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[HTC Desire S] aphrodite1:
Updated HTC desire s and phone has crashed

Hi,

I purchased a HTC Desire S and updated the android system software on my phone as it was set to factory default. The phone has now crashed and won't go past the htc logo. I have tried the factory reboot by holding the power and volume button at the side but this hasn't worked. I have downloaded a toolkit which I thought would help with this but the device is not found by my computer. I left it in to a local phone shop and they had no idea how to fix it.

I updated the phone when I switched it on when it popped up on the screen.

I understand that it is an outdated phone but its brand new and would suit my needs until I can afford something better

Anybody got any ideas?

SAGA PVT SHIP S-OFF RL

HBOOT-6. 98. 1002

RADIO-3822. 10. 08. 04_M

eMMC-boot

Mar 10 2011, 14:58:38

Thanks in advance
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
Can u get into recovery?
[HTC Desire S] aphrodite1:
hi yes i can get into recovery. i have tried the factory reset but it doesn't work
[HTC Desire S] jugg1es:
Long time since I was here......

Ive a suggestion, you've got an s-off saga. Flash a custom recovery (4ext is best for saga) then flash an old gingerbread rom (reaper) . After you've got a phone that boots you can see what panel you've got and go from there.

Personally after that i would flash 4ext, then flash the eng hboot 7.***, then I would flash the framework from ics. Links in post 2.

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.”*―*Bertrand Russell
[HTC Desire S] aphrodite1:
i have downloaded the 4ext file and am trying to install it onto the phone however the phone is not recognised by the computer so i can't get it onto the phone. should i try installing it directly onto the sd card from the laptop? or is there another way around this?

thanks
[HTC Desire S] jugg1es:
When you boot into recovery, is it stock recovery or does it flash up another name like TWRP or CWM

Also, have a read here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2275946

This should get 4ext installed for you

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.”*―*Bertrand Russell
[HTC Desire S] hynzytheweirdo:
Hi

I flashed my phone to ICS v4.04 a while ago via the HTCdev website*, the second time I've flashed a Desire S to ICS and I'm not entirely sure this time around the flash has worked properly. I have two versions of the Android System (1.2.2, 4.0.4), HTC Sense (2.7.2, 3.5.2) and other apps including Weather, FM Radio, and People.

My bootloader gave me this:

SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-2.02.0002

RADIO-3831.19.00.110

eMMc-boot

Jul 31 2012 15:41:32

My question is two parts:

a) can I remove these duplicate apps without impeding the function of my phone?

b) how would I go about removing these apps - flash my phone again and/or root my phone so I can delete/uninstall the apps?

*for reference, on HTCdev I was using the download listed as:

(Device) Desire S, (Carrier) HTC, (Region) WWE, (Type) RUU, (Kernel) N/A, (Android) v4.0, (Size) 404.0 MB, (Description) 14.01.401.2
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
I don't now how this happened? But if you want to root and s off then you should unlock your boot loader by HTC dev and then flash a custom recovery like 4ext and supersu. And then downgrade to be able to s off and install a custom ROM. Check the guides it will show you how to.
[HTC Desire S] hynzytheweirdo:
So I Googled the version numbers of the Android System(s) I have, turns out this has cropped up elsewhere in this forum.

From TUTORIAL]Ask team d3rp your EVO 3D questions! I found these two posts:

Anonymous Developer

and....

coal686

No word on whether uninstalling the ~30 MB Android System (see above) has any detrimental effect, looks like I'm rooting my phone. Off I go!
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
Before you root u have to see if u can depending on or screen panel. Check this out before u do.
[HTC Desire S] hynzytheweirdo:
Screen panel? Uh oh, I think I glimpsed something about that way back when I started reading through this thread. Time to go back!

EDIT: It's Sony!

EDIT2: I can't get an identifier token from fastboot. From Device Manager, I get this:

I've uninstalled HTC Sync, but that still hasn't got me any where. And now my phone is refusing to start the Bootloader.

I'm going to continue following this as best I can: Fastboot: Stuck at "waiting for device"
[HTC Desire S] jmcclue:
Here u go, this will setup and install fastboot drivers. Then try the command again

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2588979
[HTC Desire S] hynzytheweirdo:
Still getting nowhere. My laptop doesn't recgonise my phone in any of my USB ports. I've checked Device Manager, under USB Controllers there is Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 0100 (Microsoft).

From [HOWTO] Installing HTC Drivers for adb/fastboot on Windows 8 :

I'm going to leave messing around with Windows 8 for now. I have an old laptop with Vista that should hopefully make things work.
[HTC Desire S] aphrodite1:
Sorry only replying to your post now, have got caught up with other broke things in the house lol

I downloaded the 4ext file and the pg88img and put them onto the SDcard and put the SDcard into my phone. I went into boot and then into recovery. The screen then displayed the green arrow with the green circle around it and then the red exclamation mark so still no joy. I have no idea what I'm going wrong. Any other ideas? Thanks for all your help so far. I have posted on other forums in the past in regards to this and have no help or replies to this problem so you're help is greatly appreciated .
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
Is the file in the root of your SD card?
[HTC Desire S] aphrodite1:
yes it is
[HTC Desire S] Cynge:
I'm having trouble with my Desire S. This is my first post on the XDA forums, so bear with me please.

A long time ago, I rooted my Desire S and installed Cyanogenmod. It was like this well over a year, I got a new phone (Find 5) in the summer of 2013 and gave the Desire S to my little brother.

The Desire S was doing fine until I decided I didn't like CM anymore and wanted stock HTC back. Now, since it's been so long since I rooted the thing I totally forgot how to root etc. I tried some things but now it's stuck on the bootloader screen. This is how it looks like as of right now:

I have pressed everything except for SIMLOCK, because I have no idea what that does but it doesn't sound too good. All the other options don't really do much.

The phone appears to not have a recovery (right?), since it goes back to the fastboot screen when choosing this option.

What are my options here?

Thanks for reading.
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
Try flashing an ruu the ICS one from htcdev.
[HTC Desire S] CPNowell:
This may seem a strange question but is there a vanilla android ROM out there for the Desire S? By "vanilla" I mean completely stock android with no frills or any extras similar to android on a nexus device....
[HTC Desire S] bunty saini:
Hey,

Kindly tell me exact procedure to root my htc desire s s510e model i have installed ics from htcdev team now i want to root my phone....

Its now having hboot 2.smthing
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
U have to find out what display u have to c if u can root or not. Check the guides.
[HTC Desire S] jmcclue:
?? He can still root his phone and flash roms no matter what his display is. Its only JB roms that r the problem due to kernel.
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
Didn't know that.
[HTC Desire S] jmcclue:
Maybe take ur own advice before telling others. Not trying to be rude r that but there could be one time where the wrong advice is giving to someone and they end up with a bricked phone. So my point is, unless u know for sure, dont post at all. :)
[HTC Desire S] rht_sg:
are there any working 4.3 based rom for DS ?

my wifi not working anymore, so i need to use reverse tethering tool

unfortunately it only works on 4.3 and above.

i was using PACman v23, which is based on 4.2, quite stable, but reverse tethering won't work on that.

4.4 based CM and Mokee seemed to slow the phone too much, eat a lot of battery and my video player (Dice player) and Droidwall don't seem to work properly on those roms.

is there any light 4.4 based rom ?

thanks

nvm Reverse thethering tool works on 4.2 based PACman too !
[HTC Desire S] AMKiss:
Hi guys. I have just tried to flash TWRP recovery (from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2248688) without pc using this tutorial http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2364018 and I think I have a BRICK now. After "flashing" recovery.img I have turned off the phone and tried to turn it on. It is dead now. But the orange bulb turns on after plug to AC socket and remains after unplug until pull out the battery. Can anyone help me to unbrick the device? No other signs of being live it does not have..
[HTC Desire S] jugg1es:
Long time since I've been here, nice to see it still being used, old faces and some new.

You might (big might) be able to salvage the device with an ruu (check links in post 2), you will need a pc(don't even ask if it can be done without) the instructions you followed to flash recovery are for a Samsung device, the partitions are different, if you do manage to salvage the device then I suggest you put the phone down you read a lot more from this device forum and user what's here. What works for one device /manufacturer doesn't work for all, there's even instructions for flashing recovery images for this device in the index links.
[HTC Desire S] AMKiss:
Thank you for your effort. Yes.. I just used google to find a way to flash recovery without PC and did not notice that I am in Samsung forum.. I saw it after this disaster..

EDIT.

I looked though all these links but did not catch what should I do with RUU? I found some tutorialas using Odin and official RUU but for Samsung devices.. How can I flash RUU when phone is almost dead? Please help me - I do not have any other phone atm.
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
Look for the HTC desire WWE ics RUU and run it with your phone connected.
[HTC Desire S] AMKiss:
My PC cannot recognize the phone connected via usb. I have HTC drivers..
[HTC Desire S] ksempel:
Blue screen on CM11 alpha 5 by flinny

Hey people,

I've been running AOKP on my Desire S for quite some time now and and I've been really happy with it, except that bluetooth does not work.

I really want bluetooth to work so I'm trying other ROMs, but sadly none of them seem to work properly.

I'm on:

Unlocked bootloader with S-on

Hboot-2.00.0002

Radio-3822.10.50.24_m

I've been trying the Carbon rom, CM11 alpha 5, Jellyfirebean. Carbon freezes at splash screen, CM11 and Jellyfirebean only give me a blue screen.

On the threads there is nothing being said about which kernel is compatible, but I wonder what the problem might be.

Any ideas? It would help me out a whole lot trying to get a bluetooth gamepad working on this old phone of mine ;)
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
Hello,

Try the latest 4ext recovery this helped similar cases in the past. If not try another ROM that is compatible with your touch panel type.

Good luck,

Stefan
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
Download HTC sync.
[HTC Desire S] AMKiss:
HTC Sync was installed together with HTC drivers.. PC do not see the device:
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
If your on windows 8 that Mau be the problem. Try device manager see if it is detected in device manager.
[HTC Desire S] AMKiss:
Nothing in device manager. And yes I am on Win 8.1
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31199204
[HTC Desire S] ksempel:
I'm on 4EXT 1.0.0.6 RC1, but thx alot for trying to help. It Just sort of solved itself after trying over and over. Not exactly sure what did the trick tho. I first fixed fastboot for win 8.1 and tryed to flash boot.img with that, but just got black screen when loading the ROM. After that I tried pulling out the SD after flashing, but didn't seem to do anything (I thought maybe there could be some conflict or whatever, just speculating). After trying that kinda stuff I tried flashing through recovery again (without being linked to my pc, dunno if it changes anything) and for some reason this time it just worked! :D

It sucks to struggle with this every time, but when it works it's awesome! Thx for the fast reply :good:
[HTC Desire S] ElGato74:
power off when booting

hi everyone,

i'm using cm on my desire s.

last night i've do a full wipe then ds boot but after some seconds, when appear the green logo on white background device power off and never power again until i pull off battery..

vol down + power dosn't works

i have some nandroid backup on the sd

how can i fix the problem?

my HTC Desire S - saga

Root: Revolutionary S-OFF | Recovery: 4EXT Recovery Touch 1.0.0.5 RC9 | HBOOT: 7.00.1002 | ROM: Custom build CM10.1 by blindndumb Android 4.2.2 | Radio: 20.28b.30.0805U_38.03.02.11_M
[HTC Desire S] Blueyedevil:
Hi

I know I did some noob thing here, but it's already done and can't turn back.

So I come from a long line of Nexuses and before that one LG Optimus One. For any of this devices the flashing ROM part was really simple, no troubles. And now i got on my hand a Desire S which I want to flash a CM11 ROM to give it to my brother in law.

So what I did and where I am now:

Taken my Desire with Android 2.3.6

1. Used WinDroid Universal Toolkit to generate token.

2. Used token on HTCDev to generate unlock code

3. Used code to unlock device

4. Flashed TWRP recovery 2.8.0.0

All good so far, no issues

5. Rebooted in recovery

6. Flashed OpenDesire Project CM11 + gapps

Now the device wont boot, just stuck with white screen and green logo on it...

Before you ask me, no, I did not make a ROM back-up. Don't ask me why, I have no idea. I can still boot into recovery with vol down + pwr.

What can I do to fix it?

And before you ask me to "google it" - I did = all I get is a ton of rubbish that wont take me anywhere...

I must have skipped something, but I don't know what. HTC sucks with all S-on S-off hboot and all the other crap they have that I can't make sense out of.

hboot

recovery

logo
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
Try flashing the 7.x engineered hboot.
[HTC Desire S] Blueyedevil:
Where can I get that? Also, do I have to flash boot.img ??
[HTC Desire S] Fastrite:
Does your DS have a Sony screen. I cant quite remember but you may need it for CM 11.
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
Did you flash via fastboot?
[HTC Desire S] Blueyedevil:
Nope, I flashed using TWRP from zip files.

What about the Sony screen? How do I know if I have one?
[HTC Desire S] Blueyedevil:
Found my answer in the OpenDesire thread :

Thanks a lot anyway. Now im running CM11 :D
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
If you re s on and unlocked bootloader then I have to flash using fastboot commands but if you re s off then you can use the recovery instead which is easier.
[HTC Desire S] doctor-who:
i had using custom ics rom and updated my phone to stock 4.0.4 with RUU but have wifi issues, it drops all the time without damn reason, so im wondering does ruu flashed kernel with it or kernel from previous rom stays? and where to find stock kernel? im s-on
[HTC Desire S] jmcclue:
the ruu flashes everything including kernel/boot.img. yh the update is pretty crap, lots of people had wifi issues using it. best bet to unlock bootloader n test few roms.
[HTC Desire S] doctor-who:
thank you! You dont have idea how much ur reply helped me to be calm :good:
[HTC Desire S] Dilukhin:
Free the memory

After years of use, i've meet a limit of memory.

First question is: Best way to resize external memory? Is it enough to buy larger flash memory card and just copy all files there? Or maybe it's better to use some kind of diskcopy tool?

Second question is harder: Any advice to free internal memory? I'm using Android Assistant to clean the system, but now it doesn't help and system cannot download updates/applications because of lack of internal memory. All applications that could be moved to SD card is moved. Internal memory have 100 Mb free of 1 Gb. I've found Link2SD app that can move-to-SD "unmovable" data using Linux filesystem links, but it require rooting and another partition on SD. Is it a good way to free internal memory? Or maybe trouble in updating is of another reason? Note: I want to save my data so don't tell me to do some system reinstall or factory reset plz

Thanks much
[HTC Desire S] Saf98:
There's no point moving apps to SD because they will still fill up that's why it is recommended to create a partition which will expand the internal memory.

---------- Post added at 09:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:57 PM ----------

Edit: this is used on desire bravo Im not sure if you can do this on desire s?
[HTC Desire S] 41.kretschi:
Hi Guys,

I tried to run the RUU_Saga_S_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.9 RUU on a Phone that is currently on RUU_Saga_O2_UK_1.31.206.1

Therefore I created a gold card but it's not working. Wrong CID. I already did this years ago but now it seems I'm missing something.

I'm kind of stuck here ... any hints?

Thanks a lot

Edit:

goldcardtool gave me the wrong CID. solved it by using goldcard helper app to get the CID
[HTC Desire S] 41.kretschi:
Hey Guys

I'll try again in this thread: Is there any way to get S-OFF since revolutionary.io is down?

Did rumrunner work for anybody?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

41
[HTC Desire S] saiph82:
gps not seeing satellites with cyanogenmod 12.1

Hi everybody, i've been reading the forum since i bought my desire s 4 years ago and i've always found useful tips.

Lately i start flashing custom roms on my device to keep it alive and i had no problem following the guides (well, i've solved all the problem i had) untill today.

I've unblocked my bootloader with htcdev and i'm using twrp as recovery.

First rom i've flashed was the vipersaga 2.2.0 and it worked fine. gps was better than with stock rom.

Then i wanted to try cyanogenmod to be more modern and i've installed the cm-12.1-20151118-UNOFFICIAL-sagaopt with gapps (gapps-511-base-20151114-1-signed).

The rom works fine, but gps can't find any satellite (0/0 with phone looking at the sky in the middle of the city)! i've changed the gps.conf to match my country, rebooted but nothing...

i went back to viper saga rom and it's not seeing any satellite either.

Is this a common problem? i haven't find any clear solution on the forum..on some other devices they suggest to go back to stock rom, lock at least 12 satellites and flash the CM 12.1 immediately after....Someone had this problem here?

Thank you a lot, have a nice day,

Lorenzo
[HTC Desire S] blazkowicz255:
Hi, may I ask a question? How could I flash ROM for sagaopt in my saga?
[HTC Desire S] martynus25:
My SAGA Desire S is black screened during boot up

Hi guys.

I have recently tried to clean install new CM11 (CM12.1,CM13) rom but i encountered a little issue here. After flashing and flashing also boot.img my device seem to boot up and work but ... the screen is backlid but black. When i press the power button the other buttons (home, back,...) come shiny and i even have a haptic feedback from the screen. There are some buttons to push i can tell. Only i cant see them.

Before i flashed i had my storage encrypted with a password. Everytime i boot up, into rom (before this event), recovery i have to enter the password. I am afraid that this blank screen i am getting is asking for password but somehow it has no screen active. Can this be the issue ? And also how can i cancel the storage encryption from recovery or bootloader or anyhow?

Note: i can comfortably get into bootloader or recovery with screen perfectly on (its not a screen hw issue)

Note2: I tried to flash another recovery via recovery flash tool but with no success.

I am using Saga HTC Desire S with TWRP 2861
[HTC Desire S] kchaisu:
Actually CM SAGA ROM has two versions normal Saga and Sagaopt by Kylon and his teammates which requires different TWRP recovery to flash. Sagaopt is a modification version to accommodated CM12.1 and CM13 which require a lot off memory space which does not fit on small RAM like old saga though the author emulated SDCard as internal memory so that the ROMs could be able to install into the low RAM device like Saga. In order to do that SDCard needs to be formatted by the special Modified TWRP sagaopt version 2.8.7.1 by jirio01 and the SDCard needs to be formatted to ext4.

So far I am using CM-13-20160813-sagaopt (some nightlies builds might causes reboot) and TWRP-unofficial-sagaopt 2.8.7.1 with Open Gapps pico version by Mustafah without any problem. By the my saga device has been unlocked and rooted for a long time.

If you don't mind to follow this installation:

1. copy your important data from your SDCard, then format it to ext4 format,

2. download and copy CM-13-sagaopt build, Open Gapps Pico version onto the SDCard,

3. Use Fastboot to flash TWRP-unofficial sagaopt 2.8.7.1 recovery by jrio001 into your device,

4. Reboot into recovery mod and factory reset and format your system and data partition to ext4 format,

5. Flash ROM then wipe data partition and install Open Gapps,

6. Mout system, then use file manager to delete or rename file libjini-latinemegoogle.so under system/lib (for allow AOSP keyboard to function when set up),

7. If your device is not rooted yet, just unlocked bootloader, you have to extract the ROM to get boot.img and then flash after installed ROM AND GAPPS BEFORE REBOOT (if your device is already rooted skip the process),

8. Reboot your device, the reboot process will take at least 30 min prior to setting up.

That is all. I hope this instruction might help. Thanks for your patience.
[HTC Desire S] kevwag:
Unfortunately that does not help as my phone mo longer recognises ANY sd card, even the one I was using before. I have managed to get OS back on the phone from RUU. The RUU installer stopped working after sending the boot file. After 2 hours it was still halted so I extracted rom.zip and boot.img, flashed those with fastboot and now the phone works, but still gingerbread and no sdcard.

I have tried reformatting cards, different file systems. I have even used a hex editor to manually zero-byte fill the card and remove any old partition info.
[HTC Desire S] walace9:
Hi

I was trying to root my desire S, with king root, but he shut off suddenly and won't start.

I can't start fastboot and he's no longer detected by the computer.

I think he is hard bricked. Are there any solution to turn on the phone without hboot?

The only activity is the orange led when charging.

Thx
[HTC Desire S] zurpher:
I currently have a

How can I update the ROM to a new safe and stable version. I'm sorry for this noob question but I'm lost in all the information.
[HTC Desire S] kchaisu:
You might take a look at Kylon CM11 at first to begin with. However you may have to flash TWRP recovery for HTC desire S (saga). Everything you would like to learn is under "HTC desire S xda development forum".
[HTC Desire S] jugg1es:
Don't flash the official ICS ruu, it was only ever released as a developers plaything because it's buggy and full of problems. If it was meant to be a true release it would have been an ota update.

“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.” - Will Rogers
[HTC Desire S] undercover:
Better late than never, huh? :D
[HTC Desire S] jugg1es:
Yeh it'll do, I suppose :D

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

—Albert Einstein
[HTC Desire S] undercover:
Oi, just say "thank you" and be done with it you ungrateful sod!

Seriously, making gifs is fun, you should try it. Easy as pie in cs6
[HTC Desire S] jugg1es:
Thank you, you know it's appreciated really :cool:

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

—Albert Einstein
[HTC Desire S] undercover:
:eek::eek:

You gave up too quick :)

But yes, I do know :highfive:
[HTC Desire S] jugg1es:
Read post 3:rolleyes:

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

—Albert Einstein
[HTC Desire S] Jedioscuro:
Yo! Nice work! This banner passed quality check :p
[HTC Desire S] undercover:
I should have left a minor imperfection somewhere deliberately and made you look for it. :D