), but upon rebooting the system, the evo 4G just vibrates 3 times, flashes its LED, and that's it. Blank screen - nothing.
Please, any help on this?
To sum it up:
I flashed the above incompatible radio in attempt to get a rom working which on foresight was for the EVO V 4G instead of the EVO 4G.
Upon doing this my hboot stayed the same (2.10), but it reverted my from S-OFF back to S-ON.
Confusing enough my radio on the hboot menu says '2.15.00.08.08', which is the latest EVO 4G radio according to here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485
Hboot 2.10 USB boots fine with vol down + power, have ADB capabilities to it, and recovery boots fine to amonRA.
Much thanks in advance, I really want to get this running again!
echoedge said:
Hey everyone.. any help on this would be greatly appreciated, has caused a lot of stress.
The phone was successfully downgraded to hboot 2.10 from hboot 2.18 a while back, s-off was achieved, all things were working perfectly with gingerbread roms and the sort.
I decided I wanted an ICS rom as my main boot-up, but was having difficulties installing it and finding a cooperable kernal/radio to get it to flash..
(looking back this probably wasn't the real issue as to why the ROM wouldn't load, and this base ICS rom that I was drawn to was not at all the one I should have been getting conclusion/direction from)
Anyways, I see now that I was trying to flash an Evo V 4G ICS rom, and in install this rom led me to update an EVO V 4g radio.
This was the rom I was trying to install:
http://androidforums.com/evo-v-4g-a...om-harmonia-3-17-17nov12-ics-sense-3-6-a.html
And in reading up on that lead me to this link
http://androidforums.com/evo-v-4g-all-things-root/648747-update.html
where I flashed the 'OTA_Shooter_ICS_35_S_Sprint_WWE_VM_1.14.652.0-1.13.652.2_release_291083f0wrax77ry0w073p' update.
Soon thereafter I found myself back with S-ON (previously was s-off), with no roms able to install.
I can get adb/sd functionallity in fastboot/hboot and have amonRA 2.3 installed as my recovery that I can get too.
In fact, in amonRA gingerbread roms say they install correctly, and I also have a nandroid backup of 'system' 'restore' 'data' 'cache' 'boot' which I believe I performed before the radio update.
They both say installed/updated correctly (new rom flash/nandroid), but upon rebooting the system, the evo 4G just vibrates 3 times, flashes its LED, and that's it. Blank screen - nothing.
Please, any help on this?
To sum it up:
I flashed the above incompatible radio in attempt to get a rom working which on foresight was for the EVO V 4G instead of the EVO 4G.
Upon doing this my hboot stayed the same (2.10), but it reverted my from S-OFF back to S-ON.
Confusing enough my radio on the hboot menu says '2.15.00.08.08', which is the latest EVO 4G radio according to here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485
Hboot 2.10 USB boots fine with vol down + power, have ADB capabilities to it, and recovery boots fine to amonRA.
Much thanks in advance, I really want to get this running again!
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You're going to need to upgrade your device to the latest available RUU version (4.67.651.3), unlock your bootloader with HTCDev, flash a custom recovery, root your device, and then downgrade your misc partition (again). That should normalize your device (if one of the earlier steps doesn't do it).
echoedge said:
Hey everyone.. any help on this would be greatly appreciated, has caused a lot of stress.
The phone was successfully downgraded to hboot 2.10 from hboot 2.18 a while back, s-off was achieved, all things were working perfectly with gingerbread roms and the sort.
I decided I wanted an ICS rom as my main boot-up, but was having difficulties installing it and finding a cooperable kernal/radio to get it to flash..
(looking back this probably wasn't the real issue as to why the ROM wouldn't load, and this base ICS rom that I was drawn to was not at all the one I should have been getting conclusion/direction from)
Anyways, I see now that I was trying to flash an Evo V 4G ICS rom, and in install this rom led me to update an EVO V 4g radio.
This was the rom I was trying to install:
http://androidforums.com/evo-v-4g-a...om-harmonia-3-17-17nov12-ics-sense-3-6-a.html
And in reading up on that lead me to this link
http://androidforums.com/evo-v-4g-all-things-root/648747-update.html
where I flashed the 'OTA_Shooter_ICS_35_S_Sprint_WWE_VM_1.14.652.0-1.13.652.2_release_291083f0wrax77ry0w073p' update.
Soon thereafter I found myself back with S-ON (previously was s-off), with no roms able to install.
I can get adb/sd functionallity in fastboot/hboot and have amonRA 2.3 installed as my recovery that I can get too.
In fact, in amonRA gingerbread roms say they install correctly, and I also have a nandroid backup of 'system' 'restore' 'data' 'cache' 'boot' which I believe I performed before the radio update.
They both say installed/updated correctly (new rom flash/nandroid), but upon rebooting the system, the evo 4G just vibrates 3 times, flashes its LED, and that's it. Blank screen - nothing.
Please, any help on this?
To sum it up:
I flashed the above incompatible radio in attempt to get a rom working which on foresight was for the EVO V 4G instead of the EVO 4G.
Upon doing this my hboot stayed the same (2.10), but it reverted my from S-OFF back to S-ON.
Confusing enough my radio on the hboot menu says '2.15.00.08.08', which is the latest EVO 4G radio according to here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485
Hboot 2.10 USB boots fine with vol down + power, have ADB capabilities to it, and recovery boots fine to amonRA.
Much thanks in advance, I really want to get this running again!
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have you tried running a RUU yet? it should restore your phone back to stock radio hboot system and a few other things
Okay, I will try to get the latest RUU up and running.
I see them listed here
http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/HTC_EVO_4G_Downloads
but all the links are dead -- will look for a mirror right now.
I see there are three different methods for flashing the RUU - an update.zip I can flash in amonRA, a PC36IMG I can flash in hboot and an radio.img file I can do in fastboot adb..
I also find a .exe file
RUU_SuperSonic_GB_Sprint_WWE_4.67.651.3_Radio_2.15.00.12.19_NV_2.33_release_234563_signed.exe
but it's an .exe file?
and they all seem to differentiate in size from a like 10mg PC36IMG to a 220mb version as the .exe is..
so many different choices, what's my best option for the situation
Thanks a bunch for the quick replies!
echoedge said:
Okay, I will try to get the latest RUU up and running.
I see them listed here
http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/HTC_EVO_4G_Downloads
but all the links are dead -- will look for a mirror right now.
I see there are three different methods for flashing the RUU - an update.zip I can flash in amonRA, a PC36IMG I can flash in hboot and an radio.img file I can do in fastboot adb..
I also find a .exe file
RUU_SuperSonic_GB_Sprint_WWE_4.67.651.3_Radio_2.15.00.12.19_NV_2.33_release_234563_signed.exe
but it's an .exe file?
and they all seem to differentiate in size from a like 10mg PC36IMG to a 220mb version as the .exe is..
so many different choices, what's my best option for the situation
Thanks a bunch for the quick replies!
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The RUU is run from the PC while you're in fastboot mode. That'll work fine. Or you can use the PC36IMG from here and flash in HBOOT (bootloader).
Cool, thanks.
Okay, I downloaded the .zip and .exe-- ended up using Captain's link to HBoot the RUU by renaming it to PC36IMG.zip
So then booted up in hboot, it detected the PC36IMG -- went through the list.. check, check, check, check, completed and done.
Rebooted the phone, now instead of just a black screen with the 3 vibrations and led flashes, it goes to the "EVO 4G" white screen loader, then 5-10 seconds later, goes blank and does the 3 vibration thing again.
Back to HBoot.
Noticed the only change was the radio oversion now says 2.15.00.11.19 now
So now my next step is to do the HTCDev method I assume?
Fastboot USB'd- phone detected by W7 just fine.
I type in 'fastboot devices' and it detects the phone and gives the serial number, so fastboot seems to be in working order.
I then type in the command 'fastboot oem get_identifier_token'
and am getting the error
C:\Android>fastboot oem get_identifier_token
... INFO[ERR] Command error !!!
OKAY [ 0.008s]
finished. total time: 0.008s
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and seem to be stuck here.. tried re-installing my htc sync, redid the get_identifier_token command and the same error persists.
Any suggestions?
echoedge said:
Cool, thanks.
Okay, I downloaded the .zip and .exe-- ended up using Captain's link to HBoot the RUU by renaming it to PC36IMG.zip
So then booted up in hboot, it detected the PC36IMG -- went through the list.. check, check, check, check, completed and done.
Rebooted the phone, now instead of just a black screen with the 3 vibrations and led flashes, it goes to the "EVO 4G" white screen loader, then 5-10 seconds later, goes blank and does the 3 vibration thing again.
Back to HBoot.
Noticed the only change was the radio oversion now says 2.15.00.11.19 now
So now my next step is to do the HTCDev method I assume?
Fastboot USB'd- phone detected by W7 just fine.
I type in 'fastboot devices' and it detects the phone and gives the serial number, so fastboot seems to be in working order.
I then type in the command 'fastboot oem get_identifier_token'
and am getting the error
and seem to be stuck here.. tried re-installing my htc sync, redid the get_identifier_token command and the same error persists.
Any suggestions?
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What does your bootloader screen say? S-ON or S-OFF? What are your HBOOT and radio versions? Because it doesn't sound like the zip file finished installing. It should reboot once during the process, and then continue on flashing for around 10 minutes. Did it do that?
Captain_Throwback said:
What does your bootloader screen say? S-ON or S-OFF? What are your HBOOT and radio versions? Because it doesn't sound like the zip file finished installing. It should reboot once during the process, and then continue on flashing for around 10 minutes. Did it do that?
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Yes, it did that.. went through all the checkmarks with success down to WiMax I believe was the last one.
It did reset once during the process.. I remember because I was confused, didn't know if it turned off or what, then it turned itself back on, continued with the process and installed the rest of it.
The only thing that changed was the radio version from 2.15.00.08.08 to 2.15.00.11.19 after the RUU/Hboot/PCIMG36 img flash.
Bootloader says... I'll type it all out
SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-2.10.0001
MICROP-041f
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.00.11.19
Oct 15 2010, 12:07:00
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Should I try re-flashing again using the .exe file, does everything seem right on the bootloader?
Okay, I think I might have put the wrong PC36IMG file directing towards 11.19
(too many files in my Downloads folder )
Lemme try again.. I see the radio version should be 12.19, which is what Captain's link provided
Okay, I used the proper 12.19 PCIMG36 file this time,
now the bootloader says
*** LOCKED (OOW) ***
SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-2.18.0001
MICROP-041f
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.00.12.19
Dec 21, 2011, 12:50:32
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Looks like it's back to its original state
I'm assuming it works now, still updating as I type this, will try the token and the other steps to get it back down to 2.10 with s-off and back to where it should be
Thanks for the help guys.
I'll let you know if it works, I'm assuming it will and I know the steps to perform at this stage.
One more question though which got me into this original mess,
do I need to update the kernal/radio/anything in order to get an ICS rom loaded on the Evo 4G?
Or was that issue mute just because I was trying to flash an Evo V 4g/incompatible rom?
Thanks again!!
Okay.. all is going well, but there seems to be something strange going on, don't think it's normal.
After I flashed superuser, I restarted it and it once again went to the black screen with the 3 vibrations.
Took out the battery, put it back in, powered on. Booted to sprint stock.
Enabled USB debugging/disabled Fast Boot.
Then put the USB in, and the notification sound popped up on my computer detecting the phone.. but the phone itself did nothing. It isn't even charging (battery indicator at top stays still).. my settings are set to 'charge only' and 'pop-up and ask me' on connection settings.
Pressed power button, went to restart, and it powered down and again went to black screen with the three vibrations.
Took the battery out, put it back in, turned it on.. went back to sprint stock.
Plugged USB cable in again-- same thing, no pop-up on phone that it's connected, although my computer notifies me that it is.
Tried on two different computers with different USB cables, no luck.
ADB shell doesn't work, no devices found if I try it anyways.
Help
Thanks
echoedge said:
Okay.. all is going well, but there seems to be something strange going on, don't think it's normal.
After I flashed superuser, I restarted it and it once again went to the black screen with the 3 vibrations.
Took out the battery, put it back in, powered on. Booted to sprint stock.
Enabled USB debugging/disabled Fast Boot.
Then put the USB in, and the notification sound popped up on my computer detecting the phone.. but the phone itself did nothing. It isn't even charging (battery indicator at top stays still).. my settings are set to 'charge only' and 'pop-up and ask me' on connection settings.
Pressed power button, went to restart, and it powered down and again went to black screen with the three vibrations.
Took the battery out, put it back in, turned it on.. went back to sprint stock.
Plugged USB cable in again-- same thing, no pop-up on phone that it's connected, although my computer notifies me that it is.
Tried on two different computers with different USB cables, no luck.
ADB shell doesn't work, no devices found if I try it anyways.
Help
Thanks
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Just as I suspected. Your misc partition is corrupted, causing your sd card to not be recognized, and ADB to be broken. I've been there before, and this is fixable. First, to get your SD card working, you'll need to boot into fastboot (so that your display reads FASTBOOT USB), and from the command prompt on your computer, from the folder where your fastboot.exe resides, type the following command (taken from here - thanks to Calkulin):
Code:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
After that completes, boot into recovery. I'd like to check and see if adb will work in recovery - that'll be easier than the alternative, which is flashing a ROM with Wireless ADB enabled, and using those commands to flash the misc partition from the computer. After you get recovery booted, type
Code:
adb devices
at the command prompt and let us know if your device shows up in recovery mode.
Tried going back into hboot.. plugged it in,
was detected, but had to re-install drivers on my w7 machine I noticed.
after i figured out that hboot usb worked, went to recovery, went to restart now.
went to black screen and noticed it is vibrating 5 times now (before it was 3)
took out battery, turned back on, back to sprint stock. still no usb capabilities within the rom.
btw my bootloader now says
** unlocked **
s-on
hboot-2.18.0001
radio-2.15.00.12.19
also,
tried going back into recovery, and re-flashed the superuser file. installed fine.
this time instead of going to 'reboot now' went to shut down.. it shut down fine. I turned it back on, turned on fine.
It only seems to be doing the black-screen and 5 vibrations when I reboot.
Tried plugging it in again to pc, checked settings - nothing.
Am confused now, not sure what's wrong
EDIT:
okay, just read Capt. Throwback's reply AFTER posting this, will give that ago. Thanks CT
Captain_Throwback said:
Just as I suspected. Your misc partition is corrupted, causing your sd card to not be recognized, and ADB to be broken. I've been there before, and this is fixable. First, to get your SD card working, you'll need to boot into fastboot (so that your display reads FASTBOOT USB), and from the command prompt on your computer, from the folder where your fastboot.exe resides, type the following command (taken from here - thanks to Calkulin):
Code:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
After that completes, boot into recovery. I'd like to check and see if adb will work in recovery - that'll be easier than the alternative, which is flashing a ROM with Wireless ADB enabled, and using those commands to flash the misc partition from the computer. After you get recovery booted, type
Code:
adb devices
at the command prompt and let us know if your device shows up in recovery mode.
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I remember having to do that command because my SD card wasn't detected before I flashed the RUU and making this thread.
This is because it was very noticable my SD card wasn't being detected.. any PC36IMG file in hboot wouldn't be detected, and recovery wouldn't mount nor find an sd card. After doing that command above the SD card worked.
But anyways, ADB worked in hboot and I successfully did that command.
ADB did not work in recovery unfortunately.
Are you sure it's an issue of my sd card being detected? My misc partition is probably corrupted I assume which is giving me these errors, but SD card even before doing that above command in hboot and recovery worked fine (was able to browse my sd card/mount it.. flashed superuser on it. I only say that because before when I had to do that command to get the SD working in the beginning of all this the SD card had no access to anything at all, and in recovery would give me a can't mount mnt/mmc*** (or something like that).., that's when I googled the error and found that solution that Calkulin provided.
But i'm not sure.. what are my options now?
echoedge said:
I remember having to do that command because my SD card wasn't detected before I flashed the RUU and making this thread.
This is because it was very noticable my SD card wasn't being detected.. any PC36IMG file in hboot wouldn't be detected, and recovery wouldn't mount nor find an sd card. After doing that command above the SD card worked.
But anyways, ADB worked in hboot and I successfully did that command.
ADB did not work in recovery unfortunately.
Are you sure it's an issue of my sd card being detected? My misc partition is probably corrupted I assume which is giving me these errors, but SD card even before doing that above command in hboot and recovery worked fine (was able to browse my sd card/mount it.. flashed superuser on it. I only say that because before when I had to do that command to get the SD working in the beginning of all this the SD card had no access to anything at all, and in recovery would give me a can't mount mnt/mmc*** (or something like that).., that's when I googled the error and found that solution that Calkulin provided.
But i'm not sure.. what are my options now?
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You're going to need to flash a ROM with Wireless ADB enabled, or manually use Terminal Emulator to flash the misc partition, as per the instructions in my "Downgrade HBOOT" thread. If you still have the flash_image and mtd-eng.img on your SD card, Terminal might be the easiest way to do it (hopefully it'll let you). If not, we'll have to go the Wireless ADB route, as I did here.
Okay, i'm not sure if it worked or not.
I su'd into terminal and did the commands.
the terminal froze though so I had to take the battery out, but that was after I pressed enter on the three commands..
I noticed in my bootloader it says *** LOCKED ***
and it also says I'm S-OFF..
Now I'm trying to flash over the 11.19 radio PC36IMG.zip but now it seems the bootloader is not detecting my sd card..
I tried the command to get sd working again. That worked okay.
I booted into recovery, and my sd card is mounted and in there I can browse my SD card contents.
But in hboot it tries to detect the PC36IMG.zip and just passes it by.
Did the misc partition commands work properly, what's messing with it now?
I'm still able to ADB/fastboot USB in hboot by the way, it just isn't detecting my PC36IMG file.
Should I try to manually do it, or am I missing something?
Also I booted into the sprint stock rom, plugged in the USB and now that functionality is working fine.. prompts up, charge only, etc.
Seems I'm almost there... :fingers-crossed:
echoedge said:
Okay, i'm not sure if it worked or not.
I su'd into terminal and did the commands.
the terminal froze though so I had to take the battery out, but that was after I pressed enter on the three commands..
I noticed in my bootloader it says *** LOCKED ***
and it also says I'm S-OFF..
Now I'm trying to flash over the 11.19 radio PC36IMG.zip but now it seems the bootloader is not detecting my sd card..
I tried the command to get sd working again. That worked okay.
I booted into recovery, and my sd card is mounted and in there I can browse my SD card contents.
But in hboot it tries to detect the PC36IMG.zip and just passes it by.
Did the misc partition commands work properly, what's messing with it now?
I'm still able to ADB/fastboot USB in hboot by the way, it just isn't detecting my PC36IMG file.
Should I try to manually do it, or am I missing something?
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If you're back to S-OFF, you might be okay. Try flashing the 4.67 PC36IMG.zip in HBOOT again. After you do that, you should still be S-OFF, if everything is working properly, and hopefully everything else will be working too.
It's also possible that the misc partition flash was incomplete. Since you're now S-OFF, and presumably ADB is working, you should be able to run the commands over USB.
Okay, I had to put in a bigger SD card for it to detect the PC36IMG to detect- installed perfectly.
Also had to reflash amonRA recovery.
I was already S-OFF for whatever reason so yup, after that I was good to go! :good:
Booted to recovery, made a backup, wiped data/factory reset, an flashed an ICS rom. Just booted up, everything is working great
Thanks a bunch everyone (esp Capt. Throwback) for getting this resolved quick and painlessly
Am very relieved to get this working once again as normal, wasn't sure if I would be able
Thanks again!!

[Q] DHD woes

Hi all,
Been having problems with my DHD for ages now - got myself a GS3 after a while so had kind of given up on it but now I really want to get it back to life as a backup (and for a temp replacement for my gf who got her phone driven over yesterday!). I've seen loads of similar problems to mine, but after searching here for months and following several soutions to one point or another, I always seem to get some kind of error that no-one else is getting and from there it branches off into new problems/methods. Kind of getting sick of going in circles so here I am asking for some DHD justice!
The problem is this:
A few months back the DHD started freezing/restarting intermittently (something to do with Sense I think, but tried the goldcard method of rooting it a few weeks before which failed, not sure if this could have affected things but it didnt seem to have any noticable effect for a while anyway) then eventually got either stuck in a loop on the carriers logo animation or hanging at the white background/green HTC logo screen. Couldn't get any further. Did a factory reset but the problem persisted. After a few weeks I came back to it and found that very occasionally I could get the phone to start up and get on the home screen. I can do a few things (like enabling USB debugging luckily) there but get DOZENS of notifications that various processes are failing and eventually the phone reboots or jumps to the HTC logo screen again. Either this happens before I can do very much on the phone or some process fails and nothing happens. So really I need a solution thats mostly PC based - but pretty much every program or command line operation fails to actually see the phone. I'm assuming here what I need to do it flash a new ROM to replace what I also assume is a corrupt existing one? I've tried RUU .exe type fixes - which don't see the phone. Most of the command line instructions fail to see the phone either. The phone isn't rooted so I'm guessing this would need to be done to flash a new ROM (a working version of the stock one would be fine for what I need it for but having a custom one would be nice). I've got nowhere with trying to flash ROMs as is (not rooted, S-ON), and also nowhere with various root/s-off tools. TBH I'm not really sure which stage of the process I need to be trying first. The other day the phone suddenly booted ok without the notifications and worked for around 6 hours before something made it reboot and return to the boot loop.
On the HBOOT screen I have the following:
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.85.0024
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.09.04.28_M2
eMMC-boot
Trying to boot into recovery just gets me the red triangle screen. Trying a new image from SD doesnt work as it doesnt see the card mounted.
Thanks for taking the time to read my tale of woe. Anyone got an idea where to start with this?
MerkyBlud said:
Hi all,
Been having problems with my DHD for ages now - got myself a GS3 after a while so had kind of given up on it but now I really want to get it back to life as a backup (and for a temp replacement for my gf who got her phone driven over yesterday!). I've seen loads of similar problems to mine, but after searching here for months and following several soutions to one point or another, I always seem to get some kind of error that no-one else is getting and from there it branches off into new problems/methods. Kind of getting sick of going in circles so here I am asking for some DHD justice!
The problem is this:
A few months back the DHD started freezing/restarting intermittently (something to do with Sense I think, but tried the goldcard method of rooting it a few weeks before which failed, not sure if this could have affected things but it didnt seem to have any noticable effect for a while anyway) then eventually got either stuck in a loop on the carriers logo animation or hanging at the white background/green HTC logo screen. Couldn't get any further. Did a factory reset but the problem persisted. After a few weeks I came back to it and found that very occasionally I could get the phone to start up and get on the home screen. I can do a few things (like enabling USB debugging luckily) there but get DOZENS of notifications that various processes are failing and eventually the phone reboots or jumps to the HTC logo screen again. Either this happens before I can do very much on the phone or some process fails and nothing happens. So really I need a solution thats mostly PC based - but pretty much every program or command line operation fails to actually see the phone. I'm assuming here what I need to do it flash a new ROM to replace what I also assume is a corrupt existing one? I've tried RUU .exe type fixes - which don't see the phone. Most of the command line instructions fail to see the phone either. The phone isn't rooted so I'm guessing this would need to be done to flash a new ROM (a working version of the stock one would be fine for what I need it for but having a custom one would be nice). I've got nowhere with trying to flash ROMs as is (not rooted, S-ON), and also nowhere with various root/s-off tools. TBH I'm not really sure which stage of the process I need to be trying first. The other day the phone suddenly booted ok without the notifications and worked for around 6 hours before something made it reboot and return to the boot loop.
On the HBOOT screen I have the following:
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.85.0024
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.09.04.28_M2
eMMC-boot
Trying to boot into recovery just gets me the red triangle screen. Trying a new image from SD doesnt work as it doesnt see the card mounted.
Thanks for taking the time to read my tale of woe. Anyone got an idea where to start with this?
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1. S-off your device
2. Use android flasher
3. AND easily flash flash recovery thorough this software....
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using xda premium
MaratabHashmi said:
1. S-off your device
2. Use android flasher
3. AND easily flash flash recovery thorough this software....
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using xda premium
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S-off requires rooting it first, am I right? Not having much luck with that - HTC Quickroot claims its been done but none of the apps such as SuperUser are present when it reboots...
Suggestions anyone? efforts to S-OFF not working so far...:fingers-crossed:
You don't need to root if all you want to do is run a RUU. Are you trying to do it through ADB or fastboot? Is the RUU you're trying compatible with your phone's region?
bananagranola said:
You don't need to root if all you want to do is run a RUU. Are you trying to do it through ADB or fastboot? Is the RUU you're trying compatible with your phone's region?
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I'm trying running the .exe file from the pc, I'm 99.9% sure its the correct region (3UK stock). It gets as far as bringing up a screen with a grey HTC logo while the PC says 'waiting for bootloader' before I get an error message saying the USB connection is lost (tried 3 different cables and there is no issue with faulty cables, or either end being unplugged, ). ADB doesnt see the phone as connected. Fastboot doesnt seem to do much as usually when the phone reboots as part of the process it freezes or goes back into bootloop. I've tried putting ROMs on the sd card and updating from the recovery menu but the phone doesnt see the card as mounted in this mode (when it does boot and run ok for a few minutes it does eventually see the card).
I'm confused. You have a recovery menu? Is your phone's bootloader unlocked?
Sorry, I mean the menu accessed through power on + vol down. No, tried unlocking it through the HTC site but no joy.
That's the bootloader. What procedure are you using for fastboot?
Via ADB commands - havent tried with fastboot methods recently though so I forget which particular guide I was using. I'm sure there are all kinds of noob alarms and flashing lights going off somewhere
You cannot run a RUU from adb. Only fastboot.
Where do I start with this then? I have the fastboot pc files installed already but didn't get anywhere, seem to remember the phone rebooting from a command and then just going back to the logo bootloop before it could progress - very possibly doing something wrong though.
Update: Tried the following:
Ran the RUU.exe until the wizard comes up. While the RUU wizard was open, found the temporary folder it created.Found ROM.zip. Opened it, extracted recovery.img. Put it in the location where Android SDK tools is installed. Booted the phone into bootloader, gone to FASTBOOT USB. Opened a command prompt, navigated to the folder with Android SDK tools. Entered:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
BUT still getting an error: "'fastboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." :S
MerkyBlud said:
Where do I start with this then? I have the fastboot pc files installed already but didn't get anywhere, seem to remember the phone rebooting from a command and then just going back to the logo bootloop before it could progress - very possibly doing something wrong though.
Update: Tried the following:
Ran the RUU.exe until the wizard comes up. While the RUU wizard was open, found the temporary folder it created.Found ROM.zip. Opened it, extracted recovery.img. Put it in the location where Android SDK tools is installed. Booted the phone into bootloader, gone to FASTBOOT USB. Opened a command prompt, navigated to the folder with Android SDK tools. Entered:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
BUT still getting an error: "'fastboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." :S
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You need to change to the correct folder on your PC where your fastboot.exe file is, thats why your getting your error.
Why you trying to flash stock recovery? Unless I missed it, From what I can see on your posts your still s-on, so you can't flash anything like that from fastboot anyway.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app
The error you're getting is that your computer can't find the fastboot file. It's not an error from fast out itself. Open the folder with fastboot in it, shift-rightclick, and choose "open command window here." Also, I thought you were running a RUU, not actually using fastboot to flash images. If you want to flash stuff you need to unlock bootloader.
bananagranola said:
The error you're getting is that your computer can't find the fastboot file. It's not an error from fast out itself. Open the folder with fastboot in it, shift-rightclick, and choose "open command window here." Also, I thought you were running a RUU, not actually using fastboot to flash images. If you want to flash stuff you need to unlock bootloader.
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Yeah, I was initially trying to run the RUU.exe but that method wasn't working as I mentioned, so I tried extracting the rom it created and flashing that via fastboot.(Didn't know that shift/rightclick thing, thanks). As for s-off I haven't found a way of doing that without rooting, hence why I thought I couldn't get anywhere without rooting the phone first.
When I try and unlock the bootloader ( at http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/ruu-downloads) , it wants to update the HBOOT first, this is how far I get with the process:
"BEFORE beginning the Unlock Bootloader process your product requires that you update the ROM to the version listed in the table below first, then download the RUU next to it to enable the unlocking capability.
To install the RUU, simply follow these instructions:
On your phone, enable USB debugging. (From the Home screen, MENU > Settings > Applications > Development > Check USB debugging)
Connect your phone to the computer using the USB cable that came with your phone. Wait a moment for your computer to identify your phone, this may take a few minutes. After your computer has found your phone, double click on the RUU to start the process"
I get as far as bringing up a screen with a grey HTC logo while the PC says 'waiting for bootloader' before I get an error message saying the USB connection is lost (so exactly the same problem trying to update the HBOOT as trying to run the RUU.exe) so I'm not sure how I'm going to unlock the bootloader if this method isn't working - direct .exe method doesnt work, and the process I need to unlock the bootloader so I can flash via fastboot doesnt work for the same reason.
Have you tried booting into bootloader and choosing fastboot before trying the RUU?
Yep. Same USB connection error despite having 'FASTBOOT USB' showing....
Type "fastboot devices." What does it say? Do you have your drivers from HTC Sync installed?
Hi all, had the phone working ok for a while, it wanted to do a software update which froze at 12%, however after cancelling it the phone seems to be problem free. Dont really get this as surely the incomplete update wouldnt take..? but something must have changed. The phones been ok for over a week now although I havent rebooted it or let the battery run flat...still dont trust it entirely!

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