yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
no problem, they're good guides ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
have you tried using the PB99IMG.zip again? If that doesn't work there's really not much you can do :/
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry_ss:
Well yes, I did PB99IMG and it worked. It says all updated successfully. But still its stuck at the boot image.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
what does your bootloader say?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry_ss:
It says

Bravo PVt1 SHIP S ON

HBOOT-1.02.0001

Radio-5.17.05.23

Jul 22 2011,16:19:16

Honestly I'm stuck here and running short of ideas as to what do next. Big thanks for all your help mate.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
hmm this is really weird :/ and it's staying on the Alpharev splash? To be honest there's really not much else you can do apart from try again.. try to re-download the RUU and extract the rom.zip and try it again
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry_ss:
Nopes, It stays on that HTC logo screen now, not on Alpha rev splash screen. So when I boot up now, it just stays on HTC Screen.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
I think you'll have to rely on HTC for this one now, sorry.. if that's not working then not much you can really do
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry_ss:
Thanks mate. No worries. But in its current condition, will it considered under warranty or not.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
If everything is stock (bootloader, splash, S-ON) it is. HTC honor the warranty on the 2.3 update so don't worry about it. Also from what I hear warranty is meant to be 2 years in the UK due to EU regulations or something like that too.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dvd777:
Can please help me?

I tried to root my Desire with THIS Tutorial and UnrEVOked says: "Failed to root Your device. Firmware too new???"

Elixir2 says: Android 2.2.2

HBOOT: 0.93.0001

It should be OK, but why it failed?

thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
follow the guide on how to s-off then on how to flash recovery. Once you're done, backup your ROM straight away. If you want to root your stock froyo ROM, you can just flash superuser. Zip from recovery (a quick google will find this for you). If you're simply going to flash a new ROM don't bother.

Remember to ALWAYS backup before flashing.

Remember to ALWAYS do a full wipe (from mounts& storage if you use cwm2.5.0.7) before flashing a new ROM unless told otherwise.

Remember to have flashed the correct HBOOT/SPL for the ROM. www.alpharev.nl
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dvd777:
Thanks mate.

It went well. My Desire is now S-OFF with this Revolutionary software. Easy as it was never been. OK, I have 4 more questiones.

1. Is my device now rooted and S-OFF and now I can flash various ROMs?

Never mind 1st question, I rooted my device with some .zip via RECOVERY.

2. Is the next thing to do a SD Card partitioning and than backup?

3. Can I pull out SD card out of desire and make card partition from card reader in PC? I bought a brand new class 10 8GB SD Card, so can I do that?

4. I bought Samsung 8GB microSD Class 10. will it be good for THIS ROM Some people said that this ROM is sometimes laggy. I don't wanna laggy ROM :D so will this card be good for it?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
2. You do not NEED a partitioned sd-card unless you will be using a2sd or D2EXT. If you are not someone who installs half of the android market on their phones, you don't need to worry about it, and changing your hboot to cm7r2 should be enough for you with 287mb for that.

3. You are MEANT to take it out of the phone, and use the gparted livecd to partition it (that's if you're even going to do it)

4. I don't know. The sd-card doesn't make THAT much of a difference, you'd only really see some bad performance if you had a class 2.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] touch of jobo:
Partitioning your SD card will delete any data you have on it.

I would first make a nand backup (from your internal storage onto your sdcard), then backup the SD card to your PC, and then partition it.

Many ROMs do need an EXT partition, so I would just make one. That way you dont have to do it later when you decide to try a ROM that needs it.

Make sure that both partitions are primary and your ext4 partition is the 2nd one.

That ROM does make use of the sd-ext partition, so it will benefit from a faster card. Keep in mind that it was ported from a device with more RAM, more internal storage and a faster CPU. Whether or not it's 'laggy', try it out for yourself.

-Jobo
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dvd777:
OK, I did everything.

Now, it's flash ROM time. On what thing I must be very cautious about? And how can I know which HBOOT I have? I S-OFF-ed my device with Revolution from Alpharev.nl site like bortak told me to do.

For example, I wanna flash THIS ROM

What to do? How to update latest radio? Is any HOW-TO guide specific for this ROM?

Sorry for all these questions, I am total noob regarding this and I didn't find anywhere how and what to do about that. Thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Okay I've helped you this far, but this is a TROUBLESHOOTING guide.. i.e. when something goes wrong. There are plenty of things that can help you. This website can help the most.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dvd777:
Nevertheless, I manage to flash Aurora v4.1 ROM and it works perfectly :D

thanks for the assist.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjd007:
Apologies for the delay in replying, here is the output:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot-windows oem enableqxdm

0

... OKAY

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot-windows oem eraseconfi

g

... INFO[ERR] Command error !!!

OKAY

I presume fastboot-windows is a newer version of fastboot ????

Also I'm s-on at the moment.

What else can I try ?

Thanks for any help.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
What was your problem in the first place? I don't exactly have the urge to look through 30 pages to try and find your issue
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjd007:
@Bortak here is my original post.

Also I can't access my SD card from clockworkmod either.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Have you got USB connectivity?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjd007:
If you mean can I access the SD card once I connect a USB cable, no but my PC does see an Android device connected.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tony1x13:
Hello, i think my desire is bricked rly bad :(.

I had LeeDrOiD_HD_V3.3.3_GB-Port-R5-A2SD rom.

But i wiped everything on sd card (deleted from windows ... stupid me) and i made 1GB ext4 partition for new rom i wanted to try out, after that i couldnt flash roms from CWM, have no backup, sd card is blank and i was getting message "E:Can't mount /sd card/."

I tryed to unblock sd card with fastboot oem enableqxdm 0

(got this in cmd ... OKAY [ 0.100s]

finished. total time: 0.100s) and command fastboot oem eraseconfig ( got this in cmd ... INFOErase config: complete OKAY [ 0.100s] finished. total time: 0.100s.)

but still i couldnt install roms frorm sd card, still getting same message " E:Can't mount /sd card/ ".

I bought new SD card today and i put it in phone and i could see my rom Leedroid in install zip form sd card, but after that i booted to gparted to format card to 1gb ext3 and now i cant mount sd card again. Getting message again "E:Can't mount /sd card/.".

I can mount USB storage form CWM and copy files in windows to sd card but cant install zip from sd card.

Can you pls help me, i am pretty desperate, trying to solve this problem but no luck :(

Kind regards

My specs (phone is rooted)

---------

BRAVO PVT1 Ship S-OFF

HBOOT-0.93.0001

RADIO-5.11.05.27

CWM Recovery v5.0.2.0
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
1) Try using the alpharev livecd to S-OFF your device, then input the fastboot commands you tried before.

2) Run the newest TMO-UK RUU, then run revolutionary to S-OFF your device, and input the fastboot commands you tried before.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Tried flashing a different recovery? This usually solves the problem in this instance.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tony1x13:
Can you pls recommend what recovery, what version?

edit : No i didnt tryed to flash another recovery, i guess i flash another recovery with fastboot too?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Yes, flash whatever you want, it doesn't matter that much.. might as well use RMD Recovery in case you get USB brick (has ability to fix this, also if flashing new recovery doesn't work - actually try to use this feature and it'll more than likely fix it), and yes read my guide it shows you how.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tony1x13:
Thank you bortak on quick response, going to try out ... ill post results later :)

---------- Post added at 07:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:50 PM ----------

I flashed RMD Recovery succesfull , tryed to flash zip from sd card but still got msg :

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or 8dev/block/mmcblk0)

E:Cant mount /sdcard.

. I tryed Usb Brick fix option few times but no luck, still same msg :(

---------- Post added at 07:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:17 PM ----------

Now in windows when i run manage on My Computer show sd card as RAW Primary partition and cant access it.

---------- Post added at 07:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:30 PM ----------

Should i reformat sd card to fat 32 with gparted?

---------- Post added at 08:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:36 PM ----------

I found this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1257578

I think we have pretty much same problem. Might try to reformat partition to fat 32 with gparted and from RMD partition to ext3 and rebuild partition table ( How i rebuild partition table?). Then flash cwm recovery. Not sure if this is gonna help but worth a try.

Kind regards

---------- Post added at 09:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:02 PM ----------

Formated with gparted fat 32, rebooted in RMD, formated ext4 and rebuild.

RMD can see sd card now and i can mount it. Is this RMD recovery built for recovery only or i can flash roms from it too? I mean can i make it my default recovery or better to flash CWM 2.5.0.7 and flash rom from there ? :) One more thing, do i need to do wipe all date/factory , wipe cache/dalvik before flashing rom in this case?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Mate, a recovery is a recovery is a recovery.. doesn't matter what you have. Always do a full wipe before flashing.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tony1x13:
OK ty, sorry for dumb questions, just wanted to make things right ,didnt want to mess it up again.

Cheers :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjd007:
I will give this a go and report back.

Thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] earthman6020:
need to restore to original

Hello!

I need to restore my phone because it started to act up a few months back and it's unusable now... Overheats really quick.

I have tried many firmwares, but now I can't go back to original. I have a working goldcard, but I am unable to flash any RUU (branded, WWE old, WWE new, android 2.3). I always get the same error with the RUU:

RADIO_V2: Fail-PU

When I try to flash with fastboot, I get "FAILED (remote: 51 partition update fail)" at the end.

The problem is, I can't flash any different HBOOT (already flashed alpharev's downgrade hboot), because of failing signature checks. All I see is the HTC logo and four triangles...

The only information I now have is:

BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-1.02.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101

RADIO-5.11.05.27

Jul 22 2011,16:19:16

RUU

Thats it ... I have RUUs that I know should work, since i flashed them multiple times the past. Only thing that has changed is, that i s-offed the device and used a custom hboot for the last rom. I forgot to flash the correct hboot before trying a RUU the first time, realized my mistake and tried the alpharev stock hboot, which didn't work. Now i have the downgrade hboot and can't do anything. No recovery or anything. What can I do? Any advice? I have searched for this issue, read what others did and tried it, but still no luck.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
you can't fix it. A simple google would have told you that a radio brick is final.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] earthman6020:
I didn't realize that it was a radio brick (and therfor unfixable) since people with a very similar problem somehow recovered from it. Well - it's a year and a few days old, we get 2 years warranty where I am from, so I've sent it in today. We'll see what they do with it ;)

Thanks nonetheless!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T_Spark:
Hello,

Just have tried to flash Runnymede AIO V4.0.1. The phone is rooted and s-off.

I have done everything like in Aroma Install Guide: I was using 4ext Recovery Touch. Selected "format all partitions (except sdcard)", then installed ROM from zip file. When it finished, I have rebooted the phone. Then I saw an animation, it stucked and started again and again... I have waited for 30 minutes and then just removed the battery. What should I do?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
You follow the guide, what else is there to do?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T_Spark:
This is the guide http :// sourceforge.net/projects/runnymededesire/files/AROME-GUI/HQ-RM%20Aroma%20Install%20Guide. pdf/download

What's why I'm asking... because I want to use this ROM and I need some help flashing it...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Batteripakke:
I tried to root my HTC Desire with the newest version of Unrevoked. I followed some tutorial i found here on xda. I installed ADB, and the custom drivers from Unrevoked. No HTC drivers or Sync installed.

First i ran into the "cant install package" error, cant remember exactly what it said but i solved it by removing some apps from the phone memory. Then i tried to root it and everything went well untill it started the actual rooting. I got the "cant get root - is your firmware too new?" error. Searched around and found that i needed to do what i did next, so installed HTC sync and removed only HTC sync, leaving the HTC drivers installed. Still ADB and custom Unrevoked drivers. Tried to root again and got the same error; "Cant get root - is your firmware too new?"

Everything on the phone works, except i cant go into hboot anymore. It only turns on as usual. I also got an app called "Zysploit" in my app list, saved in internal storage with an "evo" icon. Im guessing this is from Unrevoked.

Yes, i know ive should've read a bit more about this before trying.

Now, is it still possible to root it? I guess Unrevoked doesnt support 2.3.3? IS it possible to fix not being able to access hboot, as i guess this is a issue? Is it safe to remove the "Zysploit" app? Also, would Revolutionary work?

Running the official Android 2.3.3 from HTC

I'm not sure of the Hboot version, cant check either

Any help would be appreciated!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubas_smith:
Well, if you have the official 2.3.3, you most certainly have HBOOT 1.02, which is not supported by Unrevoked. Revolutionary is the way to go! Google it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iLPunisher:
Hi guys, i have a problem with my HTC Desire. Time ago i ran the 2.3.3 RUU, the official one, downloaded from HTC Dev, without knowing anything about s-off and so on. Now I have many problems with my phone: it actually randomly reboot and starts a bootloop or even overheats.

So i actually tried to follow this guide, expecially the bootloop fix, but can't get s-off even with revolutionary, in order to flash recovery since mine doesn't boot. If someone has any idea or hint or anything i really really appreciate :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
Why can't you go S-OFF with revolutionary?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
If it's overheating it may be a hardware issue. Try the 2.3 RUU again to see if it boots, if it does, s-off with revolutionary and try a custom ROM.

If problem persists, flash the downgrader from alpharev.nl then flash the 2.3 RUU again and contact HTC since its a hardware problem. Do NOT mention you have done any of this, simply state your problem.

If it doesn't boot then obviously just contact HTC.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Cos he can't boot (he mentioned it)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
So if he can't even get into hboot / fastboot, I cannot see how we can help him....
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
I don't think you quite understood what he/ I meant by doesn't boot... He said it's stuck in bootloop (and I'm guessing HTC Splash now after it reboot itself).. so it turns on.. just doesn't boot (go into Android system)

EDIT: Okay looking at post below I was wrong then lol
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iLPunisher:
Dunno, I ran it but it doesn't succeed :confused: It even sends me to fastboot and all..

Oh but the phone boots and all, it's the recovery which doesn't, so i can't flash it :(

I'll try the 2.3 RUU again and then revolutionary. Thanks both atm :D I'll let u know if it works :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Did you install the fastboot drivers?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iLPunisher:
Yes i did! Even thou i'm not sure it worked because when i run the installer and click on "execute" it just seems to load something, nothing more.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
Uninstalled HTC Sync software?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iLPunisher:
Yup done this too ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
So what actually happens when you run revolutionary? copy the cmd output for us. (and put it in

[/ code] here)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
You can do the formats in fastboot

fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache

and sd-ext has to be formatted in recovery.

You may want to try 4EXT touchrecovery, you just install an app and it flashes it for you.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
Damn, bortak was faster. :D Edited, because I wrote exactly the same. ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
lol :D email subscription ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iLPunisher:
Thanks a lot both :D

I'll do it asap and maybe try 4EXT ^^
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] falconyx:
Hey there, first off thx for great thread. Now to my kind of weird problem.

I'm running MIUI XJ A2SD release on a PVT-1 S-ON desire. A few days ago i tried partitioning SD card with some crap SW (mini tool partition wizard i think it was) which in the end lead to damaging SD card - BAD DISK was the message i got from the partition wizard. Afterwards PC didn't recognize SD card.

Since alot of apps were on sd ext they obviously didn't run, but phone worked and since I managed to format SD card prior I just didn't have my apps which ran on sd ext. So far so good. Yesterday battery went down and phone couldn't boot after i charged it: stuck on htc splash screen. Since phone boots into recovery i checked and got the ''Can't mount SD card devblock... error''. Since I am at work and without the option to do much I read through thread and noticed I could try using ''Clear Storage'' while in Bootloader screen. So I did and voila phone actually booted.

It then gave me the notification ''Damaged SD card: You might need to format your SD card''. So I did using the MIUI option. SD card is now recognized.

My problem though is that I lost root access. What should I do to regain it? Would restoring a nand backup help? And should I partition SD card prior to that with gparted?

Would a full wipe and flashing a new ROM solve the problem?

Thx in advance for your answer and sorry for my not so brilliant English :cool:

Edit: Forgot to mention, after I installed ROM Manager it doesn't recognize that I already have CWM recovery installed and asks me to install it. Should I go for it or not?

Edit2: I'm an idiot, just forgot superuser app was actually hidden in MIUI tools and I had to activate root from there...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asaf400:
About [12], do i need S-off for changing the Splash screen?

in method #1 it says that Android Flasher works only with S-off, while in method #2 nothing about S-off\S-on is mentioned..

Can i use method #2 to to change my spash screen while my Desire is S-on?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
You need S-OFF.. really? let me check that.

EDIT: Method 2 doesn't say anything about allowing you to do it S-ON, moreover you need to be S-OFF to use fastboot commands too.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4m4s74:
I have a problem that looks like the 2nd advanced problem (s-on)

I used to run cyanogenmod 7.1 with clockworkmod recovery and revolutionary s-off. and one day it simply turned off and wouldn't boot past the HTC screen, not even to recovery

the genius I am (sarcasm) I thought it was software failure, downgraded the bootloader using the alpharev downgrade and ran the stock froyo RUU.

Now I have an unrooted, stock desire with s-on and no recovery which still doesn't boot.

anything I can do before giving up and calling HTC? (at least it's impossible to see I installed custom firmware now)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Try the 2.3 RUU.. if still nothing return to HTC.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4m4s74:
Where can I find the 2.3 ruu?

All I can find is a dead link to developer.htc.com
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
#Resources is there for a reason. If you already tried from there, so did I, and link is not dead.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Faryaab:
I'm having this problem

Zerging Root... this might take a minute or so.. Root acquired!

Sending in Caroline...

Retrieving Caroline from certain doom...

Retrying Caroline...

Caroline failed, but had this to say: An error occurred while writing the partit

ion.

Errors (if any):-

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00080000

Press (almost) any key to exit.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
What ROM are you using? It may not work with A2SD or D2EXT ROMs, try it on the stock one.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Faryaab:
I have tried everything, Im in stock GB 2.3.3 but still it doesn't work. I think its a nand problem so can you tell me it=f the update covers the warranty and what to tell HTC?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Yeah this covers the warranty, you could pretty much make up any excuse that makes them have to change the mainboard.. overheating maybe?

You can get a partial S-OFF by updating the hboot with the official release they made.. you just can't flash radios or custom hboots (so that kinda sucks) - but you lose warranty with that.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TyKH:
I'm problems concerning that my phone after flashing a new version of Gingervillain that it can't mount my SD card. I installed the sdk, installed the additional packages and started the command prompt.

When i start the command "fastboot oem enableqxdm 0" I get waiting for device and nothing changes. I've put the phone in different modes fastboot, recovery and so on. No change. What now? Is my phone officialy bricked now?

I'm also unable to make phone calls. The phone does say there is mobile connection, even 3G. But when i try to call somebody it will immediately abrupt and say that there is no mobile connection :(