Can anyone help please
I have a HTC Desire Z purchased originally in Lithuania, the previous owners have somehow SLCD Bricked the phone. The phone is in excellent condition and I would love to save it. I have read threads that suggest that I have to make a Gold Card form the country of origin and make of the phone, being in the UK this is not an option for me.
Does anyone know how I can save this phone please ( and if possible giving instructions understanding that I am unable to see the screen), I have access to a computer and have Android SDK (and Fastboot installed), I also have the HTC driver installed on my computer, but neither the Adb Devices nor Fastbook list the devices when connected to the computer.
Many thanks in advance for those who have read this and can give advice
I have no idea what an SLCD brick is so maybe you can elaborate a bit
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SLCD Brick
demkantor said:
I have no idea what an SLCD brick is so maybe you can elaborate a bit
More info on the vision here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2348266
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Thank you for your response, from what I understand an SLCD bricked phone is one that someone has tried to upgrade to another version of Android system which is not compatible with a SLCD Screen but for an AMOLED one http://androidforums.com/desire-all-things-root/226723-unbricking-slcd-bricked-desire-howto.html one and there for the phone will not switch the screen on, the phone in general works (receives phone signal and rings).
The only way to restore the phone is to create a Goldcard from the country of origin (and same make) as I am unable to create a gold card from the phone as SDK or Fastboot (from the computer) do not list device, and I am unable to switch the phone into debugging mode as cannot see screen to operate menu system.
Basically I need to create a Goldcard somehow for the country of origin (Lithuania) and find a HTC__032 ruu compatible for the HTC Desire Z.
Again many thanks for helping
Oh got ya, but unfortunately I don't believe there is any amoled firmware options for the desire z so if incompatible firmware was flashed you would have just a regular brick. But if everything on your phone is working besides the screen I would assume its a hardware fault and you are looking for a new LCD or main flex cable to repair it. But if you want to look for stock firmware in the above link there is another link on returning to stock where nipqer has uploaded some stock options. As you said these may not work in fastboot mode without a goldcard but feel free to try, phone does not need to have debugging on to be recognized by computer in fastboot, you just need the drivers
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I found a thread about SLCD bricking of the original Desire: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748498
It may have some helpful instructions (which you seem to have already figured out re: GoldCard and an OTA update), but the files aren't appropriate for the Desire Z
Thank you
demkantor said:
I have no idea what an SLCD brick is so maybe you can elaborate a bit
More info on the vision here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2348266
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Sorry for the delay in responding to you (now having computer issues, many thanks for your responses I am sure that somewhere there has to be an answer as it would be such a shame to throw away such a good phone.
Thanks again
Have you replaced the LCD or main flex yet?
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First off, Yes I have searched more than this site for an answer to the point where my handset would not do anything but go into the recovery menu.
What I want to do is put stock HTC Android on my Desire.
Currently it is rooted but has to be un rooted to go onto works E Mail server.
The handset is a GSM HTC Desire (Bravo)
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP 2-ON
HBOOT-093.0001
CLOCKWORKMOD RECOVERY v2.5.0.7
I have tried several RUU's only to be told of a boot loader error.
Can some one please tell me how this is done?
I asked my network and they could not help so unless some one can help me im going to have to ask HTC.
THANKS in advance
RICK
Hi,
Is your phone branded?
If so to get it to stock u need your operator´s RUU, or a gold card to run the HTC one.
not branded try the last WWE launched to Europe u can find it here : http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...00.32U_5.09.05.30_2_release_142828_signed.exe
Wrong forum, it should go in Q&A
1. Wrong forum... You even mark your title as a question. Then why not put it in the question section, as it is clearly not development?
2. You problem is, that you have to choose a ruu with hboot version 0.93 or above(as for now i think 0.93 is highest). You cannot downgrade hboot officially! So chose the latest one released, and if your phone is branded, you need to be lucky and find the branded rom or you'll have to use a goldcard.
3. Being able to log onto your firms email server has nothing to do with rooting i promise you. There is no difference in the way it would log on. That is only managed by the app you use to log on. Unrooting will only make fixing the actual problem much more difficult, as you cannot change a thing on the system.
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1. Wrong forum... You even mark your title as a question. Then why not put it in the question section, as it is clearly not development?
3. Being able to log onto your firms email server has nothing to do with rooting i promise you. There is no difference in the way it would log on. That is only managed by the app you use to log on. Unrooting will only make fixing the actual problem much more difficult, as you cannot change a thing on the system.
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I would be inclined to agree with both points. Rooting will do nothing to affect your phones ability to log on to an e-mail server, the server doesn't collect any information about your phone and refuse it on the basis that it has, essentially, an 'app' called Superuser installed.
My employer will not allow phones without standard firmware.
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Thanks for your help.
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ricksvill said:
My employer will not allow phones without standard firmware.
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Lol. How is he going to check?
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K900 said:
Lol. How is he going to check?
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The IT department look when they set them up...
Sad aint it?
thats sad....
ricksvill said:
The IT department look when they set them up...
Sad aint it?
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Then just go tell them. We IT guys are friendly and willing to help, most people just don't know
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Good afternoon:
Recently my sister in law gave me his Desire so I could take a look at it.
She says the phone started to freeze a lot and random reboots. Then the phone won't switch on at all, when it did it showed a white screen (I suspect she talks about the bootloader one). Next the phone never booted again, showing the htc screen with four exclamation triangles in the corners.
She is not an experienced user at all, the phone is a Vodafone one, unlocked.
It had the latest Vodafone stock rom installed. The phone doesn't have root, S-OFF or a gold card.
I tried to flash it with the latest Vodafone UK ruu and the gingerbread one from Shipped Roms and it fails with an error 152.
If I flash those roms with fastboot I get a FAILED (remote: 51 partition update fail).
Both methods give me a RADIO_V2 - Fail-PU.
We can't send the phone to HTC because the company doesn't even exist in Argentina. Also the phone its from Spain, so we have no warranty at all.
Is there any hope?. I've tried searching the web but I had no luck.
Thanks in advance.
Whipon.
It's a radio brick. Contact HTC for warranty repair is the usual response....
No s-off, no fix
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rootSU said:
It's a radio brick. Contact HTC for warranty repair is the usual response....
No s-off, no fix
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Thanks a lot for your reply .
Any method to get S-OFF?
unrevoked should do the trick
Whipon said:
Thanks a lot for your reply .
Any method to get S-OFF?
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i wouldnt get s-off, keep it completley stock or they might not replace it
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stumpyz9 said:
i wouldnt get s-off, keep it completley stock or they might not replace it
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true true true,didn't read post fully,dnt get s-off
Ty5982 said:
unrevoked should do the trick
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Thanks man. If it supports latest boot loader, perhaps we have another chance.
@stumpyz9: Don't worry, phone is not under warranty, and we don't have any HTC service in Argentina ^^.
Whipon said:
Thanks man. If it supports latest boot loader, perhaps we have another chance.
@stumpyz9: Don't worry, phone is not under warranty, and we don't have any HTC service in Argentina ^^.
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ohh, time to have some fun then lol
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stumpyz9 said:
ohh, time to have some fun then lol
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We have nothing to loose. Afterall the phone cost her nothing.
I enjoy doing this type of job, so it will be fun.
Well you can't s-off because it doesn't boot. The only fix would be HTC.
You could try flashing a RUU from fastboot....
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rootSU said:
Well you can't s-off because it doesn't boot. The only fix woould be HTC.
You could try flashing a RUU from fastboot....
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Flashing from fastboot gives me a remote error: FAILED (remote: 51 partition update fail).
As I said we have no HTC repair service in Argentina.
All I can do is triying to fix it through the computer or throw it away u_u.
Can't I erase the radio and reflash it?. Do I need S-OFF to do that?.
can u flash a recovery
yah s-off would be required, but thats kind of impossible, and if your gunna throw it away you could always send it to me lol, i love to take **** apart
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I know you have no HTC. But that is only option.
Throw it in the bin or sell for spares maybe then. You can't fix broken device without s-off, you can't s-off without working device.
Even if s-off, fix is very unlikely. HTC swap out the mother board when this happens, so nothing you can do
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lol
You will laugh a lot when you know how I fixed it.
I had another Desire with its digitizer cracked. It was from a friend who dropped it.
I just swapped the motherboards.
The dissasembly and assembly videos in Youtube were very usefull .
It was a lot of fun.
Thank you very much for all your help .
A good question
Wait a minute, how she can prevent this from happening again?.
She just was using his phone as a normal user. The phone was plain stock.
Excellent.
Well you can't prevent it if she didn't.do anything to cause it. It was probably destined to go faulty from the start
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Quickest, most simplest way to achieve root and s-off is by using this method http://revolutionary.io/
Zafatron said:
Quickest, most simplest way to achieve root and s-off is by using this method http://revolutionary.io/
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read the 1st page,already mentioned,READ,READ,READ AND READ AGAIN B4 POSTING
Thanks ^^
Well, thanks guys.
Should I S-OFF the "new" phone?. New motherboard is from an almost new phone.
Just in case this issue appears again in the future.
Hey guys...
so recently i deciced togo back to the g2 stock hboot from the Eng doubleshot one to flash the pc10img.zip for unroot...
heres the problem i mistakenly flashed the desire z hboot on the G2 and now the phone wouldnt turn on im stuck...the charging organge thing comes on when i charge it but thats pretty much it....
i followed the first part of this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=999796
when i should have followed the second page for the G2....
Any help plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz im freaking out here i.....the phone was rooted
so you have (originaly) a mt4gslide or dz or g2. what hboot did you then install? what hboot did you mistakenly go to, what one were you trying to go to
can you boot into hboot?
can you get anything when powering on?
if you answer to the last 2 questions is no then only jtag will help, if yes then there is still a chance you can fix it easily
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demkantor said:
so you have (originaly) a mt4gslide or dz or g2. what hboot did you then install? what hboot did you mistakenly go to, what one were you trying to go to
can you boot into hboot?
can you get anything when powering on?
if you answer to the last 2 questions is no then only jtag will help, if yes then there is still a chance you can fix it easily
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No my firend it dosent turn on and i cant go to recovery nor hboot. I mistakenly flashed the Desire z hboot on it.all i can do is charge it and it...and the orange light come on..
PS: whos jtag
jtag is a way to force the os, bootloader etc onto your phone. to do this you need to have the proper adapter to go to your computer and your phone, which you would also need to know the points on your motherboard to connect the jtag adapter (these have to be temporaraly soldered in place. then you need a program to communicate between pc and phone and of course the software.
usualy only a select few places have the ability to jtag a phone, rarley is this done by the doityourselfer. you can look for some one to do this for you but the cost probably will outway the cost of selling your phone for parts and buying a new one
sorry for the bad news, good luck!
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I'm going to try the JTAG person on Ebay in the USA.
I will send 2 HTC Desire Z, one that doesn't even load and one that can only start up in recovery and has probably a broken emmc chip.
hey guys , m using htc wildfire s and the biggest problem i face with it is that when i go to hboot and select recovery mode htc logo appears and the phone turns off after 2 3 seconds and again the whole procees volume down and blah blah so please i hope someone can help me i'll be really thankful
What did you try exactly....
mindfreak62 said:
hey guys , m using htc wildfire s and the biggest problem i face with it is that when i go to hboot and select recovery mode htc logo appears and the phone turns off after 2 3 seconds and again the whole procees volume down and blah blah so please i hope someone can help me i'll be really thankful
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Hi,
Why did you go to recovery? Have you unlocked and rooted your device or not?
(In case, what is displayed on your HBOOT menu..?)
If you want to root your phone just refer here :
It's an easy & long process, if you understand well...
http://androidforums.com/wildfire-s...ow-root-wildfire-s-s-finally.html#post3785547
After rooted, you can install ClockworkMod Recovery, thereafter only you can go to recovery option and can take backup or flash anything...
without these it's hard to answer.....
Hope this might be useful (If really press 'Thanks").
I tried that one also but the result was that when i go to recovery mode the screen goes Black and my keys are lightning i left it for couple of minute but still no response and again i have to remove the battery and the turn my phone on again
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I successfully unlocked my bootloader ..
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mindfreak62 said:
I successfully unlocked my bootloader ..
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Okay, so now you need install CWM here a litle guide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL62BUZjmgw
then find superurser.zip in xda and install it with Cwm here how to do it : install zip from sd card -> choose zip from sd card -> choose you superuser.zip
If u have the black screen recovery problem then don't try these recoveries as it is a waste of time. I too have the same problem. Our phones have some change in hardware which is why we can't view the recovery screen. Let's hope the problem gets fixed soon.
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Oh god m starting to hate this phone now :/
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It's a cute device...
I'm really not sure what was changed yet or why given the dangers of platform fragmentation but, it has most certainly lead to some issues. Presently I'm not even sure how to differentiate these devices as they report back with all the same identifying information that the original A510e does. There is a discussion here where some other users with the device and I are trying to gather enough information and interest to diagnose the problem and correct it.
thanks but keep it up
WoefulDerelict said:
I'm really not sure what was changed yet or why given the dangers of platform fragmentation but, it has most certainly lead to some issues. Presently I'm not even sure how to differentiate these devices as they report back with all the same identifying information that the original A510e does. There is a discussion here where some other users with the device and I are trying to gather enough information and interest to diagnose the problem and correct it.
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i'll be really really grateful to you if you find a solution for me for this unique problem
mindfreak62 said:
i'll be really really grateful to you if you find a solution for me for this unique problem
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It would appear the problem isn't that unique as multiple users are facing the same issue. Platform fragmentation is hardly a new issue (the dream/sapphire platform is absolute hell) I just didn't expect it to be completely silent. I first heard about it from users asking if my port of TWRP worked with these devices. As I'd like to be able to offer a complete port for every HTC Wildfire S and I'd like to see the issue resolved. I'm sure many of the ROM developers working on incompatible CM7/CM9 and AOKP builds would like to offer software for your devices as well so hopefully there will be enough support to get this resolved. The trick right now is finding the root of the issue so that it can be mended.
So Its been a long time since I used a HTC devices such as HTC Sensation 4G, HTC Amaze & HTC Evo 4GLTE phones. Switched to Samsung for the Note 2 and haven't used another device besides samsung for a while now. Used to odin and all that jazz, I do recall the days of getting unlocked bootloader token from HTC dev, s-off and installing roms. If my memory recalls I do recall in order go back to stock I had to flash it via RUU file i think.
So after samsung burned the dev community of locked bootlader for S7 on Tmobile I abanden samsung and had high hopes that T-Mobile would release HTC 10 so I could move to it. Luckily enough they did and I just mine today so im like super stoked to get back into HTC groove. So my question is before rooting and all that fun stuff I did read all the FAQs and guides, but something is kind of unlcear for me at the moment.
I found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/how-to/stock-stock-collection-recovery-ruu-ota-t3359297
So my question which file do I use for my stock in case I need to return to stock for any reason?
any help would be much appreciated
Welcome back to HTC, the 10 is a great phone to make your move from Samsung to. With regards to your question, it all depends on your CID, MID and firmware version.
Find out what you have and match them up to what's available on that thread.
You should make a back up of your own too.
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squ89r97 said:
Welcome back to HTC, the 10 is a great phone to make your move from Samsung to. With regards to your question, it all depends on your CID, MID and firmware version.
Find out what you have and match them up to what's available on that thread.
You should make a back up of your own too.
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where would I find this information for my device?
nofroyo said:
where would I find this information for my device?
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Go 2 App Store and type in simple cid getter and install
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