yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxergr:
hmmmm... i am not sure about that.. how can i check? or what hboot should i install for the ruu to run correctly... i am stuck with a sony ericsson with button..... :P
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abaaaabbbb63:
If you haven't ever changed your hboot, then you're on stock.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdtavares:
Wrong Serial Number and Unknown PVT

Lot's of search, here.... google.... Did not found anything like the problem I'm experiencing. Any way:

HTC DESIRE BRAVO

Now is stock with 2.3.3

In the past I had many custom roms (with root, s-off, s-on....). Changed also the bootloader and recovery. Always with no problems.

Now my phone says on bootloader mode that the "PVT" is unknown and the serial number does not match the one on the back of the phone and more unusual is that the software can't read the serial number. But it does not say it is unknown; it says something like this: MB2¶L2ß (see photo) and on the back it is: SH07KPL12345.

I don't know if the unknown PVT and the bricked serial number are related.

Tried everything: flashing RUU roms, different hboots. Nothing works. I don't really need the serial number or the PVT version but I don't know if it is related with the other problem I have: can't get the google paly store to work. Sometimes I can add the account to the phone and sync, other time I can't. The play store or the old market won't work in any way. Also tried every solutions I found for this. No success. Is it possible that one problem is related to the other?

Sorry for the long post.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivan_dekov:
can't wipe system

Yesterday i decided to flash a new rom and as usually i went to 4ext and choose format all partitions without sd card. It formatted boot and it started to format system but it got stuck in the spinning circle of 4ext recovery. Then i pulled the battery and tried again but the same happened. And now i can't format system which means i cant flash a new rom (already tried and it didnt work) which means i am stuck at recovery or bootloader and i cant get in my phone :crying: Please help :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abaaaabbbb63:
Try to flash a new rom without formatting system. Only wipe data,dalvik and cache.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kotag82:
fastboot erase boot?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivan_dekov:
It also gets stuck in the red circle :crying:

How to do this?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kotag82:
Via cmd/terminal on PC post info from your hboot screen/bootloader
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Setup fastboot/adb if you haven't already.

Boot the phone into hboot then go into fastboot mode.

Then plug the phone into your computer and run the command.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivan_dekov:
THANK YOU SO MUCH GUYS :D This is the best forum :D I entered the fastboot and entered erase boot and erase system and now everything is fine :good::good::good::good:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Malk4ever:
Hi,

I got a big problem: I flashed CM 7.2 last nightly (March i think).

Was a bit slow, so i raised the CPU frequency to min: 384 and max. 1137 (or so). Deactivated Ditherung and enables 16-bit transparency.

I reboot.... and nothing... only HTC Logo.

I can enter Bootloader but trieing to enter Recovery (ClockWorkMod) causes the same Problem: only HTC Logo.

I used Android Flash to flash a new Recovery.... doesnt work, only HTC Logo.

I flashed recovery via ADB command... the same.

I'm kinda despaired :(

Didn't tought this simple change can brick my phone :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Malk4ever:
I googled a while and used a hair blower 5mins on the lower part of the device.

After that it booted into recovery again !!

From here i was able to whipe everything and install fresh ROM....

Strange. Hopefully I didn't damaged the hardware permanent with overclocking :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abaaaabbbb63:
Never heard of such a fix. Good for you!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Malk4ever:
I have read about people that put the phone in oven for 10min @200°C, other done the same with only 100°C.

Against others told they used hot air guns. I tried this with a regular hair heater because i don't wanted to melt the case ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abaaaabbbb63:
200°C?!? That's not good at all! I don't think the phone will work much longer after being exposed to that.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Malk4ever:
ok, the 200°C advice was for mainboard only:

http://androidforums.com/desire-sup...ard-boot-reboot-restart-loop.html#post4957785
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dvd777:
Jesus, this reminds me on resurrecting nvidia graphic cards in the oven. But this is just possible fix on very short time. Rather try to find someone who actualy is doing reflow with right tools and without oven :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grybanas:
SO:VED

In case you'd still like to know how to do it via fastboot, here are some steps:

Place the .zip in the same directory as the adb and fastboot executables

Double check the md5 of the .zip before proceeding to prevent bricking the device

Run the following commands in command prompt:

fastboot devices //Verify that the device is detected

fastboot erase cache //Not sure if this is completely necessary, but the guide I followed included it as a step

fastboot oem rebootRUU //Boot into RUU, which lets you flash HBOOT, radio, etc.

fastboot flash zip [zipname.zip] //Replace zipname.zip with the actual name of the file you are flashing

fastboot reboot-bootloader //The guide I pulled this info from didn't specifically say that you should reboot to bootloader rather than to Android, but I have seen others mention that you should always reboot to the bootloader first after flashing an HBOOT or radio. I would do this just in case

Thanks to thehiggins
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mopss:
S-OFF AFTER RUU

None of these solutions work to return to S-ON :(

Are there other variants?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abaaaabbbb63:
Did you flash the hboot downgrader before flashing the ruu?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mopss:
Yes,here's a screenshot:

HBOOT 6.93.9999!!!!!!! Why?????

And this is after flashing RUU:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdtavares:
Serial Number Fix

Is it possible to fix my device serial number? It shows like this: MB2¶L2ß (more or less) and it should be like this (sticker) SH07KPL12345.

Also it has unknown PVT version on bootloader. Don't know if it's related qith the serial number problem.

P.S.: The picture attached is a photo of the serial number.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrew-apk:
Hi. So I tried to fix RUU problems on my brother's Desire but it isn't recognised. I tried installing HTC sync but Windows still doesn't detect my phone. I'm using Windows 8.1. Maybe it's because of my windows version? Because I connected my phone to friend's laptop (windows 8) and it recognises it. The drivers were installed automaticaly. Can someone tell me? Thanks in adwance

P.S. I also have Ubuntu on my pc so maybe there is a way to fix RUU problems on linux?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kotag82:
RUU is windows only, look for universal naked drivers and use USB 2.0 port,not sure win 8.1 is supported, HTC sync not needed

Or extract Rom.zip from RUU - how to is in OP
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldroega:
Hi,

I have the phone rooted and working with a custom rom for about 2 years.

Now from the sudden it start to reboot and stay stuck on the white HTC screen with htc logo and vibrate 7 times.

I tried to:

boot from recovery -> Same result

install the latest RUU following the steps in this topic, and the result is the same.

It is free from operator.

Phone Info:

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL SYNT0101

RADIO-5.11.05.27

Does any one have a clue how to solve this or is this the end for my desire?

Sincerely,

AM
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ierkens:
Usually this means u have a hardware issue. Defect motherboard, game over....

Maybe the freezer trick might help.:cool:

@ andrew-apk:

Maybe you could SD-card only like I did?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2262852
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdspieg:
[I may not have followed protocol by posting a new thread instead of posting in this thread - apologies for that. I'll delete that other thread]

I am trying to resuscitate an old HTC Desire whose USB-port is fully bricked - I can't charge it anymore through the usb-port (but I have a recharger); and I also can't get usb-access. I've tried everything that has been suggested here and elsewhere to unbrick it, but it really is dead. Here is where I started:

Bravo PVT3 Ship S-on

hboot 0.83.0001

Radio 5.17.05.23

Followed the instructions here, I used a goldcard with the Froyo 2.2 RUU and now have hboot 0.93.0001 and Radio 5.09.05.30_2. Is there any way now to S-OFF this without using the usb? I see no section on how to s-off without usb (like the section on root without usb). Could somebody please put me on the right track? Much appreciated.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ierkens:
[MENTION=1696103]sdspieg[/MENTION]: maybe here? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=809328
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onefish:
Bricked after alpharev 1.8 ?????

I'm afraid that I may have bricked my wife's old HTC Desire but not quite sure if there is a way to resurrect it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I bought my wife a new phone as the Desire is now quite old and I thought I'd have a go at renewing the ROM and give it to my daughter. This is what I did:

1) Rooted the phone using Unrevoked.

2) Flashed the Cyanogen CM10.1 VJ Jelly Bean 4.2.2 v6.3 ROM.

3) All was good but it ran out of memory after installing 2 apps (not so good).

4) Read up that I needed to partition my 16gb external SD card and use app2sd.

5) Partitioned the SD ok, removed all installed apps and installed app2sd which gave an error when I ran it (can't remember the exact error message).

6) Researched more and found out that the error was because of this stupid HTC S-On/S-Off thing.

7) Downloaded and flashed the Revolutionary S-Off zip which failed. Tried again and failed again. This seemed to use up all remaining memory so I:

8) Re-flashed Cyanogen CM10.1 VJ Jelly Bean 4.2.2 v6.3 ROM to get back to a clean ROM at least.

9) Burned and booted the Alpharev 1.8 iso and followed the prompts. It froze saying with the following message on the phone screen "normal NAND detected. Non PVT-4". Never progressed for an hour.

10) Did some more research which suggested that the phone should be OK to unplug and restart, besides what choice did I have anyway?

11) Unplugged the USB and restarted the phone which went straight to Fastboot screen (as if I had started the phone holding down the volume down and power buttons). Tried rebooting several times but always boots to this screen.

12) Thought I might try and redo the Alpharev process but it doesn't recognize the phone when connected anymore.

Q1: IS THE PHONE NOW JUST A PAPERWEIGHT? OR IS THERE A WAY TO FIX UP THE HBOOT?

Q2: ASSUMING THE PHONE CAN BE SAVED SOMEHOW, IS THERE ANY WAY TO S-OFF THIS STUPID THING?

Thanks heaps for any help anyone may be able to provide. Cheers!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Revolutionary probably didnt work because you were on VJ's Cm10.1 rom. It only works on stock rom and cm7 AFAIK.

I would suggest you run the 2.3 RUU. After that you can continue to s-off the phone if you wish. Download the 2.3 RUU from here. Place it on the root of your sdcard (not inside any folders) and dont rename it, then boot the phone into hboot (volume down +power). Leave it for a few seconds and it should search for the file. When it finds it, it will ask if you want to flash it. Press volume up to say yes, then reboot. After that you should be on stock 2.3 sense gb. Good luck.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onefish:
---------- Post added at 11:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:19 AM ----------

Well just tried to re-root with Unrevoked and it says "Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?"

HELP PLEASE
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Did you get the phone to boot?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onefish:
Yes, the phone boots OK and I can hold volume down and power to get to HBOOT but I cannot get to Recovery to run Revolutionary S-Off (or any other zip for that matter). When I select "Recovery" from the HBOOT menu it just goes to a screen with a phone image, a red triangle and a red exclamation point. I assume this means that I don't have root access. But when I attempted (3 times) to root using Unrevoked it went through the whole process and then gave the error message:

"Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?"

I'm just searching for an older RUU to try, will that fix it?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
K man, slow down and stop doing all this stuff. First of all, you dont need to be in recovery for revolutionary to work...the phone has to be booted into android with usb debugging enabled. Second, what you are seeing when you choose recovery is the stock recovery. Dont worry thats normal, as you just flashed the RUU which will return the phone to stock (including the recovery). Third, stop using Unrevoked. Now follow what i say: Post what it says in your bootloader (volume down + power). DONT do anything else yet :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onefish:
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT - 1.02.0001

MICORP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT1001

RADIO-5.17.05.23

Jul 22 2011,16:19:16

HBOOT

<VOL UP> to previous item

<VOL DOWN> to next item

<POWER> to select item

FASTBOOT

RECOVERY

CLEAR STORAGE

SIMLOCK
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Alright your hboot is a supported version so revolutionary should work fine. Heres what you need to do:

-Download and install HTC Sync, then uninstall it so that only the drivers are left behind. Also install these drivers.

-Make sure your phone as atleast 60% battery and enable usb debugging. Then plug it into your PC

-Download revolutionary. Make sure you fill in all of the necessary information correctly and then copy the beta key that it gives you

-Unzip the revolutionary zip that you just downloaded and run the revolutionary.exe. It will ask for the beta key. Paste the key that you copied into the command prompt window and hit enter. Continue through the onscreen steps, and choose yes when it asks if you want a custom recovery

After its done boot back into the bootloader and let me know if it says s-off. Then go into recovery and see if you have clockworkmod recovery. If you do i will give you further guidance to make the most out of the phone.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onefish:
Sorry mate, meant access to Recovery to run Unrevoked Forever S-Off.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Its fine. Just follow those instructions i provided above. If you need more help or clarification just ask, dont try anything else for now. :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onefish:
Mate, you are an absolute legend! Thank you. Phone is now S-Off and I have CWM recovery. Is it OK to now reflash CM10 ROM and install app2sd?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
No problem. Almost, just a little more...first read this guide. Using that guide install 4ext recovery and create a 1gb ext4 partition on your sd card, no swap partition. After that you can go ahead and flash a rom of your choice and use a2sd.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onefish:
I tried to follow the instructions, downloaded and installed 4XT Recovery APK. I ran it and it said that I wan't rooted so wouldn't work. So I just wipped and re-partitioned the SD card on my PC using Minitool Partition Wizard. Partition 1 is 12gb (approx), primary and FAT32. Partition 2 is 2gb (approx), primary and EXT4. Should be right, yah?

I then flashed CM10.1 again following instructions from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2070704

All OK but the a2sd script in the terminal emulator doesn't appear to do anything. It didn't do anything the first time around but I assumed that it was an S-On issue. The phone is now S-Off but I get exactly the same result when following the instructions.

# su - hit enter and the cursor just moves to the next line, no indication that it has done anything

# a2sd install - hit enter and the cursor just moves to the next line, no indication that it has done anything

Y - hit enter and it says "not found"

N - hit enter and it says "not found"

Y - hit enter and it says "not found"

Getting apps onto the SD card is the whole reason I'm doing this but it is still eluding me. Is there another way to get this to work?

---------- Post added at 04:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:21 PM ----------

Just used ES File Explorer and searched the internal memory and located only one file named a2sd in the following location: /system/bin/

Not sure if that helps at all though.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onefish:
Hey never mind..... kind of........

I installed Link2SD.apk and it appears to be working. I moved all apps that I could with Link2SD and then deleted many more apk files from system/apps, some not needed and some apps I replaced through the play store but they were installed to the SD card by Link2SD. I have only been able to free up 56mb of space on the phone's internal memory. Oddly, the facebook apk is only about 16mb but refuses to install saying "insufficient memory". It must unpack to a huge size. I'm supposing that the installer first looks at the available internal memory (i.e. 56mb) and determine that it's insufficient even though it will actually go on the 1.8gb of free space on the SD partition.

Unless there's another trick, I think my daughter will just have to go without facebook
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Hey, I would strongly suggest that you recreate the partition using 4ext or gparted as shown in the guide. Minitool is known here for making bad unaligned partitions which may be the reason you're experiencing these problems.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phil17_FR:
No responding after GPS Freeze and try to solve

Hello all,

I have this phone down for a couple of weeks and I do not know what to do. I also certainly due to bull**** trying to leave his fault !

I installed about a year ago the Supernova ROM 2.3.3 ( GingerBread ) without problem, trouble-free operation up to now except occasionally with GPS, some blockages that was ending by removing battery and restart. I thought it was because it too heated sometimes.

This fault appears with GPS on, frozen telephone cannot be restarted .

Various limited tests and possible attempts for access to HBOOT or Recovery , re-installed a stock official rom but now I cannot start at all.

It re- worked a few days in S -On after reinstalling an original HTC ROM. But it hang up very offen by freezing.

I have wiped cache, reinstalled a new SDCard prepared with GParted as described in tutorials but infortunately, I've wiped too the Dalvik cache.

Now the fault occurs like this:

Charged battery connected to the charger, if I press the power button, the green LED turns off.

Nothing happens.

If I remove the battery and disconnect the power supply and then reconnected withou battery, the LED alternately flashes green / orange until I remit the battery, and in this case, the LED becomes either orange ( battery charging ) or green ( charged battery) .

I have not yet tried the various tools like ADB , AlphaRev or Unrevoqued3 because I am worried to go on the Internet and retrieve files eventually.

When the start-up stage (but led off), it heats up a bit anyway, so it must be something happening ?

What I would have destroyed or corrupted if it is not a big failure motherboard?

Here is how it was before the problems :

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S -OFF (S-ON after reinstalling the original HTC Desire Rom)

HBOOT 0.93.0001

MicroP - 031d

Touch Panel - SYNT 0101

RADIO - 5.11.05.27

Aug . 10, 2010 5:52 p.m.

*

SOFTWARE

* Android Version : 2.3.3

* Baseband version : 5.17.05.23 - 32.56.00.32U

* Kernel version : 2.6.35.10_basekernel - gfb1198d -dirty droidzone @ shell - 21003 # 18

*Tue Feb 2 2012 10/59/39 UTC

* N° build : iData2SD Renaissance Edition X8E Droidzone

* N° software : SuperNova 2.4 0 1 ( nlooooo - stock )

*Browser Version : Webkit / 533.1

ID phone

HTC Desire A8181

Thanks to try to help me, and sorry for the bad english I used, I'm french !

:cool:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Can you get into the bootloader (volume down + power)?

So you had s-off and were running supernova, but after the issues you flashed the htc ruu which removed everything and s-on'd the phone and thats the current state of the phone, right?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phil17_FR:
Thanks for this fast answer !

I was S-Off with Supernova, now, Im S-On.

This phone is kidding me....

I let it on the table for 5 hours to watch TV, and reading your message, I've tried Vol- +Power, now, it is in HBoot...

But I have had this screen sometime, and it was not possible to do something...

I have plugged the USB and it freeze in a few seconds !!!

:(

Edit :

It is in Freeze state in FastBoot mode (because I tryied to change, to use Vol- key.

I've removed battery, and Windows makes a sound like when I remove a devise, so, maybe a hope?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Sounds like its overheating. You flashed the 2.3 RUU right? What happens when you boot it up normally?

Try putting the phone in the freezer for 10 minutes (with the battery removed), then take it out, reinsert the battery, and boot it up. If it boots up and stays up for longer than usual, the issue is likely an overheating motherboard. In this case you will either need to replace the motherboard, or get a new phone.

[MENTION=4346614]abaaaabbbb63[/MENTION] , I've got an idea for your next guide: "How to correctly freeze your phone" :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phil17_FR:
I don't remember with RUU I've flashed, in fact. Certainly the 2.3.

Battery removed for 10mn, tried to boot, but I have only white screen of boot, with HTC in green from 2 or 3 mn, now, nothing happens...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
The key is the freezer. It seems like you missed that step.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phil17_FR:
OK, Desire in the freezer, not the fridge.

Waiting temperature go down, but it was not really hot in the SDCard, Sim card zone.

---------- Post added 11th September 2013 at 12:06 AM ---------- Previous post was 10th September 2013 at 11:49 PM ----------

Removed from freezer now.

Turn it on, passed "quietly briliant" screen, led is orange.

Midnight beeps on my watch, waiting...

Booted completely at 00:02, in "first turn On" mode, I'm setting it.

Checking software infos :

Android 2.3.3

Based on SuperNova 2.4.0.1.

You WIN !

I have to reboot now to complete SuperNova process, and I hope it will finish and continue for a long time, but I'm not sure of the reliability of this phone now.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Wait you have supernova installed? I thought you ran the RUU?

Nonetheless this pretty much confirms that the phone is overheating and a hardware defect is present. As a last resort i would recommend running the official htc ruu.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phil17_FR:
Yes, it is Supernova. I do not remember I've tried to re-install it, maybe after re-installing the original RUU who turn me on S-Off mode?

I'm a little bit confuse with this phone !!

It works from midnight (France, and not heating, just a little bit in the bottom.

Should I try to restart to complete the Supernova process?

I've restarted phone by removing battery because it was freeze again...

At the restart, I push Power and Vol- (why?) and it load a PG99IMG.ZIP I forgot on the SDCard...

Now, it is in Android 2.2, build 2.29.405.2, but the time to type this text it freeze again...

I'll go to bed. It is too late.

Thanks a lot for your help and to find the major problem, the MB seems to be overheating even it is not very hot, and the phone will be wasted.

Thanks again,

Philippe from France