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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fri_tid:
Stuck on updating signature when running WWE RUU

Hi, I bought a used HTC Desire that will not boot, it just get stuck at the HTC logo screen. It will get in to the fastboot menu but I can not get into recovery. It is S-ON I can see in the fastboot menu. I have tried your #2 Advanced boot problems solution but when I run the WWE RUU it gets stuck after it reeboots in the updating signature part. Is that an indication that the goldcard is not working or what could be wrong. I have tried downloading the WWE RUU from another site but the same things happen so I just had to stop the updating by pulling the usb cable. I can repeat the process but the same thing happens again and again, the updating process will not get any further than the updating signature step. Could the phone be bricked?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
No, just make a goldcard (since I'm pretty sure you don't have one), then use the RUU

Look at [6] for help with that.

Or you could take the easier but riskier way and use the 2.3.3 RUU
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evip:
In my Desire USB port is broken and i can't s-off him.

Unless someone knows how to do s-off without pc.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
nope, you need to connect via usb. Why don't you send it to HTC to get it fixed under warranty?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDevil:
help. my phone did a random reboot and now cannot boot to android or recovery. i've tried following your guide but it just hangs at the splash screen.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
What did you try?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDevil:
Followed this guide. tried both androidflasher and adb. no go. any ideas?

in case this helps, was using the latest cyanogen when it happened. cm7 r2 hboot.

[2]ADVANCED BOOT PROBLEMS

S-OFF
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
What do you mean no go? try to give me more details I'm not a magician I don't know whats happening to your phone until you tell me.. Go to "flashing custom recovery" and try the troubleshooting there, use cmd. make sure you extract the attached file into c:\ before continuing.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDevil:
ok here goes, my phone can't boot into android or recovery, it only hangs at the splash screen. i've followed part two of your guide. i've tried flashing both amon-ra and cwm 2.5.0.7 with both adb and androidflasher, i'm still stuck at the splash screen. fastboot detects my phone it says this when i flash recovery

View attachment 810675

yet i still cant boot to recovery afterwards

edit: my phone is a pvt3 and is s-offed. tried using the file you provided and followed your instructions to the letter. still cant get it to boot.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Try:

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

then

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot oem gencheckpt
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDevil:
tried as you instructed, phone still stuck at splash screen for ten minutes now. attached below is the output of cmd.

View attachment output.txt
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Hmm.. Have you tried using a different recovery image?

If that still doesn't work then the only thing that is left to try is a RUU... Make sure you have the bravo_stock hboot and then flash either the RUU for your phone or a WWE RUU as long as you have a goldcard.. Remember to read the disclaimer on my page though.. your phones acting weird as it is now, so if something goes wrong with the RUU I'm not taking responsibility.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDevil:
will try that and report back. a couple of questions though, how do i make a goldcard without a functioning phone? and how do i flash an ruu, is it possible to do it in fastboot mode?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Look at the golcards section, and yes boot into fastboot and run it from PC.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veasna.kelly:
bortak, pls help. My problem now is facign with HTC black screen & tangle at the four sides corner. The upgrading show following status. I have tried run RUU many times and still facing same problem. Found the other say flash Stock Hboot and reflash RUU, but look like it still not help. I did extract the stock "boot" image file from rom.zip in %temp% folder and flashed it through Android Flasher and did run RUU again, but no luck.

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-1.02.0001

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.17.05.23

Jul 22 2001,16:19:16

RUU

Parsing...[downloaded ZIP]

[1] RADIO_V2 - Fail-PU

[2] SPLASH1 - OK

[3] RECOVERY - OK

[4] SPLASH2 - OK

[5] RADIO_CUST - OK

[6] BOOTLOADER - OK

[7] USERDATA - OK

[8] SYSTEM - OK

[9] BOOT - OK

Partition update fail!

Update Fail!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoranhr:
While waiting form my phone to return from service repair I can see that more and more people are experiencing similar problems like me. What could be the reason for that? I never had that before on hboot ( I think ) 0.80
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Sorry mate radio brick is unfixable, you'll have to send it to HTC...

This has been happening a lot recently :confused:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoranhr:
That's what I'm talking about :mad: ( still waiting for my phone )
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] touch of jobo:
I don't really know, but...

Maybe because we have bigger and bigger ROMs that put all kinds of stuff on sd-ext, and mess around more and more with partition sizes, mount points, etc..

Maybe because more and more people take to flashing and the number of issues would rise proportionally. Maybe more than proportionally if as the number of people goes up, the average technical proficiency goes down.

Maybe because Desire's are getting older and we're starting to reach 'the other end' of the bathtub curve.

..or a combination of those.

-Jobo

@MrDevil, have you tried flashing a stock hboot first?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R.ik:
Thanks a thousand times. This is awesome.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjd007:
Ok another help request ! :)

I previously flashed to Neophyte ROM then out of no where I lost access to my SD card and have tried the fastboot oem enableqxdm 0.

I've flashed back to RUU_Bravo_TMO_UK_1.15.110.11_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_122755.

My HBOOT is 0.75 and S-ON

If go into recovery I have clockworkmod v2.5.0.7.

Can someone point me in the right direction or at least get me into a position where I can send the phone back as it's just about in warranty.

Thanks for any help.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
How can you still have recovery when you used a RUU? Well in that case try fake flashing RMD Recovery.zip (flash in recovery like a ROM) and use the USB brick fix
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjd007:
Hmmm but I can't access the SD card from clockworkmod recovery (can't mount error), is there another way ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
fastboot oem eraseconfig

Should've solved the trick for you, show me the output of cmd after you type it on.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZDQ:
I need some help with my Desire ... all of the symptoms seems to be similar to the following case: "stuck on splash screen with no recovery with S-OFF".

My phone was running fine until today: I played with ROM Manager trying to upgrade ClockworkMod and after it was done I decided to boot into recovery to make a backup - this is when the problems started.

Instead of CWM phone booted into HBOOT: I can't access recovery anymore and when I try to full boot the device it starts to do it but then it is stuck in the CyanogenMod splash screen ... (I was using CyanogenMod 7.1).

In the HBOOT the following information is visible:

---AlphaRev---

BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-6.93.1002

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101

RADIO-5.17.05.23

Aug 10 2010,17:52:18

I can connect to the phone using FastBoot Commander, here's the information from this tool:

SPL/hboot version: 6.93.1002.

Radio version: 5.17.05.23.

Main software version: 2.29.405.5.

cid: htc__032.

cpld: none.

product: bravo.

mid: pb9920000.

security: off.

build-mode: ship.

-----------------------------------.

Print of device info SUCCESSFUL.

So far I tried to flash new recovery image (from ClockworkMod website), erased cache partition but still can't boot into recovery or Cyanogen ...

I have a full nandroid backup of the phone from yesterday.

Anyone can help ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
do a FULL wipe from mounts and storage

>boot

>system

>data

>cache

>sd-ext

then reflash CM

my bad just read that you can't boot into recovery

Try

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

Then flash recovery with:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZDQ:
Shall I try these commands from FastBoot Commander, right ?

And then use recovery.img from my backup ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
fastboot commander or cmd, whichever's good for you.

Nonononono... read the guide, download recovery, rename it to "recovery.img" and place it into c:\

in which case the command would be

fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZDQ:
Which guide btw ? The one from first page of this thread ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
unless you know of any other guides lol

look at flashing recovery for help
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZDQ:
All is done now:

-----------------------------------.
Running fastboot command - PLEASE WAIT.
###Calling fastboot with: erase boot###
erasing 'boot'... OKAY [ 0.024s]
finished. total time: 0.024s
********************************
.
-----------------------------------.
Running fastboot command - PLEASE WAIT.
###Calling fastboot with: erase system###
erasing 'system'... OKAY [ 2.018s]
finished. total time: 2.018s
********************************
.
-----------------------------------.
Running fastboot command - PLEASE WAIT.
###Calling fastboot with: erase userdata###
erasing 'userdata'... OKAY [ 1.230s]
finished. total time: 1.230s
********************************
.
-----------------------------------.
Running fastboot command - PLEASE WAIT.
###Calling fastboot with: erase cache###
erasing 'cache'... OKAY [ 0.308s]
finished. total time: 0.308s
********************************
.
-----------------------------------.
Running fastboot command - PLEASE WAIT.
###Calling fastboot with: erase recovery###
erasing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 0.036s]
finished. total time: 0.036s
********************************
.
-----------------------------------.
Running fastboot command - PLEASE WAIT.
###Calling fastboot with: flash recovery c:\recovery.img###
sending 'recovery' (3054 KB)... OKAY [ 0.445s]
writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 0.954s]
finished. total time: 1.399s
********************************

(I used the image from here: http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-bravo.img, just renamed like you suggested).

What should be the next step (I'm still in HBOOT), reboot ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
boot recovery, then flash a ROM.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZDQ:
Phone started to boot, vibrated 6-7 times and is now stuck again in the CM splash screen ... :confused:

Going to try older clockwork version from your guide now.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnsten:
I have the Bravo PVT1 ship S-ON

HBOOT-0.93.0001

Mine is usb brick and won't boot

Don't know where to start because it's still s-on and can't find how to change this.

me$ ./fastboot-mac oem enableqxdm 0

... OKAY

me$ ./fastboot-mac oem eraseconfig

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

OKAY

I've tried to put back the recovery but then i get

me$ ./fastboot-mac flash recovery /Users/me/recovery.img

sending 'recovery' (3936 KB)... OKAY

writing 'recovery'... INFOsignature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

ps I'm on a mac
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Well that's weird :/ I want to tell you to try a RUU but I'm a little wary that it might make it worse rather than better, keep trying with what you're doing now, if not try a different recovery from the recoveries section
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Use the PB99IMG.zip method to return to stock, then once you're booted, download and run visionary and install superuser from market, then follow the USB brick fix
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZDQ:
No luck with different clockworkmod versions so far ... maybe AmonRa will help ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Doubt it but you can try...

Try this: Go into the bootlaoder (not fastboot) and select "clear storage", then try to boot
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnsten:
Where can i find

"we need to extract rom.zip from the RUU"
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
you serious? theres a video showing you how to do that.............................
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZDQ:
Still nothing.

I just noticed that in HBOOT when I go into bootloader there are some messages about PB99IMG image quickly flashing on the screen ... something like: loading PB99IMG ... No image exist ... (they are shown for a very short time so I'm not able to read all of them, sorry)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
yeah that's just looking for files to flash it's normal... last resort: try RUU
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZDQ:
Before I try RUU, just noticed in one of the earlier posts that antoher user mentioned his Desire was stuck in the bootloop and "buzzing 7 times" (here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20054147&postcount=194).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Yeah, that's why I said I was weary of asking you to use it since it's almost exactly the same problem, but since nothing else is working I can't help you more than that.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZDQ:
Gonna try to flash RUU as last resort (flashing AmonRa recovery also didn't help) but need to charge my phone first.

If this will fail then I guess I need to send the device to HTC tech support for repair (they will charge me for this I assume :().
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
>12 months = charge

<12 months = free
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZDQ:
Flashing RUU worked and now I have stock ROM from HTC !!!!

Time to flash Cyanogen Mod again :)

Bortak, thanks a million !!!! You're my hero :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameerali19:
htc desire dead ,S-ON pls help me

i have htc desire in dead mode

can anybody help me how to do the sw ??

i read the article http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=17829936#post17829936 many times , can anybody tell me in this article from where i want to start ,

pls help me

thanks & regards
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
As said many times before on this thread I am not some sort of wizard who can magically fix your phone... Tell us what's wrong with it and maybe we can help "dead mode" doesn't exactly tell me much.. how did you get there in the first place? what do you mean by "dead mode" does it get stuck on a bootloop? does it get stuck on the splash screen? does it not even go into the splash screen and just stays in the bootloader? can you get into recovery? can you get into fastboot?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameerali19:
the phone is in dead(not power ON) by switch and charger ,

this is the info i got when i try to open by pressing volume(-) and power ON ...

sir, can you please tell me what to do next ??
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Well it does power on because you can get it into the bootloader. Answer the questions I asked and maybe I can help you.. there could be a million things wrong with it for all I know...

how did you get there in the first place? What were you doing when your problem started?

does it get stuck on a bootloop? Yes/No?

does it get stuck on the splash screen? Yes/No?

does it not even go into the splash screen and just stays in the bootloader? Yes/No?

can you get into recovery? Yes/No?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameerali19:
yes stuck on splash screen

i got it from my friend, it happened when he was using yahoo messenger, suddenly got hang, then He removed the Battery ...

after that its stuck on the "HTC LOGO " ...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Go to #resources and download the 2.3.3 RUU. Boot into fastboot mode (when the phone is off hold BACK (the return key that looks like an arrow) and POWER), plug the phone in via USB and run the RUU from your PC.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameerali19:
thanks sir

when i try to run the downloaded 2.3.3 RUU , betting an error 170

tried in different USB port and tried after restart , but same

pls help me

thanks & regards
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Look at "RUU without USB connection"
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameerali19:
thanks sir

the problem solved after reinstalling the HTC SYNC sw

the phone is working fine now

thanks for your help
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warlock20013:
boot problem after a failed downgrade

Hi I am new to this and with some help from more experienced user we managed to brick the thing I cant get in to the clockwork thing and there are no options in recovery to do as in your instructions or video any chance you could help

HTC Desire Orange

all I see is it's stuck on HTC screen or I get a thing on the screen with a phone and a red exclamation mark

don't know how on earth to fix
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
There's a section in the guide that can help you, just read it.. All ill do is tell you exactly the same thing.. look at section 2
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoranhr:
After changing my hboot from cm7 to stock and going back into recovery Amora down at the bottom it says E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log What does that mean?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
It's nothing you need to worry about, it just means that the recovery log file is missing.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoranhr:
Thanks! Ok I am now s-off, alpharev stock hboot and running Insertcoin 1.1.3 (2.3.3) and I want to try the unroot and returning to stock procedure. Can you advise me the correct way to do that cause I'm a little confused about it, do I have to downgrade or can I just flash the ruu? I'm not branded
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
If you're returning for warranty you need to flash the downgrade from Alpharev first, if you just want to return to stock for whatever reason just flash the RUU, and you will remain S-ON. Be warned however that RUU's sometimes go wrong and it is not that uncommon to get a brick.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoranhr:
Well, the reason is that I think that something is not right. The icons in the notification bar for usb debugging and for mounting the sd card are not showing? When I go back with nandroid to my rooted stock everything is ok?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Do a full wipe from mounts and storage then reflash the rom
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoranhr:
do you mean system, boot.......? I'm now back on CWM 2.5.0.7 because I have PVT4 but 20000 and I?m used to that better then Amonra
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Yes all of those, just not your sdcard!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoranhr:
Thank's i will try it tonight cause I'm off for work
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warlock20013:
I read the guide very closely after 5 hours of hitting my head offa things I got it thanks for the help and the link to the guide
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2much2spend:
derire rooted urevoked clockworkmod on cyanogenmod 7

hi guys ive rooted my desire took a few shot but got it on cyanogen 7 and i have no android marked app on the phone. i tried ROM update's and download ROM but i cannot access unless i buy premium. but before i do that does anyone know how i can get the app back, im still looking for a mirrored site to no luck :confused:

pls help.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
help
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry_ss:
Stuck on bootloop

First of all thanks Bortak for the useful guides and links. Indeed a great help.

Well but even after reading your steps, I'm not able to revive my Desire, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

The steps that I did are:

1. I was using RCMIX ROM with Alpha Rev recovery & all. It was working all fine. However yesterday it gave up on me. Now I cannot start it. It stays in that Alpha Rev initial 'why so serious' Screen and doesn't go past it.

I tried to go to Recovery but it doesn't even go to recovery. I cannot connect it to USB as its not recognized. I can see FASTBOOT option and I can go into fastboot, but that's just about it.

2. After this I reflashed my Hboot with Apha Rev downgrade image. (wrong step, I think as my phone is S ON again)

Then I tried to use the RUU to get back to STOCK ROM. However I got an error 'Main Version is Older'.

But Desire says

S On

HBoot 0.93.001

3. After this I tried gingerbread RUU update for Desire and it worked. My phone was updated using PB99IMG and it says update successful. However even after this the problem is still the same as instead of Alpha rev ''Why so Serious' boot up screen, I'm getting HTC Screen now.Cannot go into recovery.

4. I tried to S OFF again using Alpharev, but it wont work as it wont recognize my device.

Now my Desire says

Bravo PVT1 Ship S-ON

HBOOT - 1.02.001

Now I'm short of ideas, don't know what to do. If anyone can help me, it would be great.

Thanks in advance.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
try run the RUU.exe from the pc and the device in fastboot
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry_ss:
But the device wont be detected, as I cannot connect through USB.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
have you got the necessary drivers installed?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry_ss:
Yes, I did install Synch and it comes with driver. So I guess yes.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Download the fastboot drivers from resources, then try again
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rydesire:
Multiple SD card visable ????? Runnymede

Hi !!!!

I'm sort of new to the whole flashing rom arts !! I've been trying out a few different roms and really liking the runnymede AIO 3.5 rom !!!

My Problem and question is, I've installed the ROM runnymede cm7/r2, with Ext 4 1gb partition with the xd2sdx R.co1 mod. In the app Titanium backup it shows the storage meters reading :

Internal 1.03gb Free: 589mb

Sd :14.8gb Free: 14.1

Sd ( a2sd) 154mb free: 11mb

I'm stumped to why I have SD ( a2sd) ?? It really slows down the ROM to the point of meltdown !!! I can't understand what is going wrong ??? I'm using the wrong ROM ?? It's really annoying I like this ROM but the storage issues are driving me nuts. I thought that the XD2SDX was suppose to rectify the Desire's low phone storage issues !!! WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ????????

Alpharev

Bravo PVT4 Ship s-off

Hboot 0.93.0001

Radio 5.09.05.30.2
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry_ss:
You mean the unrevoked drivers from here

http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Solutions

1) download terminal from market

su
a2sd reinstall

2) before flashing rom, format sd-ext

3) when you formatted your sdcard with an ext partition, make sure you use gparted and that both partitions are set as primary

4) if you have a cheap sd-card (class 2) its possible its affecting your phones performance on
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Nein, these http://downloads.unrevoked.com/HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rydesire:
This maybe Unusual but I ran the Terminal app code and it said "Not found" when I ran ad2sd reinstall !!!

I've got a class 4 sandisk 16gb sd card..

Please help !!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry_ss:
yes, tried all this, but wouldn't work.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
Just noticed you named my two guides I created. Big thanks for that, bortak. :)