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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dwardo:
Stock ROM reflashed via RUU but phone still won't boot pass HTC logo

Well my DZ was:

* permrroted usin visionary r14+ (2 months now)

* Radio-Soff via gfree (2 months now)

* Eng hboot 0.84.200 (1 month now)

* Virtuous 1.0.0 (4 days now) and getting awsome battery times (2 days almost)

* Latest Radio 12.28h.60.140f._26.06.02.27 (4 days now)

* ClockWorkMod Recovery 3.0.0.5

In the past 4 days I had rebooted it 2-3 times succesfully.

Then suddenly it froze while I was using it. After removing the battery It would not boot into android or to recovery (would not pass the HTC logo) only bootloader and fastboot.

I succesfully re fasboot flashed (hoping this would help)

* the clockworkmod recovery (still no boot)

* the radio (still no boot)

I googled around alot and finally reinstalled the original RUU (1.34.405.5 that is rootable) as recommended for people with my issues.

That worked so now the phone is almost stock (hboot and radio are the stock versions from the RUU) with just SHIP S-OFF still active it however still does not boot. I remain stuck at HTC logo. stock recovery won't load either.

If I could only get it to boot I would get back to S-ON use it a little under official ROM and send it in under warranty the next time it froze.

Does anyone have any ideas ? I don't even understand what level of Bricking this is as I could reflash the RUU...

Thanks a bunch
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] steviewevie:
If you flash Clockwork recovery can you boot into recovery ? Just wondering if clearing the cache and dalvik cache might help it boot ? Just clutching at straws here though.

Sent from my HTC Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dwardo:
As I said I tried flashing CWM Recovery earlier and I could not boot into Recovery.

Today with Stock Recovery theoreticaly installed (by RUU flash under Windows) I can't get to stock recovery either. I.e if phone is off and I plug to charge, I never get the charging logo.

I'm willing to retry CMW Recovery if I can fastboot flash it with just stock hboot and SHIP S-OFF ?

I get the feeling that I'm on a real hardware issue and that being SHIP S-Off I'm screwed for warranty.

Oh and by the way the Wiki info on the enginerring hboots is incoherent (as I have added on the wiki http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#INSTALLING_ENGINEERING_HBOOT_.28DZ.2FG2.2FDHD.29_-_OPTIONAL_and_UNNECESSARY.21)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ohgood:
please, for the love of all things good and simple, don't start muddying the waters by calling something a 'semi brick'.

alternatives:

non-booting device

re-flashable device

brick will hopefully live on forever as something you cannot recover without $10,000 in equipment, a soldering iron, and above average intelligence.... or an oem willing to fix it.

please, just consider this. we don't want a bunch of intarweebs running around with a new word on the tip of their tongue. ;-)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] steviewevie:
Yes, that's what I meant, just flashing the CWM recovery now using fastboot, and trying it. I don't think you tried it since flashing the new RUU ? It's a long shot, but no harm in trying it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dwardo:
Well I did'nt do that, instead I had a hunch... I thought about how sometimes static can stop a PC from booting and requires that it be unpluged for a while. I figured why not the same problem on a phone ???

Well I removed the battery for 24h then put it back in and tried to boot (waited 2 minutes) --> failed (never passed the HTC logo

So I removed it again and waited 3 (long) days and then put t back in and tried to boot --> successfully booted (passed the htc logo in less than 5 seconds).

So I quickly temprooted with rage and reverted back to S-ON with "gfree -r backed-up-original-partition7.bin" and am going to run stock ROM for a while and see if the phone freezes and refuses to boot again. If yes I'm sending that sucker in for an exchange/fix now that it is waranty compatible.

Any thoughts/remarks following these late events ?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Damionix:
Please Help

Please, flame me not for I have read and read until I can read no more.

I am just confused and what to make sure I am following the right thread.

My Wife used Visionary r14 for some reason to permaroot her phone and it rebooted and is now stuck on the HTC Boot screen.

I go into Hboot and it shows S-on.

I do a factory reset to no avail.

From my understanding, there is still hope. Please what do I need to do to get her phone back working.

And attempting to flash back says that Main is older.

She is still stock with STOCK RECOVERY, everything.

VISION PVT SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.82.0000

MMICROP-0425

RADIO-26.03.02.26_M

eMMC-boot

Sept 2 2010, 17.59.38

Thanks a million
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dwardo:
Well it took less than 24hours for the phone to freeze on fully stock phone + ROM. Removed the battery, put it back in, tried to boot --> stuck at the boot logo (been there for 15 minutes now...)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] lahss2:
any help?

ok so i wanted to root my phone, fine.

did the latest visionary/gfree (no adb required)

flashed clockworkmod for g2

good and fine

tried to flash gingervillain 1.5zip

the splash image keeps restarting, looping, what have you.

whenever i try and get to clockwork recov from hboot it doesn't let me.

says some pc10diag files not found.. yadda yadda

goes straight to trying to update a zip file radio_v2

Parsing...[SD ZIP]

[1] RADIO_V2

Do you want to start update?

vol up yes

vol down no

on the top corner i've got

VISION PVT ENG S-OFF

HBOOT-0.76.2000 (PC1010000)

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.06.02.27_M

eMMC-boot

Ok, not familiar with adb but i've downloaded the SDK and think i've got it running on my MAC. sorry, no PC here. I can start the adb on my terminal but how can i get it to recognize my phone when i plug it in the USB so i try and push stuff into it. it says no devices found, or it isn't attached to anything, or doesn't list it. I have my phone plugged in, but do i just start typing in commands whilst i try and restart my phone and force my way through?

where is the best window to do this? during the hboot start? or after when it's bootlooping the gingervillain splashscreen? no idea...

I'll dig a bit more, but any help would be awesome, thanks.

PS- also don't know what this kernel thing is...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Can't type all the information here, and I don't know anything about the Mac OS, but read up about fastboot. Since you have the ENG hboot you can fastboot flash clockworkmod back onto your phone.

I have a copy of the latest clockworkmod 3.0.0.5 in my dropbox. You can download from here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17578272/recovery-clockwork-3.0.0.5-vision.img
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] lahss2:
ok i quit after some point, left my phone in hboot loop, plugged into my laptop and went to bed.

woke up this morning and the thing was in clockwork recovery!! i was like wtf??!!? ok!!

did a wipe/factory reset and gingervillain was up and running. This is great and all, but what the hell happened?

hope i learned my lesson or something, but there's always a curve in the beginning i guess... thanks for the help btw!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
To be safe, make sure you have the latest Clockworkmod 3.0.0.5 on your phone. There are 2 versions, the latest can be flashed through ROM Manager.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] hoyeah:
Hi there,

My turn now to be ashamed...

Phone status:

S-OFF

HBOOT-0.76.2000 (PC1011000

MICROP-0425

OS 1.34.405.5

CID 11111111

eMMC-unknown 2223MB 4554751sectors

will boot: NO

ADB reachable: NO :(

Factory reset: useless

ClockWorkMod installed: no

Ok then, I first followed this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=905261

It was OK

Visionary - OK

ROM Manager - OK

Tried to install clockworkmod (recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.8-bravo.img) without success via ROM Manager.

Then things got very bad...

I followed another guide and installed wpthis-pre-OTA.ko and hboot-eng.img.

Wasn't very sure if it was the right one (so many guides with so many different versions).

I think I should have asked before but what's done is done.

My phone is now an expensive useless object and I'd like to know if I can settle things by myself or if I have to send it back to my reseller.

thanks in advance for your answers :D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dwardo:
As you are also French I'm guessing you hav a DZ. You installed the G2 eng-hboot instead of the DZ engineering hboot ! See http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#INSTALLING_ENGINEERING_HBOOT_.28DZ.2FG2.2FDHD.29_-_OPTIONAL_and_UNNECESSARY.21.

If you can boot into fastboot, do it and then connect phone by usb to your windows computer and you should be able to reflash the stock RUU that you can find here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8893431&postcount=1
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] hoyeah:
Hi Dwardo,

I tried to do as said but here's the result:

It seems hopeless for me now, what do you think ?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] hoyeah:
Ok then I anderstand what's wrong (I didn't realized the difference between the 2 hboot)

So what I tried (remember I have the stock recovery):

- Put the phone into recovery (black screen with a phone) and tried to mount ADB:

adb remount
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
error: device offline

- Put the phone into fastboot and reinstall a stock rom:

ROM update utility cannot upgrade the android phone
Get the right ROM update utility and try again

Maybe I can find a ROM installer that will work ?

- Factory reset (black screen with green circle arrow):

I assume it is trying something with the SD card (as I can see a symbol looking like a SD card)

Can I put some kind of file that will be read by the factory resetting process ?

I have a PC10IMG.zip in the SD root folder (the 1.34.405.5 one)

- booting bootloader gives the attached result

Again thanks for your concern in my case
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Do you know how to fastboot flash?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] hoyeah:
I have to say.. no I don't

I'll try to search that
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
with the phone powered OFF, hold down on the volume bar and push the power ON. Look for fastboot to be highlighted....not hboot.

connect the phone to your computer via usb

from your tools folder type: fastboot devices

and see if you get an answer....
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] hoyeah:
Yeah I did that and it's OK for now.

I downloaded the fastboot original utility and one with a GUI ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=11829111&highlight=fastboot+flash#post11829111 )

I already have the right ( :rolleyes: ) hboot, and was reading everything I can about flashing it :D

If you have any warning or advice to give me...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
What do you mean you have the right hboot? on your phone or in your tools folder to be flashed?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] hoyeah:
on my computer to be flashed
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] hoyeah:
Ok then,

the hboot-0.84.2000 have been flashed

Stock rom RUU_Vision_HTC_WWE_1.34.405.5_Radio_12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26_M_release_155556_signed.exe installation in progress !

Thanks a lot guyz !
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dwardo:
De rien :) !

You will loose the eng-hboot and root upon rebooting though... you are back to stock you might still have soft S-Off if you got it with gfree... So you are back to rooting and installing the DZ eng-hboot.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] karlonicolas:
hi there. did you solve your problem below?

i went through the same thing. what i did was enter into fastboot mode. using fastboot.exe in the computer, i copied clockwork 3.0.0.5. after installing clockwork, i flashed cm7, which worked like a charm. after several rom transfers, i am now using virtuous.

Everyone also said i was using a Desire z, but the hboot i used is for G2 and that this is the reason from the semi brick. Up to know, i am still using the same thing, with no problems i might add.:):)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] karlonicolas:
my current setup is

HBOOT - 0.76.2000 (PC1011000)

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.06

eMMC-boot

i saw a lot of posts saying my phone is a desire z running g2 hboot.

i was able to unbrick it from a loop and now happily running a sense rom.

my questions are:

1) should i change the eng hboot to something for desire z, or should i leave it as is and continue to use the g2 eng hboot (anyway the phone is perfectly working)?

2) will the eng hboot have any effect later on (if i continue using a g2 eng hboot in desire z), say for installing roms, kernels, radio, etc.?

thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] giovanni1:
hi guys,

I have this problem with the sd card.

I guess is because of the App2sd app.

My phone is not rooted and has the JPY firmware.any suggestions?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] giovanni1:
as an aditional info.

yesterday i have flashed JS2 and still nothing is changed about the SD....any solutions?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] RustyDroid:
VISION PVT SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.82.0000

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.06.02.27_M

eMMC-boot

Sep 2 2010,17:59:38

So I have S-OFF, but no access to recovery/CWM. I was using a PC10IMG.zip to switch my radio back to the tmobile official and I believe I had in incorrect radio that wiped out recovery. Since I cannot flash via fastboot (non ENG hboot) or adb how do I restore recovery.

Some additional info. I had CM7 latest nightly, but it won't boot past the HTC screen. I can only get into the bootloader.

Thanks.

EDIT: SOLUTION

I flashed a modified PC10IMG.zip and this allowed restored a stock build and CWM 2.5. From there it was simple to get everything back. The file was mentioned in this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10583834&postcount=33
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Bluetygator:
I need to send my phone in due to sd card dismounting issue

Was attempting to return to stock, and doing well, until the last reboot.

Now I'm stuck at the HTC screen on boot

Currently I'm at

Stock Recovery

Stock HBOOT

VISION PVT SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.86.0000

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.03.02.26_M

eMMC-boot

Sep 27 2010, 11:12:59

Last rom flashed was the stock_OTA

I have fastboot access

In recovery adb shows the device as offline.

I was able to get the adb to show the device as online while booting, but

remount gives "remount failed:invalid argument"

shell gives "-exec `/system/bun/sh` failed: no such file or dir (2)

I was rooted via gfree

Attempting to go back to stock.

All instructions from the gfree true permaroot thread @

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=858996

I originally set s-on no problems, but forgot to flash back from clockwork recovery to stock. So I set s-off again and flashed the stock recovery. Going through the whole process again with gfree.

Shutdown and went to HBOOT then recovery to confirm.

I still had the PC10IMG on the sdcard when I entered HBOOT, which I'm assuming was my fatal error.

Tmobile has shipped my new phone so it should be here in a few days

According to what I've read looks like I'm toast, but I would really appreciate a look over and confirmation.

Or a solution, that would be cool too.

~:o)~
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] 99formulam6:
Was running CM7 RC1 with nothing else done really (SETcpu was it besides a few widgets) and the phone randomly froze while texting after running fine for weeks and when I went into recovery, I had cache errors. Tried formatting boot, cache, system with no lock. Tried flashing good CM7.zip and no luck.

I tried to follow this thread:http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/15623-how-to-fix-a-semi-bricked-g2/

But when I tried to push the PC10IMG.zip, adb gave an error and says

c:\ANDROID-SDK\TOOLS>adb push PC10IMG.zip /sdcard/PC10IMG.zip

failed to copy 'PC10IMG.zip' to '/sdcard/PC10IMG.zip': Read-only file system

adb shell cat /proc/version:

C:\Users\Christopher>adb shell cat /proc/version

Linux version 2.6.32.28-cyanogenmod-g58d929e (shade@toxygene) (gcc version 4.4.3

(GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Sun Jan 30 22:12:21 EST 2011

adb devices:

C:\Users\Christopher>adb devices

List of devices attached

SH0CXR200450 device

adb remount:

C:\Users\Christopher>adb remount

remount succeeded

adb shell:

C:\Users\Christopher>adb shell

- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -

Vision PVT ENG S-OFF

HBOOT-0.76.2000 (PC1010000)

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.03.02.26.M

eMMC-boot

Aug 20 2010, 16:51:01
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
I'm not sure how identical our situations are, but i also have perm-rooted with s-off with hboot-0.82.000 and have clockworkmod recovery 3.0.0.5 i believe.

I flashed to CyanogenMod 7 RC 1 ROM and have been using it for a few weeks. Just in the last couple days my phone started to freeze up for whatever reasons and would occasionally give me errors with cache wile going into recovery, so i would do a wipe and everything would be work fine. well today my phone decided to freeze again but this time no wipe of any kind would fix my problem, and will no longer get me passed the boot screen, and now I'm here.

I'm assuming by your methods from above i can reach the same outcome as you to get things working again. The only problem is this is my first time using ADB so I'm clueless as to how to put in these commands. i also followed the same steps as you to unzip android SDK to C:\android-sdk-windows while also having HTC sync installed.

If anyone can help i would really appreciate it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
If you power off your phone and then hold down on the volume bar and power it on while continuing to hod down volume does it boot into bootloader menu?

sent from the future with my highly overclocked G2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
yes sir it does
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
And what happens when you choose recovery from that menu? Does it boot into Clockworkmod?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
it also works, which is where my cache recovery errors are
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
When do you get that error? as soon as you enter clockworkmod, or when you attempt to clear the dalvik?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
as soon as i enter
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Does CWM let you do anything at all? clear the cache...wipe data etc.? or nothing at all?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
usually when i try to do anything i just get an error
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Do you have a rom (.zip) on your sd card right now to flash? If so,

1. wipe data/factory reset

2. go to mounts and storage and select to format system and format boot

3. go to advanced and wipe the dalvik too while you are still there

4. flash the rom again

If that doesn't work, then this is a link to the forum where there is a modified CWM that you can attempt to flash from where you are right now.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1006214

edit: I forgot to ask you...what version of CWM do you have? Is it green, or orange?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
i have cwm 3.0.0.5 and when i try to format through mounts and storage i just get an error
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Do you get an error when you try to flash a rom? And what does the error say?

sent from the future with my highly overclocked G2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
Well i tried flashing cyanogenmod nightly 30 and it installed just fine, but once i restarted the phone it still hung at the splash htc logo
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
also while trying to install the charge off cwm i get an error saying assert failed: write_raw_image("/tmp/recovery.img"' "recovery") (status 7) Installation aborted.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Scroll back to the last post in this thread by rustydroid. You may have to try that method. Make sure you have a good sd card. Take all your important files, pics etc. and copy it all to your computer and then format it. You might want to wait a day or so until someone else jumps in here that knows more about your error than I do.

sent from the future with my highly overclocked G2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
yea i tried this same thing and i get failed pu or partition update fail! but mine automatically starts up using fastboot im not sure if its supposed to be like that or not
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Before all this happened, did you flash a radio?

sent from the future with my highly overclocked G2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
dont think so, my radio is 26.03.02.26_M
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
That's the stock radio. I really don't know at this point what else you can try. I'm not sure if trying to reflash the radio again would do ?? There is a thread in development that has all the radios in zip format to be flashed with CWM but if you are getting errors there (in Cwm) it could be dangerous and mess up your phone even more. Hopefully someone else can give you some more help with this.

sent from the future with my highly overclocked G2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
thank you for all the help. I didn't try to reformat my SD card yet tho, maybe i should try that next.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Yw... if you get it up and running again post back here what worked for others to see.

sent from the future with my highly overclocked G2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
oh i actually see when it says failed pu its for the bootloader
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Read this:

http://androidforums.com/g2-all-things-root/297108-dead-ends-road-blocks-my-g2-please-help.html

Maybe someone there can help...

sent from the future with my highly overclocked G2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
read this too:

http://android.modaco.com/content/a...ock-and-dead-end-semi-bricked-g2-please-help/
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
vision pvt- ship s-off

hboot 0.82.000

microp-0425

radio- 26.03.02.26_M

eMMC-boot

Sep 2 2010, 17:59:38

clockworkmod 3.0.0.5

cyanogenmod rc1 rom is the last rom i installed on my phone. i have adb working now while also being able to load into fast boot, and im not entirely sure what my wpthis.ko is i think my kernel is 2.6.32.28-cyanogenmod-g58d929e but im not sue where to get it. adb shell command works but when i try to do adb remount i get an error. so im currently stuck at the moment, any tips?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Charliehustle:
can anyone help me?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] BigNate:
thank you so much fastludeh22 because of this thread i was able to recover my g2. i was ****ting bricks lol but you helped me.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] chancy319:
Posted already in the Q and A forums and got redirected here. Basically, I tried to do permroot with Visionary and after a minute or so, my phone restarted. However, it is stuck on the green and white HTC boot screen. I tried a factory reset with the power and volume down button but that didn't work as well. I am currently sitting here as I type looking at my paperweight G2. I can't even boot into the Android OS. I don't have ANY recovery files or OTA updates or anything of the likes on my SD card. I can only get into the menu with green and red options by using the power and volume button. Please, what do I do to get this thing back to normal? Thanks.

If it's of any help, here is what it says:

VISION PUT SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.82.0000

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.03.02.26_M

eMMC-boot

Sep 2 2010, 17:59:38
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] DrLabRatOry:
If you have a T-mobile G2 with no OTA updates, you should be able to flash everything back to normal. Read the first post in this thread CAREFULLY to see what your options are.