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[Q]Recovery Issue

Hello all,
currently running Modaco's rooted official fro-yo update (free version, not kitchen)
so yes i am already root.
i have a hboot 0.83 desire with the SLCD screens. i have used the patched image and used unrevoked method to root as modaco's method would not work.
i have 2 problems and any information would be grateful.
1)recovery issue
while holding down vol down + power and then selecting recovery to boot into recovery sometimes i will get into clockwork recovery and other times the phone will just hang on a white htc screen (not the black one when using wrong recovery!)
it is lucky when i do get to boot into recovery using this method.
i have tried connecting up the desire to the pc and running unrevoked again (using ubuntu 10.04) to try load the recovery menu again. same results though. sometimes i may get lucky and it will boot into recovery. a lot of the times it will just hang on a white htc screen for ages and not boot into recovery. this is frustrating when i try to change roms.
for example im having an issue with this current rom so i flash leedroid. all respect to him his rom is good. but i think its loaded with a lot of apps which i dont require.so i require to boot into recovery and adb remove the applications from the system partition and the data partition.
2)problem with modaco's rom
maybe not the right place to post this and i would receive better help at modacos website.
never the less someone maybe able to help me.
flash player doesnt seem to work at all on this.i visit the flash player site. it will usually tell you and show you a flash movie to say flash is installed or if not will tell you to download and install, in this situation pointing to market.
at this stage when it points to market i get a message saying "item not found"
so this means i dont have access the the full market for this device.
i could on the other hand unzip leedroids great rom and remove all the apps that i'm not intrested, resign and flash, but again i have issues with recovery.
any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

Hey,
There's quite a few people having the same issues.. some say it's because of LeeDroid ROM that's causing the issues, others say it's not. I for one am having the same issue only after I flashed LeeDroid. Since then I've flashed Open Desire and still having the smae issue.. never had the issue when I originally flashed Cyanogen.
However, someone noted that when booting into recovery.. do not touch any buttons or press anything until AFTER the SD check is complete. I tried this method.. and Clockwork Recovery loaded up just fine. It's not a corrupted image issue because sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.. there's some sort of conflict somewhere.. that's my guess.

have you tried perma flashing a recovery using Unrevoked?

Thanks for the replies guys.
@Quazis
intresting that you mentioned leedroid. i too had flashed that and to think of it i bleieve i've had problems since then when i wanted to revert to modaco's 2.2 official fro-yo release.
thanks for a reply to the matter. when i boot pressing volume down and power into the bootloader, then select recovery from there, press power to select and then i do not press any buttons until recovery is installed. but i will try again.
@LennyUK
whats perma flashing?
i have flashed using unrevoked and i have to select a custom recovery image and select the SLCD image.
could you please explain further?
i have also tried to redo this process when booting into recovery failed using other attempts.
thanks for your help guys
i may create a gold card and flash the generic RUU with hboot 0.83 onto the vodafone branded desire and then unrevoke that in an attempt to fix the problem

hi guys,
hallo to everybody, greats job here!
I'm just wondering witch is the right recovery image to use with unrevoked 3.1, I tried to use the default one and when I go into recovery mode my screen become black and I must to remove the battery before going on.
someone can please help me?
regards
Miniera77

Well with Unrevoked once used you boot holding volume down and power
It then opens the HBOOT screen, wait for it to do its weird loading thing then select "recovery" using volume keys and hit the power button, the phone should then say "HTC" and should then proceed to boot into your recovery (I use Amon-Ra this way and then clockworkmod if I need it via rom manager).
I have not had any issues getting into recovery this way at all.

Lennyuk said:
Well with Unrevoked once used you boot holding volume down and power
It then opens the HBOOT screen, wait for it to do its weird loading thing then select "recovery" using volume keys and hit the power button, the phone should then say "HTC" and should then proceed to boot into your recovery (I use Amon-Ra this way and then clockworkmod if I need it via rom manager).
I have not had any issues getting into recovery this way at all.
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Hi Lenny,
thanks a lot for your answer!
...my problem is that when I do the procedure you've written:
- root by unrevoked
- holding volume down and power
- waiting till SD checks
- select Recovery by power button
...I can see the HTC screen and after that everything is black, the phone power off by itself and I cannot see any Recovery Menu. Than I must to remove my battery to be able to use again the phone.
I've tried once with clockworkmod recovery image and once with Amon-Ra but nothing change... I really don't know how to going on!
grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
thanks a lot!
Miniera77

Miniera,
I think you have the SLCD version of the phone. If you're using the stock image, it won't work cause that's for AMOLED screens.
If you goto the Desire development section, there's a tutorial in there how to root SLCD version of the Desire with HBOOT 0.83. See what you can find in there and I'm sure you can get it to work

Or re-use Unrevoked, it has the SCLD compatible version of clockwork now.

Lennyuk said:
Or re-use Unrevoked, it has the SCLD compatible version of clockwork now.
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I wish I could find change logs to this!

quazis said:
I wish I could find change logs to this!
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me too lol
i will try unrevoked again (for linux) and see if this looses my recovery screen blank or not. if it does i will flash the SLCD.img version again.
again could someone explain what prema flashing is please? lol

well just flashed
http://android.modaco.com/content/h...-froyo-pre-rooted-no-hboot-with-radio-deodex/
and everything works fine. except the recovery issue caused by the leedroid rom.
it took me 15 attempts to boot into recovery
got there and flashed this. and everything flies. sadly i had to reboot as i wanted to adb push some files from another build into this and well it took me a further 7 attempts to boot into recovery.
wish there was a fix for this

Lennyuk said:
Or re-use Unrevoked, it has the SCLD compatible version of clockwork now.
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I cannot use unrevoked now, I can switch on the phone only on boot mode (vol down + power button) but not able tu use recovery mode (no menu, black screen)...
grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
thanks

Miniera77 said:
I cannot use unrevoked now, I can switch on the phone only on boot mode (vol down + power button) but not able tu use recovery mode (no menu, black screen)...
grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
thanks
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flash using the SLCD clockworkmod.img file found in the 0.83 hboot root guide in the development section. you will then see the menu

Just to update if anyone else reads. flashed the WWE 2.1 T2 for hboot 0.83 on and then re-rooted. fixed the problem and roots into recovery every time.
leedroid blames on bad nand sectors. i doubt a new desire will come with such a defect. but im not going to insult his work because its good, maybe not for me but its still damn good!
in the end ive solved my problem

[Q] How to know my current HBOOT version?

Hi all, I'm an android newbie. How can I know/read my current hboot version?
Thanks,
Maurizio

When the phone is off, hold the volume down button and while holding press the power button. You will see a white screen and up the top you should see your hboot version. To exit, press the power button to select fast boot and then use the volume down to select reboot

thanks I need it

hi i'm new
i have evo 4g
when i do this hold down volume down key and power on nothing happens just powers up regular? please can you advise how to find hboot version.
thank you

this forum section is for the htc desire. you should check in the one for your phone

I also want to check my hboot version, but when i hold my volume down and press my power on, nothing happens. It just starts up like it always do.

michaeldepotter said:
I also want to check my hboot version, but when i hold my volume down and press my power on, nothing happens. It just starts up like it always do.
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Under settings > applications > remove tick right of fastboot.
Turn off, and then you hold vol- press power, still holding vol-, let go of buttons as you se the white screen. Use volume button to navigate and power button to select.

i don't know about your device, but i have to hold down power + back button on my desire

moriyaz said:
hi i'm new
i have evo 4g
when i do this hold down volume down key and power on nothing happens just powers up regular? please can you advise how to find hboot version.
thank you
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michaeldepotter said:
I also want to check my hboot version, but when i hold my volume down and press my power on, nothing happens. It just starts up like it always do.
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You have fast boot enabled. Either disable it under settings>applications before powering off and power on while pressing the vol down button. Or you can power off the phone, remove and reinsert the battery and power on the phone while pressing vol down. You will arrive at a white screen. 1st line tells you the HBoot version.

probably silly question, but - i've rooted my desire with unrevoked, s-offed with alpharev, my h-boot is still 0.93.0001.
Does it mean I'm still on stock h-boot? Or the other way, if I'd have cm7 or other one, would it be clearly stated in my phone's bootloader?

potep said:
probably silly question, but - i've rooted my desire with unrevoked, s-offed with alpharev, my h-boot is still 0.93.0001.
Does it mean I'm still on stock h-boot? Or the other way, if I'd have cm7 or other one, would it be clearly stated in my phone's bootloader?
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Yes it would have been, at the top.

potep said:
probably silly question, but - i've rooted my desire with unrevoked, s-offed with alpharev, my h-boot is still 0.93.0001.
Does it mean I'm still on stock h-boot? Or the other way, if I'd have cm7 or other one, would it be clearly stated in my phone's bootloader?
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Yes. If you are on stock hboot, the first line in the bootloader will say 'Alpharev'. If you are on say, CM7r2 hboot it will say 'Alpharev CM7r2'
Sent from my HTC Original Desire with Beats Audio using Tapatalk

itachi1706 said:
Yes. If you are on stock hboot, the first line in the bootloader will say 'Alpharev'. If you are on say, CM7r2 hboot it will say 'Alpharev CM7r2'
Sent from my HTC Original Desire with Beats Audio using Tapatalk
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Thanks to!

Jst restart the phone in recovery mode and u will be able to know your Hboot and Radio Version.

[Q] Can't get into bootloader

Hey,
I recently rooted my desire hd and everything worked fine, I also have radio s-off super cid and eng s-off and i'm running virtuous unity 2.39.0
However when i try to boot into bootloader by holding home then clicking reboot and selecting normal and holding down the volume down button while rebooting, my device just vibrates and then it reboots normally, i can still get into bootloader with adb and by selecting bootloader in the reboot menu also works,
And i already turned fast boot off and it did work before i rooted.
Although in is'nt really a problem i'm just a little affraid that if i flash a rom and it goes into bootloop that i can't get back to recovery to fix it
Can someone tell me why it doesn't boot into bootloader?
Thanks in advance, kevin

I've never seen anyone try it as you have. My suggestion is turn off the phone completely(could also take out battery) then press volume down and power to boot into bootloader
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

Thank you, i can get into bootloader with that.
I probably had fast boot turned on in settings when i tried that earlier
Thanks for the reply

new developer need 10 posts in general discussion sry

Htc desire Rooting....

Hi.I'd like to ask about the desire rooting proccess...I tried to root the phone from a stock android 2.2 rom with unrevoked 3.22 always to a failure with the CID error on windows 7 and on XP.
Then i tried with the 3.2 version ...i think it succeeded on the XP as i did show the clockwork mod screen BUT the power button is not working while in recovery...it just turns the screen on and off....Has anyone encountered this before? Any suggestions ?i am asking ahead as i don't wan't to brick the phone just yet....Thanks...

Karolix21 said:
Hi.I'd like to ask about the desire rooting proccess...I tried to root the phone from a stock android 2.2 rom with unrevoked 3.22 always to a failure with the CID error on windows 7 and on XP.
Then i tried with the 3.2 version ...i think it succeeded on the XP as i did show the clockwork mod screen BUT the power button is not working while in recovery...it just turns the screen on and off....Has anyone encountered this before? Any suggestions ?i am asking ahead as i don't wan't to brick the phone just yet....Thanks...
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to be fair a few of us have probably have encountered this, but many have managed to figured it out:
select with trackpad within recovery.
the power button works just fine...to turn the screen on and off...

Volume up and down buttons work as they should...also the track pad....but i cannot select anything as the power button does not work....
I also flashed clockworkmod 5 through rom manager...now the power button swiches between the blue menu and the hat....

Karolix21 said:
Volume up and down buttons work as they should...also the track pad....but i cannot select anything as the power button does not work....
I also flashed clockworkmod 5 through rom manager...now the power button swiches between the blue menu and the hat....
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1. uninstall rom manager, it's a problem with this phone.
2. when you say the trackpad works as it should, are you sure you're pushing the trackpad to select an option within recovery...
if you're s-off i recommend switching to 4ext touch recovery, install the app and from 4ext.net. you won't run into this problem (i.e. you can select things by touching the screen )

True story...just installed 4ext touch recovery and works as clockworkmod should...thanks.

[Q] Problem fastboot Wildfire

Hello everyone, I need some of you more experienced than me to give me a hand:
I have a HTC wildfire and if I turn it on normally enter into hboot, but I can not move them by using the vol + - and even with the power button
I remove the battery, turn it on by pressing the vol - and power and enter into fastboot and also they are also locked
I installed the ruu froyo, but when I reboot restores it hangs on the white screen co htc written in green
I remove the battery and start over as usual ..... all blocked
I hope someone help me ke Why Would I care a lot about this phone, thank you very much

Have you installed a custom recovery?
Hey friend,
Have you rooted your device and installed a custom recovery like ClockworkMod 5.x or Revolutionary 4.x????
If not and the problem is persisting with your stock ROM, you should contact HTC support team. Its a problem with your handset, get it replaced.
If you have ROOTed you device and installed a custom recovery, then the recovery build is not supported by your device. Find the correct update.zip file and as your phone is not responding, you can get it installed via ADB tool or any USb installer.