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[G2 and Desire Z General] Hannwu:
Hey there fellas,

although i hate posting here it looks to me like i have no other option left - most of the "solutions" i worked out myself or read elsewhere (including xda) didn't change a thing or did change something but not solve the problem :p

So sorry for wasting precious time and thanks for looking through this in advance!

The Problem

A few days ago my Desire Z had a screen freeze... i tried watching an video, but it stacked after the first second and then everything... didn't go well at all. I could restart after i took out the battery (the only way to restart till now) and came till the SIM-Check, while unlocking the sim it hang up again. I tried this a few times with the same result, took out the sim and got to the unlock-screen. I was able to unlock, but a few seconds later freeze again.

I tried a few things i will mention later, the result is that i never came to the unlock screen again since, after showing the white HTC-Screen the screens stays black and nothing reacts till i take out the battery.

I can access the bootloader and the clockworkmod recovery mode.

What I Tried

It tried wiping the cache, data and dalvik. Pretty much everything assumed in the first couple of posts in this thread and, after that didn't help (yeah, i also took out the battery over night) i looked for other solutions... factory reset etc

I tried installing a new rom, first via the PC10IMG.zip method, then via Clockworkmod (install zip). I cannot flash the boot.img, fastboot complains that remote controll is not allowed for this action.

I also checked the emmc, it is the bad, bad samsung, but it's still working.

Information About The Phone

The phone is rooted, i had the AOSP-JB custom firmware installed, but can't remember how i rooted... guess the usual way, gain temporary root and make it permanent.

The recovery mode is clockworkmod v3.0.2.4

VISION PUT SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.85.0005
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Oct 11 2010,20:10:38

IMAGE CRC

hboot: 0x446ACD38
boot: 0xEEEB62D1
recovery: 0x26A3CD9C
system: 0xFAEBDFB4

The logcat-output:

/sbin/sh: exec: line 1: logcat: not found

Beautiful, isn't it?

It was recommendet to also do a dsmeg output, well, here you go... as an attachment :)

So, if you want me to do some crazy stuff, i'm open minded :)

Thank you :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
When the Samsung emmc fails it doesn't always mean just dead and won't turn on, often you will the very same symptoms you are showing so unfortunately this is probably the case.

You can't use fastboot commands due to the bootloader you have installed, you can try and fix this by flashing the one of the PC10IMG.zips linked in one of the first posts, this however is not done through recovery but the bootloader itself, look at the bottom of post three, there is a link to another thread (post30?) That will have instructions as well as the zips

Good luck and keep us posted
[G2 and Desire Z General] Hannwu:
Thank you for the fast answer, although i didn't like reading the thing about the possible emmc malfunction ;)

Is there a way for me to verify that the source of all evil is located there?

Anyway, i tried it with the PC10IMG you provided, i did that before but can't remember why it didn't work.

So, i got into the fastbootmode, had the file present and this is what happened:

$ ./fastboot flash zip PC10IMG.zip
ERROR: could not get pipe properties
sending 'zip' (17811 KB)...
OKAY [ 3.034s]
writing 'zip'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 3.035s

The same happened when i tried to flash each img itself
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
the bootloader you have installed now has very limited fastboot capabilities, you could try this

fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip PC10IMG.zip
fastboot reboot-bootloader

but truthfully i would just have it named PC10IMG.zip

place it on the root of my sd card (no folders)

and boot into hboot

when the text says found update or whatever, choose yes

if it successfully flashes you may be in luck and you just had a corrupt partition and not a full fledged fried chip

good luck!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Hannwu:
And so i did ;)

No reason to be happy although, Bootloader decided to comment with:

- Fail-PU
Partition update fail!
Update Fail!
Press <POWER> to reboot.

I did check the md5 sum, nothin wrong there.

The other thing i noticed is, that after just lettin the phone reboot with a fresh formatted SDcard, it appears in

adb devices
List of devices attached
SH19ERT00440	device

I seem to have full adb controll, even after the failed booting process, is this of any use to me? Also two directories where generated on the card, LOST.DIR and WhatsApp.
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
You can check which emmc you have with adb and if you have a sandisk there's a chance you just a severely corrupted partition which could be reformatted with adb, worth a shot
[G2 and Desire Z General] Hannwu:
Like i stated before, unfortunatly it's the bad boy:

$ fastboot oem check_emmc_mid

(bootloader) Manufacturer ID, MID=15
(bootloader) eMMC should be samsung
OKAY [ 0.008s]
finished. total time: 0.008s

~ # cat /proc/kmsg | grep 'mmc0:0001'
<6>[ 4.503173] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 M4G2DE 2.10 GiB

# dmesg | grep mmc0
<3>[ 4.343383] mmc0: No card detect facilities available
<6>[ 4.343994] mmc0: Qualcomm MSM SDCC at 0x00000000a0500000 irq 98,0 dma 8
<6>[ 4.344146] mmc0: Platform slot type: MMC
<6>[ 4.344268] mmc0: 4 bit data mode disabled
<6>[ 4.344512] mmc0: 8 bit data mode enabled
<6>[ 4.344635] mmc0: MMC clock 144000 -> 50000000 Hz, PCLK 96000000 Hz
<6>[ 4.344879] mmc0: Slot eject status = 0
<6>[ 4.345001] mmc0: Power save feature enable = 1
<6>[ 4.345153] mmc0: DM non-cached buffer at ffa0c000, dma_addr 0x0bb80000
<6>[ 4.345397] mmc0: DM cmd busaddr 0x0bb80000, cmdptr busaddr 0x0bb80300
<6>[ 4.501312] mmc0: new high speed MMC card at address 0001
<6>[ 4.503173] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 M4G2DE 2.10 GiB
<3>[ 5.771667] mmc0: failed to get card ready
<6>[ 5.771820] mmc0: reinit card
<4>[ 5.771942] mmc0: Starting deferred resume
<6>[ 7.811798] mmc0: Deferred resume failed
<3>[ 8.016326] mmc0: DMA channel flushed (0x80000004)
<6>[ 8.017517] mmc0: Controller has been reset
<6>[ 8.017944] mmc0: Worked around bug 1535304
<3>[ 8.020080] mmc0: DMA channel flushed (0x80000004)
<6>[ 8.021240] mmc0: Controller has been reset
<6>[ 8.021667] mmc0: Worked around bug 1535304
<6>[ 8.030578] mmc0: reinit card
<4>[ 8.030944] mmc0: Starting deferred resume
<6>[ 10.061798] mmc0: Deferred resume failed
<3>[ 10.205932] mmc0: DMA channel flushed (0x80000004)
<6>[ 10.206359] mmc0: Controller has been reset
<6>[ 10.206573] mmc0: Worked around bug 1535304
<3>[ 10.207916] mmc0: DMA channel flushed (0x80000004)
<6>[ 10.208221] mmc0: Controller has been reset
<6>[ 10.208404] mmc0: Worked around bug 1535304
<6>[ 10.215209] mmc0: reinit card
<4>[ 10.215362] mmc0: Starting deferred resume
<6>[ 12.251739] mmc0: Deferred resume failed
<3>[ 12.436645] mmc0: DMA channel flushed (0x80000004)
<6>[ 12.437103] mmc0: Controller has been reset
<6>[ 12.437408] mmc0: Worked around bug 1535304
<3>[ 12.438690] mmc0: DMA channel flushed (0x80000004)
<6>[ 12.439239] mmc0: Controller has been reset
<6>[ 12.439422] mmc0: Worked around bug 1535304
<6>[ 12.446289] mmc0: reinit card
<4>[ 12.446411] mmc0: Starting deferred resume
<6>[ 14.481781] mmc0: Deferred resume failed

Well then, i guess it's time to use my guarantee... Will take my way to the repair shop tomorrow, but thank you very much for your help anyway, after all i learned a lot about my phone ;)

EDIT

Oh my gosh i feel si stupid -.- There i have it, black on screenwhite, that the eMMC is fried -.- Sorry for bothering you and thanks again
[G2 and Desire Z General] derKenny:
Help me pls :(

Hello, since 2 days i have a great problem. I read through your thread, but i cant fix it :/

Everything worked fine with CM7.2 on my HTC Desire Z, but i found a new modded version to CM10.1 by Andromadus.

Worked at the beginning, but as i installed apps etc it hang up. i remove battery. try to install via bootloader -> recovery new.

Still made a backup via recovery (Clockworkmod 3.0.2.4) from my old system CM7.2.

But it wont install.

And then i made everything wrong, dunnow why and how :///

So here i am, with a working HBOOT Bootloader, but no working Recovery and/or Factory Reset.

Fastboot and USB connection still work, but what to do?!

If i want to go to Recovery, white screen, green HTC logo... hangs up...

If i want to do Factory Reset, same problem.

HERE IS MY OPEN TOPIC ABOUT IT!!!

Information you could need:

Bootloader

VISION PVT ENG S-OFF

HBOOT-0.84.2000 (PC1011000)

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.03.02.26_M

eMMC-boot

Sep 8 2010, 15:56:38

IMAGE CRC

hboot: 0x2A125CF4

boot: 0xEB626984

recovery: 0x26A3CD9C

system: 0x7C440565

SYSTEM INFO

SN-HT0C6RT01191

LCD-SO

TOUCH PANEL-ATMELC12_20aaY

Commit-adbd7a75

OS Ver.-1.34.405.5

IMEI-352212040749876

CID-11111111

eMMC-Sandisk 2223MB 4554751sectors

fastboot oem jump[/]

output:

(bootloader) [SD_HW_ERR] read data fail in CMD18

(bootloader) [SD_HW_ERR] SD: Read data fail..

(bootloader) [ERR] partition_read_emmc(453): error 2

(bootloader) [SD_HW_ERR] read data fail in CMD17

(bootloader) [SD_HW_ERR] SD: Read data fail..

(bootloader) [ERR] partition_read_emmc(453): error 2

(bootloader) [ERR] boot image does not exist!!!

OKAY [0.336s]

finished. total time: 0.340s

I tried to flash new Recovery, the old one 3.0.2.4 and the new one 5.x.x.x, but it wont work.

even the fastboot output is SENDING OKAI... WRITING OKAI...

i stuck, maybe u know at least another way or a way i didnt know yet.

or if my phone is bricked with fried eMMC, how do i know...

Thanks for reading and maybe helping me,

greeting from germany,

a lost android user :(

ahh!

the only thing i did not try is to put the PC10?!.img into the root of my SD card and starting hboot.

Cause the only PC connection between pc and sdcard was my handy -.-

but isnt it the same as doing it flashing via fastboot?

if not, i must do it and report you how it ends...
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Well you have the good emmc, at least its not prone to failure. My guess is theres a corrupt partition somewhere. Being what's avalible to you right now I would flash one of the pc10img.zips I created. This should completely format just about everything for you. This can be done through fastboot oem rebootRUU or just put on root of SD card, the instructions should be there for either method of flashing it.

Good luck!
[G2 and Desire Z General] jardam.cz:
Last Friday my HTC Vision arrived to the Global Warranty Service in Hong Kong. They called me twice sinde that time. They told me, that there is only a SW problem and they need to reflash the original ROM.

According to this information is looks like the chip isn't fried, but never say never before they repair the phone and send it back.

I'll send an update after the "slider" arrives back.
[G2 and Desire Z General] derKenny:
First, ty! Second, what to do next :s

Thanks for your answer, the first i got :)

So sry for disturbing again, but looks like im not so smart as i thought, so i have a few more questions :S

Good to hear that eMMC is not fcked up, but what to do next...

I found YOUR DROPBOX LINK DZ_PC10IMG.zip, when i understood right i have to but it renamed as PC10IMG.zip in the root folder of my SD card an start via VOL- plus Startup-Button my phone and the rest is bootloader doing automatically...?! Am i right?

I wonder a litl bit cause i found this site before and wanted flash those via fastboot, but there is not boot.img in that PC10IMG.zip. Looks like a do it wrong, first i thought it cant be possible cause this PC10IMG.zip is so small.

So, nevermind. As a said before when i get a card reader i try this way and tell you if it works :)

But atm i dont have any cardreader so i dont have access on my sd card. so am i stupid cause i dont know how it works via fastboot... if it works?!

I can put the file in the fastboot folder, but what is it for a command 'fastboot oem rebootRUU'? I must tell fastboot the filename or not? sry, looks like i am 'standing on a pipe' like we say here in germany...
[G2 and Desire Z General] allen_yu28:
should've look into this thread much earlier before. this could have saved me a lot of time extracting pc10img.zip on signed RUU.

anyway anybody knows where to get partitioning files for new emmc?. the link from my last download was dead and the rest is not working for me right now(riff jtag). and does anyone have tried the emmc that came from China? the sales person that I have talked to says it needs not to be jtag anymore just install, flash and reboot. anyone with experience with this please can hear we from you?
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
@ derKenny

no bother at all, thats what this thread is for! and it does not contain a new kernel or rom thats why you dont see boot image or system image

what it does contain is the firmware to recover your phone. and yes feel free to flash in fastboot, in many ways this is the safest method anyway

fastboot oem rebootRUU

fastboot flash zip PC10IMG.zip

fastboot reboot-bootloader

good luck!

@ allen_yu28

not sure what the partition table will help you with but running cat /proc/partitions through adb shell you get

179 0 2277376 mmcblk0
179 1 500 mmcblk0p1
179 2 64 mmcblk0p2
179 3 4500 mmcblk0p3
179 4 1 mmcblk0p4
179 5 30000 mmcblk0p5
179 6 12500 mmcblk0p6
179 7 2048 mmcblk0p7
179 8 3072 mmcblk0p8
179 9 2048 mmcblk0p9
179 10 1024 mmcblk0p10
179 11 1024 mmcblk0p11
179 12 8751 mmcblk0p12
179 13 3072 mmcblk0p13
179 14 3072 mmcblk0p14
179 15 1024 mmcblk0p15
179 16 8957 mmcblk0p16
179 17 256 mmcblk0p17
179 18 1024 mmcblk0p18
179 19 1024 mmcblk0p19
179 20 1280 mmcblk0p20
179 21 8701 mmcblk0p21
179 22 4096 mmcblk0p22
179 23 256 mmcblk0p23
179 24 2047 mmcblk0p24
179 25 571391 mmcblk0p25
179 26 1203199 mmcblk0p26
179 27 307199 mmcblk0p27
179 28 21247 mmcblk0p28
179 29 256 mmcblk0p29
179 32 7772160 mmcblk1
179 33 7768064 mmcblk1p1

now this will depend on which bootloader you have. as far as jtag would go this shouldnt be needed just need to flash the bootloader radio and recovery. i dont know anyone who has done this with a vision but i know it has been done and there is documentation on it if you search google.

and sorry i dont get what your asking when you say you dont need to jtag just flash? what exactly are you looking for then?

EDIT:

I see, I read to quickly the first time, I personally haven't swapped the emmc for a new one, but I once helped someone determine they had a bad one and he did, if you search the threads a bit you'll find his experience. In short it comes preloaded with the factory firmware and software and you just need to solder it in place. Which is not for the novice as this is fine soldering.
[G2 and Desire Z General] derKenny:
dont look good :(

thanks again.

first, if i try the command 'fastboot oem rebootRUU' handy starts new, but not into bootloader. it hang on the white screen with the green htc logo :(

second, after battery reset i went into the bootloader, fastboot, and tried to flash your PC10IMG.zip via your command. here is what i got:

fastboot flash zip PC10IMG.zip

sending 'zip' (17811 KB)...

OKAY [2.974s]

writing 'zip'...

(bootloader) zip header checking...

(bootloader) zip info parsing...

(bootloader) checking model ID...

(bootloader) start image[hboot] unzipping for pre-update check...

(bootloader) start image[hboot] flushing...

(bootloader) start image[radio]unzipping for pre-update...

(bootloader) start image[radio] flushing...

FAILED (remote: hboot pre-update! please flush image again immediately)

finished. total time 30.882s

Then the handy reboots with white screen and green htc logo.

same problem when i put the zip on the root on my sd card...

strange, on the screen when bootloader tried to update, it started with [5] Bootloader!

On screen:

Parsing...[SD ZIP]

[1] RECOVERY

[2] SPLASH1

[3] TP

[4] TP

[5] BOOTLOADER

[6] RADIO_V2

[7] RADIO CUST

So, after this also not worked... did i take my htc desire z to grave? :'(
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
If you can't even get into ruu mode and the pc10img fails then I'm sorry to say but you need a new emmc, often more cheap to buy a new logicboard a broken phone and swap boards. But like the one above you it is possible to solder in a new chip, I can't contest to how easy it is for I have never done it, but I have soldered in usb ports and its not fun and the emmc would be much more difficult

Sorry for the bad news
[G2 and Desire Z General] derKenny:
thank you

well, its not your fault. i should have used the internet as i had connection with the recovery etc... well, i look around for the same model, put CM7.2 and have a restore backup. but thanks for your great help :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] -DarkKnight-:
I just found out that my phone(g2) has the m4xxxxx chip. Now, I'm paranoid that the used phone that was in perfect condition on craigslist is going to break any moment.

I run flinny's 10.1. How can i keep my phone working for atleast a year or two :(

how prone to failure is my phone?
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
I'd love to give you a solid answer but unfortunately there isn't one

It happens to people with and without rooted phones, sometimes right away, sometimes never. The cause isn't too known either but it tends to be when downloading something to a partition, data, cache, whatever. Really just know if it does happen it was no fault of yours
[G2 and Desire Z General] -DarkKnight-:
Something to keep sure of is to never pull the battery out unless absolutley necessary? And pray every night? And to have a weekly sacrifice to keep the android gods happy?

my :tank: has blown your house up
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
I don't know if the act of pulling the battery has much to do with it, but to do a hard reboot just hold the trackpad, volume, and power and it will reboot. Possibly reformatting all partitions from time to time may help, but that's no more than a guess.

I think you're best off just praying to the android gods, usually a weekly sacrifice of an iPod will suffice
[G2 and Desire Z General] pirxthepilot:
that's a good one!
[G2 and Desire Z General] jardam.cz:
So, after almost 2 months my Desire Z is back from the bloody HTC Global Warranty Service in Hong Kong. I made really BAD experience with them, but after paying about 120 USD for a WARRANTY repair, my phone is back and seems to be working.

At first they told me, that it is a SW problem, but based on information from this thread, it was obvious, that I have a CHIP problem.

Yes, they at the end changed the main board. I need to check, what chip is there, hope it is not the bloody Samsung.
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
I'm glad its back and working! From what I've heard people get good chips when sent in for warranty, of course I can't say for sure. As soon as you root check and hope for the best!

Happy flashing!
[G2 and Desire Z General] jardam.cz:
Hi. It looks I still have the "bad" chip from Samsung:

fastboot oem check_emmc_mid
...
(bootloader) Manufacturer ID, MID=15
(bootloader) eMMC should be samsung
OKAY [ 0.016s]
finished. total time: 0.016s

But the phone works, so I try to reflash to some custom ROM and see what happens.
[G2 and Desire Z General] -DarkKnight-:
I would just find a stable ROM and just keep it like that
[G2 and Desire Z General] jardam.cz:
So I performed the root and flashed Flinnys CM10.1 and after 10 mins of checking everything runs smoothly. Thanks a lot for support!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Illidan Pornrage:
Hi demkantor,

just got a DZ that does not do anything, no screen flicker, no boot, no usb. No charging led with 6 different chargers. Battery is tested in a new DZ and works.

It looks like it does not even get power.

I will try to gradually build a chimera out of this phone and another DZ which has just broken flex cables and a ****edup case.
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
No fun

Have you tried to see if the pins connecting to the battery are OK, there have been a few people with that issue. Other than that it does sound as if its completely dead... Hopefully that new logic board will resurrect it!
[G2 and Desire Z General] rienkandroid:
Just flashed your version of DZ_PC10IMG.img. It saved me from a red triangle in recovery after trying to install ILWT_CM7-vision-875a.zip coming from Slim-vision-4.2.2.build.6.2-UNOFFICIAL-20130608-0927. Got stuck in the splash screen before the sound. (did have the idea that shouldn't work) :)

Hboot worked partially as there was an older PC10IMG.img on the device which eventually installed. So i got the factory mint state back but no recovery. nothing worked except putting your file on the root. Thanks again. Going to root again and try again.
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Haha, glad it worked! Handy little file to keep around. If you want to keep it on your sdcard just change the name of it so every time you boot into hboot it doesn't flash again
[G2 and Desire Z General] firthmj:
Desire Z very dead after reflash attempt

Hi,

I have a Desire Z that I rooted and reflashed a while ago.

As it has been gradually getting less and less usable (very slow, frequently refusing to do simple things, battery life atrocious), I decided today to try and reflash a newer build.

First, I tried Andromadus Mimicry v1.5.0. This seemed to flash OK, but stuck at the booting screen.

No problem, I thought. I can still get into recovery, so I'll try another ROM. So I erased again, and tried flashing "CyanogenMod 9.1.0- 3X kernel-final"

That proved fatal. After selecting reboot, the phone now does nothing at all.

Pressing the power button does nothing

Pressing the power button holding down volume down does nothing

Plugging in the charger doesn't light the orange LED

Is my phone now a complete brick?

Are there any other tricks / button combinations I can try to recover it?

Current plan is to leave it unplugged with the battery out overnight, and try again in the morning. Don't hold out much hope of any life returning though :(

Thanks in advance for any advance

Michael
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Strange, flashing a ROM shouldn't do anything like this to your phone. Hopefully letting it sit without battery for a while will work. Keep us posted
[G2 and Desire Z General] firthmj:
Seems my phone is still completely dead this morning.

I see there are some people on eBay offering to unbrick phones for about £20 - is this likely to fix it, or is it more likely that something has broken in the hardware and it is just a binner?
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
This does sound like hardware, like your battery is fried or motherboard or something, most of the time when it bricks do to bad firmware flash you still get led light. I would check another battery or open it up and have a peek at the logicboard

Best of luck