[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veda_sticks:
I have an htc wildfire phone, which was from the three network (UK) so i assume it has the 3 version of android rom.

the problem when i recieved it is that it does not boot, most times its just a blank screen but theb acklight is on, sometimes you get the htc screen but theres corruption in the display, some horizontal lines, one of the letters isnt displaying properly, and at the bottom of the screen you get a bar of noise.

The device can be powered into bootloader with down plus power, this loads up fine, but when you scroll, the screen gets weird its hard to describle, thers no weird corruption but its as if parts of the screwwn get chopped it stick while other parts change (slices)

i tried extractcing a stock rom and putting it on the sd card, that didnt work, didnt find the image.

I also tried using the openruu scripts (im running linux)

now this did connect to the phone, so USB is working, it found the info, and tried to flash. heres the output

42turkeys presents...

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/ __ \ | __ \| | | | | | |

| | | |_ __ ___ _ __ | |__) | | | | | | |

| | | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \| _ /| | | | | | | FOR LINUX ONLY

| |__| | |_) | __/ | | | | \ \| |__| | |__| |

\____/| .__/ \___|_| |_|_| \_\____/ \_____/

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|_| Version: 1.0.2

A shell script to make your life a hell of a lot easier!

Please report bugfixes to openruu@maxmarroni.co.uk

Press enter to Continue

WARNING! THE UPDATE PROCESS WILL ERASE ALL DATA, APPS & APP DATA ON YOUR DEVICE! (But not SDCard)

Please reboot your device into fastboot by turning your phone on holding power + back

When you see FASTBOOT USB on the screen press enter.

Press enter to Continue

If you see a device below then your device is ready to be updated and you have the correct drivers installed.

[sudo] password for alex:

SH13TPY04490	fastboot

If you could see your device above then you are ready to proceed.

If not, then you need to make sure that your device is connected in fastboot mode and that you have the drivers/HTC Sync installed.

Press enter to continue...

Fetching Current Device Info...

ROM Version:

version-main: 2.33.771.1

** IMPORTANT! If the number above is higher than 1.15 you WILL NOT be able to flash this rom!

Press enter to continue...

Bootloader Version:

version-bootloader: 1.01.0002

Device:

product: buzz

Battery Status: (Must be good or better to proceed)

battery-status: good

OK to proceed? (Press enter)

Erasing Cache...

erasing 'cache'... OKAY

Done!

Rebooting in RUU mode...

... OKAY

Flashing ROM... DO NOT TOUCH YOUR DEVICE!

< waiting for device >

sending 'zip' (125185 KB)... OKAY

writing 'zip'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this image...

INFOsignature checking...

INFOzip header checking...

INFOzip info parsing...

INFOchecking model ID...

INFOchecking custom ID...

INFOchecking main version...

FAILED (remote: 43 main version check fail)

You may get an error message above (HBOOT Pre Update!) don't worry, this is normal.

Reflashing... DO NOT TOUCH YOUR DEVICE!

sending 'zip' (125185 KB)... OKAY

writing 'zip'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this image...

INFOsignature checking...

INFOzip header checking...

INFOzip info parsing...

INFOchecking model ID...

INFOchecking custom ID...

INFOchecking main version...

FAILED (remote: 43 main version check fail)

If you got another error message above, please run this script again.

If the process completed with no errors the second time, you have successfully updated/downgraded your ROM!

Press enter to continue...

Rebooting Device... (First boot will take a while)

rebooting...

OK to disconnect

Thanks for using OpenRUU! If you can, please donate so I can buy some hosting to implement some cool features...

If you have any comments, post on XDA or MoDaCo or email openruu@maxmarroni.co.uk

Have a nice day... :)

Press enter to exit.

the phones now sat with a blank screen for 10 minutes.

info on hboot screen

hboot-1.01.002

microp-0622

touch panel-ATMEL224_20aa

Radio-3.35.30.10

Dec 2 2010,17:14:26

Before i tried flashing, i disasembled the phone, incase there was any loose connections, everything was removed, and all ribbon cables unplugged, cleaned, then the phone was put back together making sure all cables will fitting properly. This didnt fix anything.

Im thinking this could be a hardware problem, but on the of chance that its some kind of software corruption, i was trying to re flash everything. bootloader and os, but my money is on a hardware problem.