[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iPhone_convert:
Downgrade problem

Hi, (second post - so tell me if I should have started a new topic)

I'm having major issues with my DHD and hope someone can help me out. I bought an unlocked unbranded phone from ebay (4 weeks ago).(I'm in Australia) I didn't pay too much attention to the software version number (assuming now it as a WWE perhaps 1.32.405.3 or 1.32.405.6) - everything was good - everything worked - although GPS took a long time to sync. Wifi hotspot excellent. Last Friday I got a notification that a firmware update was available (37mg) and advised using wifi - which I did - a couple of minutes later the firmware was updating. Phone restarted and I thought some things just work, the world is beautiful and went back to thinking it's time to get rid of that iphone on the shelf for me the Browser is way better at zooming in and the wifi hotspot allowed me to get rid of my 3G USB stick for work related laptop stuff while away from home, I had even tried a few widgets although really still don't understand the difference between widgets and applications but that's a different problem (perhaps age related)

Anyway, just after the update things started to go wrong. The first indication was the keyboard had suddenly changed to Arabic - with luckily a couple of English middle eastern choices English(Kuwait) is the one I'm using now. The update installed version 1.83.415.4 - problems include 3G data not working, Web browser only works with wifi and two options I thought were available in networks are now greyed out - USB Tethering and Internet Pass Through. The wifi hotsport starts and can be seen by a laptop, but doesn't work when trying to use it. So really all I have is the phone & SMS working.

All the locales are Arabic and there is only the one keyboard - I can't change the input choice (or perhaps I should say there is no other choice the default keyboard is gone) I contacted HTC support - who very very good at checking and tell me the DHD is from the U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates) and I would need to get support from them ?? I assume this will be a further waste of time.

I would like to get a WWE version (1.32.405.6) working again and I have read and googled lots of forum threads and I have tried the following:

1.

Tried running RUU with 1.32.405.6 - The usb connection drops as the bootloader is started and the HTC symbol comes up and then a minute or two later get the error 171 connection failed.

2.

Downloaded a PD98img.zip (tried 1.32.405.6 and 1.32.405.3) placed it on the root of the SDcard and booted into bootloader.

Result:

Hboot loads the file then errors:

Main Version is older!

Update Fail!

Press <power> to reboot

3

So having learnt a lot, I took the rom.zip from the temp PC directory (from the RUU) put it on the SD card and called it PD98img.zip and rebooted the DHD - runs Hboot and loads the file then errors with:

Main Version is older!

Update Fail!

Press <power> to reboot

4.

Downloaded the RUU 1.15.405.1 - Before starting I downloaded HTC sense version 3 and got the DHD connected. Ran the RUU to the point it said connect the DHD. Then I got the rom.zip from the PC and replaced it with a copy of 1.32.405.6 rom.zip and continued the RUU. RUU reported the version on the phone is 1.83.415.4 and that it was to be replaced by 1.32.405.6. The connection failed as per Try 1 above. Tried a few times (as suggested - but it just fails everytime)

5.

Got the 1.32.405.6 rom.zip from 1. above and renamed it to PB99img.zip and put this on the SD card and started the bootloader - this time I was able to cursor up and down and selected Recovery. The red triangle appeared - meanwhile I was waiting the 10 minutes expected to load. Did some more googling and the triangle turns out to be bad - ie: not working - used the up vol and power and got to a new menu with a couple of options reboot, apply SDcard:update.zip, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition. There was also an error 171 in yellow font further down the screen:

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command

I selected apply SCcard:update.zip - then another yellow line appeared

-- Invalid operation --

6.

So I thought let's rename the PB99img.zip to update.zip and ran the steps from 4. again - same errors occurred.

I think the bootloader version is:

HBoot - 0.85.0019

eMMC-boot

Dec27 2010, 14:47:30

7.

Found the downgrade instructions in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=905003

Downloaded the Stock 1.32 PD98IMG.zip

Assumed no need for Goldcard (probably wrongly)

set the DHD to USB debugging and connected Charge only

opened a cmd prompt & wondered where I might have a downgrade folder - (so I downloaded the adb.exe and some dlls)

typed in commands(as below) (kept going even though the first line appeared to fail

C:\adb>adb push psneuter /data/tmp

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

cannot stat 'psneuter': No such file or directory

C:\adb>adb push psneuter /data/tmp

cannot stat 'psneuter': No such file or directory

C:\adb>adb push misc_version /data/local/tmp

cannot stat 'misc_version': No such file or directory

C:\adb>adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/psneuter

Unable to chmod /data/local/tmp/psneuter: No such file or directory

C:\adb>adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version

Unable to chmod /data/local/tmp/misc_version: No such file or directory

So no # appeared. (as expected in guide)

Can anybody help me?

Where can I get the right downgrade folder files from?

Is this method going to work for me?

and a silly question - none of the zip files (and there have been lots) open with XP SP3 PC is this right?