[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sup3rbird:
I'm a total n00b, just wanted to get that out of the way first :p

I have acquired an HTC Desire HD which booted very slowly when I got it, and ran ok except that sms did not work. I was told it was unlocked and rooted.

I have been trying for days to un-root or revert back to a stock rom with no success. I only half understand what I'm doing and everything I try fails at some point and I seem to have totally fuc%&d the poor thing.

Now when I switch it on, it goes to the T-Mobile splash screen and sits there forever. I can boot into H-boot and run recovery (CWM Recovery installed). I can then mount usb storage and acces it from my PC via usb.

In HBOOT or FASTBOOT I can not connect to my PC via usb (I have installed the correct drivers and it used to connect before I "fixed it"):crying:

These are the phone stats

getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 2.00.0029
(bootloader) version-baseband: 26.14.04.28_M
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: 0438
(bootloader) version-main: 3.13.110.4
(bootloader) serialno: HT0CVRX10795
(bootloader) imei: 356299043105830
(bootloader) product: ace
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-7230
(bootloader) modelid: PD9810000
(bootloader) cidnum: T-MOB005
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4189mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: fcef1579
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
(bootloader) region-id: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.003s
...
(bootloader) setup_tag addr=0xC0000100 cmdline add=0x8D0985F8
(bootloader) TAG:Ramdisk OK
(bootloader) TAG:smi ok, size = 0
(bootloader) TAG:hwid 0x0
(bootloader) TAG:skuid 0x26503
(bootloader) TAG:hero panel = 0x1
(bootloader) TAG:engineerid = 0x0
(bootloader) MCP dual-die
(bootloader) MCP dual-die
(bootloader) TAG:mono-die = 0x0
(bootloader) Device CID is not super CID
(bootloader) CID is T-MOB005
(bootloader) setting->cid::T-MOB005
(bootloader) serial number: HT0CVRX10795
(bootloader) commandline from head: no_console_suspend=1 wire.search_coun
(bootloader) t=5
(bootloader) command line length =510
(bootloader) active commandline: board_spade.disable_uart2=0 board_spade.
(bootloader) usb_h2w_sw=0 board_spade.disable_sdcard=0 diag.enabled=0 boa
(bootloader) rd_spade.debug_uart=0 smisize=0 userdata_sel=0 androidboot.e
(bootloader) mmc=true androidboot.baseband=26.14.04.28_M androidboot.cid
(bootloader) =T-MOB005 androidboot.batt_poweron=good_battery androidboot.
(bootloader) carrier=TMUK androidboot.mid=PD9810000 androidboot.keycaps=q
(bootloader) werty androidboot.mode=normal androidboot.serialno=HT0CVRX10
(bootloader) 795 androidboot.bootloader=2.00.0029 zygote_oneshot=off kmem
(bootloader) leak=off no_console_suspend=1 wire.search_count=5
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[0].name=misc
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[1].name=recovery
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[2].name=boot
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[3].name=system
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[4].name=local
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[5].name=cache
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[6].name=userdata
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[7].name=devlog
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[8].name=pdata
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[9].name=lib
(bootloader) partition number=10
(bootloader) Valid partition num=10
(bootloader) jump_to_kernel: machine_id(2844), tags_addr(0x4000100), kern
(bootloader) el_addr(0x4008000)
(bootloader) -------------------hboot boot time:73765 msec
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 7.544s

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Please be gentle with me.