[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zlatko1983:
Hey guys, quite honestly this is just a post-mortem help I felt I would want to chime in with. I just had almost a heart attack last night thinking I bricked my HTC Raider 4G / HTC Holiday / HTC Vivid / HTC Velocity 4G - Whatever you want to call it, it's the same phone. BTW, the captcha on this site and the discrimination towards new users is borderline a war crime :)

I want to ensure you that if you followed the whole Juopunutbear S-off bootloop / ControlBear method - your phone is NOT BRICKED. Mine wasn't, and I almost gave up on it last night. I ended up trading my HTC Raider 4G with someone for a Samsung Galaxy S III, but I wanted to touch base and just give you a heads up as to what I did (as best my memory serves me).

My situation was as follows:

1) I used the whole S-Off Toolkit By Hasoon2000 - and actually got S-Off (Security Off)

2) I followed to a tee, with all of it's "beer" references and did the whole "wire-trick" see picture below, I had to pull out my lab lamp light to see it and was getting more and more angry as the evening progressed.

3) My phone was stuck in the Juopunutbear S-Off Bootloop (or Boot Loop as some put it)

4) I could get the phone into Recovery/Fastboot (whatever you want to call it.)

Here is what I did to fix it:

1) Get yourself your OEM RUU (This is the Original Equipment Manufacturer Rom Update Utility), I hate acronyms so I will clarify as I go. You can download these at the following link (If you come back to this page a year from now and the links are broken, Google them by the exact file name, I am certain someone out there will keep backups forever. The link below surely has your carrier, e.g. Telstra etc. Follow the instructions and download your RUU for your carrier:

http://www.filefactory.com/f/002b74e0f4775869/

2) Pull the battery out of your HTC Raider / Holiday / Vivid / Velocity

3) Re-insert the battery into the phone

4) Press the volume down button + power and hold until the "Bootloader" or "Recovery" or "HBoot" or "Fastboot" screen comes up - many names for it.

5) Once the screen has come up, click on Fastboot and connect it to your computer. If it detects your computer it will say "Fastboot USB", this is good and it will look like the image at the bottom.

6) Once the phone is connected, run the specific file name for your phone based on carrier from point number 1.

7) Leave the phone plugged in and running, and it will basically flash the phone back to OEM - at least this way you can have a useable phone and will allow you to retreat/regroup and fight another day.

Fastboot USB Photo - Get your phone to look like this by going through the menus, it won't take more than 10 seconds

http://i47.tinypic.com/ru5m55.png

My Lab Setup - With The "Wire Trick" + Lamp and me getting more and more pissed off.

http://i48.tinypic.com/dyng9v.jpg

I hope this helps, I was quite honestly pulling my hair out trying to find out more information/help but it was just almost impossible to find for this phone - I think the reduced user base is partially to blame for this. My previous phone was a Samsung Galaxy S I9000 and I had absolutely no issues with support. I've learned my lesson and devices to back out, I now have a nice Samsung Galaxy S 3. If you need anything - I think you can PM me. P.S. I ran both Virtuous Inquisition ROM as well as Wajee's 1.5 and they were ok - Wajee was a bit better.