I appoligise if this has been asked before.
I have a HTC Desire Z which I have rooted using the Cyanogen Wiki Method which i believe was successful, I wanted to check whether I was S-Off before loading custom roms.
wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Desire_Z:_Rooting
I read on a forum you should bootload to check, so i held power and VOL up on restart however now i have a black screen with a flashing red led at the top and am unable to get out of this mode does anyone have any advise what I need to do?
Anything would be helpful I'm in the UK military currently deployed on OPS this is my only means of comms to family. Thanks in advance.
Crap, so you're stuck in bootloader huh? Well if you have a PC with you then thats good news. Cause you can just flash something via your bootloader if you have ADB set up.
Wait, you said it has a red led lit right?... the battery might have died on you in all honesty because that's the only time a red/amber led would come on. If this is the case just leave it charging for like 20 minutes before try to turn it on.
Anyways, if that isn't the issue try getting the screen onto that bootloader page. As soon as you get to that you can start fixing it. It should say FASTBOOT_USB or something similar to that. Now on your pc start up your CMD Prompt (Run > 'cmd'). From there try typing Fastboot devices and it should list your device as HT########. If you can get to that then we're doing well.
BEFORE you try this, just note I've never fastboot flashed a ROM and I only posted this because you seem to need it urgently. If you can wait, then post what you've actually done to the phone so I can provide you with a more tailored solution that will work. (post whether the phone is rooted, s-off or superCID or just the guides and where you got stuck)
Now what you need to do is plug your microSD into your laptop and do this:
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Before you do this please do the following:
1a. Download the RUU I’ve linked (it should be a ~300mb exe file)
1b. Run the setup until you get to the screen with the tick boxes
1c. Goto C:\Users\<your account name>\AppData\local\temp. Then right click and Sort By Date Modified. Look for the most recently created folder which should look like {xxxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxxx}. Then navigate into it and its parent folder. Look for rom.zip and copy that to your goldcard/memory card.
1d. Rename the rom.zip on your memory card to PC10IMG.zip
1e. Mount your sd card back onto your phone.
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In this case you want it to be called update.zip. Now you can pop the microSD back into your phone and from there get back into your bootloader and switch to fastboot. Now when it says fastboot_usb you can run this on your PC's CMD Prompt. fastboot update /sdcard/update.zip
did you try something as simple as a battery pull? also, I noted you said power + vol up, you need to do power + vol down to enter bootloader. I seem to remember something similar happening to me back in the day.
chances are it's fine. I'd do a battery pull and boot it normally just to make sure, then power off and enter bootloader to ensure you are s-off by pressing power + vol down.
It is supposed to be volume DOWN + power, I just tried volume up, my phone vibrated 3 times and an orange light flashed continuously, but it was solved by a battery pull, and it was back to normal
Sent from my HTC Desire Z using XDA App
only charge led shows lifesigns.
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I had just flashed the BlackICE ROM and started to like that, except from that it sometimes froze. So I read the BlackICE forum and saw that there were a few others with the same problem, and they got tipsed about undervolting with the built-in undervolting menu. So I did so too, and it worked about 1 hour. Then it froze again and won't come pass the bootanimation.
Normally i would press power and vol down button, but my vol down button has it own life, and won't function when I want to. So i can't get into the bootloader and reflash or wipe data.
Any helpful tip? Any other key kombination, or maybe i can access it from my computer when plugged inn with USB?
Thanks!
Sorry to hear about your problem.
Try this,
Download this simple adb package --> HERE & extract
Remove & reinsert your battery
Plug into your PC and wait for the orange charging LED to light up
Using cmd navigate to the folder you unzipped adb to
e.g
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cd C:\adb
Now try this command
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
Hopefully that should restart your device into bootloader, from there you can select recovery.
Thank you very much for your answer, but I don't see any link? It seemed like you wanted to post a link?
EDIT: Is it this package maybe? 34MB?
Link: http://dottech.org/tipsntricks/2153...ows-computer-for-use-with-your-android-phone/
Ahh yes, I forgot the adb package.
I've added it to the original post. It's only 200~KB.
It worked! But are there any adb command to enter recovery from bootloader? Since my volume buttons don't wanna cooperate I am not able to get down to "Recovery" atm. I tried volume up, and it worked for one selection, so now it stands on the bottom.
Thanks again btw
I thought it would, you can try,
Code:
adb reboot recovery
You may need to pull your battery & start again.
I tried that and then I just got a long list of commands that I could try out. I then found
Code:
adb reboot [bootloader:recovery]
That did not work either, so I just tried rebooting into bootloader again, and now the volume up button would work long enough to select recovery! So now I have reflashed and things seem to be working again
So thank you again, for saving my phone
possibly bricked??
I have tried the steps above and am getting "Error: Device not found" I am assuming this means that the usb debugging has somehow been switched off?
Complete newbie please excuse me (I have got my phone stuck at the htc screen and volume down button seems to have died on me)!
[Q] Tried to install Beatmod ICS, stuck on "screensaver" usb and recovery won't work
Hi guys,
I've watched the n00b video and been googling for the last few hours as well as reading through various pages on the XDA forum. I've found a lot of problems that are kinda similar and tried various solutions but don't seem to be quite getting there.
Basically I had Virtuous Affinity as the OS and clockworkmod installed (should be the most up to date versions of both, they were put on no more than a week ago) as well. I also had a backup of current OS and so on on the SD card, as well as the original zip of the rom.
I decide I want to give ICS a go and so I downloaded the betamod ICS and then loaded it. It asked me if I wanted to do a dalvik cache wipe, a dalvik cache + data wipe and a third option I don't recall. I went with the dalvik cache wipe (at the time I was under the impression that was the correct course of action) then put it back in my pocket while ICS installed.
I get my phone out of my pocket later and it's kinda stuck on what looks like (but logically isn't, I'm guessing it was meant to be a splash screen type thing while ICS installed or some such) a screensaver which just loops endlessly. The only thing you can really do is take the battery out and turn her on again, in which case you once again end up in the endless screensaver loop.
I've tried booting to recovery using volume - and the power button and unfortunately it just boots straight into the looping screensaver again.
Getting a bit worried and feeling adventurous I tried seeing what I could do with ADB, however the computer seemed unable to recognise that any device was connected with ADB devices not listing anything.
I've read up a lot and I'm at a loss as to what to do - there's a rom on the SD card and there also should have been a backup but I just can't get it into recovery.
I do have the ability to view the SD card on another device and interact with it, so if there's a potential SD fix, that's certainly not out the window.
But yeah, I'm clueless how to proceed here and very green at the whole rom business. Can anyone advise what I might try to do from here? I don't care what state I end up going back to, or if I lose my data, I can get all that back, I just want the phone in some semblance of basic operation.
I'll be keeping an eye on the thread, if I've left out any pertinent data ask away and thanks in advance for anyone with a clue how I can fix this mess .
EDIT: Post may be better off in ICS thread above and I do apologise if so, I would move it but I seem unable to delete it.
Remove battery for 5 seconds and then try again to boot into recovery using volume -and power button.
ik222 said:
Remove battery for 5 seconds and then try again to boot into recovery using volume -and power button.
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I have, it doesn't work. I've left the battery out for a fairly long period. Volume - + power still just brings it back to the "screensaver" loop.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Turn the phone off completely; pull the battery out for a bit then replace it and don't touch anything. Don't try to turn it on. Plug the phone by usb to your pc (still turned off). At the command prompt in the folder containing adb.exe type "adb reboot recovery" - the phone should power on and go to recovery where you can wipe properly and reflash whatever you want.
You should be able to boot to recovery using the volume down + power button combo (hold the volume-down key, then press and hold the power button and keep both held until you get to the bootloader menu); the only thing that's wrong with your phone is that you've flashed one ROM over another without wiping it first, so the ROM can't load but this shouldn't affect your bootloader or recovery.
Worst case you can flash a RUU which will restore it to the official firmware; you'll then need to re-root and re-install a recovery image to be able to flash custom ROMs again.
Very helpful post, thanks! I'll try all that and see how I go, I'll post if I still have trouble.
Yeah I dunno why I can't boot to recovery it's weird. The volume button wasn't working, so I removed it and am pressing in the volume down portion of the volume button with a pen while holding down the power button. It's possible perhaps I'm not successfully depressing volume down, but I'm 99% sure I am and that that's not it. I am however doing it as you and other guides advise, depress volume down, hold it and then depress power and hold both for about three seconds, no joy!
Anyway, as said, I'll try what you're recommending and see how I go. Thanks!
hopscotchjunkie said:
At the command prompt in the folder containing adb.exe type "adb reboot recovery"
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Curious what you mean by this? Cause there's no command prompt in the folder ADB is in. Do you mean in command prompt, be in the folder, i.e. c:\abd kinda thing? I tried just loading command prompt and typing abd reboot recovery, no device detected - no joy.
Ethicistabdiel said:
Curious what you mean by this? Cause there's no command prompt in the folder ADB is in. Do you mean in command prompt, be in the folder, i.e. c:\abd kinda thing? I tried just loading command prompt and typing abd reboot recovery, no device detected - no joy.
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Yeah that was what I meant; I've got a feeling that that only works when the phone is powered off if you had USB debugging activated on the phone beforehand, so if that's not working that might be why.
c:\adb
results in error: device not found.
ADB app itself is in C:\adb\platform-tools but when I try that it goes The System cannot find the path specified. I've tried cd/adb and I can get that far but I can't get to adb/platform-tools.
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Okay, I managed to get to c:\adb\platform-tools but adb reboot recovery is still advising error: device not found. Guessing perhaps I didn't have usb debugging enabled. Are you able to suggest another work around at all? I'm happy to flash it to whatever, I don't mind losing data, just want to get it in working order again. I don't see how I can though when I seemingly don't have access to recovery or USB...hrmm, must be some way around.
Accidental double post, sorry.
You need to try get into recovery mode, where you can do a full wipe and see if that fixes anything.
Firstly, remove your battery then re-install it, your phone should still be turned off at this stage. Press and hold the volume down button, then additionally press and hold the power butter, until something appears on the screen. If the bootloader appears, you can then boot into recovery from there.
If the above fails to work, report back with your results and hopefully something else will be suggested.
Ethicistabdiel said:
c:\adb
results in error: device not found.
ADB app itself is in C:\adb\platform-tools but when I try that it goes The System cannot find the path specified. I've tried cd/adb and I can get that far but I can't get to adb/platform-tools.
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Okay, I managed to get to c:\adb\platform-tools but adb reboot recovery is still advising error: device not found. Guessing perhaps I didn't have usb debugging enabled. Are you able to suggest another work around at all? I'm happy to flash it to whatever, I don't mind losing data, just want to get it in working order again. I don't see how I can though when I seemingly don't have access to recovery or USB...hrmm, must be some way around.
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Your only other option to get into recovery is the volume-down/power-on combination. Like I said, I can't think why that's not working unless it's related to your missing volume button (maybe it's not maintaining a constant pressure on the button when you're using whatever to press through the hole).
If you still can't get that to work, I would suggest finding a stock RUU and flashing that. It's an .exe file that runs from your PC and will return your ROM, bootloader and radio back to stock. Obviously that means you'll lose root and your custom recovery so you'll need to do all that again from scratch. There's a sticky in the dev section with a link to a thread with various RUUs (it's named something along the lines of "shipped & test ROMs" - I'll check that and link to it once I've dragged myself out of bed to the computer). You'll lose all your data, but if you took a backup beforehand you can restore that once you're back up and running.
//sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk; all errors entirely intentional.
Yeah I'm starting to think perhaps the down button is just broken.
What state should the phone be for the RUU, turned off with usb plugged in or turned on? Bearing in mind, that when on, all it will do is the "screensaver". Will it work in either of those states?
Thanks, will deffo research more when I get home. Appreciate the help immensely.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824357&page=5
Guessing you mean that as far as the ruu thread. Am downloading a stock rom atm, with shaped internet till tomorrow, meh! Will see how I go. Have a feeling phone was probably Vodafone branded at stock though, so that could make for extra fiddling but yeah, fingers crossed.
If you are able too install a stock-rom you can work from their than install 4EXT recovery
touch than you doen't need the volume buttons.
I downloaded the most recent stock rom on the link above. When I try to install it though, phone off or on, it advises a USB connection error. Is this likely to be because I originally had vodafone stock and need to make a gold card, or should it still at least be recognising it? It does advise not to run any programs on the phone or anything when while installing the update, but of course, as long as my phones turned on it's stuck on the damned screensaver loop.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-841890.html
Gonna give that a go, fingers crossed!
D'oh, just found out my mobile was Three at stock and not Vodafone, the search continues .
Gah, I'm about tearing my hair out here, I want my damned phone back . Stuck using a $79 Huwawei Vodafone thing at the moment and it's so so so awful.
Anyway. I was under the impression that making a goldcard would mean I could RUU a non-Three stock rom on the phone. I made a goldcard following these instructions; http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-make-gold-card-for-htc-desire-hd/
Then I turned the phone on as the RUU advises, (meaning it's scrolling through the feckin' "screensaver") and start the process and once again get a USB connection error.
What's the better process at this stage, try and take it back to Three stock? I don't see how I can at the moment, the only Three stock I can find seems to be rom, not RUU, meaning I'd need to load from the phone, which I can't due to no recovery. Or should I keep trying to get the goldcard thing to work, maybe try some different RUU's or something?
I'm open to any other suggestions as well. Had a bit more of a fiddle around with my volume down button, no matter what I do though, I can't get recovery mode. Always boots first to the white HTC screen and then starts the infernal "screensaver" loop.
Ethicistabdiel said:
Yeah I'm starting to think perhaps the down button is just broken.
What state should the phone be for the RUU, turned off with usb plugged in or turned on? Bearing in mind, that when on, all it will do is the "screensaver". Will it work in either of those states?
Thanks, will deffo research more when I get home. Appreciate the help immensely.
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How come the volume down button be broken. When you were using Affinity Rom weren't you able to use your volume button for music. Remove SD card from phone then press "First - Volume down gently for 2 sec" & press-hold power button when it goes into bootload place your sd card back select option "REBOOT RECOVERY". I think your panicking too much just be patient nothing is wrong, i think your just hurrying it up...
The volume button didn't work before either. I had to manually adjust volume from settings. I thought it was just because of the dodgy plastic button on top, but using a pen to depress the button underneath doesn't work either.
Believe me, I've been trying to fix this for days now, every different way of depressing volume down in order to get to recovery has not worked. Short of taking the phone apart and seeing if I can see what's wrong with the button (doubtful with my level of expertise) then it ain't happening via that method.
Got a little bit hopeful with this;
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/ruu-downloads
But that too requires my phone to be in usb debugging mode, which of course, it isn't.
Is there anyway to force the phone into usb debugging mode using some form of hack or some such? The thing is, it is powered and everything, I can turn it on, the screen works and all that jazz and indeed the phone will charge from USB and the computer makes a noise when I plug or unplug it, the phone itself however won't do anything other than the "screensaver" ICS installation loop. I guess I'm thinking where there's life there's hope and perhaps there's some way in that state I can get it to switch debugging on, though I think I'm reaching at this point .
Ethicistabdiel said:
The volume button didn't work before either. I had to manually adjust volume from settings. I thought it was just because of the dodgy plastic button on top, but using a pen to depress the button underneath doesn't work either.
Believe me, I've been trying to fix this for days now, every different way of depressing volume down in order to get to recovery has not worked. Short of taking the phone apart and seeing if I can see what's wrong with the button (doubtful with my level of expertise) then it ain't happening via that method.
Got a little bit hopeful with this;
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/ruu-downloads
But that too requires my phone to be in usb debugging mode, which of course, it isn't.
Is there anyway to force the phone into usb debugging mode using some form of hack or some such? The thing is, it is powered and everything, I can turn it on, the screen works and all that jazz and indeed the phone will charge from USB and the computer makes a noise when I plug or unplug it, the phone itself however won't do anything other than the "screensaver" ICS installation loop. I guess I'm thinking where there's life there's hope and perhaps there's some way in that state I can get it to switch debugging on, though I think I'm reaching at this point .
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The only option i can think of is "Fix your volume button from your nearest Service centre". Without that you cant do anything. I am Sorry....
Searched many places for my problem but cannot find it specifically and this forum seems to be more clued up than most so here goes.
One x screen started to occasionally freeze on unlock screen (volume buttons worked also the volume pop up came on so screen itself not frozen just couldnt touch input i presume) but would fix with either a full power down or a few presses of the top button. Over the course of a day or two this has progressed to virtually always freezing and finally to where i couldnt unfreeze it even after powering down.
Did a factory reset which did give me access to my phone again but still the problem persists.
From my research it could possibly be some sort of cache problem. Also noticed after factory reset with no apps or data installed, apart from the preinstalled ones, am using 4.7 gb of internal memory with only htc sense running. this seems excessive to me but never checked it before so not sure if this is about right. If not then the cache theory could be right.
So can anyone help me please.
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thebarran said:
Searched many places for my problem but cannot find it specifically and this forum seems to be more clued up than most so here goes.
One x screen started to occasionally freeze on unlock screen (volume buttons worked also the volume pop up came on so screen itself not frozen just couldnt touch input i presume) but would fix with either a full power down or a few presses of the top button. Over the course of a day or two this has progressed to virtually always freezing and finally to where i couldnt unfreeze it even after powering down.
Did a factory reset which did give me access to my phone again but still the problem persists.
From my research it could possibly be some sort of cache problem. Also noticed after factory reset with no apps or data installed, apart from the preinstalled ones, am using 4.7 gb of internal memory with only htc sense running. this seems excessive to me but never checked it before so not sure if this is about right. If not then the cache theory could be right.
So can anyone help me please.
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Did you try RUU?
Not rooted my phone so was hoping to find a fix without rooting in case i have to send it back.
thebarran said:
Not rooted my phone so was hoping to find a fix without rooting in case i have to send it back.
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Try following this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1859714
No need to root / unlock bootloader
EDIT: follow option 2
following option 2 but stuck.
Make sure that USB debugging is enabled (Settings/Developer options). In order to determine which ruu file you require, boot your device into bootloader mode (Power off and then restart device by holding Power and Volume Down button together). Connect to pc via USB and check that device shows FASTBOOT USB on screen. Enter the following command in command prompt:
fastboot getvar version-main
But when i enter that in Command prompt i get fastboot is not recognised command etc using windows 8. Any help
Note: my phone is locked
thebarran said:
following option 2 but stuck.
Make sure that USB debugging is enabled (Settings/Developer options). In order to determine which ruu file you require, boot your device into bootloader mode (Power off and then restart device by holding Power and Volume Down button together). Connect to pc via USB and check that device shows FASTBOOT USB on screen. Enter the following command in command prompt:
fastboot getvar version-main
But when i enter that in Command prompt i get fastboot is not recognised command etc using windows 8. Any help
Note: my phone is locked
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Can you try running fastboot on a different OS? Windows XP/7, Ubuntu? Something else?
EDIT: BTW, are you sure you are running the fastboot command from the fastboot folder?
davidk-il said:
EDIT: BTW, are you sure you are running the fastboot command from the fastboot folder?
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not doing this what do you mean?
thebarran said:
not doing this what do you mean?
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Navigate on your PC to the fastboot folder lets say "c:\fastboot".
Shift+right click on any blank place and choose open command window here(or something like that my OS is not in english now).
Try using fastboot commands .
ah nice works, thanks. stay with me in case i get stuck again.
thebarran said:
ah nice works, thanks. stay with me in case i get stuck again.
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Sorry,
Gotta get some sleep =)
If after running RUU nothing changes take the phone to service.
more problems
Ran and installed the ruu but got an
error[152]:image update error
The ROM update utility cannot update your android phone.
Please get the correct ROM update utility and try again
But i have the correct version already 3.14.401.31 it just wont install and now my phone is stuck on a black screen with htc in centre and nothing else.
Did you run the ruu.exe as a administrator ?
Right click the ruu exe and select that.....and put the phone in the bootloader/fastboot usb mode
Mr Hofs said:
Did you run the ruu.exe as a administrator ?
Right click the ruu exe and select that.....and put the phone in the bootloader/fastboot usb mode
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tried it in admin mode still no good and cant get to any other screen on my phone now other than the black screen with htc in the middle
thebarran said:
tried it in admin mode still no good and cant get to any other screen on my phone now other than the black screen with htc in the middle
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Phone for sure in fastboot usb mode?
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Phone for sure in fastboot usb mode?
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it was when i first did it biut cannot check no more
Hold the power button and the volume - button together until it reboots and boots into the bootloader, hook the usb cable and you should see "fastboot usb" in red text. At that point you run the ruu with administrator rights
Mr Hofs said:
Hold the power button and the volume - button together until it reboots and boots into the bootloader, hook the usb cable and you should see "fastboot usb" in red text. At that point you run the ruu with administrator rights
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i cannot. all that happens now is that it powers down and comes back to the black htc screen. cannot get to boot screen anymore.
thebarran said:
i cannot. all that happens now is that it powers down and comes back to the black htc screen. cannot get to boot screen anymore.
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Try shutting of the phone, powering on when holding power button+volume down for about 8s.
You will get a hboot, choose fastboot connect usb cable and try ruu with admin permissions
finally did get to hboot screen by letting the phone shutdown itself but couldnt ruu as battery power to low so i powered down and recharged battery but back to square one where i cannot get to boot screen just constant black htc screen and cant power down again.
So ill let my battery run down again to power off completely open boot screen then stay on that til i power up enough to try ruu again.
Il let you know what happens when this is done later.