yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Using the latest 2.29 RUU as PB99IMG.zip should solve almost all software related problems leading to bricked phone. If your phone does have an underlying hardware issue like bad NAND blocks, it may fail. The latter is unlikely however.

See my thread on how to unroot with PB99IMG.zip and follow it to the last detail.

Obviously I cannot give you an assurance that it will work in 100% of cases. It also depends on your level of competence in following those steps, esp in putting the right file with the right name, on the integrity of your goldcard, whether you have partitioned it etc. There are certainly a number of places where you may get it wrong. If you have any doubts, just return the device. That way, you wouldnt lose your warranty. Since there is no new RUU for your carrier, I wont advice you to run the WWE version since you may end up losing warranty. In the end, it's your choice.

FYI, nobody releases RUUs. HTC used to in the past, but now RUUs are mostly leaked-out software from service centres. It's not officially released any more.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbl123:
Do I have to use the 'PB99IMG.zip' method?

What about running

" RUU_Desire_C_Verizon_WWE_2.36.605.1_release_signed_with_driver " from my computer?

Do you think it will unbrick the phone?

Can I then downgrade and install an old 3UK RUU and update to the newest one from my phone?

thanks for the help.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikep99:
That looks like an american desire HD rom.

I suggest you return your phone.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
It can't be hd. I don't think hd has reached that version. Bravoc is the code name of desire cdma
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Running an ruin depends on the integrity of Windows drivers. I don't prefer it myself, but ultimately the effect is the same. Is urs a cdma desire?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbl123:
I don't know what CDMA is, sorry :)

The problem is solved, 3UK will send me a new Desire, without checking what happened to it, as it was like the second day of me receiving it, and you have 14 to give it back. They didn't even say nothing about taking the old one :confused:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzmay:
How can I get the PB99.img? ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbl123:
If you have the RUU on your PC, launch it and in the %TEMP% folder, there will be a file named rom.zip

Change the name and put on your SDCard.

If you don't have the RUU, I don't know, let someone else answer you :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzmay:
HI again I tried to download this PB99IMG_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed

But is not working could someone be nice enough to link me a working PB99IMG.zip please
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikep99:
i've replied to your other post....
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
I dont see that have been uploaded elsewhere, Just run the corresponding RUU and get the rom.zip from your Temp
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arif01:
After flashing ROM my phone HTC Desire DEAD plz help ......

Hej,

Hopefully you all are fine and good in health, i dont know this is the right place to write my problem here or not but if it is not then so sorry.

Now come to the point actually i had problem with my HTC desie that it stuck up with its initial screen i mean when i turn on my phone it shows the htc then stuck up. Then i tried many times to hard reset and i did but it could not work either, after that i download ROM "RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.2_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_151783_signed.exe" and run from my pc (running windows 7) but after 65 % i got error in updating process and the utility shows how to recover it then according to the instructoins what i did is

1. Unplug my phone (dissconnect from pc)

2. Remove battery for 3 sec and plug it again.

3. Turn on the phone

4. Plug the USB (connect phone again)

but on the 3rd step when i plugged the battery it won't turn on neither charge or in short totally dead nothing happened to it.

I am requesting to all of you please please please suggest me what to do now, how can it work, how to turn on again ............:confused:

Thanks in advance.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
What's the current status? Is screen still totally black? Do this too, and inform the status:

Remove battery.

Reinsert battery, do not press anything.

Plug it directly into mains, and see if the charging indicator lights up.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arif01:
Thanks for your reply i tried and plug the usb with mains but still no charging indicator lights up :confused: , i had done several times with other HTC models and also got errors during ROM update but according to the instructions to recover error during ROM update it works but what is the problem with HTC desire why its not turn on even not showing charging indicator...... plz helpppp

can anybody tell me is it still under warrenty or not, i mean as i tried to update ROM, is ROM updating void HTC warrenty.........??

Waiting for your responses........................needing help.

Thanks in advance
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
You wont lose warranty, dont worry..

But it does look as if the phone is really bricked, as if you flashed a rom with a wrong radio.. You can try an ruu, but I dont think it will help.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arif01:
How can i claim warranty bro, what i will gonna say what i did ???

are you sure that phone is bricked ??? but i said that i did not play with radio i just try to install new ROM as i mentioned in my earlier post.

So there is no solution to unbrick the phone ?? but the problem is how can i power on even it is not lighting up when i plug usb.....

Need help.................

Please give some suggestions also about how to claim warranty

Thanks in advance.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Poodlemastah:
Just say that you tried to update your phone and now it won't turn on anymore. Don't reveal that you know any more than that. And only if they ask, tell them it was an official update. Should work just fine.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arif01:
Thanks for your suggestion, today i went to 3 service provide they took and checked my phone after 15 minutes they said that we have to send this phone to HTC service center but they asked where i bought this phone ??, so here comes a problem now because i got this phone as a gift and i even don't know from where they bought it; so how can i claim warranty under these circumstances or how can i know from where this phone was purchased, what to do now i don't understand :(

Please suggest me, is there any way to solve this kind of issue or how to check from which shop it was purchased, i am requesting to all SWEDISH people who know better then me where to go in SWEDEN for this issue.

Thanks in advance..........
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arif01:
Hej,

After long discussion with HTC customer service and trying to convince them that the phone is not in water or in any wet place but they said that they found my phone or take my phone as liquid damage so my phone is out of warranty .

As they said that it has symptoms of liquid damage which turn white color of sticker into red/pink color. I even don't no how come but any how leave this. If they are not accepting i can not do anything.

Come to point, what can i do now my phone won't start i opened it disassemble then assemble everything but it won't power on even not charge ............

i am still stuck up with it even no idea what to do more

Need some suggestions can i order its flex cable or board or other stuff or what to do ??? how to power it on ???

same thing happened to one of the other member the post is given below but next day his phone power it up but mine still not :(, what's this means ??

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10916480#post10916480

Waiting for your response.

Thanks in advance.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
I think the only place which detects battery damage is an indicator on the battery. Someone should confirm this. If that is so, you can buy another battery and take the phone to another service centre of HTC..? :)

If HTC wont repair it, I really dont know what to suggest

Also they might not offer warranty service, but they should still offer paid service
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arif01:
Thank you bro but there is one more sticker inside the phone also.

I need some suggestions; the problem is my phone is not turn on , no power , no usb detection. Today after googling i installed skd and used adb shell command but it says device not found what can i do more i dont understand

Please suggest me my friends :(.

Thanks in advance.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] braveBuddy:
first thing try to get the purchase receipt from whoever gifted the phone to you i know its kind of difficult and embarrassing and then simply say to customer care that i put it on charging last night and now its not powering on or something like that.

This similar thing happened to my SG3 it wasnt powering at all in any case no usb detection i took my bill and said to the samsung customer service that its not powering on at all and then they didnt asked me anything but yes they did ran some tests and then gave me a prospective date to collect my phone which is 2 days from now.

Well i am not sure if they know that my phone was rooted and was having an custom rom because the flasing didnt happened was stuck after boot.

But again its India and things are little different.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arif01:
Hej, Thanks bro, but you now what i already send my phone to htc global customer service and they said to me its liquid damage so they return me back ........:(

but do you have any idea how can i turn it on by playing with its USB or anything else ???

Thanks in advance.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pejman999:
it was my mistake
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajverma3135:
Hi

I have the same problem as mentioned in this thread

my fastboot is working but recovery is not

have u got any idea how to make a gld card n sort it out

i got branded Hutchison 3G UK htc desire

help help
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peetysmith:
This guide helped in part, but this is how I got the solution to work: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14144155#post14144155
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hammerbak:
I have a quick question..

If I don't get a CID number when writing that fastboot oem command:

fastboot oem gencheckpt

does that mean that I already have a gold card? I'm not entirely sure that I made my SD-card as a goldcard, but I think so and when I run that command I just get an error saying:

...
FAILED (status malformed (1 bytes))
finished. total time: 0.002s
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flashmaniac:
try

fastboot oem boot

this will also tell you your cid. And no, a goldcard doesn't create itself
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hammerbak:
Thanks for the reply, but I already fixed the SLCD brick ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angusc:
After 15 days we would all hope so!

Sent with Desire.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] handy5876:
I was wondering if after ruu'ing with a different brand helped by a goldcard will it actually change the region code from say htc_038. Or the goldcard only masks your code without changing it.

Where is this region code stored anyway?

HTC desire rooted, soff
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angusc:
What is your purpose of knowing or changing the region code?

I use market enabler to fool the android market and to give me full access to all programs.

Sent with Desire.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] handy5876:
I was not referring to the app availability part from market. I am curious. So much seems to depend on it. I would like to know if a important code like this actually gets changed.

Maybe if you can change it through an RUU you could change it with some other tools also. Then you could install any RUU without goldcard. Then also you could change it back to home region code if you want to return it for warranty repairs.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angusc:
Well install one of the R2 HBOOTs from Alpharev and they are CID unlocked and also can not be over written by any RUU! therefore no more GOLDCARD needed. Is that what you mean?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smhtc:
I just found and installed app CID Getter from the market. It showed a lot of information, along with

[ro.carrier]=[HTC-India].

What does this mean? My device is branded or unbranded? I bought it without any carrier contract (as is common in India).

It also shows

[ro.cid]=[HTC__038]

How can I find the correct RUU using this information & a lot of other details provided by this app?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angusc:
Its branded. Read the first post in this thread for places to look for RUU.

Sent with Desire.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] name.vic:
Hi

I have a problem, i have slcd brick.

I tried to downgrade, but it stuck on this

What i do wrong?

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Ask Teppic in that thread
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zumnao:
Hard bricked screen on desire HD

Hi,

I've a Desire HD SLCD bricked by water. I did hard reset blind pressing the right keys. Everything else works but black retroilluminated screen, I can even get tactile responses.

I tried goldcard with a PD98IMG.zip file but it doesn't work.

I guess mine is not soft but a hard briked screen.

Before SAT, are there any suggestions, try outs, .. ?

Many thanks for this stunning tuto.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angusc:
Well if you dropped it in water our got phone wet then it is not a warranty claim.......so no need to worry about software installed just take it to the service center.

Edit: was it fresh water? You might have to power off then wash phone in clean water then allow it to completely dry or fir a few days before trying the power on again.....

Sent with Desire.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zumnao:
That seems obvious :(

It was fresh and clean, I applied water damage procedures but stick in black screen.

Thanks mate
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark rothshild:
stuck on RUU

i have htc magic 32a

this is after flashing the RUU ON cayanogenmod 6

sapphire pvt 32a s-on h

hboot-1.76.0008 (sapp10000)

cpld-12

radio-3.22.20.17

nov 3 2009,15:56:29

is there a forceful program to remove the badly installed rom??

--i think this is what happened in the phone--

i presume that there are like the cayanogen rom in the system partition with a incomplete/failed or double installed boot images due to taking out the usb cable at 36% but with new misc and recovery, which also explains why i was able to operate the phone with commands "fast boot oem", presumably due to the RUU having reached only till the boot updaate part and also the reason for the cache and userdata for being there due to the RUU not having updating it!!

also is there a forceful program to remove the badly installed rom or repair it??

also there must be other programs to debug the htc magic, like programs which use adb or fastboot to repair!!?

also another thing, i dont have any data that i need in the phone, so there must other mathods?? like the "fastboot boot oem", i wonder how this command worked, if this one worked then there must be other commands which can open the phone!!

-''fastboot oem boot'' command works but the phone gets stuck on the cayanogenmod6 symbol and starts cm6 symbol looping...

^ this question must be somewhat choppy, which is because i have taken it from another of my previous post..

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1379732
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
I'm really unfamiliar with HTC Magic.. Also dont get what you mean by "is there a forceful program"! You usually overwrite bad data with flashing something on top of it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kostistheo:
Hi Droidzone, is there a way I can contact you personally, out of forum, to help me with my bricked desire s??
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
No, sorry. I don't provide that kind of service.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angusc:
Read and study this thread you should able to get back up and working. Post your issue and people will help you......you could have already had some answers has you done that in the first place.

Sent with Desire.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kostistheo:
Thanks, I will study them later, and hopefully solve my problem :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi, Droidzone, can you please have a look?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2170655

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keronja:
which ruu should I user? My cid is HTC_032.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keronja:
still black screen. Can hear sound when it boots up though.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abaaaabbbb63:
Then it's a hardware issue. Your screen is broken.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keronja:
damn, do I need to check the serial number to order a new one or I should just buy any A8181 screen?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keronja:
Got my new screen today from ebay, installed my new screen and still the screen is black but I can hear it booting in the background.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abaaaabbbb63:
You probably got the wrong model. Desires have 2 types of screens: SLCD and AMOLED. If the type of screen doesn't match, then it won't light up.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keronja:
the connector is same as mine. I bought the SLCD version as mine is an SLCD.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abaaaabbbb63:
And do you have a SLCD RUU installed?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keronja:
I did this one that you told me http://www.htcdev.com/process/legal_download/152
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keronja:
I decided to take it to the mobile guy, so he can diagnose it and tell me what the hell is wrong with it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tejas61:
I have full bricked:crying: my htc desire 526g+ dual sim. I try to flash but it give me

broom error (6045)

:confused: and my devices is

connecting and disconnecting continuously

and no recovery mode is showing. Help me plz. Fast. Thank you. :) Droidzone
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ste1164:
Oh yea if its unbranded a goldcard isnt needed. If it was unbranded why try and flash a branded ruu?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
If you wanna flash a branded ROM then a gold card WILL be needed
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ste1164:
If his phone is unbranded I guess he won't need one.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
That didnt work!

Got another error this time with the generic RUU!

Error[131]: Customer ID Error
The ROM Update utility cannot update your Android phone. Please get the correct ROM and try again.

Is there any way at all? :mad:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
If you're UNBRANDED and want to flash a BRANDED RUU then you WILL need a gold card. It's the same as wanting to debrand - you're trying to put an RUU that isn't meant for your device...the only time you won't need a gold card is flashing an RUU from the original software version

e.g. you're on x.xx.405.x and wanna flash x.xx.405.x - no gold card, x.xx.405.x and wanna flash x.xx.161.x - gold card needed
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Er..I'm Unbranded, and want to flash an Unbranded RUU only. The problem is that the RUU for SLCD that is posted on the "SLCD Brick Fix" page gives an error

Error[131]: Customer ID Error
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
Customer ID error means you need a gold card so you do not have an unbranded handset

Try the RUU in my signature (2.29.405.2). It's the latest unbranded RUU so should work. If not then you're on a branded handset
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yoyoo91:
tray this

and agin run ruu .
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
It still gave me a Cust ID Error.. I'm in the Doldrums now. Tried many of the ROMS. Listen, it cant be branded, unless it's some branding from HTC..None of the network operators sell phones in India, yet. I bought it from HTC. Can pressing the Sim Lock option inadvertently from Fastboot cause this? Dont ask me why. I was stupid enough to try and see what it would do, some time earlier. Does that lock your phone, making a goldcard imperative?

Cant be a version mismatch, can it?

Are they country specific? In that case I might need one for India
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
C:\Software\htc\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot oem gencheckpt
... INFOsetup_tag addr=0xA0000100 cmdline add=0x8E
07D95C
INFOTAG:Ramdisk OK
INFOTAG:smi ok, size = 0
INFOTAG:hwid 0x0
INFOTAG:skuid 0x26A04
INFOTAG:hero panel = 0x0
INFOTAG:engineerid = 0x0
INFOMCP dual-die
INFOMCP dual-die
INFOTAG:mono-die = 0x0
INFODevice CID is not super CID
INFOCID is HTC__038
INFOsetting->cid::HTC__038
INFOserial number: SH08xxxxxxx
INFOcommandline from head: no_console_suspend=1 msmsdcc_sdioirq=
INFO1 wire.search_count=5
INFOcommand line length =465
INFOactive commandline: board_bravo.disable_uart3=0 board_bravo.
INFOusb_h2w_sw=0 board_bravo.disable_sdcard=0 diag.enabled=0 boa
INFOrd_bravo.debug_uart=0 smisize=0 userdata_sel=0 androidboot.e
INFOmmc=false androidboot.baseband=5.09.05.30_2 androidboot.cid
INFO=HTC__038 androidboot.carrier=HTC-India androidboot.mid=PB99
INFO20000 androidboot.keycaps=qwerty androidboot.mode=recovery a
INFOndroidboot.serialno=SH08xxxxxxx androidboot.bootloader=0.82
INFO.0000 no_console_suspend=1 msmsdcc_sdioirq=1 wire.search_cou
INFOnt=5
INFOaARM_Partion[0].name=misc
INFOaARM_Partion[1].name=recovery
INFOaARM_Partion[2].name=boot
INFOaARM_Partion[3].name=system
INFOaARM_Partion[4].name=cache
INFOaARM_Partion[5].name=userdata
INFOpartition number=6
INFOValid partition num=6
INFOmpu_nand_acpu_rw 23A 1000
INFOjump_to_kernel: machine_id(2457), tags_addr(0x20000100), ker
INFOnel_addr(0x20008000)
INFO-------------------hboot boot time:592480 msec
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 13.250s

C:\Software\htc\android-sdk-windows\tools>
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Now it gives me this:

C:\Software\htc\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot oem gencheckpt
... FAILED (status malformed (1 bytes))
finished. total time: -0.000s

C:\Software\htc\android-sdk-windows\tools>
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rastaman-FB:
this is branded,

its htc asia india.

its not the same as stock htc

stock htc would show HTC not htc inda

even though mine is debranded and also has a custom rom my fastboot oem gencheckpt shows this

fastboot oem gencheckpt

INFOmmc=false androidboot.baseband=5.11.05.27 androidboot.cid=O

INFO2___001 androidboot.carrier=O2-UK androidboot.mid=PB9920000

should always make a gold card

try this, boot it normally and leave it for 5 mins then connect to desktop and see if its actually got a usb connection

try and get a cid image from it using the goldcard tool

once done place the microSD into a reader and format it, and load the image into it

then put it back into the device and see if you can run any of the flashes that gave you a cid error.

it might be booting fully just with a blank screen
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
THank you.

The flash of 'RUU_Bravo_hTC_Asia_India_1.21.720.4_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_127705_signed.exe'

gives me an error of:

"ERROR 140:BOOTLOADER VERSION ERROR"

This was the file I tried initially for unrooting
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
adb doesnt bring up the CID

C:\Software\htc\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1
/mmc1:*/cid
error: device not found

C:\Software\htc\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb devices
List of devices attached

There is a working USB connection. The flash detects the device. But apparently, adb cannot.