Hey guys I'm really desperate right now...
I don't know what to to, I can't boot my Desire, I can't get into recovery, just fastboot is working. I'm always stuck on the splashscreen.
To begin with the story, I rooted my Desire months ago, flashed a new rom from time to time and everything worked fine. So yesterday I wanted to try out RCMix S CM7 where the FAQ said i need S-OFF.
So this also worked quite fine. But then I got problems partitioning my SDCard (dont know what why or so, my Desire didnt recognize it anymore)
Today I tried again but I made it even worse, now I can't boot my Rom anymore and I can't get into Recovery. So what should I do? I searched the internet for hours now and tried nearly everything.
I tried to flash an official RUU, in fact this one: RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.exe
Becaus the others were too "old". But when I tried starting this one it couldnt detect my desire. USB connecion error.
But still it seems it flashed a new hboot because now I am S-ON again.
Then I tried to flash a Stock ROM via fastboot, which first failed because it wasn't signed and the second one failed because android-info.txt and android-product.txt were missing.
I tried to flash the recovery again but it's still stuck on the splashcreen.
I don't know what to do anymore... could you PLS help me? Or is my Desire now bricked??
What can I do, or try...?
greets patrick
scroach said:
Hey guys I'm really desperate right now...
I don't know what to to, I can't boot my Desire, I can't get into recovery, just fastboot is working. I'm always stuck on the splashscreen.
To begin with the story, I rooted my Desire months ago, flashed a new rom from time to time and everything worked fine. So yesterday I wanted to try out RCMix S CM7 where the FAQ said i need S-OFF.
So this also worked quite fine. But then I got problems partitioning my SDCard (dont know what why or so, my Desire didnt recognize it anymore)
Today I tried again but I made it even worse, now I can't boot my Rom anymore and I can't get into Recovery. So what should I do? I searched the internet for hours now and tried nearly everything.
I tried to flash an official RUU, in fact this one: RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.exe
Becaus the others were too "old". But when I tried starting this one it couldnt detect my desire. USB connecion error.
But still it seems it flashed a new hboot because now I am S-ON again.
Then I tried to flash a Stock ROM via fastboot, which first failed because it wasn't signed and the second one failed because android-info.txt and android-product.txt were missing.
I tried to flash the recovery again but it's still stuck on the splashcreen.
I don't know what to do anymore... could you PLS help me? Or is my Desire now bricked??
What can I do, or try...?
greets patrick
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If fastboot is working you should be pretty much safe. It seems like you got an usb brick. Try this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691187
My Suggestion ... Create a Goldcard beofre doing anything.. once done you can put PB99IMG.zip into ur SD card and it will flash automatic once you goto fastboot... but Goldcard is a must for this.. if you dont knw search how to create goldcard.
For Goldcard
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...gold-card-for-htc-desire-without-hex-editing/
or
http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how-to-create-a-goldcard/
Pat, is your phone branded ?
Flash the correct RUU for your phone (one that came with your phone originally), it does not really matter how old it is. after you done that your should get back to stock you can re-root it and then load the firmware you want.
if you don't know what your phone came with originally. then you will need a goldcard to get back to stock
@paul.c: nope it isn't branded
@dennis.l: I can't! I tried some of this list: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667
The old ones with 1.15 and 1.21 started, but didn't work because it said they are too old or something like that.
RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.15.405.4_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4. 05.00.11_release_122704.exe
RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4. 06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe
Then I tried the newer one with FroYo, but this one throw and error saying it can't even find or connect to my phone.
RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00. 32U_5.11.05.27_release
So what I've read so far I definitely need a goldcard right?
But all those manuals say I have to boot up and activate USB Debugging Mode... but I cant boot up a rom. The only thing that is working right now is fastboot.
Is it possible to make a goldcard without booting up? Or do I have to get a working Desire to make the goldcard?
I haven't got a cardreader either but seems I've got to get one.
Right now I'm not at home so can just try it in the evening.
scroach said:
@paul.c: nope it isn't branded
@dennis.l: I can't! I tried some of this list: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667
The old ones with 1.15 and 1.21 started, but didn't work because it said they are too old or something like that.
RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.15.405.4_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4. 05.00.11_release_122704.exe
RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4. 06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe
Then I tried the newer one with FroYo, but this one throw and error saying it can't even find or connect to my phone.
RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00. 32U_5.11.05.27_release
So what I've read so far I definitely need a goldcard right?
But all those manuals say I have to boot up and activate USB Debugging Mode... but I cant boot up a rom. The only thing that is working right now is fastboot.
Is it possible to make a goldcard without booting up? Or do I have to get a working Desire to make the goldcard?
I haven't got a cardreader either but seems I've got to get one.
Right now I'm not at home so can just try it in the evening.
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You don't need goldcard for unbranded phones.
Even Unbranded phone requires goldcard to be able to flash any RUU...
So I prefer you create goldcard.. and yehs you can create goldcard without booting..
If you have anyone with android mobile.. goto market and search for goldcard helper.. and insert you memory card in that phone.. and run the goldcard helper.. it will give you the reverse CID .. whcih you can use to create goldcard... but you will require a card reader for sure..... just try your luck with your current phone.. just plug in the phone and run the Goldcard tool.. and check if your phone is detecting
THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!
You saved my life! xD
I made a goldcard as you said with the help of a friend and his desire. Then I put it my phone and suddenly I could flash the newest Stock ROM
RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00. 32U_5.11.05.27_release
So everything went great, I've got root again, a working stock rom and I'm able to start recovery mode again.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
paul.c said:
You don't need goldcard for unbranded phones.
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I'm glad to hear that. Sorry, it seems that I have to learn more.
scroach said:
THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!
You saved my life! xD
I made a goldcard as you said with the help of a friend and his desire. Then I put it my phone and suddenly I could flash the newest Stock ROM
RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00. 32U_5.11.05.27_release
So everything went great, I've got root again, a working stock rom and I'm able to start recovery mode again.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
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Anytime Bro
I recently experienced a similar problem. And all the stuff you described wrong with your phone is the same on mine.
What I want to know is how to get back to stock and all that? A step by step guide would be very much apreciated..
I tried following this guide:http: //forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691639
but as I try to enable my sdcard it get an error:
"The program can't start because AdbWinApi.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem".
I recently installed the JDK and just downloaded the newest android SDK to work with.
Besides I'm considering whether I'm doing this right. I do have to use the CMDprompt right? and direct it to my androidsdk/tools directory?
I'm pretty much new to messing around with my phone through the CMD though. Please be gentle when you describe any methods that might work..?
Regards,
Me
Hammerbak said:
I recently experienced a similar problem. And all the stuff you described wrong with your phone is the same on mine.
What I want to know is how to get back to stock and all that? A step by step guide would be very much apreciated..
I tried following this guide:http: //forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691639
but as I try to enable my sdcard it get an error:
"The program can't start because AdbWinApi.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem".
I recently installed the JDK and just downloaded the newest android SDK to work with.
Besides I'm considering whether I'm doing this right. I do have to use the CMDprompt right? and direct it to my androidsdk/tools directory?
I'm pretty much new to messing around with my phone through the CMD though. Please be gentle when you describe any methods that might work..?
Regards,
Me
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Adbwinapi.dll was moved to the platform-tools dir in the android sdk and the sdk path in Windows hasn't be updated. In win xp right click my computer, go to system then click the system variables button. Find "path" and change it to point in to the "platform-tools" folder... Note I'm not at my pc so I can't remember 100% what tab the system variables button is on
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Hammerbak said:
I recently experienced a similar problem. And all the stuff you described wrong with your phone is the same on mine.
What I want to know is how to get back to stock and all that? A step by step guide would be very much apreciated..
I tried following this guide:http: //forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691639
but as I try to enable my sdcard it get an error:
"The program can't start because AdbWinApi.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem".
I recently installed the JDK and just downloaded the newest android SDK to work with.
Besides I'm considering whether I'm doing this right. I do have to use the CMDprompt right? and direct it to my androidsdk/tools directory?
I'm pretty much new to messing around with my phone through the CMD though. Please be gentle when you describe any methods that might work..?
Regards,
Me
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Stumbled into the same problem. Just download it from the internet.
hi,
rage is right, better declare environnement variable, right click comupter - select properties - windows select advanced and you should see variable environnement. just add the path where adb is installed... mine is the following defaut path(C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk-windows\tools) + (C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools) should add the in the user environ... name = path variable= the 2 path separated by a ;
Well I got desperate and I think that I've totally bricked my phone. I was going to a family arrangement and I didn't know the way so I was hoping that flashing the original RUU, would make me able to use the phone and the navigation in it, while starting the phone in fastboot would help. Seems it didn't. The RUU I tried to install seems it was a wrong one (here to say that I tried flashing it through the installer on my pc), but this was stated pretty late in the installation process.. where the guide told me to install a proper one.
My phone is now totally unresponsive. It won't even charge. When I hold the power button it just vibrates once and then nothing else happens.
Is it bricked? If so, does anyone know what my chances are with my warranty? Now that I've had it rooted and stuff, does my warrenty then expire and can they "track" the rooting part if I hand in it to their support?
Best of regards,
Me.
Hammerbak said:
Well I got desperate and I think that I've totally bricked my phone. I was going to a family arrangement and I didn't know the way so I was hoping that flashing the original RUU, would make me able to use the phone and the navigation in it, while starting the phone in fastboot would help. Seems it didn't. The RUU I tried to install seems it was a wrong one (here to say that I tried flashing it through the installer on my pc), but this was stated pretty late in the installation process.. where the guide told me to install a proper one.
My phone is now totally unresponsive. It won't even charge. When I hold the power button it just vibrates once and then nothing else happens.
Is it bricked? If so, does anyone know what my chances are with my warranty? Now that I've had it rooted and stuff, does my warrenty then expire and can they "track" the rooting part if I hand in it to their support?
Best of regards,
Me.
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only guessing but if NOTHING turns on or boots, as in you just see a black screen then there is not going to be a way for any one to know the phone was rooted
try taking it back on warranty
I thought the same thing myself. Since it's unable to boot into the "recovery" menu by holding down "power + volume down" I guess it's not rooted anymore anyhow. During the RUU installation I noticed that it was installing a new "image-something" which I'm guessing means that it was writing over the root and recovery after which the installation failed.
Anyhow I'll try that and hope for the best. Thanks
Hammerbak said:
I thought the same thing myself. Since it's unable to boot into the "recovery" menu by holding down "power + volume down" I guess it's not rooted anymore anyhow. During the RUU installation I noticed that it was installing a new "image-something" which I'm guessing means that it was writing over the root and recovery after which the installation failed.
Anyhow I'll try that and hope for the best. Thanks
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Are you able to recognise the phone in adb at all?
From what I know it's very rare to completely brick unless you are flashing hboots or radios.
Hi everyone,
I have spent the whole day searching this but i am out of solutions now.
So the HOX is my first android device, so very noob here.
I was very disappointed with battery life, so decided to put ARHD on it.
Everything went fine, got it working without too much problem.
But then I flashed it to tweak the appearence but appently that wasn't meant for ARHD so then it wouldn't boot anymore. And i made the mistake to erase the ROM on the sdcard before flashing, and no backup made...
After some time trying to arrange things, I probably made things worse, I decided to follow the step by step from the [TUT] Disaster Recovery thread and flash the RUU and do total recovery.
I went as far as:
fastboot flash boot boot_signed.img (that went well)
but when I did the next step:
fastboot flash system system.img
I get :
FAILED (remote : (00000006))
so now I'm helpless. I just want to go back to a working phone but now I am stuck and couldn't find any solutions... I was thinking, maybe I lack some free space on the sdcard? How can I can wipe everything out?
I am really desperate now...
This forum is amazing and so far I got all the help I needed by just searching it.
It came down to the last resort for me to open this thread...
Thanks everyon in advance for helping!
cheers
Edit: I noticed that the wiki step by step was slightly different and was instructing to re lock the bootloader, so I did.
Now, even the fastboot flash boot boot_signed.img doesnt work anymore, I get a FAILED (remote : (00000006)) ...
From what I understand, it could come down to the RUU that I got is not the right one.
Thing is, I should have gotten the right one: when I do the fastboot getvar version-main command, I downloaded the RUU accordingly.
I have an unbranded HOX bought on amazon UK, and i was running on the 1.29.401.11 version, so downloaded : RUU_ENDEAVOR_U_ICS_40_HTC_Europe_1.29.401.11_Radio_1.1204.105.14_release_260491_signed
I am going to cry.
OK is your bootloader unlocked? I was in your EXACT same position two days ago. Go to fastboot and run "fastboot oem getcid" it should be something like "HTC___XXX" write down the three numbers and go to the development section. There is a thread called TUT flash an upgrade (hboot) or something. Click on that and in one of the first few posts there are a bunch of CIDs and find the one that had three numbers matching yours. Go to the shipped rom thread by Football and click on his filefactory link. Find the RUU that corresponds to your CID and run it in windows. Do as you did before and flash the boot_signed.img and recovery.img. Now let the RUU run. It should work. If it doesn't then use "fastboot oem lock" to relock the bootloader and try again.
Good luck.
P.S. don't worry, I cried yesterday so you don't have to
P.P.S. You can add me on Gtalk [email protected] and I can help easier through there.
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After hours of searching the forums through the many different devices, and how to's. i have came to the sad realization that i may have bricked my HOX Evita. i accidentaly flashed a boot.img using fastboot that has removed the OS from the phone, also my "sdcard" will not mount in CMW. i tried flashing to stock recovery in hopes that clearing storage, and factor reset would solve the "sdcard" issues so that i could flash back to CMW and use adb to push a rom in what i hope would bring it back to life... just when i thought i was on a roll had SU and unlocked bootloader, i was in the clear. only to try a CM10 rom and an accidental boot.img... keep in ming this wasn't a recovery boot.img it was a boot.img out of a rom... i think. sorry for the rambling and bad grammar im in such a huge rush to try n figure this out.
Edit- after relocking my bootloader and running the RUU i was able to fix this issue, i hadn't read anything about needing to relock to run a RUU. apologies
Mate, you are in the wrong forum...this is for the HTC One X International which has a Tegra3 while your HTC One XL (!!!!!) runs a Qualcom Snapdragon...
Stop flashing the wrong software on your machine...
All you need is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1538
Hey guys.
First off I'll start with a backstory to get people up to speed. I own an original Moto Droid, then moved to a Moto Droid Razr and now I'm on my first HTC...the One. I've succesfully rooted and flashed many ROMs and firmware just fine. I'm pretty resourceful when it comes to finding information online. I'm familiar with Fastboot and simple ADB. Also I am familiar with TWRP and CWM.
So here's my situation. I went to reflash a new ROM to try out and I accidentally used TWRP to "Format" and ended up formatting my entire phone. My obvious problem is that I don't have a ROM installed nor do I have a .zip on my phone to flash. I can boot to the bootloader just fine and also recovery.
So to summarize, I'm trying to push a ROM file to my phone in order to flash it. The problem lies in the fact that I cannot get ADB to recognize the phone. I cannot use ADB to push a file since it errors with "Device not found" and I've tried using CWM to mount anything and no luck seeing the device. Also I've tried TWRP sideload and that just hangs at starting the sideload feature. I've tried reflashing recoveries and no luck getting it to see the device. Also, when using CWM there is no option to mount/unmount /SDCARD.
I know there are plenty of threads with this same(ish) problem, but it seems like a jumble of information and a lot of them are from different models or different carriers and I just can't seem to find the definitive answer for this exact situation. I just need a little bit of a push in the right direction to get this moving again.
Thank you guys a ton in advance for the help. This has been a great community to me, even if I never actually signed up and posted anything.
My info:
Verizon HTC One
From bootloader:
*Unlocked*
M7_WLV PVT S-OFF
CID-11111111 <---SuperCID changed
HBOOT - 1.54.0000
RADIO - 1.12.42.0906
OS - 1.10.605.10
ADB and Fastboot:
Installed using lite installer
ADB - 1.0.31
I believe you can flash in ruu mode just have to find that ruu in the forum. I hope this leads you to a fix
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Thanks for the response.
I was actually thinking that would be my next option. One problem, I can't find a verizon RUU. I keep finding dead links to download one.
Problem solved.
Flashed verizon RUU to the phone and all is well. Had to do some serious digging to find that file.
Yeah, I wiped my OS also but could not get adb or fastboot to reconize my phone. Still had recovery so got the Meenova sd card reader, put my rom on the sd card and flashed it. Great little tool. Nice to have external storage also.
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RapDoug said:
Problem solved.
Flashed verizon RUU to the phone and all is well. Had to do some serious digging to find that file.
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Glad you got it man!
but really?
typing RUU in the search box is considered digging?
the RUU is quite easy to find
Hello everyone. I need some serious help because i think i just may have bricked my HTC One M8 and i need to get it back to life. I was trying to root/s-off/convert to google play edition using Hansoon's tool, and it was all perfect until i got to the ADB flash step for the GPE RUU file. It was taking hours, so i cancelled it like a dumbass.
Well, my phone now will turn on and boot up to the HTC logo screen, but there is a small lock that is in the unlocked position in the bottom-center of the screen. The phone just sits there, like i OS doesnt work or something.
The phone is not recognized by ADB on the PC, and im using scared because i just go this phone and paid a lot for it.
**Also, i did flash a version of TWRP, so i think i still have a recovery on the phone
Is there anything i can do?
Thanks,
Castiel
Sorry for the late reply. Have you tried holding the power and volume down to see if you can boot into bootloader? Please refrain from using toolkits. It is best to use the commands yourself. I had an issue converting my AT&T m8 to T-mobile. It was HTC sync causing the issue. Be sure you don't have anything that can talk to the phone like HTC Sync installed at all on the computer and retry. Your best bet is to run the exe RUU if at all possible at this point as you don't have to run any fastboot commands for it.
Edit: have you changed your CID and MID to convert to the GPE version if it doesn't match the requirements? Also, is this the one you a\were trying to flash? If so, try flashing with method one on an external SD card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708589
Heard nothing back. Did you get it to work?