[HTC Desire S] noobnooby:
Any hope for this phone?

Hi all,

I have a Desire S, it was stock Telstra (Australia) branded running Gingerbread.

A friend rooted it and S-Offed it and installed a Cyanogenmod (I think it was) ROM. I didn't like that (problems making and receiving calls) so reflashed the stock Telstra ROM. That was late March and the phone had been running fine since then.

Last week I decided to flash the official HTC ICS ROM and ran the RUU I downloaded from their site. It appeared to go well with no errors and all indications on PC and phone were as they should have been - although the update only seemed to take about 5 minutes as against the 10 minutes it said it would. The phone automatically rebooted when the flash was finished but the initial (normal) vibrate and boot screen didn't get any further as the screen went dark after a few seconds and then nothing, I have to remove/replace battery to get it to do anything again.

I cannot connect phone to PC with USB to run another RUU as I cannot get phone to stay powered up, all attempts to do so only result in the PC seeing the phone as a disk drive - but double clicking on it in Windows explorer doesn't give the usual disk drive info - just a generic display similar to a previously recorded CD with no space left on it.

The only thing that works normally is powering up into bootloader.

So I extracted the ROM from the ICS RUU, renamed it PG88IMG.zip and reflashed it from bootloader. It installed fine and the phone rebooted as normal... but exactly the same result as before.

I can't find the Telstra ROM I used before, I think I deleted it when changing SD cards, so I downloaded the correct RUU. I tried extracting the ROM from the RUU (can't connect to PC via USB remember) but the file is Data1.cab and changing that to PG88IMG.zip doesn't work. I can't get into the cab file to see what's in it as normal extraction utilities say it's not a standard .cab file and they don't work.

Looking through the SD card (took it out and read it from a card reader) I see that there is a Clockworkmod backup folder that contains 2 backups from early March, so I'm pretty sure they would be backups of the Cyanogenmod ROM. Each backup contains the following files: boot.img/cache.img/data.img/nandroid.md5/recovery.img and system.img. The first backup folder is 581.4MB, the later one is 253.4MB (I assume the first is a full backup and the second is an incremental one).

My bootloader says this:

-Revolutionary-

SAGA PVT SHIP S-Off RL

HBOOT - 6.98.1002

RADIO - 3831.19.00.110

eMMC - boot

Mar 10 2011.14:50:38

The bootloader menu displays this:

RECOVERY

FACTORY RESET

SIMLOCK

IMAGE CRC

The secondary menu (after selecting FASTBOOT) says this:

BOOTLOADER

REBOOT

REBOOT BOOTLOADER

POWER DOWN

I put all the earliest Clockworkmod backup files at the root of a clean SD card and tried Recovery and then Factory reset separately. In both cases the process seemed to run OK but in both cases gave me exactly the same symptoms as before, i.e., initial boot then dark screen and nothing - have to remove battery.

I have scoured these forums for similar problems but cannot find anything useful. I thought it might be a fried eMMC chip but everything I've read indicates you can still connect to PC via USB as the phone does power up with that situation.

I am at a loss as to what to do to try next. Can anyone help... please? :confused: :crying:

Thanks,

Davo