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Can't boot into recovery/OS, only hboot/fastboot works

So..
The patient:
A completely stock HTC Desire Z.
Code:
VISION PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.85.0013
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 11 2011,23:36:27
What happened?
Got home, and connected the phone to my computer via USB cable to charge, as I do every time.
However this time I have also launched and forgot to exit Blizzard Authenticator app (I'm a Diablo 3 fan )), which, as I have previously noticed, causes a garbage collection extremely often (only by displaying a progress bar which is constantly moving).
There were two times previously where I left this app open and after an hour or so the phone automatically rebooted itself.
So.. it happened again: I noticed a brief vibration from the phone, as it does when it starts to boot and shows the HTC logo. So I took it in the hand to see what's happening and it was extremely hot, and after a few seconds of showing the HTC logo it rebooted, then showed HTC logo again, rebooted, and looped until I pulled the battery out.
I thought it must have some thermal protection which tries to save the phone from overheating and is constantly shutting it off. So I pulled the battery out and left it to cool-down.
After that - same thing, when you put in the battery and push the power button (or connect a USB cable), it displays the HTC logo for a few seconds and then reboots, starting a boot loop.
So, the summary:
The phone will only boot to hboot while holding down the VOLUME DOWN button.
It won't boot into recovery if I select it from the hboot/fastboot menu. It does exactly the same (boot-looping).
hboot/fasboot works perfectly fine, I am able to interact with the phone while in fastboot USB mode.
I was able to use stock RUU, it flashed everything fine, not a single error, but the result was the same - still boot-looping.
I was able to upgrade hboot and unlock the bootloader via htcdev.com and successfully flash the ClockWorkMod recovery, but still I am not able to boot to it because of boot-loop.
I tried flashing official ROM from RUU by using fastboot oem rebootRUU so that I could see what's actually happening, expecting that I ran into the same issue as a few other people on this forum (the "re-flush image immediately" issue, where the zip must have been flashed multiple times before succeeding), but no, the ROM flashed perfectly fine. And still the same result: boot loop.
So, after two days of browsing, reading, searching and trying I finally ran out of ideas.
Here goes some additional info, if it could prove useful while diagnosing the problem:
Code:
FROST:~ frost$ fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 0.85.0013
(bootloader) version-baseband: 26.10.04.03_M
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: 0425
(bootloader) version-main: 2.42.405.2
(bootloader) serialno: SH0*********
(bootloader) imei: ***************
(bootloader) product: vision
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-7230
(bootloader) modelid: PC1011000
(bootloader) cidnum: HTC__Y13
(bootloader) battery-status: low
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 3570mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: 81c588a7
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.003s
Code:
FROST:Downloads frost$ fastboot oem boot
...
(bootloader) setup_tag addr=0xA0000100 cmdline add=0x8D0878FC
(bootloader) TAG:Ramdisk OK
(bootloader) TAG:smi ok, size = 0
(bootloader) TAG:hwid 0x0
(bootloader) TAG:skuid 0x25209
(bootloader) TAG:hero panel = 0xF
(bootloader) TAG:engineerid = 0x4
(bootloader) MCP dual-die
(bootloader) MCP dual-die
(bootloader) TAG:mono-die = 0x0
(bootloader) Device CID is not super CID
(bootloader) CID is HTC__Y13
(bootloader) setting->cid::HTC__Y13
(bootloader) serial number: SH0*********
(bootloader) commandline from head: no_console_suspend=1
(bootloader) command line length =497
(bootloader) active commandline: board_vision.disable_uart2=0 board_visio
(bootloader) n.usb_h2w_sw=0 board_vision.disable_sdcard=0 diag.enabled=0
(bootloader) board_vision.debug_uart=0 smisize=0 userdata_sel=0 androidbo
(bootloader) ot.emmc=true androidboot.baseband=26.10.04.03_M androidboot
(bootloader) .cid=HTC__Y13 androidboot.batt_poweron=good_battery androidb
(bootloader) oot.carrier=HTC-Nor androidboot.mid=PC1011000 androidboot.ke
(bootloader) ycaps=qwerty androidboot.mode=normal androidboot.serialno=SH
(bootloader) 0********* androidboot.bootloader=0.85.0013 zygote_oneshot=o
(bootloader) ff kmemleak=off no_console_suspend=1
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[0].name=misc
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[1].name=recovery
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[2].name=boot
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[3].name=system
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[4].name=cache
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[5].name=userdata
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[6].name=devlog
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[7].name=pdata
(bootloader) partition number=8
(bootloader) Valid partition num=8
(bootloader) jump_to_kernel: machine_id(2245), tags_addr(0x4000100), kern
(bootloader) el_addr(0x4008000)
(bootloader) -------------------hboot boot time:15618 msec
* the phone reboots at this point, so naturally, USB connection is lost, causing the output below: *
Code:
ERROR: usb_read failed with status e00002ed
FAILED (status read failed (No such file or directory))
finished. total time: 8.358s
Any ideas of what's causing this? And/or how to fix this?
Thanks in advance.

I think you're knocking on a wrong door, this is Desire (only without Z) section...

Yes, I must have accidentally posted here, sorry. This thread may now be deleted.

DesireZ doesn't get past the htc logo screen

Hello XDA,
I know this is my first post but I have a problem with my cousins' htc desire z. When i try to power it on it just freezes at the htc logo.
My cousin had the phone for about 3 years and was never tempered with (no custom recovery, no bootloader unlock, no custom rom, no nothing).
If i hold volume down + power button i am able to get into hboot.
I can get into fastboot and can issue commands from my pc (will post details below).
If i get into recovery however, after 4-5 seconds the phone makes 7 short vibrations and then shuts down.
If i try to do a factory reset from hboot, the phone freezes.
hboot screen
VISION PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.85.0013
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 11 20122, 23:36:27
HBOOT USB PLUG
<VOL UP> to previous item
<VOL DOWN> to next item
<POWER> to select item
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
IMAGE CRC
Click to expand...
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I tried to do a 'fastboot erase cache' but got:
erasing 'cache'...
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
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Click to collapse
other info:
fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 0.85.0013
(bootloader) version-baseband: 26.10.04.03_M
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: 0425
(bootloader) version-main: 2.42.405.2
(bootloader) serialno: SH16TRT02882
(bootloader) imei: xxx
(bootloader) product: vision
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-7230
(bootloader) modelid: PC1011000
(bootloader) cidnum: HTC__405
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 3829mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: 81c588a7
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
all: Done!
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fastboot oem boot
...
(bootloader) setup_tag addr=0xA0000100 cmdline add=0x8D0878FC
(bootloader) TAG:Ramdisk OK
(bootloader) TAG:smi ok, size = 0
(bootloader) TAG:hwid 0x0
(bootloader) TAG:skuid 0x25202
(bootloader) TAG:hero panel = 0xF
(bootloader) TAG:engineerid = 0x4
(bootloader) MCP dual-die
(bootloader) MCP dual-die
(bootloader) TAG:mono-die = 0x0
(bootloader) Device CID is not super CID
(bootloader) CID is HTC__405
(bootloader) setting->cid::HTC__405
(bootloader) serial number: SH16TRT02882
(bootloader) commandline from head: no_console_suspend=1
(bootloader) command line length =497
(bootloader) active commandline: board_vision.disable_uart2=0 board_visio
(bootloader) n.usb_h2w_sw=0 board_vision.disable_sdcard=0 diag.enabled=0
(bootloader) board_vision.debug_uart=0 smisize=0 userdata_sel=0 androidbo
(bootloader) ot.emmc=true androidboot.baseband=26.10.04.03_M androidboot
(bootloader) .cid=HTC__405 androidboot.batt_poweron=good_battery androidb
(bootloader) oot.carrier=HTC-ITA androidboot.mid=PC1011000 androidboot.ke
(bootloader) ycaps=qwerty androidboot.mode=normal androidboot.serialno=SH
(bootloader) 16TRT02882 androidboot.bootloader=0.85.0013 zygote_oneshot=o
(bootloader) ff kmemleak=off no_console_suspend=1
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[0].name=misc
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[1].name=recovery
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[2].name=boot
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[3].name=system
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[4].name=cache
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[5].name=userdata
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[6].name=devlog
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[7].name=pdata
(bootloader) partition number=8
(bootloader) Valid partition num=8
(bootloader) jump_to_kernel: machine_id(2245), tags_addr(0x4000100), kern
(bootloader) el_addr(0x4008000)
(bootloader) -------------------hboot boot time:121268 msec
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 8.602s
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Is the phone bricked? Can i somehow flash a RUU and get it working?
I tried running "RUU_Vision_HTC_WWE_1.72.405.2_Radio_12.28e.60.140f_26.04.02.17_M2_release_160660_signed.exe" but i saw the version was older but i gave it a go ...
also tried "RUU_Vision_Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.42.405.3_Radio_12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_224299_signed.exe" but got stuck during "rebooting to bootloader" (the phone was in hboot > fastboot when i tried to flash. The phone froze also ...
After 10 minutes i decided to get into bootloader myself so i took out the battery and booted while holding down volume down.
I got an error shortly after about the usb connection (error code 171 i think).
I am thinking of putting a PC10IMG.zip and try flashing this way but i don't know which one ... can you plese help me out with this?
(As far as i know, the phone is from the UK)
Any other solutions/suggestions are also welcomed ...
Thank you! I am really trying to get this thing to work, My cousin is young and can't afford a new phone but i fear it might be a hardware fault ... If someone could help we would be forever grateful!
additional info:
- i don't know what android flavor she had before, nor does she
- there is no memory card in the phone right now because i tried booting without it.

donload LATEST RUU HERE rename StockRom.zip, now boot into fastboot mode
fastboot oem rebootRUU
now
fatboot flash zip StockRom.zip
when complete
fastboot reboot
truthfully i dont think you will be able to do this as you have the signs of a fried emmc but its worth a shot.
oh if you have the desire z see if there is a version available that is newer than yours on htc website as without super cid you can only flash newer roms then current version as well as ones coded to your phones firmware.
goodluck!

demkantor said:
donload ... rename StockRom.zip, now boot into fastboot mode
fastboot oem rebootRUU
now
fatboot flash zip StockRom.zip
when complete
fastboot reboot
truthfully i dont think you will be able to do this as you have the signs of a fried emmc but its worth a shot.
oh if you have the desire z see if there is a version available that is newer than yours on htc website as without super cid you can only flash newer roms then current version as well as ones coded to your phones firmware.
goodluck!
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Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately it didn't work. When i try to "fastboot oem rebootRUU" the phone freezes.
Rebooting doesn't seem to work on the phone. I tried previously with other tools/RUUs too, the phone hangs.
I guess the emmc is fried :/
Thanks for the help though

More than likely but where your at right now its hard to know for sure, you can always take the back off and see if its made by samsung or sandisk (samsung being the bad one)
Sent from my HTC MyTouch 4G Slide using xda premium

Last desperate attempt to save My desire HD

I'm a total n00b, just wanted to get that out of the way first
I have acquired an HTC Desire HD which booted very slowly when I got it, and ran ok except that sms did not work. I was told it was unlocked and rooted.
I have been trying for days to un-root or revert back to a stock rom with no success. I only half understand what I'm doing and everything I try fails at some point and I seem to have totally fuc%&d the poor thing.
Now when I switch it on, it goes to the T-Mobile splash screen and sits there forever. I can boot into H-boot and run recovery (CWM Recovery installed). I can then mount usb storage and acces it from my PC via usb.
In HBOOT or FASTBOOT I can not connect to my PC via usb (I have installed the correct drivers and it used to connect before I "fixed it"):crying:
These are the phone stats
Code:
getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 2.00.0029
(bootloader) version-baseband: 26.14.04.28_M
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: 0438
(bootloader) version-main: 3.13.110.4
(bootloader) serialno: HT0CVRX10795
(bootloader) imei: 356299043105830
(bootloader) product: ace
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-7230
(bootloader) modelid: PD9810000
(bootloader) cidnum: T-MOB005
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4189mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: fcef1579
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
(bootloader) region-id: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.003s
...
(bootloader) setup_tag addr=0xC0000100 cmdline add=0x8D0985F8
(bootloader) TAG:Ramdisk OK
(bootloader) TAG:smi ok, size = 0
(bootloader) TAG:hwid 0x0
(bootloader) TAG:skuid 0x26503
(bootloader) TAG:hero panel = 0x1
(bootloader) TAG:engineerid = 0x0
(bootloader) MCP dual-die
(bootloader) MCP dual-die
(bootloader) TAG:mono-die = 0x0
(bootloader) Device CID is not super CID
(bootloader) CID is T-MOB005
(bootloader) setting->cid::T-MOB005
(bootloader) serial number: HT0CVRX10795
(bootloader) commandline from head: no_console_suspend=1 wire.search_coun
(bootloader) t=5
(bootloader) command line length =510
(bootloader) active commandline: board_spade.disable_uart2=0 board_spade.
(bootloader) usb_h2w_sw=0 board_spade.disable_sdcard=0 diag.enabled=0 boa
(bootloader) rd_spade.debug_uart=0 smisize=0 userdata_sel=0 androidboot.e
(bootloader) mmc=true androidboot.baseband=26.14.04.28_M androidboot.cid
(bootloader) =T-MOB005 androidboot.batt_poweron=good_battery androidboot.
(bootloader) carrier=TMUK androidboot.mid=PD9810000 androidboot.keycaps=q
(bootloader) werty androidboot.mode=normal androidboot.serialno=HT0CVRX10
(bootloader) 795 androidboot.bootloader=2.00.0029 zygote_oneshot=off kmem
(bootloader) leak=off no_console_suspend=1 wire.search_count=5
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[0].name=misc
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[1].name=recovery
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[2].name=boot
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[3].name=system
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[4].name=local
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[5].name=cache
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[6].name=userdata
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[7].name=devlog
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[8].name=pdata
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[9].name=lib
(bootloader) partition number=10
(bootloader) Valid partition num=10
(bootloader) jump_to_kernel: machine_id(2844), tags_addr(0x4000100), kern
(bootloader) el_addr(0x4008000)
(bootloader) -------------------hboot boot time:73765 msec
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 7.544s
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Please be gentle with me.

sup3rbird said:
I'm a total n00b, just wanted to get that out of the way first
I have acquired an HTC Desire HD which booted very slowly when I got it, and ran ok except that sms did not work. I was told it was unlocked and rooted.
I have been trying for days to un-root or revert back to a stock rom with no success. I only half understand what I'm doing and everything I try fails at some point and I seem to have totally fuc%&d the poor thing.
Now when I switch it on, it goes to the T-Mobile splash screen and sits there forever. I can boot into H-boot and run recovery (CWM Recovery installed). I can then mount usb storage and acces it from my PC via usb.
In HBOOT or FASTBOOT I can not connect to my PC via usb (I have installed the correct drivers and it used to connect before I "fixed it"):crying:
These are the phone stats
Code:
getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 2.00.0029
(bootloader) version-baseband: 26.14.04.28_M
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: 0438
(bootloader) version-main: 3.13.110.4
(bootloader) serialno: HT0CVRX10795
(bootloader) imei: 356299043105830
(bootloader) product: ace
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-7230
(bootloader) modelid: PD9810000
(bootloader) cidnum: T-MOB005
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4189mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: fcef1579
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
(bootloader) region-id: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.003s
...
(bootloader) setup_tag addr=0xC0000100 cmdline add=0x8D0985F8
(bootloader) TAG:Ramdisk OK
(bootloader) TAG:smi ok, size = 0
(bootloader) TAG:hwid 0x0
(bootloader) TAG:skuid 0x26503
(bootloader) TAG:hero panel = 0x1
(bootloader) TAG:engineerid = 0x0
(bootloader) MCP dual-die
(bootloader) MCP dual-die
(bootloader) TAG:mono-die = 0x0
(bootloader) Device CID is not super CID
(bootloader) CID is T-MOB005
(bootloader) setting->cid::T-MOB005
(bootloader) serial number: HT0CVRX10795
(bootloader) commandline from head: no_console_suspend=1 wire.search_coun
(bootloader) t=5
(bootloader) command line length =510
(bootloader) active commandline: board_spade.disable_uart2=0 board_spade.
(bootloader) usb_h2w_sw=0 board_spade.disable_sdcard=0 diag.enabled=0 boa
(bootloader) rd_spade.debug_uart=0 smisize=0 userdata_sel=0 androidboot.e
(bootloader) mmc=true androidboot.baseband=26.14.04.28_M androidboot.cid
(bootloader) =T-MOB005 androidboot.batt_poweron=good_battery androidboot.
(bootloader) carrier=TMUK androidboot.mid=PD9810000 androidboot.keycaps=q
(bootloader) werty androidboot.mode=normal androidboot.serialno=HT0CVRX10
(bootloader) 795 androidboot.bootloader=2.00.0029 zygote_oneshot=off kmem
(bootloader) leak=off no_console_suspend=1 wire.search_count=5
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[0].name=misc
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[1].name=recovery
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[2].name=boot
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[3].name=system
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[4].name=local
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[5].name=cache
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[6].name=userdata
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[7].name=devlog
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[8].name=pdata
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[9].name=lib
(bootloader) partition number=10
(bootloader) Valid partition num=10
(bootloader) jump_to_kernel: machine_id(2844), tags_addr(0x4000100), kern
(bootloader) el_addr(0x4008000)
(bootloader) -------------------hboot boot time:73765 msec
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 7.544s
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Please be gentle with me.
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You could try returning to stock if that may help by extracting the PD98IMG.zip from a RUU and putting it in the root of your SD Card then booting into HBOOT

What does it say in hboot? Is your phone in fastboot (not hboot, not recovery, not system) when you try to use fastboot from the computer? What have you done so far?

thekool said:
You could try returning to stock if that may help by extracting the PD98IMG.zip from a RUU and putting it in the root of your SD Card then booting into HBOOT
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I have tried that, but it didn't work. I'm not sure if I used a suitable RUU.
I also tried with a couple of downloaded stock PD98IMG.zip files which were recommended in various how-to posts.
When I boot into HBOOT the phone shows the following error
SD Checking........
Loading...[PD98DIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PD98DIAG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
Loading...[PD98IMG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PD98IMG.nbh}
No image or wrong image!
and returns to the HBOOT screen

OK, first, you want a file named PD98IMG.zip, not PD98DIAG.zip. Second, what RUUs? Find one compatible with your phone's region. And I'm reiterating my questions from my earlier post.

bananagranola said:
What does it say in hboot? Is your phone in fastboot (not hboot, not recovery, not system) when you try to use fastboot from the computer? What have you done so far?
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The phone is in fastboot when I try to connect via fastboot on my PC.
When I boot into hboot with a PD98IMG.zip file on a goldcard I get this error message
SD Checking........
Loading...[PD98DIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PD98DIAG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
Loading...[PD98IMG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PD98IMG.nbh}
No image or wrong image!
If I try to install PD98IMG.zip file using recovery I get the following response
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Installation aborted.
NB I've been continuing to fiddle with it and I am once again able to connect to the phone via usb when in fastboot mode!
I am running windows 7 x64 if that makes a difference

You can't install PD98IMGs from recovery. If you want to flash one, put it on the root of your sdcard, boot into hboot, and choose to update. Make sure it's a compatible one for DHD. However, since you have recovery apparently, why don't you just full wipe and flash a ROM from recovery? Android Revolution HD is very stable and stock-ish.
And again. What does it say in hboot? What have you done so far?

bananagranola said:
You can't install PD98IMGs from recovery. If you want to flash one, put it on the root of your sdcard, boot into hboot, and choose to update. Make sure it's a compatible one for DHD. However, since you have recovery apparently, why don't you just full wipe and flash a ROM from recovery? Android Revolution HD is very stable and stock-ish.
And again. What does it say in hboot? What have you done so far?
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I have attached an image of the hboot screen and the image which I was trying to use. The inf says its suitable for my phone cid T-MOB005
I'v just downloaded the rom you recommended and copied it to my sd card. Wiping now.
HOLY CRAP!!!!! it's working this time and I'm not doing anything I didn't try before. I just needed someone to hold my hand for a bit:laugh:
Many Many Thanks guys, specially bananagranola for persevering with my ineptitude.
EDIT Ok, I got over-excited and spoke too soon, it went through the full install routine but on reboot it's just sitting on the t-mobile splash screen:crying:

sup3rbird said:
I have attached an image of the hboot screen and the image which I was trying to use. The inf says its suitable for my phone cid T-MOB005
I'v just downloaded the rom you recommended and copied it to my sd card. Wiping now.
HOLY CRAP!!!!! it's working this time and I'm not doing anything I didn't try before. I just needed someone to hold my hand for a bit:laugh:
Many Many Thanks guys, specially bananagranola for persevering with my ineptitude.
EDIT Ok, I got over-excited and spoke too soon, it went through the full install routine but on reboot it's just sitting on the t-mobile splash screen:crying:
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Check that the name of the file is incorrect. It should be PD98IMG and not PB98
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using xda app-developers app

Wait, so did you do the recovery thing or the hboot thing? If the recovery thing, since you're S-On unlocked, you need to flash the ROM zip's boot.img from fastboot each time you flash a ROM. "fastboot flash boot boot.img"

bananagranola said:
Wait, so did you do the recovery thing or the hboot thing? If the recovery thing, since you're S-On unlocked, you need to flash the ROM zip's boot.img from fastboot each time you flash a ROM. "fastboot flash boot boot.img"
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Thanks for sticking with me
I tried the recovery thing.
Ok I have flashed the boot.img from the Revolution rom via fastboot. It says it was successful.
Please tell me exactly what I should do next (as if you were talking to a moron).
It's 3:30 am here and I'm getting more stupid by the minute.

Did you flash the ROM from recovery before flashing the boot? You need to do that first. Then the boot.img. Then reboot.

bananagranola said:
Did you flash the ROM from recovery before flashing the boot? You need to do that first. Then the boot.img. Then reboot.
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I did it in the wrong order...................I'm wiping everything and starting again.
Right, I have flashed the rom from my sdcard using cwm recovery; how do I get from here to fastboot to flash the boot.img which I copied from the rom?
FYI . If I "reboot system now" from recovery I cannot go directly to fastboot. The phone will only reboot into the regular boot mode or recovery mode.
My only other available method for restarting the phone is to pull the battery as the power switch no longer works.
FINAL EDIT Got it sorted working 100%
Thanks for your help

[Q] Need Backup of Stock Rom For HTC Desire Z A7272 (CID: HTC__038)

Hi All,
It look, I have a semi bricked phone (HTC Desire Z A7272), But I can boot the phone into recovery.
It hangs on HTC Logo, USB Debugging is not enabled.
I Need the Stock Backup for my phone, If any one have it please post it on this thread.
Here is the Boot Loader status and log.
*****UNLOCKED********
VISION PVT S-ON
HBOOT-0.85.0015
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Dec 20 2011, 16:21:13
****************************
C:\adtx86SDK\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot oem boot
< waiting for device >
...
(bootloader) setup_tag addr=0xC0000100 cmdline add=0x8D0935B4
(bootloader) TAG:Ramdisk OK
(bootloader) TAG:smi ok, size = 0
(bootloader) TAG:hwid 0x0
(bootloader) TAG:skuid 0x25209
(bootloader) TAG:hero panel = 0xF
(bootloader) TAG:engineerid = 0x4
(bootloader) MCP dual-die
(bootloader) MCP dual-die
(bootloader) TAG:mono-die = 0x0
(bootloader) Device CID is not super CID
(bootloader) CID is HTC__038
(bootloader) setting->cid::HTC__038
(bootloader) serial number: SH0CDRT03500
(bootloader) commandline from head: no_console_suspend=1
(bootloader) command line length =499
(bootloader) active commandline: board_vision.disable_uart2=0 board_visio
(bootloader) n.usb_h2w_sw=0 board_vision.disable_sdcard=0 diag.enabled=0
(bootloader) board_vision.debug_uart=0 smisize=0 userdata_sel=0 androidbo
(bootloader) ot.emmc=true androidboot.baseband=26.10.04.03_M androidboot
(bootloader) .cid=HTC__038 androidboot.batt_poweron=good_battery androidb
(bootloader) oot.carrier=HTC-India androidboot.mid=PC1011000 androidboot.
(bootloader) keycaps=qwerty androidboot.mode=normal androidboot.serialno=
(bootloader) SH0CDRT03500 androidboot.bootloader=0.85.0015 zygote_oneshot
(bootloader) =off kmemleak=off no_console_suspend=1
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[0].name=misc
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[1].name=recovery
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[2].name=boot
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[3].name=system
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[4].name=cache
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[5].name=userdata
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[6].name=devlog
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[7].name=pdata
(bootloader) partition number=8
(bootloader) Valid partition num=8
(bootloader) jump_to_kernel: machine_id(2245), tags_addr(0x4000100), kern
(bootloader) el_addr(0x4008000)
(bootloader) -------------------hboot boot time:87690 msec
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 8.365s
Also I need suggestion weather I can recover my phone in this way or not.
Please help me out.....

Delete...

I'm not sure you could flash someone else back-up...

What is your recovery?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Official RUU_Vision_hTC_Asia_India CID: HTC_038
demkantor said:
What is your recovery?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Hi,
Thanks for the response, I need the Backup Or
Please give me the link from where I can Download official RUU for my phone, so that I can flash my rom.
C:\adtx86SDK\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 0.85.0015
(bootloader) version-baseband: 26.10.04.03_M
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: 0425
(bootloader) version-main: 2.42.0.0
(bootloader) serialno: SH0CDRT03500
(bootloader) imei: 352212047348870
(bootloader) product: vision
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-7230
(bootloader) modelid: PC1011000
(bootloader) cidnum: HTC__038
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 3748mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: 3cd54d84
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.003s

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2094420

Official RUU_Vision_hTC_Asia_India CID: HTC_038
Kéno40 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2094420
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Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply.
I tried the below given RUU's but it gives me Unknown Error while running the RUU's and sending the update to the phone.
RUU_Vision_Gingerbread_S_hTC_Asia_TW_2.42.709.10_Radio_12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_201045_signed.exe
RUU_Vision_Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.42.405.3_Radio_12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_224299_signed.exe
I need the RUU for below given Information since my phone is not S-OFF.
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
cid::HTC__038
version-main: 2.42.0.0 (Currently it's showing this)
OR
version-main: 2.42.709.2 (It used to be this one)

Stuck At bootloader mode

Finally took the plunge to s-off my phone and was going to try one of the gpe roms ..well i flashed the rom in twrp and everything was sucesfull .. rebooted system and know just reboots to bootloader ..cant get to recovery cant get into android .. can into fastboot mode and can boot into oem ruu mode .. what do i need to do inorder to get back my beloved htc ...
This is my get var all :
C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\One_M8_All-In-One_Kit
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 3.16.0.000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.16.2133193
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main: 1.57.531.7
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-OFF
(bootloader) serialno: FA46DSF02656
(bootloader) imei: 990004997400365
(bootloader) imei2: Not Support
(bootloader) meid: 99000499740036
(bootloader) product: m8_wlv
(bootloader) platform: hTCBmsm8974
(bootloader) modelid: 0P6B13000
(bootloader) cidnum: 11111111
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 0mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: off
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: c3d94491
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.034s

bigfdaddy2 said:
Finally took the plunge to s-off my phone and was going to try one of the gpe roms ..well i flashed the rom in twrp and everything was sucesfull .. rebooted system and know just reboots to bootloader ..cant get to recovery cant get into android .. can into fastboot mode and can boot into oem ruu mode .. what do i need to do inorder to get back my beloved htc ...
This is my get var all :
C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\One_M8_All-In-One_Kit
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 3.16.0.000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.16.2133193
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main: 1.57.531.7
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-OFF
(bootloader) serialno: FA46DSF02656
(bootloader) imei: 990004997400365
(bootloader) imei2: Not Support
(bootloader) meid: 99000499740036
(bootloader) product: m8_wlv
(bootloader) platform: hTCBmsm8974
(bootloader) modelid: 0P6B13000
(bootloader) cidnum: 11111111
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 0mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: off
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: c3d94491
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.034s
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What i get with relock :
(bootloader) [PGFS] partition_update_pgfs: pg1fs_security
(bootloader) Lock successfully...
(bootloader) deinit_lcd
(bootloader) mipi display off
(bootloader) mdp_clock_off
(bootloader) turn off fd8c2308 failed 1 times. Try again...
(bootloader) disable_mmss_clk done
(bootloader) pll1_disable done
(bootloader) TZ_HTC_SVC_DISABLE ret = -131073 (0xFFFDFFFF)
(bootloader) [CRITICAL] SPMI write command failure: cmd_id =
0, error
(bootloader) = 4
(bootloader) [CRITICAL] SPMI write command failure: cmd_id =
0, error
(bootloader) = 4
(bootloader) [INFO] Rebooting device
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 1.175s

I have got it re unlocked and still no good ... When formating through twrp it says data partition not found

bigfdaddy2 said:
I have got it re unlocked and still no good ... When formating through twrp it says data partition not found
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You didn't convert your phone to GPE ? You just flashed a GPE ROM an all this happen rt?

Yes I did and then when I tried to run the stock ruu to reformat the partitions and it wouldn't work but know it does