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[Q] HTC Boot Screen Freeze

Google brings back a lot of people who have this problem but no-one seems knowledgeable enough to have a fix for it hence my post here. Since I followed the How to downgrade, Easy S-Off and the tried and tested radio.img flash guides and flashed Leedroid (13/01 epic stable build) I've had an infrequent (i don't reboot much) problem with my DHD freezing on the HTC screen during boot. I've solved this in the past by reflashing (as I can still enter the bootloader and Clockwork Mod) from an SD card but this is getting annoying.
The people on Google who are having this problem have said they've returned their phones however If I were to do that I would have to go straight to HTC as I got mine from eBay, are HTC going to helpful in this situation?
So Is there a known fix for this that I'm missing? Maybe the latest Leedroid?
On a side note if there is no fix is it even possible revert my DHD to level of stock such that HTC won't know I've been mucking around with it? I took to easy S-Off route that apparently can be reversed and I didn't SIM Unlock it but due to my over confidence I can't be sure I kept all the backups of the stock stuff that I should have kept.
Anyway, thanks guys. I'll just hang out here with no phone for a bit hoping there is a way to get it to boot because I'd really hate to lose some of the MMS message I've been sent .

You should do a full wipe and try a new rom, for example the newest LeeDroid or Android Revolution HD.
It is possible to revert to stock so that HTC will never know, just follow the S-ON instructions in my Radio Tool thread.

jkoljo said:
You should do a full wipe and try a new rom, for example the newest LeeDroid or Android Revolution HD.
It is possible to revert to stock so that HTC will never know, just follow the S-ON instructions in my Radio Tool thread.
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Many thanks for the reply. I did a ClockworkMod wipe and went for the new Leedroid (I've no idea if its the best but it was the first I spotted after rooting my phone), guess I'll have to wait and see if it happens again but touch wood no problems so far.
I've just been looking through the Revolution thread and spotted your wipe tool so if it does happen again I'll try that. I'd also like to say many thanks for your s-off thread, its very well written and easy to understand, and your work supporting the DHD is outstanding.

(WANTED) Official 2.3 latest firmware nanodroid backup file

Hey guys i just got an HTC desire online for my dad..
Its running MIUI..
its rooted has recovery etc..
Im not familar with HTC phones so i dont want to go through the trouble of searching for a rom downloading flasher etc..
So if anyone has the Latest GSM Official 2.3 update can you please link it to me?
Cheers

First item on this link. Be reminded that this will unroot and flash a locked bootloader. You need to use Revolutionary to s-off and be able to flash superuser.
http://htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads

surley ur better off installing a pre rooted stock rom>?

HTC Gingerbread is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1200261
Fresh download links are here in the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22550909&postcount=429
Use Android Flasher to flash the Radio:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794638

On a similar note to this chap, I've also bought my dad a Desire off eBay which is running CM7.1 stable. Problem is, Bluetooth won't release audio back to device speakers (without rebooting the device at least) so I want to reflash stock. My dad's a bit of a brick when it comes to technology, so I don't need the device rooted.
Would you guys recommend just running the official HTC 2.3 RUU?

I'm running the above ROM after trying a few customs which were bloated, buggy and unreliable. It's just the stock 2.3 ROM with root and performance is great!
Sense is a bit of a mess for beginners (e.g. MIUI is a lot cleaner) but it's a very reliable ROM.

Looking through the Desire forums, a lot - possibly most - cases of bricking the phone arise from people trying to s-on their phone, and/or running an RUU.
Yes, you only hear about the problem cases but even so, personally, I wouldn't try to s-on unless you really need to.

a_person said:
Looking through the Desire forums, a lot - possibly most - cases of bricking the phone arise from people trying to s-on their phone, and/or running an RUU.
Yes, you only hear about the problem cases but even so, personally, I wouldn't try to s-on unless you really need to.
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Agreed, go with a pre-rooted stock rom.
Plus with stock 2.3 you'll run out of memory for apps pretty quickly, so a rom that uses sd-ext would be best
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Weird problems with my m8 after rooting and s-off.

So about 2 days ago I got my new m8 and I was Lucky enough to get a older device (4.4.2) so all I had to do was run sunshine, and I was s-off and rooted in no time. But I've noticed some problems. First of all is that latest twrp does not work, I clean cache and everything, but no luck, it just gets stuck on the splash screen with the pink text at the top. Older versions work tho. And second problem is that if I install insercoin it takes for ever to reboot every time and splash screen is not present.
I was thinking that maybe my problems are related to my older boot loader? Or something of the sorts? Anyway, any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

You'd have to check the insertcoin rom thread to be sure, but you may need a newer firmware. That's kinda what it sounds like, but I don't use the rom so can't say for certain. Since you're s-off you can always go back, so nothing much to lose. Check the firmware flashing without the panic attacks thread for the how-to.

gokun said:
You'd have to check the insertcoin rom thread to be sure, but you may need a newer firmware. That's kinda what it sounds like, but I don't use the rom so can't say for certain. Since you're s-off you can always go back, so nothing much to lose. Check the firmware flashing without the panic attacks thread for the how-to.
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Sounds good. Hopefully updating the firmware fixes the twrp problem

For what it's worth I still use an older version or twrp without any issues, so it's not too much of a big deal to stick with the slightly older stable builds.

help not sure what to do

So ive successfully installed twrp,Supersu and rooted my m9, i then flashed android revolution rom and no longer have an imei or service its all unknown. Although in my bootloader it does show the correct imei and info. Please help, my phone is a tbaytel/rogers canadian phone. My download mode reads
Unlocked
Htc_himaulatt PVT S-ON
LK-1.0.0.0000
Radio-01.01_U11440801_96.01.51207G_F
Opendsp-15.6.1.00522.8994_1026
OS-3.38.631.2

Anyone have any ideas it boots into os fine, bootloader and recovery all work too. Have the original case with the original imei on it. Phone new never been out of the otterbox. Have a lg g3 with the same network and everything if that helps with dumping radio info. Im sort of familair with adb and fastboot. I didnt have any issues rooting it or flashing twp.

Which firmware was it on when you rooted it?
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Havent changed the firmware as far as i know i just rooted flashed twp and flashed the rom over. Forgive me if im wrong im not an expert. But that os on my bootloader when i googled the version comes up as stock rogers canadian. So i assume maybe it didnt flash correctly or fully? Im not sure what you mean by firmware entirley off to work but ill google and try to find out for you tonight thank you soo much for your help. Also my phone is S-ON havent messed with that just was trying to do the minimal to get android revo working for the gpu tweaks.

If your device was on 6.0 when you rooted it you can only use roms that are 6.0 based.
If it was 5.1 then you can only use 5.1 based roms..
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I had the most recent update pushed to canadian htc m9s that rogers had. Pretty sure it would be 6.0

Anyway i can find out

I also did a twrp backup but the system image dump failed to write to my sd but all the other files did. If theres a way to extract that info.

So i just tried my twrp backup restore it failed because of the system image thing but now im back to my old stock rom and my imei and everything is in there and it says android 6.0. It now reads i dont have a sim card in it unlike before in going to try and put it in and see what happens will update soon.

So everything works now. But no Android revolution any ideas what could have happened? I'm not sure if LTE works not going to be in that coverage area for a few more days but 4g works good and phone is running normally.

There's no harm in rooting the device if you need root but when it comes to flashing roms you're best investing in s-off.
It would seem to me that you probably had a firmware mismatch. You can only flash mm based roms over mm stock rom, Lollipop roms over Lollipop stock rom.
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shivadow said:
There's no harm in rooting the device if you need root but when it comes to flashing roms you're best investing in s-off.
It would seem to me that you probably had a firmware mismatch. You can only flash mm based roms over mm stock rom, Lollipop roms over Lollipop stock rom.
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Well everything works now from my understanding I was flashing Android revolutions 6.0 version which matches my firmware of 6.0. Also is sunshine the only way to obtain s-off

My Android version is 6.0
HTC Sense Version 7.0
Software Number 3.38.631.2

Yes sunshine and $25/£18 is the only way to s-off. Sunshine works great but be sure to read twice, act once.
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Sweet thanks would you mind detailing the correct way to flash a Rom onto my M9 I've read a bunch of guides step by step and ended up with that issue I described to you so. Lol

Follow the guide that comes with the rom or the guide will be on the support thread. I don't support rom flashing as there is no need to fix what isn't broke. Stock roms are better for me.
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Should I update to Marshmallow?

Good day, guys.
I recently bought a HTC Desire Eye (eye_tuhl) and I was wondering if I should update the phone first to Marshmallow before rooting it? I read through the development threads and it seems that people have difficulty with regard to the Marshmallow firmware. I am planning to flash S.ROM and the patch after rooting.
Also, after rooting, which ROMs are available for flashing for my variant, if I'm going to stay S-ON? I read that some ROMs have problems with S-ON phones. I also wanted to confirm that the Minis Reloaded Kernel also works in S-ON, provided that it will be flashed using a PC and is used with a ported ROM from M8.
I am sorry if the questions seem redundant, I got confused with the whole variant/firmware/S-ON snafu coming from devices which were relatively easy to understand (HTC Sensation, Xperia ZR)
Thank you very much in advance.

jamesmalit3 said:
Good day, guys.
I recently bought a HTC Desire Eye (eye_tuhl) and I was wondering if I should update the phone first to Marshmallow before rooting it? I read through the development threads and it seems that people have difficulty with regard to the Marshmallow firmware. I am planning to flash S.ROM and the patch after rooting.
Also, after rooting, which ROMs are available for flashing for my variant, if I'm going to stay S-ON? I read that some ROMs have problems with S-ON phones. I also wanted to confirm that the Minis Reloaded Kernel also works in S-ON, provided that it will be flashed using a PC and is used with a ported ROM from M8.
I am sorry if the questions seem redundant, I got confused with the whole variant/firmware/S-ON snafu coming from devices which were relatively easy to understand (HTC Sensation, Xperia ZR)
Thank you very much in advance.
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Its a long time since I flashed new ROM on my Desire, so I'm not sure about some info (already forget a lot), sorry for that.
But here is it
1) You can't update your firmware to custom one with S-On phone, only using OTA or RUU. But you may need to do that.
(for every Android version you need correct firmware)
2) Some people had problems with installing kernels on S-On devices also.
3) Even if you succed with flashing ROM, you may have problems with it. For example, enormous battery drain (I've this, it was just horrible), mobile data not working, NFC, etc.
So, i think the best way in this situation is OTA.
Please, correct me if i'm wrong.