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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sleehond:
bortak!!!

I did the RUU again, now it seems working!

Phone = Restarting = making me happy so far!!!!

Bortak..... SO MANY THANKS :D

Its working again! D

Again, thanks in a million! Never been so happy with some help like your help!

U got my respect for patiently helping an impatient person ;)

Thanks mate, cheers!!!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Whey we finally got there.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kotag82:
Welcome Back Maestro :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GEX THE GECKO:
Bricked?

Just been given a GSM htc desire its unlocked and when i switch it on it takes me straight to the Hardboot,Recovery,Simlock etc Screen the volume up/down button doesnt work and neither does the power button, i no there not broke as i turned the phone on using the power button.

the phone says this.

Bravo pvt3 ship s-on

Hboot- 0.93.0001

Touch panel - synw0101

Radio -5.11.05.27

Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18

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] bortak:
If it's locked in the bootloader and buttons don't work then it's most likely water damage.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GEX THE GECKO:
its definately not water damaged it was hardly used could be dust damaged tho lol, as soon as i power on the phone with the sd card in it takes me straight to that menu then the script runs and says

sd.checking

loading [PB99DIAG.zip]

No image

Loading [PB99DIAG.nbh]

No image or wrong image

loading [PB99IMG.zip]

No Image

loading [PB99IMG.nbh]

no image or wrong image
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Can you boot into fastboot (turn it off, then hold BACK and POWER) Should say FASTBOOT with red background (or FASTBOOT USB) when plugged in.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GEX THE GECKO:
Na mate it wont let me go further than that menu.

edit in this thread the op has same problem its a different phone but same problem http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=703761. i tried formatting the card however i couldnt find a single zip file similar or identical to the one the script mentions on the card before i formatted it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
The thing that flashes on the screen is normal, it's just looking for files to see if they're there.. e.g. You can put a rom.zip named PB99IMG.zip on the phone and it will ask if you would like to update. But because your buttons don't work, you can't do that, and because you can't boot into fastboot, you can run a RUU.exe from your PC. There's nothing you can do here, sorry.

If you still have warranty then HTC would be a place to start.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GEX THE GECKO:
I have that rom on download at the minute, Ar cool il cancel it nevermind like i said i got it given was worth a shot at fixing it. thanks for the help :)

edit: decided to flash it anyway it told me my main version is older update fail..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arghness:
I've got a GSM Bravo with HBOOT 0.75, S-ON.

I see that Revolutionary only supports HBOOT 0.93.0001 and 1.02.0001 , so I'm trying to update the HBOOT.

My phone was Orange UK branded, and currently rooted and flashed to Leedroid. It has A2SD and doesn't appear to work with Alpharev, unfortunately (runs through to step 3, then boots to Android without the HBOOT changing).

I've SIM Unlocked the phone now, with the SIM unlocker on the forums, so I should now be able to flash any standard RUU, I think (or do I still need a gold card?)

I've looked on the XDA Desire wiki at which ROMs have these HBOOTs, but I can't find the RUUs for the only 2 ROMs that appear to have it (I've looked on shipped-roms.com). It looks like the stock Gingerbread ROM had 1.02.0001, but all the links point to the front page of htcdev.com and I can't find it anywhere there.

The alternative is to have a completely stock rooted ROM, but I've been unable to find one that has no A2SD and also has working download links.

I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction for this, please.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
What you need to do is flash a more modern RUU for the phone, this can be in the form of a newer 2.2 Froyo RUU with the .93 hboot, or the 2.3 Gingerbread with the 1.02 Hboot. The 2.3 RUU is said to be a bit more risky than the 2.2 one, so I would not advise to use it if you have the choice.

You should follow the steps of guide [7], where you would use the 2.2 WWE RUU, and extract the rom.zip from it, place it on the sd-card and run it from the hboot. This is safer as it eliminates the factor of using a PC, so only one thing can go wrong instead of 2 things (you have a 50% better chance of success!).

You do need a goldcard, SIM unlocking the phone does not touch the CID (I think, at least). It's not a very hard process, just look at the goldcard tutorial showed. If you for some reason can't make a goldcard, you can use the slightly riskier 2.3 RUU instead (2.2 is safer because if that goes wrong, you can try again, or use the 2.3 RUU in hopes of it fixing the problem, if one was to occur).

Remember that using RUU's always has a risk to it, so only use them when you have to. I've found that when the phone is at a cooler temperature, the risk goes down (and in some cases even fixes a problem if one was to occur), so if you want to be extra cautious, you can put the phone in the freezer for 20 minutes (in a plastic bag!) before starting the procedure. Don't be afraid to do it though, I've done it about 5 or 6 times on my phone without fail.

Anything I've missed?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arghness:
Thanks for your help, Bortak, I'd read quite a bit of this in your original excellent post.

I'm not sure where to find a WWE 2.2 standard ROM though.

At http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Desire it says I should be looking for 2.11.832.3_R but I can't find a WWE build with this number on shipped-roms.com

It might be easier for me to try and flash a regular stock non-A2SD ROM without an HBOOT update and try alpharev again, as A2SD apparently causes problems and the HBOOT version isn't important for that. I can't find any working links to rooted ROMs that don't have A2SD though. I'm not sure why I'm having so much trouble when everyone else seems to find it so simple :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Use CM7
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arghness:
Worked first time with Cyanogenmod 7 -- thanks!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] berkis2:
hello, ive experiencing rooting problems of my desire. The process with unrevoked runs smoothly and after couple reboots, i get message on the phone "Zysploit has stopped unexpectedly", after that unrevoked displays root error. With android 2.2 it was like this, so i downgraded to 2.1, the same result :). What else can be done to root my phone ? thanks in advance
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
QUESTION: Did you even look at the guide or just post. This is very important. Because if you didn't, I suggest you do so now.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] berkis2:
depends about what guide you are referring to :). I used [GUIDE] One Click How to Root the GSM & CDMA Desire with Unrevoked 3.21 to root, but unsuccessfully
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Dear god. Read the title of the thread, and try looking at the first page. *facepalm*

It's not "post your questions and I'll answer them 100x over" it's "follow the freakin guide, and post a problem if it still doesn't fix it"
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcclue:
Hahaha talking to a brick wall comes to mind :rolleyes:

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tubowah:
SD Card is not avaible after finished the Trouble shoot [5]: SLCD BRICK

First to say Thank you for posting the trouble shoot Mr bortak!!

Now my problem is the "SD Card is not available" , "no network" and " can't switch on the Blue tooth" after finished the Trouble shoot [5]: SLCD BRICK. I have try to flush in Recovery but shows a triangle of "!" picture.

Would you please advise me which solution method should I follow in your trouble shooting?

Thanking again!!!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Nooo why are you following SLCD Brick, that's something completely different.

What you have done (somehow) is USB-Bricked your device. You should search for USB (un)-bricking guides, sorry I don't have it up there, but I've never had the pleasure of experiencing one and therefore never wrote a guide on how to fix it, since I'm not an "expert" on it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tubowah:
I have get the 2 black line on the HTC screen with white background after installed the wrong version of RUU. So following SLCD Brick.

Do you mean the SD card is unavailable that may be the USB bricked??
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mash23:
Getting this in recovery

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/lastçlog

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log

I can get to recovery but no matter what I select the recovery freezes.

And my Hboot isn't spotting the PB99IMG.zip :/ can you help with that?

I'm familiar with fastboot etc. but haven't found what is causing this.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aklaric:
Hy,

I have a HTC Desire(rooted) and I formatted the SD card on computer.Now I am trying to put a rom on a cell phone but after installing the phone will not boot.Now i want to to put some ROM that is similar to orginal.Can anybody help me?

Thanks in advance
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Go to recovery, wipe everything from mounts & storage, then go to advanced and wipe dalvik cache, flash the ROM again. Should boot. If you want something similar flash a sense ROM, if you want to return to stock the download a ruu for your network provider and run it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Make sure you don't flash *ANYTHING* from this guide.

fastboot erase recovery
Fastboot erase cache
Fastboot erase boot
Fastboot erase system
Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Fastboot oem gencheckpt (don't know if this will work on sensation - it just boots recovery)

Boot recovery, see what happens.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dgorecki:
bortak, this troubleshooting guide had helped me a LOT! (Especially [4] th section :) ) Go check PM, I'll be glad to refound you a beer. cheers
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
No problem mate, glad it helped you out. You don't have to, but thanks :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JSale:
Unfortunately since i bought my Samsung galaxy s3 i forgot my hboot and thought to hope for the best when flashing a new radio in recovery, as it turns out i have now bricked my device and it will not boot past an android with a red arrow coming out of a white box :( any help is appreciated if it helps in any way, i have a goldcard but cannot even access fastboot let alone recovery

Regards

Jack
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
hold volume down, home and power. Should boot into download mode, then download a ROM (make sure it's a .tar, the stock ROMs in the general section will do), download ODIN if you do not already have it, in ODIN, press PDA and find the .tar ROM you downloaded, press start. If that doesn't work then I can't help you much more since a) this is a HTC Bravo troubleshooting guide, and B) I just got this phone too, I don't even know what CAN go wrong with it, and nothing has done for me so don't have personal experience of fixing it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JSale:
Unfortunately i don't think i made my post clear :( i am talking about my HTC desire having a problem after flashing the latest radio in recovery and not booting, the anecdote about the galaxy s3 was just an introduction about why i flashed the radio in the f first place (been a long time since i used the old desire and forgot hboot)

Sorry for any confusion :)

Regards

Jack
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Oh... umm give hboot info, what you did exactly, and what happens now, in a clear and organised fashion if possible. :good:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JSale:
Well it turns out that after leaving it at the little android logo for a couple of days it decided to boot into AmonRa (don't hate) and just said formatting cache.

The radio i flashed was "5.17.05.23" via amon ra, and as it turns out, i was on Data++ which was a stupid move on my part :(

Fortunately however it is back up and working after a quick nandroid restore :)

Thanks Bortak, for the help (kinda)

Regards

Jack
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Ah okay that's good, sorry I couldn't help more.. But I was confused as to what was even happening. Some advice would be to s-off your phone (make sure you flash a non a2sd rom before so, cm7 is good) and run revolutionary. This is because if you were in this situation again, and you couldn't boot recovery, you can just flash a new one via fastboot. Another thing is you really should do radios over fastboot too, it's safer that way.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cueballkrill:
Made various changes and I'm lost!

---AlphaRev---

BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.11.05.27

Rom - LeeRoid (FINAL)

Branded O2 Mobile

----------------------------------------------

Hello!

I am really confused and I hope you can help me out.

I would like to take the LeeRoid Rom off of my phone and install a Stock HTC Rom. I don't want to use the O2 Rom as there are limits in terms of using Skype over 3G and I'd prefer the phone to be brand-less.

I have tried several RUU's but they refuse to make any changes to my phone it gives me this error message

"error - 131 customer id error

The Rom update utility cannot update your andriod phone.

Please get the correct ROM update Utility and try again."

I have also tried installing the RUU with a goldcard but I still get the same message.

I have also attempted to flash the phone with the PB99IMG but I still come to a dead end.

So how can I remove LeeRoid (removing due to all the unwanted programs) and install an offical firmware that isn't branded?

I hope you can guide me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance,

Cue
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Then you either don't have a goldcard or it doesn't work. Try doing the unlockr goldcard tutorial, worked for me when I did it (years ago, but still worked).

If you can't be bothered for that, you can risk using the 2.3 RUU (find it in resources).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] primski:
Hello,

I got Sandvold ICS on my HTC Desire and I was trying to move my apps to SD, following this guide.

Anyone knows if this even works for this system, because I'm having some problems and unsure how to proceed.

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
You don't need to do all of that. The Sandvold ICS ROM comes with in-built A2SD, all you have to do is enable it.

Go to the terminal application ad type the following

su
a2sd install

This will only however work if you have an EXT3 or 4 partition on your sd-card. If you don't then just say and I'll explain.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] primski:
Awesome, thanks!

I just found that guide - on sandvold website - 2 seconds after I posted...

So i can remove the S2E app I installed in that guide, as well as remove both files i had to put in /etc/init.d/ and /system\app folders ?

The file 20userinit did NOT exist prior on my filesystem and I didn't have to overwrite it like that guide says... so i can safely remove both these files, and S2E app and just complete with the 'a2sd install' command ?

Also, it says select swap size 0 - i selected 64mb, but I guess that kills the SD sooner, so i can just repartition without the swap?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
If everything works fine then yes, you should be able to just delete those apps. If it doesn't, wipe boot, system, cache and dalvik (not data), and flash the ROM again. Then enable a2sd from terminal.

Linux Swap, in simple terms, it "increases" your RAM, by using the swap partition as RAM. Your SD Card is A LOT slower however, so whether it will give you any performance boosts is controversial. It would probably be more stable if you didn't use it.

And yes, just delete the swap partition. I hope you're using gparted for this too, I wouldn't trust anything else.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tombias:
I have a big problem and searched a lot. My Desire only shows a blackscreen with grey HTC Logo and the four /!\ signs

I can't enter recovery at all. I cant even use the volumebutton+power combination. I can use fastboot but the problem is that the Desire is s-on.

So I can't flash any img because of that. I also have a goldcard but I can't use it because of the fact that I can't go into recovery at all.

Revolutionary keeps waiting for the device.

Can someone give me a hint, please? Thanks in advance!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] primski:
And yes, just delete the swap partition. I hope you're using gparted for this too, I wouldn't trust anything else.[/QUOTE]

yea I am using gparted... the 'partition app tool' in recovery formats to ext3 by default, so i reformated it to ext4 in gparted.

I have now removed all traces from previous guide but my 'su' tool is missing now.... if i go the terminal and type 'su' it says permission denied... how have i deleted that, and how can i restore it ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kotag82:
Section 4 of guide in short

Sent from my Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tombias:
I wish that would help and I tried it before I asked the question but the fact is that the RUU stops at 27% and doesn´t continue. It stops at updating radio.

So I was searching for an alternative. I hope there is.

fastboot devices shows the serial of the Desire but adb doesn´t reconize my Desire.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] primski:
yea I am using gparted... the 'partition app tool' in recovery formats to ext3 by default, so i reformated it to ext4 in gparted.

I have now removed all traces from previous guide but my 'su' tool is missing now.... if i go the terminal and type 'su' it says permission denied... how have i deleted that, and how can i restore it ?[/QUOTE]

I did a factory reset and all is good now.

thanks for the help
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] primski:
I did a factory reset and all is good now.

thanks for the help[/QUOTE]

actually, it's not working... i mean the process completed successfully, and i see sd mounted on /sd-ext, but I can't install any app... it says Insufficient Storage, not even on those 70mb i had free of internal memory... weird, any ideas?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Alright lets just start from the beginning. Here's what you need to do:

0. Download data++ Hboot (more space) (Need S-OFF)

- boot into fastboot

fastboot flash hboot hboot.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem gencheckpt[I] (boots recovery)[/I]

1. Recovery

- Mounts & Storage > format boot > format cache > format system > format userdata

- Advanced > wipe dalvik cache

2. Download newest sandvold build (if you haven't already)

- Custom install: Stock a2sd, no swap.

3. Terminal emulator

su
a2sd install

Should make things work good.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tombias:
With the fastboot gencheckpt, my Desire boots with the white screen and the htc logo but I can't go any futher into recovery.

Is there another way to get recovery-software on the Desire?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] primski:
thanks for your help, but something isn't right with my phone...

I re-done everything... reinstalled sandovald ics from zip on sd, cleared cache before that, formated system, formated sd card. installed everything stock, and its working nicely, until i install a2sd...

in terminal, 'df' shows correct disk space for all the drives, 4GB free in /sd-ext

'mount' shows correctly all the partitions mounted. sd card as ext4, sd storage partition as fat32,...

but when i go to the Play Store and click update, it doesn't even start downloading. and sometimes it does start but it's so slow (bytes per second) its unusable.... it works with 3g, no problems over mobile network without a2sd....

i don't know, maybe something's wrong with sd card? although i can use it everywhere without problems. i can put it in my laptop, see it, mount it, format it, whatever, no problems....

the only thing i didn't do is the 0.) part about Download data++ Hboot - do you have link perhaps? i will start with this and try again...

one question though:

- i noticed it mounts several different points to sd, /data/apps, /data/cache and /data/privateapps to subfolders on /sd-ext, right?

why 3 different points to the same device? why not just mount /data to /sd-ext and it should know any difference between internal storage and sd storage, is that what xdata does? it tried that too, and it was the same though...

---------- Post added at 10:07 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:53 AM ----------

and when it finishes download it says 'Insufficient Storage Available'...

idk, i suspected it didn't mount the sd partition correctly, maybe not writable or whatever, but I can go terminal and CD into the folder, and create an empty file called one.txt, without problems so i guess it is mounted writable, so thats not the case...

is there anything else i can check if my phone even supports sandvold? it IS desire, but who knows... also, how could i test if sd card is ok?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] primski:
ext3/ext4 doens't make a difference....

something's borked and I don't know how to debug it.

and home button stops working after a while... i noticed that yesterday, and today when i reinstalled everything, it worked again... and now its not working again.

gingerbread, here we come ....

edit: I formated the sd partition to 1gb and it seems to be working now, at least i was able to update a few apps Play Store offered me, without the insufficient storage error msg. needs more testing, will report back.

edit2: hm, it did allow me to install several apps without any issues. Except maybe its kinda slow, a lot of apps give me the 'not responding' error, but i click 'wait' and they usually come back fairly quickly. and after i rebooted, it didn't remount the sd cards and hence all my apps were gone, including the Superuser one, so i couldn't even go to the terminal and do 'su'. it said permission denied. i know reinstalled Superuser from .apk using adb but it still won't remount the sd partition...

not sure what im doing wrong, i'm gonna try reinstalling from scratch now and use Data2SD, i read around people have more successs with that one...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mahesh_9j:
HTC Desire stuck after RUU upgrade Error icon on the four corners.

Hi All,

I was trying to install a STOCK rom on my Desire and it got error while installing the same and now its stucked on white screen with error icon on corners. I have also changed teh partition table its now on CM7r2.

[1] RADIO_V2 - OK

[2] SPLASH1 - OK

[3] RECOVERY - OK

[4] SPLASH2 - Fail-PU

[5] RADIO_CUST - OK

[6] BOOTLOADER - OK

[7] USERDATA - OK

[8] SYSTEM - OK

[9] BOOT - OK

Partition update fail!

Update Fail!

Please let me know that how can I get it back so thatI can get fastboot access and will able to install thwe custom recovery.

Regards,

Mahesh :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Fix is on the guide try reading it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Yeah ICS is still generally quite buggy on the Desire, you can't expect it to work as well as GB. If speed, stability and user space is what you're looking for, you should try using CM7 and trying some ICS themes, they work pretty well.

Some ICS themeing tips:

ADW Launcher EX + ADW ICS theme (change screen transitions to system managed to have ICS ones, they're in behaviour settings I think)

Lock screen style - holo

CM7 ICS Theme

And you're pretty much done