[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilpharmacist:
Hi,

I had a stock HTC Desire. These are the steps I took:

- First I rooted using unrevoked. That worked perfectly.

- Then I did S-off using alpharev. No problem at all.

- Next I wanted to have a2sd (or mount2sd or app2sd+ or data2ext, WTF is the difference???) to finally be released of the "no memory" messaged (HTC, what were you thinking??). I didn't want to add init.d support to my stock rom, so I picked this rom, which had it built in.

- Before I installed that ROM, I used Gparted to make two partitions on the 4 gb sd card: 3 gb FAT32 and 1 gb EXT4.

- Then I installed the Cronmod ROM. During installation it asked if I had an EXT partition, I said yes.

The phone booted fine so I started to install my apps. I soon noticed my internal memory became to small again! Why wasn't that data2ext thing working?? I remembered from the rooting faq that some ROMs don't work with EXT4 partitions, so let's see if I can change it to EXT3.

I booted into Gparted again and here things started to go bad: there was nothing there! There was 2.74 gb of

unallocated space

!!!

Not only was there just 2.74 gb on a 4 gb card, all partitions were gone!

- I made two partitions again: 1.76 FAT32 and 999 mb EXT3. I would try to find a solution to get the invisible 1.3 gb on the sd card back later. First I wanted to have this data2ext thing working.

- When I tried to reboot I got stuck on the Alpharev "Why so serious" screen.

- wipe data/factory reset didn't work either, because I got the "Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)

(No such file or directory)" error. Why is that much going wrong??

- Googling learned I probably had an SD card brick, so I followed this guide. That didn't work at all. I did these two command: fastboot oem enableqxdm 0(unblock your sd-card)

fastboot oem eraseconfig(fix misc partition).

- Finally I did a "partition SD card" in recovery and that got it to recognize my sd card again.

- It still hangs on the "why so serious" screen though. So maybe I need to reinstall the rom? I put the rom on the fat32 partition, but "install zip from SD card" in recovery gives the error "no files found". Also, in HBoot, for a split second it shows some errors: something about missing zip/img files and then "no image or wrong image"

According to the Troubleshooting FAQ I need to do this:

To fix a bootloop/ stuck on HTC Screen:

[STEP1]- do a battery pull to power off the device (as this is the only way to do so when stuck in a bootloop)

[STEP2]- hold the VOLUME DOWN button and the POWER button to boot into the bootloader

[STEP3]- use the VOLUME UP/DOWN buttons to navigate, and POWER to select. Navigate to RECOVERY.

[STEP4]- select "mounts & storage" and then select the following options

[STEP5]- format boot

[STEP6]- format system

[STEP7]- format data

[STEP8]- format cache

[STEP9]- format sd-ext (IF YOU HAVE IT)

[IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A BACKUP]

[STEP10b]- go back to the main menu, select "install zip from sdcard", then "choose zip from sdcard", and flash a ROM which you KNOW works. If you have none, try my failsafe: CyanogenMod

- reboot system now

I did all that, but as explained, it doesn't find any files on the sdcard!

This is the info I have in HBoot:

---AlphaRev---

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.11.05.27

So these are my problems:

- Stuck at "Why so serious" alpharev screen.

- My SD card reports only 2.74 gb size, while it's 4 gb.

- I can't install zip files from the SD card: "no files found", while I can see they are there in windows explorer...

Please help :-(