[Q] help!! files cannot be found in clockworkmod recovery. - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey everyone. I need help here, I am still a noob. Currently I am using a htc desire. i managed to root my desire after setting the install location back to 0. Previously i did what this website ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13557827#post13557827) said, to move my apps to sd since i am still using unrooted stock rom.
Apparently, after rooting, the clockworkmod recovery was not installed properly. it says that some files cannot be found. So i end up rebooting the device.
this is what that is shown in the recovery mode.
clockworkMod Recovery v 2.5.07
E: Can't find MISC:
E: Can't mount CACHE : recovery / command
E: Can't find MISC
E: Can't mount CACHE : recovery / log
E: Can't find MISC:
I tried to update the fake flash for S-ON users from
udK's thread on the clockworkmodrecovery. But the same things as above still appear on the recovery screen. i also downloaded the update.zip file from leedriod and update thru zip from recovery mode. the same thing is shown on the screen. So, Can i still use the clockworkmod recovery to flash custom rom? P.S. i had rooted my desire, the next thing left to do is to S-OFF my desire, partition my sd card and flash the custom rom. What should i do next?
this is the information when i check my hboot version.
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT - 0.93.001
MI CROP - 051d
TOUCH PANEL - SYNW0101
RADIO - 5.09.05.30.2
AUG 10 2010 17:52:18
the software info is as follow:
baseband version 32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2
android version
2.2
Kernel version
2.6.32.15-gd96f2c0
[email protected]#1
Build number
2.13.707.2 CL274424 release keys
Software number
2.13.707.2
browser version
webkit 3.1
since i am using a stock rom, previously i had received an update OTA. I can't seem to find any RUU which the software number 2.13.707.2, i can only find 2.13.707.1. Can i use this one in case anything happens? if not, can anyone give me the link to download this RUU?
Thank you for helping!!

Did you try to reformat your SD card to FAT32? I suggest you do so (unix preferred, as windows isn't as tedious) and do a clean install.

Csharpe said:
Did you try to reformat your SD card to FAT32? I suggest you do so (unix preferred, as windows isn't as tedious) and do a clean install.
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no, i have not reformatted my sd card yet. was planning to partition my card after rooting. i was following the [Video Tutorial] Noob Proof Everything Desire Guide UPDATED [04/04/11][Video Tut] to root my hp. currently i stopped after the rooting step since the clockworkmod recovery is not installed properly. what do you mean by clean install??

can i use amon_ra recovery as a custom recovery for unrevoked 3 and use unrevoked 3 to flash the img ? currently my desire is still S-ON. I had downloaded the recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=839621 .

dunstan92 said:
can i use amon_ra recovery as a custom recovery for unrevoked 3 and use unrevoked 3 to flash the img ? currently my desire is still S-ON. I had downloaded the recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=839621 .
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Yes you can give that a try though, I highly doubt it has to do with the recovery itself as you were able to start CWM.

You have PVT4 device, which means CWM 2.5.0.7 won't work on it. Either use AmonRa 2.0.1 or CWM 3.x.x.x

Csharpe said:
Yes you can give that a try though, I highly doubt it has to do with the recovery itself as you were able to start CWM.
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Thank you. Will update asap
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

davebugyi said:
You have PVT4 device, which means CWM 2.5.0.7 won't work on it. Either use AmonRa 2.0.1 or CWM 3.x.
I tried to update the CWM 3.x.x.x by using recovery via zip file. After that, same thing happen. Smth is missing and the next time I enter into recovery is 2.5.0.7 again .. what should I do ? Currently my software number is 2.13.707.2 , can I flash the RUU with the software number 2.13.707.1 ? Might want to start from scratch again.
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davebugyi said:
You have PVT4 device, which means CWM 2.5.0.7 won't work on it. Either use AmonRa 2.0.1 or CWM 3.x.x.x
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I never experienced problems with that on my PVT4 device. Also has to do with nand alignment?

Csharpe said:
I never experienced problems with that on my PVT4 device. Also has to do with nand alignment?
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But my desire had never been rooted before until yesterday. The only thing I did was changing the install location via pc for unrooted stock Rom. But I did not change the location back when I start to root my desire. After that I change the location back to 0 and the root was successful until the installation of CWM recovery.
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may i ask, can i use a RUU with software 2.13.707.1 to flash over my current 2.13.707.2. my current one is a rooted stock which is stuck halfway due to the CWM recovery's missing file.

I had exactly the same thing about a week ago and in the end used alpharev
created a ISO CD and installed alpharev and cwm that way was really simple
Once it did its trick took about 5min I was s-off and had working clockwork
Google it worked perfect
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

Would add I was trying to put a rom on my missus desire
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wakers said:
I had exactly the same thing about a week ago and in the end used alpharev
created a ISO CD and installed alpharev and cwm that way was really simple
Once it did its trick took about 5min I was s-off and had working clockwork
Google it worked perfect
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
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oh man. you were like 5 mins late. i had just flashed the RUU successfully and going to start from scratch to root my hp. Nevertheless, thank you very much!

no worries did my head in reading about for literally hours and especially when the Alpharev solution took about 5min

wakers said:
no worries did my head in reading about for literally hours and especially when the Alpharev solution took about 5min
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oh ya.. currently, i had burn the alpharev into my cd. but my computer wouldn't seem to boot from cd. the options i had in my setup is choose priority of hard disc ( which the cd/ dvd rom is not there. and the device to boot from, only has the hard disc and removable device. i chose removable device but nothing happen at all. what can i do ?

If you can't boot into CD then your in a bit of trouble trying to use the CD option ?
Maybe the USB option might work for you, all i had to do on my pc was F12 on boot select cd once the screen went dark plugged my phone in and followed the onscreen instructions really was that simple.
Have you actually shut down the PC rather than restart ?

wakers said:
If you can't boot into CD then your in a bit of trouble trying to use the CD option ?
Maybe the USB option might work for you, all i had to do on my pc was F12 on boot select cd once the screen went dark plugged my phone in and followed the onscreen instructions really was that simple.
Have you actually shut down the PC rather than restart ?
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i guess i overlooked. I managed to go into the boot from cd. guess what? my desire is now running on ledriod 2.4.1. XD may i ask whether should i flash the latest ledriod v3.0.5?

may i ask whether should i flash the latest ledriod v3.0.5?
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Thats up to you, you can always flash back to the 2.4.1.
Personally i think it depends what your after i'm running a GingerBread rom on my desire HD which is pukka good but if battery life is your main priority certainly for the Desire HD the froyo roms still last longer imo, but i can only speak from the DHD perspective as thats the phone i have may be different for the desire...

To avoid later problems flash cwm 3.0.2.8 with fastboot
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[Q] Clockworkmod Recovery 3.0.0.6 mod please Close

Question.... i rooted my phone using unrevoked and installed 2.5.0.1 but now i want to use the 3.0.0.6 i have it downlaoded and on the sd card of my phone and i ran it in recovry and it loads fine how ever when i restart my phone the recovery keeps reverting to 2.5.0.1
could someone just tell me where im going wrong with this XD
cheers the only thing i can think of doing is instaling a RUU then rerooting with a img of 3.0.0.6
Cheers
Hi there,
Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901503
Well i have tryed to use unrevoked to flash the img file and it always passes the first reboot how ever it always eather failes with a communications error or it sits on waiting for system to settle. and after a reboot it still running the old clockworkmod recovery
I,ve managed to successfully go through the whole Unrevoked process, selecting custom image, yet I still have the old cwm recovery
Unless I run update. Zip. Or start. Recovery from rom manager I'm still using the old version. Is there something we are doing wrong or is there another method
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I have succesfully flashed it with unrevoked. Downloaded it from here http://mirror.kanged.net/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-3.0.0.6-buzz.img
However first time it stucks at htc logo and then unrevoked says "waiting for root (safe to reboot if not working)" or something similar, so i disconected phone, pulled battery, booted and stared all again. This time everything went fine.
Only problem was that rom manager was still saying that im on 2.5.0.1, so downloaded this http://mirror1.kanged.net/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-3.0.0.6-buzz.zip and copied into sdcard\clockworkmod\download\mirror1.kanged.net\recoveries\ and deleted the old one from this path.
Hope it helped...
Finally managed to flash cwm 3.0.0.6 using Unrevoked 3.14. Unrevoked 3.2xx just didnt seem to work at all for me. Recovery is now a joy to use, and performing nandroid backups seems much faster
Sorry for the stupid question, but where can i get version 3.14? when i go to unrevoced.com i can only get version 3.32 wich says "Device Wildfire not supported".
Strange because I've rooted my Wildfire on this PC with unrevoked, so all Drivers are installed and it should work. I think it's a problem with the new version.
thanks in advance
Can't remember where I found it, but I still have it. I'll upload it later
After instal recovery-clockwork-3.0.0.6-buzz.img tru Unrevoked v3.14 there is problem with ROM CyanogenMod V7.0.0-RC2 superuser dont work i need to flash back with RUU_Buzz_HTC_WWE_1.14.405.2_R_C_Radio_13.45.55.24_3.35.15.19_release_141106_signed.exe then again run Unrevoked v3.2 and after that do restore with 2.5.1
Unrevoked 3.14, for anyone who needs it
http://rapidshare.com/files/453198400/reflash_package.zip
rapidshare link expired, i just tried
http://downloads.unrevoked.com/recovery/3.14/reflash.tar.gz
and it's working..
Reflashed clockwork 3.0.0.6 with it without problems.
cybertyk said:
Unless I run update. Zip. Or start. Recovery from rom manager I'm still using the old version. Is there something we are doing wrong or is there another method
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did you manage to make it work?
gaspo.sk said:
did you manage to make it work?
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You can't update recovery from ROM Manager. We don't have s-off.
Edit: In fact I'm not sure if ROM Manager can do it even with s-off.
My rom manager recovery is 3.0.0.6
I have described few posts back how i manage to do it.
And i also have fake recovery 2.5.0.1 i some zips have amend script and i dont have time to convert it.
zexcrazy said:
My rom manager recovery is 3.0.0.6
I have described few posts back how i manage to do it.
And i also have fake recovery 2.5.0.1 i some zips have amend script and i dont have time to convert it.
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I meant, you can't permanently flash your recovery via ROM Manager. For that you need to use a reflash tool (Unrevoked for us) or use fastboot if you have s-off.
Oh, that, right. Sorry, my mistake.
Flashing recovery without rooting
Is there a way to flash a recovery using unrevoked without rooting?
I really need to send my phone to my carrier so I'm worried that they could find I've been messing around with it and void my warranty...
Ruu it from windows
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Michealtbh said:
Finally managed to flash cwm 3.0.0.6 using Unrevoked 3.14. Unrevoked 3.2xx just didnt seem to work at all for me. Recovery is now a joy to use, and performing nandroid backups seems much faster
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Are you having 2 superuser app conflicting each other after flashing via Unrevoked 3.14 as it is described in other threads? (ClockworkMod v3.0.2.4)

[solved] Help me unbrick my unusually bricked Desire

BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.93.1002
MICROP-051D
RADIO-5.17.05.23
Aug 10 2010
I was running an Euroskank CM7 rom, but I decided to flash newest Tiamat kernel.
So I did and after reboot, things worked fine. But after few reboots, the phone stopped seeing SD Card and the system booted very crippled because I am using mount2sd script. So, I though that it's because the kernel was too new. Newer kernels have the well-known problem with timingout too soon while waiting for the sdcard to initialise. This leaves some SDcards undetected during 9 out of 10 boots.
The only strange thing was that the card was also invisible from CWM recovery which never had this issue.
Anyway, the only way left for me to fix it was to try to flash *.img files from nandroid backup using fastboot. However, the only thing I achieved by doing that is that now my phone doesn't boot at all into system. After the S-OFF splash screen it restarts, and goes back into recovery.
I have since uploaded AmonRA 2.0.0 recovery and tried copying to the phone /system/ and flasing boot.img from oen of the cm7 euroskank kangs, but it didn't change a thing.
The phone still does not boot and it cannot mount the sdcard (I tried three - two are know for having this timingout problem on newer kernels, but the third one I _think_ was compatible with all kernels).
So, what can I do at this point? I am running linux but can switch to windows if necessary.
Try flashing 4ext recovery, u can click the PB99IMG 4ext recovery in my sig and download the zip file and extract it then flash the recovery.img or u can do it the PB99IMG method, instructions in the link. Then try restoring nandroid or flash the rom again. 4ext recovery is way better than CWM or Amon-ra
Sent from my HTC Desire
jmcclue said:
Try flashing 4ext recovery
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Yes, I know it is better. Unfortunately it is also unusable because it is using the newer kernel than CWM or AmonRA and therefore is burdened with the bug (affecting all linux systems, not just android, but while on computer it is an inconvenience, on android it is a killer) of not seeing some sdcards.
However, I managed to solve the problem using paragraph 13 from this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275632
I just wish I found it 10 hours earlier.

[ROOT] HTC Desire stuck on Bootscreen after evo³

Hi,
I need some help solving my root problem with my European HTC Desire. I recently got the device itself from a friend. Since both noobs with Android and rooting/flashing, neither him nor me know if it is a branded phone or not. I assume, it's not branded since I couldn't see any brand on the device or in the menu so far. Also, it's still Froyo (Android 2.2) and looks pretty standard.
Same hard facts:
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON (additional info: PVT4 erase size = 20.000)
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.09.05.30_2
Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18
HBOOT
<VOL UP> to previous item
<VOL DOWN> to next item
<POWER> to select item
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
CLEAR STORAGE
SIMLOCK
Software Infos:
Android Version: 2.2
Baseband-Version: 32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2
Kernel-Version: 2.6.32.15-g6a358a9 [email protected] # 1
Build-Nummer: 2.10.161.2 CL229389 release-keys
Software-Nummer: 2.10.161.2
Browser-Version WebKit 3.1
My aim is to get a CUSTOM ROM (preferably mild wild's cm7 JG) on the device. For rooting, I would like to use the unrevoked³ tool, since I didn't find a step-by-step instruction for revolutionary (besides, I don't like to give away my serial number...not trying being paranoid, but, you know..)
For the unrevoked method, I followed the Noob Proof Video Tutorial. I am stuck at "Waiting for reboot..." (in this video @ 2:02 min).
My guess, without knowing for certain what the problem was, is that my HTC Desire doesn't reboot correctly even without connecting it with USB-port, etc. It may be kinda broken (I had tons of bootloops, freezes, etc, pp). Maybe I somehow damaged the phone with the first try to root it? I tried anything I read here during the last 3 days (clear storage, soft reset, bootloader reboot, etc).
I need to get the battery out and then wait for good 10 Minutes, to even boot normally. Often, I just come to enter my PIN for the SIM card, when there's a reboot. Often it reboots even right after the second boot screen ("quietly brilliant").
MAybe it's a heated processor? idk, but even really long pauses wouldn't make it reboot correctly.
I disconnected the USB cable and took the battery out, then after 10 minutes, I put them back in and obviously evo³ continued the process from there ("system to settle...might take a minute" or sth similar). However, my device just rebooted there again and then I had the error code "Communications with phone unexpectedly interrupted. Try again."
This is logical, since it reboots when it wants but never when it's supposed to ****ty phoen ^^ (excuse my language)
Any ideas?
If your phone can boot normally, without any reboots, use revolutionary to s-off and install a custom recovery.
revolutionary.io
Read the All things root for desire in my sig.
abaaaabbbb63 said:
If your phone can boot normally, without any reboots, use revolutionary to s-off and install a custom recovery.
Read the All things root for desire in my sig.
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Apparantly my phone doesn't boot normally
Thx though
Edit: wow, now it's even stuck during the second bootscreen at "quie..." of "quietly brilliant"
Best would be to flash the 2.3 RUU (sig, put in on sd-card and boot in bootloader), and use revolutionary. You will lose all your data, but at least the phone will boot, and you will root it.
Well, except if unrevoked did install a custom recovery. Check that too.
abaaaabbbb63 said:
Best would be to flash the 2.3 RUU (sig, put in on sd-card and boot in bootloader), and use revolutionary. You will lose all your data, but at least the phone will boot, and you will root it.
Well, except if unrevoked did install a custom recovery. Check that too.
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No, unrevoked didn't make a custom recovery...the boot menu looks all the same.
However, things are really messed up now. I put the 2.3 RUU image on my SD-Card and booted it via bootloader. An update process began. After completion, the phone rebootet several times just up to the HTC-logo, vibrated about 20 times (maybe the 7-times stuff a couple of times in a row).
Nothing works now. I couldn't even boot anything now.
Also, my bootloader shows HBOOT 1.02.001 now.
Radio is 5.17.05.23
Need help!
Edit: after point 9 in the picture, the device reboots but doesn't boto further than the HTC Logo. THen it vibrates 7 times until it reboots again, then it vibrates 7 times until it reboots again...and so on, and so on...all in a loop.
Edit 2: after having the phone rested on my table over night, this morning I put the battery back in and it worked...a bit. It booted correctly and I configured the settings (debugging-mode, etc). However, trying to do unrevoked again, the device stuck at rebooting again.
Still need help, plz
Edit 3: so desperate --> plz help
You don't run unrevoked on it. If it's still in a bootloop, then flash the ruu again, then use Revolutionary to s-off. DO NOT USE OR DO ANYTHING ELSE.
1. Flash the RUU again.
2. Quick configure.
3. Use revolutionary.io.
4. Install a custom rom.
abaaaabbbb63 said:
You don't run unrevoked on it. If it's still in a bootloop, then flash the ruu again, then use Revolutionary to s-off. DO NOT USE OR DO ANYTHING ELSE.
1. Flash the RUU again.
2. Quick configure.
3. Use revolutionary.io.
4. Install a custom rom.
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Okay, and where do I get the beta key from? I mean, I am supposed to put my S/N somewhere, but I don't know where.
Sorry, but I couldn't find any instruction on that.
Edit: my bad, I had javascript disabled
Tried it again: SUCCESS!!!
How do I get a Custom ROM on the device now? Can I continue at STEP FIVE - Partitioning Your Sd Card With Gparted in this Noob Proof Video Tutorial or does revolutionary already has some of those further steps included (like preparing SD-card, etc)?
Edit 2:
Okay, revolutionary doesn't root, it just makes S-OFF. I found this perfect step-to-step guide which is in German, though. Sorry for that...
SGE2010 said:
Okay, and where do I get the beta key from? I mean, I am supposed to put my S/N somewhere, but I don't know where.
Sorry, but I couldn't find any instruction on that.
Edit: my bad, I had javascript disabled
Tried it again: SUCCESS!!!
How do I get a Custom ROM on the device now? Can I continue at STEP FIVE - Partitioning Your Sd Card With Gparted in this Noob Proof Video Tutorial or does revolutionary already has some of those further steps included (like preparing SD-card, etc)?
Edit 2:
Okay, revolutionary doesn't root, it just makes S-OFF. I found this perfect step-to-step guide which is in German, though. Sorry for that...
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So it worked. You're welcome.
To root, you either install a custom rom from recovery, or you stay stock, and flash SuperSU from recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
Scroll down and download the CWM flashable zip.
abaaaabbbb63 said:
So it worked. You're welcome.
To root, you either install a custom rom from recovery, or you stay stock, and flash SuperSU from recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
Scroll down and download the CWM flashable zip.
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Well, it worked so far...I rooted und S-OFFed it, I think I even updated the radio to 32.54.00.32U_5.14.05.17 via the app "ROM Manager".
Now I try to partition the SD card, since doing that via ROM Manager from within the phone didn't work, BECAUSE MY PHOEN STILL DOESN'T BOOT CORRECTLY :/
(Sorry, not shouting at you...just let stuff out) ^^
Okay, I'm stuck with partitioning. Currently my Bootloader-Menu shows me that I have HBOOT 6.93-1002. Should I go to http://alpharev.nl/ and rename that
PB99IMG_cm7r2.zip to PB99IMG.zip and boot the device? What is this bravo_alphaspl-cm7r2.img?
I'm so sorry, but I think I messed everything up. Arrrgh
cm7r2 hboot is a different phone memory layout. Stock hboot has 250 mb system, cm7r2 has less system alocated memory, for smaller roms, and gives you more data space.
If you want to patition your sd-card, install 4ext recovery.
Use 4ext recovery for partitioning
sent from my mildwild desire
sywats said:
Use 4ext recovery for partitioning
sent from my mildwild desire
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Yes, I want to do that (even with 4ext recovery). My questions herefor is, if
1) this is within the correct sequence (since I still doesn't have the mildwild cm7 custom ROM installed yet)
2) how I do it with 4ext? do I need to rename the files given at http://alpharev.nl/ ?
3) when I successfully partitioned the SD-card, how do I continue? There are 2 Parts of the mildwild cm7 custom rom...
Thx in advance
Edit: I did anything as suggested in the instructions (put it on SD-card, update yes, reboot no). Then I chose "Recovery" but nothing happens. THe phone is just stuck on the HTC-logo bootscreen :/
Edit 2: okay I followed abaaabbbs instructions in another thread/your sig and installed fastboot via adb. (See attch.)
Now I need to wait a while with battery removed since my phone doens't boot at all. I can only enter bootloader menu etc, but not regular boot to android on phone itself. always stuck with HTC-logo and/or vibrating 7 times , then rebooting to htc-logo again... :/
Where r u at have u flashed recovery? Have u partitioned yet?
sent from my mildwild desire
sywats said:
Where r u at have u flashed recovery? Have u partitioned yet?
sent from my mildwild desire
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I am still stuck with 4ext (see my screenshot in my last post).
I can't tell if it worked. It seemed to work, but I can't boot any further than into the bootloader-menu :/
Shouldn't formatting take a while? It jsut took 1s via adb
MAybe I installed the wrong radio beforehand? I am so lost ...
Shouldn't my HBOOT say CM7r2 instead of 6.93.1002 ?
I can't enter recovery at all...
It booted...once. To the regular android menu...still it doesn't boot to recovery at all...should I re-install recovery? like CWM?
Yeah try and reinstall cwm, wat rom r u trying?
sent from my mildwild desire
sywats said:
Yeah try and reinstall cwm, wat rom r u trying?
sent from my mildwild desire
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What ROM I am trying...to install or from what ROM?
I try to install mildwild cm7. I don't know if I still have a stock ROM right now or if it is already sth else, since it says android 2.3 here ^...sorry
Wat rom r u trying to boot into?
sent from my mildwild desire
sywats said:
Wat rom r u trying to boot into?
sent from my mildwild desire
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Sorry, I tried to answer that directly but as a new user I wasn't allowed to edit my prompt response for 5 minutes....
Oops, again
As above, I want to install mildwild cm7. I would prefer to isntall 4ext instead of CWM again....
I'm on mildwild 7 great rom yes I would recommend 4ext recovery, have u downloaded all parts of mildwild an put them on the root of ur SD card
sent from my mildwild desire
sywats said:
I'm on mildwild 7 great rom yes I would recommend 4ext recovery, have u downloaded all parts of mildwild an put them on the root of ur SD card
sent from my mildwild desire
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Shouldn't I change HBOOT to cm7r2 first and make the partitions with 4ext first?
Or do I do it all in one step?
Edit: in one of the seldom times the phone actually booted to regular android, I installed the 4ext recovery again - this time via astro data manager (installed the 4ext-recovery-APK from SD-card). Well, when I enter the bootloader and chose "RECOVERY", it still is stuck at the HTC-Logo...

[Q] Rooted Desire Can't install a2sd , can't gain S-OFF,can't flash new recovery

Hi everyone,
I had my HTC Desire rooted and running CyanogenMod 7 since a couple of years ago.
I remeber I used Unrevoked to root it but I can't tell if I did s-off it back then.
All those years I was able to partially move the apps to the SD withou much effort.
My nightmare begun when I recently flashed the CM10.1 VJ Jelly Bean 4.2.2 v6.3 ROM
The problem is I am not able to install a2sd and overcome HTC Desire's lack of memory.
When exectuing "a2sd install" I realized I didn't had a sd-ext partition.
So, next step would be to partition the 4Gb SDCard half FAT32 , half EXT4.
I have tried to do it using several Windows apps (Easeus Partition Master, Minitool Partition Edition) , also with Gparted on Ubuntu thru VMWare . In any of those cases the phone wouldn't recognize the SD , neither inside the system , neither in recovery . It is detected as damaged and I must reformat thru the System in order to use the SD .
My current recovery is ClockWorkMod Recovery 2.5.0.7 and I can't partition thru it.
As recommended in this thread I had tried to flash the latest 4ext Recovery using fastboot in the command prompt but I have no success, probably because the phone isn't S-OFF.
Ok. So I tried to gain S-OFF using Revolutionary. Also with no success.
I was getting the following message:
"Sending in Caroline...
Retrieving Caroline from certain doom...
Retrying Caroline...
Caroline failed, but had this to say: entation fault"​
As suggested in that forum I have tried flashing a Rooted gingerbread stock sense Rom (HTC_Oficial_Stock_2.3.3_signed , downloaded from that forum) and use Revolutionary . Also no success.
I kept receiving "failed to get root" message .
I have tried using AlphaRev 1.8 and Unrevoked 3. No success at all.
I flashed back the CM10 VJ Jelly Bean Rom. Tried it all again.
And still the same results.
I am probably missing some step or some information, althought I had read different forums during the whole weekend.
There is any good soul out there that could help me ?
Some info about the mobile that may be useful:
Bravo PVT4 Ship S-On
HBoot 0.93.001
ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.0.7​
lucianosantana said:
Hi everyone,
I had my HTC Desire rooted and running CyanogenMod 7 since a couple of years ago.
I remeber I used Unrevoked to root it but I can't tell if I did s-off it back then.
All those years I was able to partially move the apps to the SD withou much effort.
My nightmare begun when I recently flashed the CM10.1 VJ Jelly Bean 4.2.2 v6.3 ROM
The problem is I am not able to install a2sd and overcome HTC Desire's lack of memory.
When exectuing "a2sd install" I realized I didn't had a sd-ext partition.
So, next step would be to partition the 4Gb SDCard half FAT32 , half EXT4.
I have tried to do it using several Windows apps (Easeus Partition Master, Minitool Partition Edition) , also with Gparted on Ubuntu thru VMWare . In any of those cases the phone wouldn't recognize the SD , neither inside the system , neither in recovery . It is detected as damaged and I must reformat thru the System in order to use the SD .
My current recovery is ClockWorkMod Recovery 2.5.0.7 and I can't partition thru it.
As recommended in this thread I had tried to flash the latest 4ext Recovery using fastboot in the command prompt but I have no success, probably because the phone isn't S-OFF.
Ok. So I tried to gain S-OFF using Revolutionary. Also with no success.
I was getting the following message:
"Sending in Caroline...
Retrieving Caroline from certain doom...
Retrying Caroline...
Caroline failed, but had this to say: entation fault"​
As suggested in that forum I have tried flashing a Rooted gingerbread stock sense Rom (HTC_Oficial_Stock_2.3.3_signed , downloaded from that forum) and use Revolutionary . Also no success.
I kept receiving "failed to get root" message .
I have tried using AlphaRev 1.8 and Unrevoked 3. No success at all.
I flashed back the CM10 VJ Jelly Bean Rom. Tried it all again.
And still the same results.
I am probably missing some step or some information, althought I had read different forums during the whole weekend.
There is any good soul out there that could help me ?
Some info about the mobile that may be useful:
Bravo PVT4 Ship S-On
HBoot 0.93.001
ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.0.7​
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man you are still S-on just follow http://revolutionary.io/ and you will be ok
tcris45 said:
man you are still S-on just follow http://revolutionary.io/ and you will be ok
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lol did you even read his post?!? His problem is that he cant get s-off cause revolutionary is giving errors.
From what i read it seems like you have done everything correctly except using those windows tools for partitioning. Use this guide for partitioning. But like you said, you will first need s-off to flash 4ext and partition.
You could try flashing this ruu through hboot. Put the zip on the root of your sd card (dont rename it) and then boot the phone into the bootloader using volume down + power. It will search for the file, and will ask you if you want to install it. Press volume up and user power to select yes, and then reboot. After flashing the ruu successfully try running revolutionary again, and see if it works.
chromium96 said:
lol did you even read his post?!? His problem is that he cant get s-off cause revolutionary is giving errors.
From what i read it seems like you have done everything correctly except using those windows tools for partitioning. Use this guide for partitioning. But like you said, you will first need s-off to flash 4ext and partition.
You could try flashing this ruu through hboot. Put the zip on the root of your sd card (dont rename it) and then boot the phone into the bootloader using volume down + power. It will search for the file, and will ask you if you want to install it. Press volume up and user power to select yes, and then reboot. After flashing the ruu successfully try running revolutionary again, and see if it works.
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yh think ur right, i think that for revolutionary to work u have to be Not rooted, stock rom etc etc.
chromium96 said:
lol did you even read his post?!? His problem is that he cant get s-off cause revolutionary is giving errors.
From what i read it seems like you have done everything correctly except using those windows tools for partitioning. Use this guide for partitioning. But like you said, you will first need s-off to flash 4ext and partition.
You could try flashing this ruu through hboot. Put the zip on the root of your sd card (dont rename it) and then boot the phone into the bootloader using volume down + power. It will search for the file, and will ask you if you want to install it. Press volume up and user power to select yes, and then reboot. After flashing the ruu successfully try running revolutionary again, and see if it works.
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Thank you very much chromium96 !
Everything is rocking and rolling . The "key" I was missing was to flash the RUU . After that Revolutionary worked just fine, I was able to S-OFF the phone , flahed 4Ext, partitioned my SD . and right now I'm downloading Paranoid Android 3.56 to give it a try.
lucianosantana said:
Thank you very much chromium96 !
Everything is rocking and rolling . The "key" I was missing was to flash the RUU . After that Revolutionary worked just fine, I was able to S-OFF the phone , flahed 4Ext, partitioned my SD . and right now I'm downloading Paranoid Android 3.56 to give it a try.
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Glad you got it working. Have fun with PA, the rom is great.

Did i soft brick my phone ?

My CM10.1_VJ_4.2.2_V6.3_May24 ROM is broken, it worked good but when i tried to flash the phone with an old Clean_Stock_V10A_00_FroYo ROM and it gave me an error message and INSTALATION ABORTED.
when i try to restart the phone the HTC LOGO appears with the white background and doesnt go anywhere from there. I cant do the factory reset since i dont have the zip on my SD card i also can not put any zip files on my SD card from recovery
how can i get the CM10.1_VJ_4.2.2_V6.3_May24.zip on my SD card again to install my old rom ?
eNdless2k said:
My CM10.1_VJ_4.2.2_V6.3_May24 ROM is broken, it worked good but when i tried to flash the phone with an old Clean_Stock_V10A_00_FroYo ROM and it gave me an error message and INSTALATION ABORTED.
when i try to restart the phone the HTC LOGO appears with the white background and doesnt go anywhere from there. I cant do the factory reset since i dont have the zip on my SD card i also can not put any zip files on my SD card from recovery
how can i get the CM10.1_VJ_4.2.2_V6.3_May24.zip on my SD card again to install my old rom ?
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Remove and insert the battery after a minute. Press vol down and power simultaneously. Should give you an option to boot into bootloader, recovery, etc.
Use vol keys and select recovery. Wipe everything except for sd card and reflash the ROM.
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium
dvsk69 said:
Remove and insert the battery after a minute. Press vol down and power simultaneously. Should give you an option to boot into bootloader, recovery, etc.
Use vol keys and select recovery. Wipe everything except for sd card and reflash the ROM.
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium
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Thats the problem, i dont have the CM10.1_VJ_4.2.2_V6.3_May24 ROM on my SD card anymore. Thats why i was asking how i can get access to my SD card ? cant get data on it from bootloader and recover menu
eNdless2k said:
Thats the problem, i dont have the CM10.1_VJ_4.2.2_V6.3_May24 ROM on my SD card anymore. Thats why i was asking how i can get access to my SD card ? cant get data on it from bootloader and recover menu
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What recovery do you have?
abaaaabbbb63 said:
What recovery do you have?
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clockwork mod recovery v2.5.0.7
eNdless2k said:
clockwork mod recovery v2.5.0.7
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Are you s-off? If yes, flash 4ext recovery. It has a Toggle USB Storage option that lets you connect your phone to your PC as if it were booted, an modify the contents of your sd-card. Put a rom, and try to boot.
If not, try using adb from recovery. It might work... I don't really know if cwm 2.5.0.7 has adb enabled. Try connecting your phone while in recovery, and write 'adb devices'. If a serial number comes out, then use "adb push" to copy a rom to your sd-card.
Another way is to find a card reader, they're always really useful in situations like this
If you're not s-off or don't have a card reader, you should still be able to mount the sd card within clockworkmod 2.5.0.7 recovery.
In the main menu, think it's "mounts and storage -> Mount sd card" or similar have a look.
Try this first, just to get your phone booting again. It's still a good idea eventually to get 4EXT recovery installed as it's much better!
eddiehk6 said:
Another way is to find a card reader, they're always really useful in situations like this
If you're not s-off or don't have a card reader, you should still be able to mount the sd card within clockworkmod 2.5.0.7 recovery.
In the main menu, think it's "mounts and storage -> Mount sd card" or similar have a look.
Try this first, just to get your phone booting again. It's still a good idea eventually to get 4EXT recovery installed as it's much better!
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Great! Thanks for the hint it did lead me to the right idea to MOUNT USB STORAGE, gave me access to my SD card again.
But since im here i wanted to ask you guys something else. It all happened when i tried to SOFF my phone. I tried using revolution but when i wanted to download the tool it said i needed a betakey and i could not generate one since my HBOOT is version 0.83.xxx and i have no clue how to flash it to 0.93 or 1.02. plus i dont know the serial number of my phone.
is there actually a hboot 0.93 for download i can use ?
I allready rooted the phone using unrevoked forever.
eNdless2k said:
Great! Thanks for the hint it did lead me to the right idea to MOUNT USB STORAGE, gave me access to my SD card again.
But since im here i wanted to ask you guys something else. It all happened when i tried to SOFF my phone. I tried using revolution but when i wanted to download the tool it said i needed a betakey and i could not generate one since my HBOOT is version 0.83.xxx and i have no clue how to flash it to 0.93 or 1.02. plus i dont know the serial number of my phone.
is there actually a hboot 0.93 for download i can use ?
I allready rooted the phone using unrevoked forever.
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You could use the Alpharev utility from alpharev.nl , or upgrade to the 1.02 hboot using the 2.3 RUU. Both ways are equally risky.
abaaaabbbb63 said:
You could use the Alpharev utility from alpharev.nl , or upgrade to the 1.02 hboot using the 2.3 RUU. Both ways are equally risky.
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why risky ? what can happen ?
I have a desire GSM
o you have a link for the 2.2 RUU or 2.3 RUU ?
2.2.x 2.11.832.3_R 32.47.00.32U_5.10.05.23 157503 HBoot 0.93.0001
on your site http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Desire it says its an official Rom, so can i still brick my phone using this RUU ?
eNdless2k said:
why risky ? what can happen ?
I have a desire GSM
o you have a link for the 2.2 RUU or 2.3 RUU ?
2.2.x 2.11.832.3_R 32.47.00.32U_5.10.05.23 157503 HBoot 0.93.0001
on your site http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Desire it says its an official Rom, so can i still brick my phone using this RUU ?
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http://www.htcdev.com/process/legal_download/152
Link to the 2.3 RUU.
Very small risks, but they still are there...
abaaaabbbb63 said:
http://www.htcdev.com/process/legal_download/152
Link to the 2.3 RUU.
Very small risks, but they still are there...
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Nice, it worked. My phone is now s-off!
Thanks for the help!

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