[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tryptophsn13:
Hi All,

The details of the issue are given below, but it's a long-ish post, so to summarise:

-Stuck on USB-Bricked Froyo RUU, hboot 0.93.

-Need root in order to flash misc fix for unbricking, but need unbricked device in order to either:

--root (unrevoked) or

--downgrade to use modaco root method (r6-desire-root-alt).

->I'm out of ideas/search terms and in dire need of a solution.

Full details below:

After spending all day yesterday and all morning today scouring the internet, researching, downloading, attempting solutions etc etc I am at my wit's end with this problem. I am no major n00b but I do not have the level of understanding that some people on this forum possess, hence why I am posting this.

The starting point was a rooted (unrevoked method) s-off Desire running MIUI. After doing a routine backup from ROM manager, the device failed to boot (got stuck at splash screen)

Upon trying to restore a backup I discovered to my horror that my recovery (Amon-RA) was unable to access the SD card, and ADB was also unable to see the device.

In my web-voyages since then I have incidentally discovered the method for re-enabling SD card access, but at the time I could not understand what was happening, and after several tests (different SD cards, formatting, data wipe, reflashing AlphaRev spl) came to the (catastrophically incorrect) conclusion that there must be something wrong with my hboot, and that the only hope was to apply an RUU by PB99IMG method.

Soo... applied a WWE Froyo RUU: "RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed". The plan was then to re-root the phone and restore my backup, to return to its original state.

The RUU put my hboot to 0.93, and USB-bricked the phone.

Hence, Unrevoked3 is out of the question, as the computer does not acknowledge the phone whatsoever when booted into the ROM, which is the required starting point for unrevoked.

So obviously I went in search of anti-USB-Brick medicine, only to discover that the misc-fixing methods available require a rooted ROM (to flash the update.zip)

Further searching uncovered a suggestion of using the step1 part of r6-desire-root-alt Modaco rooting method, since it requires only fastboot to work, then applying the misc fix to un-USB-brick and hence proceed with unrevoked.

Sadly this did not work, presumably because of my 0.93 hboot situation (the method states compatibility only with 0.80 and below). After the processing of the test image stage, android system recovery gave the response "could not verify whole-file signature" to any update.zip flashing attempts.

So I went for another swim in the RUU sea to obtain "RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed" in the hope of jiggling hboot back to 0.80 and hence enabling r6-desire-root-alt etc. This failed because it is an earlier version, and hboot would not allow the update.

So I looked to the downgrade utility, accessible from the Desire Index in the Desire Android Development forum, but this again requires PC connectivity when booted into a ROM, and is hence unusable.

So I am truly, enormously stuck. I can't root without unbricking, and I can't unbrick without root.

I'm sure there must be a way round it, and it's possible that the veterans on this forum will see the solution immediately, but I am totally out of ideas and on the point of desperation, as I rely heavily on my phone for organisation, email and music functions, all of which are very important to me.

Any and all suggestions would be very much appreciated

Many thanks

Mike