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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uqbar:
Me too stuck

I've got this Desire which is stuck with the four /!\.

I have no idea how they got it this way.

It's S-OFF with HBOOT-6.93.1002 and when I unplug the USB cable I get a white HBOOT screen with just the red RUU menu option and two /!\ at the bottom.

I've tried [4] with S-OFF but the AndroidFlasher seems not to work at all:

- if I say I'm already in fastboot it waits forever

- if I say I'm not in fastboot it says the phone is not plugged.

Then I went the hard way with fastboot, both for Windows (took from AndroidFlasher) and for Linux (took from this very thread).

I've been able to reflash the hboot and the recovery (AmonRA 2.0.0.0). The from the recovery I have been able to flash CyanogenMod v7.2-RC1.

But anytime I reboot I still get the RUU HBOOT. By plugging and then unplugging a USB cable the black screen becomes white with the "usual" stuff:

========

AlphaRev CM7 r2

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-6.92.1002

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-4.05.00.11

Aug 10 2010,17:52:18

RUU

========

Any hint?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Flash alpharev stock, then run a RUU. Exe, then s-off again and do do whatever you want with your phone.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uqbar:
Done

What's that?

Do I need windows to run it? With the USB connected?

This was in my mind, but am lacking the needed info on how tyo use the RUU.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Plug the phone in with usb when it's in RUU mode, run the RUU. Exe on your pc
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uqbar:
Done: ERROR [152]: IMAGE UPDATE ERROR.

When disconnected I can read the HBOOT screen. It failed this way:

...

[8] SYSTEM - Fail - PU

...

Partition update fail!

Update Fail!

Now what?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Try it again. Just plug it in and run it on the black screen.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uqbar:
Done 5+ times. Should I go on?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
What's the bootloader info... you sure you flashed alparev stock?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uqbar:
The boot loader needed an extra reflashing in order to "really" go stock.

Now it's OK. You rock. Thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
you mean the downgrader? usually it's not necessary, specially with the 2.3 RUU since that overwrites it in most cases anyway. Ahh well glad you've got it sorted :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uqbar:
Despite I flashed the stock IMG from Alpharev, it was still saying CM7-r2. An extra flash (with fastboot) and a reboot led to the stock HBOOT.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoads1234:
First, great guide thanks!

I am working my way through all the instructions and I have a quick question about using Amon-Ra to do Tutorial [1] from [STEP4] onwards (all the wiping).

The instructions are for ClockworkMod, and I am not sure how to format Data and format System. (can't see those option is Amon-Ra?)

I have ADB set up if that is an better option?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Amon ra doesn't allow you to wipe all those partitions. You can do them in fastboot

fastboot erase boot
Fastboot erase system
Fastboot erase userdata
Fastboot erase cache
Fastboot oem gencheckpt (reboot to recovery)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aidooon:
first of all thanx for the useful thread :D, i have a problem and need help if you please. .

i flashed a rom to my desire, it stuck on bootlogo, so i removed the battery and booted recovery (clockworkmod 5), i tried to restore the rom that i had, but the recovery couldn't recognize SD card, so it couldn't recognize the nandroid backup i had on that SD, tried to format the SD and re-partition it, still it doesn't work, tried to use another SD card, nothing changed, i got a working RUU (i tried it before and it was working OK) and got the rom from the temp folder and renamed it to PB99IMG.zip and booted HBOOT (after downgrading my HBOOT with fastboot commander) i applied PB99IMG.zip, and everything went OK, S-ON again and original rom booted perfectly, but still SD card unrecognized, and i can't connect USB cable while in the rom, the device doesn't recognize that there's a USB cable connected at all!! now i am stuck with original unrooted rom with no SD and no USB connection. .

please if you can help me . . thanks ^_^
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
go to "rooting without usb" and follow the steps, then download RMD recovery and fakeflash it (basically, flash it like you would a ROM) and use the USB Brick fix, then restore your back-uo (then S-OFF etc.)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aidooon:
my device doesn't recognize SD card, so i couldn't download or install visionary. . so i couldn't root :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
email the app to yourself, try either gmail or the email app which lets you install directly from there.

Once you've installed the app, and get temproot, then try and follow this guide http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=691639

ahh but wait, I think that needs an SD-Card to work.. hang on I'll ask someone on their opinion with this
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aidooon:
i could regain the SD card access through enableqxdm 0, that worked fine. .

but permroot is not working, i couldn't get root, only temproot is working, i can't flash clockworkmod recovery . . and the USB connection is still not present. . but in fastboot USB is working OK. .
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
no you only get temproot from visionary. Once you do that you need to install superuser, then rom manager and flash clock, after which you fakeflash RMD recovery (as in just flash the .zip version just like a rom) and use the usb brick fix function
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aidooon:
i did that, applied temproot, flashed clockworkmod recovery via ROM manager, and chose "reboot recovery" from ROM manager, but that booted the HTC recovery (the photo of a mobile phone with a red triangle), i guess i need permenant root in order to flash recovery successfuly, and since i can't connect via USB, i can't use unrevoked. .
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
No you need s-off so ROM manager won't help.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
well actually now that you've got the sd-card you can use the USB brick fix tutorial
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aidooon:
thnx alot :D:D:D

it worked fine and OK :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] florinro:
root on s-off device

Hy.

I just bought an HTC Desire (second hand) and i fail to root.

When i press volume down + power on, the following text appear:

--- AlphaRev ---

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-6.93.1002

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.17.05.23

So is S-Off but the sdcard is empty and i have no costum recovery and no root. What should I do?

I have android 2.3.3

Baseband: 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23

Kernel: 2.6.35.10

Build no: 3.14.405.1
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
download a custom rom (there are PLENTY to choose from on xda), use my guide to flash recovery, and then backup, do a full wipe and flash a custom rom.. if you read around I wouldn't have to tell you this...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tindo1:
Hi there. I installed the HTC update that was only available on the HTC Developers website which came out a few weeks back ie 2.3 from 2.2. Since then the battery just fizzles out much quicker than before despite about the same usage in terms of Apps on/Wifi usage etc etc. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I remember reading somewhere that it is not possible to reverse the update blah blah and more blahs....is there any truth in it or can I roll it back - ahem for warranty purposes - and send it back to the insurers?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
If you don't want to use the original 2.3, you can S-OFF the phone and install custom software. If there is any problems all you have to do is re-reun the 2.3 update and send it off to HTC, if you have insurance on the phone I don't think they care since you're paying for it.

If you want to change the software the steps you need to take are:

S-OFF

Flash Recovery

Backup your phone via recovery

Erase everything from your phone via recovery (NOT SD-Card)

Flash a custom ROM (check in android development section for very large choice)

All the steps listed are on my guide, so you shouldn't have any trouble.

Having an S-OFF'd and rooted phone has many advantages 1) Custom software has a lot more features 2) allows you to install apps that require root permissions 3) if you have a software problem, you can fix it easily yourself... the list goes on and on..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gymagdi:
Hello,

I tried everything with my father's Desire for 4 days, but I think, it became more and more worse.

Now the facts:

BRAVO PVT SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.09.05.30_2

I haven't got any Recovery (only the manufacturing, phone with red triangle).

Fortunatelly the phone work, I think (where can I see it exactly?) there is a Froyo 2.2 ROM in it.

And the phone is USB Bricked.

I think, that I would have to Root the phone, use a Recovery, do S-Off, Unbricked, and put it a new ROM.

But of course a lot of description didn't function because of some of these reasons.

I tried (between others) this description: ROOT WITHOUT USB CONNECTION, but after rebooting the phone don't see the new recovery. (But ROM Manager says: Current Recovery is: ClockworkMod 5.0.2.0.)

Now, I don't know, what should I do, what should be the first/second/... step with it.

Can anybody help me? :confused:

Thanks for any idea...

Magdi

P.s.: Sorry for my bad English...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
use visionary to get temproot.

Then follow this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=691639 or this whichever you find simpler http://androidforums.com/desire-tips-tricks/365476-guide-usb-brick-fix.html
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gymagdi:
Thank you very much! You are a Hero! :)

The phone can see now the PC... ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bebek.gegerotak:
this thread is very useful, thanks :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pipster7:
Hi all,

Ive had my Desire for a fair while now, and I have rooted it using unrevoked and s-off with alpharev, and ever since i have been using leedroid. Now its been working well till I decided to update, had a few issues with roms not working so i decided to run the RUU to bring it back to stock. I downloaded the RUU for my phone (telstra) and have since run it. The process went untill the finish, when it said bootloader error, and the phone went blank. Since that I downloaded the RUU recomended in this thread, and ran it, at the end of which gave the message model id error. :( so now the screen is black (doesnt even power up) but the computer still detects it.

what do i do?

Thanks in advance.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Take it you didn't flash the downgrader.img before the RUU?! you need to if you want to overwrite the Bootloader.

Was it THIS RUU?

http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...8.00.32U_5.11.05.14_release_150162_signed.exe

The only other is an eclair RUU which may have been for AMOLED only Desires, which would cause the screen to be black.

If you're simply going to root again, you can leave the hboot as is and just flash this RUU (if this is NOT the one you flashed before). Then you can just fastboot flash a recovery and then flash a rom.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoads1234:
Thanks for those. I successfully got my old system restored back up and running, and so will have another go at changing hboot.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoads1234:
Well I am getting good at following your guide, second attempt to change hboot to CM7 and load new ROM failed in the same way as the first.

For reference once i change to the new hboot i get the following error as soon as i enter recovery

e:error invalid command argument

and then if i try to load a new ROM anyway, it fails while saying the following error

missing file system/framework/com.sonyericsson.uxp.jar
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
You're using a HTC Desire right...?

After you flash the hboot, do a full wipe of everything, flash a different recovery like 4EXT, then try again.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoads1234:
lol - how do i tell if it is a Desire... ;-)

But yeah that error was unexpected. I had success flashing V41 of AceSMOD over v36, and have tried a couple of hboots now, but have only re-flashed the same AmonRa recovery.

Things start to show errors as soon as i change to cm7 hboot.

Will try that different recovery
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Do a full wipe of everything before you flash, don't flash over things. Also, check the md5 of the ROM you downloaded against the one provided to make sure the integrity of the file is okay.

After you flash a new hboot make sure to wipe cache.

Again, try the other recovery i linked you.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axenlupin:
Help!

i use MIUI rom normaly,but My HTC desire turn off when charging.and

now i can't turn it on

. hold POWER + BACK or POWER + Volume Down.......but it not work .my recovery is 4EXT Recovery Touch. :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
It doesn't turn on at all? The screen doesn't even light up? Simple, your phone is dead.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] royrob69:
I have a desire bravo pvt3 s-on with 0.83 Hboot, I'm currently on RevolutioN v4.0 ROM but I have a lot of freezes, so I want to flash an other ROM like Runny ROM v6.0.

To flash I need a recovery with touch driver, I'm still on clockworck recovery 2.5, I tried to flash 4ext touch but it failed cause it seems that I need to be s-off

so I tried s-off with alpharev and it failed too but I dont know why, I cant use revolutionnary cause my hboot is too old.

So I'm kinda stuck and I dont know what to do now, please somehone help me
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
If you haven't got a goldcard, then make one.

Then, put the attached zip on the root of your sd-card, and boot into the bootloader.

When it asks to update, select yes. This will update your hboot to 0.93.

If you have a backup of your stock ROM, then restore that. If you don't flash cyanogenmod as it does not use A2SD.

Run revolutionary.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] royrob69:
thanks, I will try this
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lanimal2:
Hi guys, I have a big problem, I SLCD Bricked my HTC Desire.

What I've done :

I used revolutionary to go S-OFF -> worked

Then I downgraded the Hboot to 0.85 through the adb thing

And I guess I flashed the wrong rom + I forgot to put the goldcard and I got a black screen.

I have a good goldcard, I still can see my phone through the adb thing. I tryed to flash a lot of roms following many tutorials but It won't work until I get S-off, cause my phone is from Orange.

When I try to go S-off with revolutionary, that's what I get :

I can get in Recovery mode too

Atm I am trying to follow the step "[4]RUU PROBLEMS>S-ON" i will tell you in a few minutes if It worked with the ruu in the first post.

I tried with the ruu of the first post, it say [170] USB connection... Other Roms like RUU_Bravo_HTC_Europe_1.15.405.3_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_121865 would run but stop with the error [140] Wrong version of bootloader... :/
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
turn off the phone (battery pull).

hold back & power to get into fastboot

download the 2.3 RUU

run the 2.3 RUU..done.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lanimal2:
Hello, thank you for your answer, do I need to download HTC Sync to get the 2.3 Ruu ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Nope

10 chars
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lanimal2:
I don't understand from where I can download the ruu file, excuse my english.

For some reasons, the link was not working for me.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
#resources
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lanimal2:
Yep I found it just before you post. Just wanted to thank you again it instantly solved my problem. Without you, I would not have been able to sell the phone. Therefore, I will make you a donation!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Wow thanks! :) much appreciated, a click of "thanks" is enough for me though ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ouzo:
Thanks very much Bortak, you saved my bacon : )

Whilst returning my girfriend's Desire to stock last night prior to selling it I decided to use HTC's Froyo RUU from Windows. Unfortunately I had completely forgotten that about a year ago I flashed CM7 hboot to it, so, of course, the RUU failed to write the System data properly and I was stuck in RUU Fastboot staring at those chuffing exclamation marks. Talk about panic.....it's worse when it's you've made a mess of someone else's phone!

Eventually I found your guide (I'm terrible at searching) and was able to use Android Flasher to put the standard Alpha Rev hboot back on it. For some reason it at first it just wouldn't work when I was using version 2.2.0.5 (couldn't find phone), but I stumbled upon an older version lying around on my hard drive (2.1.0.1) and that did work, allbeit showing the same 'phone not found' error, but going through the motions anyway. Thank goodness!! After that the RUU ran fine of course, and then I used fastboot to flash AlphaRev's downgrader so now everything is back to stock and hopefully the phone will sell. Thank you very much indeed, I really appreciate the comprehensive guide you've written : )
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Woah there, you flashed the downgrader AFTER you ran the RUU? the bootloader will then still be Alpharev Stock S-OFF instead of HTC S-ON.

Look at my guide on how to take out the rom.zip from a RUU (theres a video) and extract it.

From the zip take the file named "hboot_8x50_0.93.0001_20100810.nb0" and "android-info.txt" and make a .ZIP (not .rar) and name it PB99IMG.zip.

Put the file on the root of your sd-card and boot into HBOOT (hold volume down & power when phone is off), it will ask to update after a few seconds, so select Yes. Once it's finished, NOW you fill have a fully restored stock phone.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ouzo:
Sorry, my bad, it was 2 a.m when I finished ; )

After flashing the Alpha Rev downgrader I then ran the RUU again from the PC. The reason I did it that way (apart from being really, really tired) was that I mistakenly thought running the RUU would remove Alpha Rev (LOL, again, I was really tired ; ) Of course, apart from your tutorial I should've known that it wouldn't remove Alpha Rev otherwise the very first time I ran the RUU it would've overwritten the CM7 partition info I guess, and I would've been tucked up in bed hours earlier and would be none the wiser about the four exclamation marks of shame. Silly silly me.

So anyway, when I went back into Fastboot after flashing via RUU the first time successfully (after using AFlasher to remove CM7 partitions), I of course saw 'Alpha Rev.....S-Off' etc...rolled my eyes, felt sheepish, face planted in the palm of my hand, flashed the downgrader via Fastboot, then ran the RUU a second time from my PC. After that I'm fairly confident when I went back into Fastboot it said 's-on' etc. Um, I think... No really, it did. Honest. It's all good thanks to your help : )

Thanks for pointing out the error in my own recounting of the story, which will surely help others who were in my situation last night.

I didn't get a chance to watch your vid unfortunately as our mobile broadband is extremely slow.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] royrob69:
it didn't work, I made the goldcard with no problem, I see bootloader checking the zip file but it's not asking me to update, dont know what to do
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
oh hmm.. maybe you need to be S-OFF for that to work. In that case, you'll have to run a RUU (a 2.2 one), and then S-OFF
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cgorki:
Hi Bortak,

For about 7 hours I feel like troubleshootin'-Putin, and theres no solution in sight...

I have problem [4] from your delicious menu in the OP... RUU Problem with S-ON!!!

this is the current situation:

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-1.02.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.17.05.08

Jul 22 2011.16:19:16

RUU files fail with different errors and "Radio_V2 Fail-PU" error.

also Black screen and fancy triangles etc....

Goldcard is created and in place, but still couldn't use the WWE RUU...

Is it a complete brick? Is it confirmed that "radio-brick which is currently unfixable."??

RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00. 32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed

gives me ERROR [140]: BOOTLOADER-VERSION-ERROR

RUU_Bravo_Froyo_Vodafone_UK_2.33.161.2_Radio_32.49 .00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_157522_signed

gives me ERROR [152]: IMAGE-UPDATE-ERROR

RUU_HTC Desire Android 2.3 Upgrade (Gingerbread)

gives me ERROR [152]: IMAGE-UPDATE-ERROR

I described this problem in another thread, but no help or ideas there yet...

Going crazy already!! So please help me :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
You can only use the 2.3 RUU with your phone since youve got the 1.02 bootloader. Keep trying it, from different PCs too, and if that doesn't work, well then theres not much more you can do, sorry.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbota:
HTC Desire freezes on startup

Hello guys,

I need some help. I installed cyanogenmod 7.1 on my HTC Desire, the problem is when i reboot it won't start. It freezes on HTC boot screen.

Here are my phone details:

-Revolutionary-

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-6.93.1002

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.11.05.27

Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18

ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.0

I tried what the Troubleshooting[1] guide said, but it keeps the same, in order to go to cyanogenmod, i have to format the options as in the guide and then install cyanogen again everytime i restart the phone.

Can you give some help?

Thank you in advance
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
You may have some luck with a different recovery maybe. Try 4EXT, make sure to wipe everything (boot, system, data, cache, dalvik) and then flash again.

On a side note:

you would benefit with much more app space if you flashed the cm7r2 hboot from alpharev.nl (there's a guide here too)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbota:
thank you for your help bortak,

i just installed the 4EXT, but unfortunately it continues the same... has i reboot the system, it freezes on HTC screen.

I don't know what to do anymore, i'm afraid that so many installations i have done trying to fix this will brick the phone.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Nah, you can't brick it like that don't worry.

Have you tried any other ROMs?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Hmm, try a different ROM to see whether it does the same thing. Maybe it's just the cm7 download that's broken.

Try something like a sense 2.0 ROM
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbota:
Do you recommend updating the radio, or putting some new HBOOT?

All the ROM's i've been looking say to update radio, or change into a different HBOOT that i currently have.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cgorki:
question for the goldcard procedure, there are two different statements and i dont know what ist correct??!

this is my CID: 02544d5341303847061546917c00b790

[1] if i just reverse my CID I get, and and replace first two digits by zeros i get:

007b00c7196451607483031435d44520

[2] BUT...: the goldcard tool and other tools reverse by pairs, so I get

00B7007C9146150647383041534D5402

[1] tutorial ist here:http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how-to-create-a-goldcard/

[2] but goldcard tools give other values / paired reversed method!

WHYYYYY???
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
What goldcard tools? Just follow that tutorial and you should be good, worked fine for me when I did it several months ago.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
I don't see how that would have any impact on the ROM not booting after a restart, but I suppose it couldn't hurt to try.

Have you tried any other ROMs yet?