[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewwardrobe:
Hi

Appologies for a another bricked DHD Thread, I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice. (I've tried stuff from a few other thread's to no avail)

I rooted my phone back in January and the phone was working fine running CM7 (so I'm pretty sure rooting didn't cause this). About Two weeks ago my phone was running low on battery (I had no charger to hand and was working away), and went into a couple of random restarts but booted fine after about 10 mins of being on the phone started to constantly vibrate for about 15 mins, so I pulled the battery out. and left it out over night.

additional info: I'd been caught in some seriously heavy rain that evening when the phone was in my pocket, but phone did not seem wet and the moisture damage sensors on the battery is still white (not sure theres another).

I borrowed a charger from someone at work and charged the battery for about an hour before switching the device back on (I don't like to switch on devices when they have really low battery), but since then the phone only goes so far as the green HTC logo on a white background, I can get in to hboot/fastboot (via power + vol down) but, if I try to get in to recovery I just get the green on white HTC logo (I've left it running for two hours before pulling the battery out)

After reading up a few threads I decided to restore from an RUU file. so I booted into fastboot and pushed the unbranded 1.32 RUU on to the phone by running the RUU .exe file, this loaded successfully but my phone still stayed stuck on the HTC logo with no access to recovery. Tried this with SD card in the phone and with the SD card removed, also tried with the SIM card out, to no avail, I then tried another RUU (2.36) but ended up with the same result.

If I try to boot from fastboot (via fastboot oem boot) I get the following output then it just hangs (while the phone displays a white and green HTC logo):

INFOsetup_tag addr=0xA0000100 cmdline add=0x8D088398
INFOTAG:Ramdisk OK
INFOTAG:smi ok, size = 0
INFOTAG:hwid 0x0
INFOTAG:skuid 0x26503
INFOTAG:hero panel = 0x0
INFOTAG:engineerid = 0x0
INFOMCP dual-die
INFOMCP dual-die
INFOTAG:mono-die = 0x0
INFODevice CID is super CID
INFOCID is super CID
INFOBackup CID is HTC__001
INFOsetting->cid::HTC__001
INFOserial number: HT0B9RX11266
INFOcommandline from head: no_console_suspend=1
INFOcommand line length =461
INFOactive commandline: board_spade.disable_uart2=0 board_spade.
INFOusb_h2w_sw=0 board_spade.disable_sdcard=0 diag.enabled=0 boa
INFOrd_spade.debug_uart=0 smisize=0 userdata_sel=0 androidboot.e
INFOmmc=true androidboot.baseband=26.03.02.26_M androidboot.cid
INFO=HTC__001 androidboot.batt_poweron=good_battery androidboot.
INFOcarrier=HTC-WWE androidboot.mid=PD9810000 androidboot.keycap
INFOs=qwerty androidboot.mode=normal androidboot.serialno=HT0B9R
INFOX11266 androidboot.bootloader=0.85.0007 no_console_suspend=1
INFOaARM_Partion[0].name=misc
INFOaARM_Partion[1].name=recovery
INFOaARM_Partion[2].name=boot
INFOaARM_Partion[3].name=system
INFOaARM_Partion[4].name=cache
INFOaARM_Partion[5].name=userdata
INFOaARM_Partion[6].name=devlog
INFOaARM_Partion[7].name=pdata
INFOpartition number=8
INFOValid partition num=8
INFOjump_to_kernel: machine_id(2844), tags_addr(0x4000100), kern
INFOel_addr(0x4008000)

The RUUs seem to have removed my ENG S-OFF bootloader so I no longer have access to the command that would allow me to try loading a new recovery image. Heres what it shows on the hboot menu.

ACE PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-0.85.0024
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.09.04.11_M2
eMMC-boot
Apr 12 2011,00:55:45

HBOOT USB PLUG

<VOL UP> to previous item
<VOL DOWN> to next item
<POWER> to select item

FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
IMAGE CRC

then three Droids on skate boards.

Selecting Recovery or factory reset just get the phone stuck at the HTC logo.

Anybody have any advise on this? Or should I give up and admit its knackered, since I'm pretty sure it no longer under waranty since I've rooted it. (Although put the RUU is meant to unroot the phone, I'm pretty sure if I return it they'll be able to tell it modded because of the bootloader (not 100% on that though)).

Any help would be welcomed.

Thanks

Andrew