[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kawika1611:
Hi everyone!

I've managed to screw up my Desire HD after running aahk-11092012, and was wondering if anyone had any bright ideas...

The Phone is a Desire HD bought from SFR here in France in 2011, never rooted or custom rom'ed, although updated with 2or 3 SFR roms since.

I ran aahk from the terminal on a OSX 10.7 (see Output.txt). From this you will see that it wants naturally to downgrade (to Froyo I assume) but downloading the rom fails, and even though I refused the "-n Flash this RUU? (y/n)" question, it continued doing all sorts of things, getting a few error along the way, rebooting the phone into recovery a few times, and finishes with

************* Downgrade failed *************

** Either:

** GoldCtixiard/SDCard failed

** USB connections are not working 100%

************* Downgrade failed *************

I then tried to flash the "Gingerbread HTC WWE 2.50.405.2" rom from the options menu, thinking I'd be clever, but that monumentally fails too..

From this point on the phone boots to the "Red tringle with an exclamation mark" screen (after the white HTC logo) and does nothing else.

Restarting AAHK just fails with a "Error detecting HTC phone on USB connection."

Having discovered the "VOL-UP +Power" recovery screen during this process, the next thing I tried was a "Apply sdcard:update.zip", but this just results in an "Invalid command" message underneath that already present "E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command" in yellow further down the screen.

I then try a "Wipe data/factory reset" and also a "Wipe cache partition". I can't honestly explain this. At least not given that I hadn't really looked up the issue anywhere yet:eek:. I also cant remember exactly what the output was, but the result is the same, still the red triangle screen.

OK, so now I finally open my eyes and realize what a moron I've been, so i plunge into actually learning something and realize quickly (aside from I hate myself and I'm not special, bla bla) that there are loads of thing I could have done differently, and directly on the phone, but obviously it's now too late. (See below for the information I CAN get from the Phone)

Oh yes, I did try a "Factory reset" from HBOOT, but still no joy....

The main option I've been looking into has been to recover an original branded SFR firmware and Froyo ROM and go from there, so I did manage to get a PD98IMG.zip file onto the SD card and HBOOT recognizes it, but fails with a "CID Incorrect" error.

I seem, therefore to be stuck whether I want to return to original SFR or continue tryng to flash a custom ROM:

I can't make a goldcard: I cant adb any commands, in HBOOT the device is not found, and in recovery the device is found but is "offline".

I found jo0ls' CID reader, but I dont have a SD card reader directly plugged to the PCI bus!

I did finally try to install a clockwork recovery in FASTBOOT, but get this:

$ fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-ace.img

sending 'recovery' (3624 KB)... OKAY

writing 'recovery'... INFOsignature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

I assume this is much the same error as for the PD98IMG...

Sorry about the long winded post, but I hope it has the maximum of info...

Anyone have any ideas?

- I can boot to HBOOT: it shows me this:

ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-2.00.0027

MICROP-0438

RADIO-26.03.02.26_M

eMMC-boot

Sep 7 2011, 19:06:24

- ...and FASTBOOT, fastboot getvar all gives this:

INFOversion: 0.5

INFOversion-bootloader: 2.00.0027

INFOversion-baseband: 26.03.02.26_M

INFOversion-cpld: None

INFOversion-microp: 0438

INFOversion-main: 1.32.405.6

INFOserialno: SH12GRX00567

INFOimei: 356812048021701

INFOproduct: ace

INFOplatform: HBOOT-7230

INFOmodelid: PD9810000

INFOcidnum: VODAP203

INFObattery-status: good

INFObattery-voltage: 4199mV

INFOpartition-layout: Generic

INFOsecurity: on

INFObuild-mode: SHIP

INFOboot-mode: FASTBOOT

INFOcommitno-bootloader: 743ca94a

INFOhbootpreupdate: 11

INFOgencheckpt: 0

INFOregion-id: 0

all: Done!

- The recovery is the original "Android system recovery <3e>"