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SaidJan

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My phone is HTC Desire.
Andoird: 2.2
Baseband ver: 2.15.00.11.16
Kernel ver: 2.6.32.21
Build number: 2.11.573.5 CL325935
Software number: 2.11.573.5
PRI ver: 1.70
PRL ver: 15114
hboot: 6.93.9999
Radio- 2.15.00.11.16
Dec 22 2010

I downloaded two files from alpharev.nl. one of them is img and the other one is zip.
I browse for these two files in Fastboot Commander program. One of them in Hboot/spl and the other one in Recovery and then flashed both. Then I browse for zip file in Full Zip tab and and flashed that one,too.
Now my cellphone screen is black, it's on, but no screen.
What can I do? :mad: :confused:
Please help me. :(
 
It would help if you can say exactly what files you were trying to flash. Were you following a guide & how far you got? What were you trying to achieve?

I see from your hboot number you have an alpharev hboot. Do you have a custom recovery & a recent back up?
 
You cannot flash these things from recovery!

Please, as Nicka says, tell us which file, and also what ROM you are using an exactly what you did in as much detail as you can recall. The hboot is not something you want to mess around with if you don't know what you were doing, and as these files do the same thing (so no point using both) and your method was wrong for at least one of them I'm afraid that you are guilty of that.

The good news is that it doesn't sound like the phone is hard bricked :). Can you go into hboot and tell us what it says along the top line (pink writing)?


My advice for this stuff is to follow the procedure described at alpharev.nl and avoid utilities like fastboot commander for this - there are important steps it won't do for you.
 
No, I was not folllowing a guide. I just tried them, because the monitor was black, I thought maybe these files get it fixed.
I think I flashed "Bravo CM7 r2" files(both of .img file in the zip file). But I'm not sure which files are for my cellphone.

I executed this file "PB9940000_BravoC_hboot_1.09.0000_USC_UTSI" which is for my cellphone, and I'm sure about it, because in flashboot screen I see BravoC and my cellphone is US Cellular. Now the monitor is on, but whenever I turn off and on the cellphone, it is in fastboot screen. When I want to go to the Recovery menu, it restarts.
I think I should copy a PB99IMG.zip file in sd card, but I don't know where I can find the file.
 
Wait - you have a BravoC, i.e. a CDMA handset. The alpharev hboots are for GSM handsets only.

I'll post more in a minute, but stop flashing stuff that is not for your phone! You are in serious danger of having an irrecoverable brick if you keep doing this - irrecoverable because if you get into a state where you can't use fastboot it is game over, and screwing-up the hboot could do exactly that.
 
Right, sorry about that but I wanted to get the warning out before you just tried anything else. You really shouldn't "just try" stuff on the off chance that maybe it will be what you need. You can't do much harm flashing ROMs, but some bits of the system software are critical to the functioning of the device, and as it happens you've been messing about with one of those, which had the potential to make your device completely inoperable.

So, our problem now is to work out what the state of your phone is, and what we need in order to get it working. My best guess is that your ROM is corrupt because of the hboot you've flashed, but it's hard to predict exactly what will happen if you flash a GSM hboot onto a CDMA device, which as far as I can tell is what you have done. If you told us what it says at the top of the hboot or fastboot screen (exactly and completely, and especially any pink writing) that would help establish your current status.

If you had a GSM phone (Bravo), what that alpharev hboot would do is repartition your internal storage, giving less space to the ROM and more for user data. The normal ROM would not work any more, because it's too big to work with the CM7r2 hboot. You would fix it by replacing the hboot with one that it can work with, then reflashing your ROM (or your whole system using an RUU or PB99IMG). Now the storage management is different on a CDMA phone (BravoC), so I'm not sure what the hboot will have done, but the fact that you end up in fastboot suggests that your ROM is messed-up badly.

So to fix this we need to get you back on the correct bootloader. However, we have two problems here: 1) nobody makes custom bootloaders for the BravoC, so it's not as easy to find a suitable bootloader for you, and 2) the alpharev bootloaders are designed so that the RUU will not replace them, so just running the RUU probably won't fix this (I say probably because we're in slightly uncharted waters here, but on the other hand I think you've already done this and it hasn't fixed it).

So, I think the best bet is the file you already have, "PB9940000_BravoC_hboot_1.09.0000_USC_UTSI". You don't say what its type is or how you "executed" it, but from the name I'd guess it's an RUU (ROM Update Utility), and indeed from the fact that it starts "PB99" I'm guessing that this is actually the USC software in PB99IMG form. But as you don't give the file type I'm not 100% sure, so do tell how you executed it?

If it is a PB99IMG.zip of the USCC software you should be able to install it by copying it to your SD card, renaming it to PB99IMG.zip (case sensitive, and make sure that's ".zip" and not ".zip.zip", which can happen if you have Windows hiding file extensions from you) and rebooting the phone. However, if the BravoC behaves like the Bravo this won't replace the hboot because the alpharev hboots are designed to not be replaced by RUUs. So we'll need to get the right hboot on first.

I can see two options for this:

1) if that "PB9940000_BravoC_hboot_1.09.0000_USC_UTSI" is a .zip, make a copy, unzip the copy, and look for a hboot.img inside there. Try fastboot flashing that img. You can even use fastboot commander for this - we only care that the hboot is replaced, not about whether the ROM works afterwards (it almost certainly won't, yet). Then boot into hboot (or fastboot) and check whether it has replaced the HBOOT - I expect it will give hboot version 1.09 after this if it has.

If that works, then go ahead and apply the whole PB9940000_BravoC_hboot_1.09.0000_USC_UTSI update. That ought to get you going again.

2) The alternative is a little riskier: download the "downgrader" hboot from alpharev.nl, flash that (just once - download the img and fastboot flash it), then run the PB9940000_BravoC_hboot_1.09.0000_USC_UTSI update.

The "downgrader" is a special hboot which, unlike other alpharev hboots, is replaced by an RUU. The reason I say this is more risky is that it does mean flashing yet another bit of software that is not intended for your handset. No more risky than what you've done so far, but I'd really not have recommended what you've already done, so I'd try the other approach first if you can.

The interesting thing here is that in order to do any of this you presumably are S-Off. Did you do that yourself, or did you buy the phone in this state?

Anyway, it's really important to appreciate that there are two types of Desire. The commonest by far is the Bravo (GSM model), while the BravoC (CDMA) is much rarer. Hence BravoC owners need to be careful when modifying system software: if something says it's for the Desire, but doesn't actually say "CDMA" or "BravoC" it's probably only for the Bravo.

Good luck, and if you are at all unsure about something please ask before proceeding.
 
I rooted the phone with Revolutionary (it changed from s-on to s-off)and when I installed the ROM (which I mentioned) it changed to s-on automatically. On top of the fastboot screen it was written Lucked (OOW) and now it has changed to Unlocked.
Can you please give me the download link for official andorid 2.3.7 ? And also a PB99IMG file for my cellphone?
Thank you

Edit: The Rom file "PB9940000_BravoC_hboot_1.09.0000_USC_UTSI" is .exe.
Edit2: The HBoot after installing PB99....exe file changed from 6.93.9999 to 1.09.0000.
Before doing all of these (when the phone was working normally) the hboot ver was 1.09.0000 also. When I rooted the phone with Revolutionary, it changed to 6.93.9999
Edit3: in fastboot screen it's written:
*** Unlocked***
BRAVOC DVT2 SHIP S-ON
 
There is no official 2.3.7 for that handset that I know of. There was an official 2.3.3 for the GSM version, but I've never heard of an official 2.3.anything for the CDMA model.

As I said, my best guess is that the PB9940000_BravoC_hboot_1.09.0000_USC_UTSI file you mentioned is a full set of USCC software in PM99IMG form, but you've not confirmed whether it's a .zip or a .exe - it's unusual for the name to start with "PB99" if it's a .exe, but then you did talk about executing it. You can extract a PB99IMG from a RUU .exe if you want: there's a brief description of how to do it here.

With a BravoC you should be S-Off for good once you do it. I really hope so, because if you still have the alpharev hboot you'll need to replace that, and without S-Off that is going to be a problem.
 
Please read the edits in my previous post. sorry for that.
I did what he said in the post you gave, but my cellphone gave an error: Wrong Zipped Image.
The attached file is the file which I sent to sd card.
 

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Ah, OK, so you've already replaced the hboot - that's good! :)

Still surprised that it's back to S-On, but as long as the hboot is back to 1.09 that's not a problem.

So there's nothing else to do with the hboot. The puzzle is stuff not working after running the .exe. Did that generate any error messages when it ran? If that runs successfully it ought to replace your phone's software completely, and hence undo any modifications you made. It also does a complete factory reset, so it really ought to fix anything that's fixable through software.

So you shouldn't need to do anything except run the PB9940000_BravoC_hboot_1.09.0000_USC_UTSI.exe. But it's still not working? I guess you could put the phone into fastboot mode, connect to usb and run that .exe again, and watch carefully for any error messages when it runs - let us know if there are any.

I've tried to look at the zip, but my computer reports it as damaged. But whatever it is, you shouldn't need it if you've got the hboot fixed.
 
I executed the ROM file (PB99....exe) yesterday, but the only changes in my phone were that I could turn on the phone just in fastboot mode and the hboot ver changed to 1.09
There is no error message while installing Rom in phone. After it finished it said: Successfully completed.

About the file: I could open it without any error and I easily copied it in sd card. There are 2 files in it, "android-info.txt" and "hboot_1.09.0000.img".
 
Yeah, you don't need that then - it's just the hboot, which you've already updated.

It's a puzzle why it doesn't work then. The .exe really should deal with anything. Have to think about this.
 
Is there any way to factory or hard reset the phone while it's in fastboot mode or it's off ?
There is no option in fastboot mode to do this.
My opinion is that to upload a file to phone with fastboot commander.

P.S: I didn't know anything about Android until 2 days ago. I was searching for all of these and also more for the last 2 days. I spend more than 35 hours for it.
 
There is a reset option in hboot mode, so if you select "bootloader" from the fastboot menu you could do that.

However, all that a factory reset does is erase data. And the PB99etc.exe app does a factory reset as part of its operation. You could try that again, I suppose.
 
I don't need any information in my phone, because it's new and I don't have anything in it. I mean I can do factory reset or wipe out all my information in phone.
Also there is no reset option in fastboot mode. There was before I do all of these stuff.

Now that I'm trying to executing PB99....exe file, it's giving me an error.
 

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I also did these steps:
HTCdev - Please Log In

Now I ran this command: fastboot oem lock in fastboot commander. and on top ot the screen, it's writen: ***Relocked***

I also have Unlock_code.bin file and I ran it from fastboot commander in order to get the S-Off, but it didn't happen.
 
Don't worry about S-Off. But relocking is a good point: on an S-On phone you do need to lock the bootloader before an RUU will run. I tend to forget that on the Desire because only the most recent bootloaders were unlockable, and we always told people not to use HTCDev with the Desire (because Revolutionary didn't work any more if you did, and that gives more options than HTCDev does).

Re. the battery, this is just a bit of guesswork but try charging fully (how do you know it's charged if you can only get into fastboot? Green LED?), then pull the battery out for a couple of minutes. That should clear any stuck bits in the silicon. Then power on and try again.
 
The battery issue is solved.
Now what can I do ?
I just can lock and unlock the phone through the fastboot commander, but I think if I can do S-Off, the phone will turn on normally.
The revolutionary is also waiting for phone, but because it's in fastboot it can't recognize the phone.
Is there any command that I can reset the phone or install hboot or any working Rom (official or custom) ?
 
S-Off really isn't the issue. That allows you to do a few specialised tasks, but being S-On won't stop the phone booting.

Resets just clear data. That's it. There's no backup copy of the system stored in the phone that is reloaded if you do a reset.

What happens if you select "bootloader" from the hboot menu? The thing is, hboot and fastboot are the same program, so if you are in fastboot mode then you have a hboot.

If you run the PB99...exe (the RUU) now that the battery issue is resolved, what happens? That is the thing that loads the official ROM. If that runs without error and the phone won't work afterwards then that's rather worrying, and it's not very likely that another ROM will fix it.

However, if you unlock the bootloader you could try fastboot flashing a custom recovery (e.g. 4Ext - there is a direct download link "(Desire CDMA)" about 3/4 of the way down the first post. Do not load a GSM recovery on your phone). Then if you copy a custom ROM onto your SD card (need to find one for a CDMA phone - there are some here, but the selection is limited) and install it using the recovery then maybe, depending on what the problem is, it might work. But as I say, if the RUU doesn't work you'd not expect this to either.
 
When I run PB99...exe, it gives me an error which I uploaded the error image in post 15 here.
Can you please expain that what is the next step that I can do? Because in the link you gave me, there are a lot of files and topics there. I don't know which to try.
 
Ah, shame. I'd hoped when you said that you had the power error that you'd got past error 191. That one is bizzare though: if your current software comes from that RUU, you should be able to run it again (it won't let you run it if the software is newer, but it isn't).

The first section of that linked thread is a list of ROMs for CDMA Desires (BravoC). However, the problem with a phone as old as this is that the links for many of these ROMs may no longer exist. The "Stock Sense Froyo" link in this post is still live though, so might be worth a try. You'll need a custom recovery to install it (copy to SD, boot into recovery, wipe phone/factory reset, install zip from SD).
 
Before I install PB99..exe, the image version was 2.11.573.5
after I installed PB99...exe, it changed to 2.14.0.0

And how can I install the Stock Sense Froyo ? It's a zip file with about 150 mb.
 

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In the full zip tab in fastboot commander, I tried to flash Stock Sense Froyo.zip. But it gives me this error:

###Calling fastboot with: flash zip C:\****\Stock2.2.zip###
sending 'zip' (152451 KB)... OKAY [ 22.688s]
writing 'zip'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 22.688s

I also changed it to PB99IMG and copied to sd card, but it didn't work. :( :(
 
And how can I install the Stock Sense Froyo ? It's a zip file with about 150 mb.

You'll need a custom recovery to install it (copy to SD, boot into recovery, wipe phone/factory reset, install zip from SD).
Custom ROMs are always installed by flashing a zip through a custom recovery. Not as PB99's, and not via fastboot. So if you want to try this you need a custom recovery (also linked in my earlier post). And that you do install using fastboot flash.

But note: if that RUU isn't working, you may not be able to undo this. On the other hand, it sounds like you can't get into recovery mode right now.
 
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