[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gothos:
Hello XDA-Community,

I am in a little bit of trouble with my HTC Desire and I was unable to find any documentation on here on via google to help me out so I am hoping anyone of you guys can give me a hand. Any input is very much appreciated, thank you beforehand!

So, the situation is as follows:

I have a branded T-Mobile HTC Desire (not a T-Mobile customer, though) with Froyo 2.2 stock running, I am a regular user and haven't messed with the software previously apart from installing apps as usual. Until today, where the mess started.. ;)

It is one of the old Desires with AMOLED, I think HBOOT version 0.93 or something?

I just want to say I am not bad with computers but I've only started to wrap my head around anything android-tech related as in rooting, flashing, etc. , which is why I'm here.

Now today I decided I want to go and first off, root my device so I can have a titanium backup and possibly tomorrow or sometime soon flash the oxygen rom because I hear I can have increased batterylife with that, which is my main concern (and app2sd for everything) with the HTC Desire.

So I read through lots of guides and arrived at using unrevoked³ to root the phone which worked fine. I then went and bought Titanium Backup Pro so I could make a backup of the entire thing and start flashing sooner or later.

Now I guess I made the first mistake right at that point when I did not make a backup immediately but first used TB to delete some T-Mobile bloatware which I dont use, I used the Filter option and then Remove Bloatware in the Settings to tag the apps in question ("TopApps" and "MobileTV", they are silly and just for customers anyway). TB said I have to restart the phone to remove them, which I did. I wanted to remove them before I did the backup because it was already complaining about low space after I put TB on (you know the desire and its space limitations..). And what good are useless apps in a backup, anyway?

Now, when it rebooted, at first everything looked fine, it starts up normally and goes on with loading all the stuff, I have a few widgets, GoLauncherEx, etc. which takes a bit to load at first start. But having loaded for about 1 minute after pressing the button, and when I can already see some of the UI elements properly in place (I can actually enter SIMcode and everything, or just wait at the code-login-form) - the phone just soft-resets itself and starts booting again. and again. and again. always up to the same point, I reckon.

I have tried getting the SDK and look into adb logcat while it boots (where I am an absolute noob, admittedly), and I was going to paste the entire thing here but my windows 7 "cmd" only has the last 300 lines of output selectable and I can't figure out how to "save" the rest of the log flying by when booting. It shows a lot of k9-mail errors in the log but I am not sure of that is the problem because I havent messed with k9 for months (using it as push mail client).

I am now unsure if the problem is because of TB or because of the removed bloatware, or what is going on. Right now, the phone is unusable.

I wonder if anyone can help me get the phone going again or how I could access the phone data to retrieve the phone's calendar entries and SMS, and possibly as much of the settings/data so I can just go and flash oxygen on it. I would, however, love to have a complete backup of the stock thing running, with TB and NANDroid backup, so I require a running phone I guess. I have previously synced the phonebook entries to MyPhoneExplorer on my desktop but it apparently didnt catch anything else.

I have attached the logcat output that I could capture in the txt file, if it helps with anything.

Thanks anyone for help really! Much appreciated!