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defroster

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hi all right well here goes if anyone can get me out of this mess then you really are a genius.
Right htc desire running 2.3.3 (its not actually running thou)
bravo pvt3 s-off
hboot 6.93.1002

well i was trying to root my desire using method

How To Gain S-Off, Flash a Custom Recovery, and Root Your Android Phone Using the Revolutionary Method


and ran into difficulty got through s-off and up to revolutionary.... this is where it started going tits up.....i got to stage
IV. Gain Root Access.

1. With the phone still in clockworkmod recovery from the last step, plug it in via USB cable.
2. Select Mounts and Storage by using the volume buttons to move and power to select. i couldnt work out how to continue and thought that i needed to start again so i stupidly tried to install an RUU but now im thinking it wasnt the correct one . now when i boot i just get a pink circle .....if i go into hboot /recovery there is nothing there and mobi just boots back to pink circle i have tried running 2.3.3 upgrade but mobi is not being found any ideas how to get any use from desire.... all help will be appreciated greatly......:cool:
 
defroster said:
Select Mounts and Storage by using the volume buttons to move and power to select. i couldnt work out how to continue and thought that i needed to start again so i stupidly tried to install an RUU
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Sorry, what? Are you saying you couldn't mount the SD card on your computer so you ran a RUU?

Please ask us things you dont understand.

I assume you still have s-off. You probably dont have recovery. did you take a nandroid backup via recovery? If not your data is lost forever.

You should just be able to reflash recovery. Then you will have to flash a custom rom via recovery (read the guides and faqs first please)!!!
 
Yes.

Boot the phone while pressing the "back" button. You'll see a white screen with the word "fastboot" on it. Connect to a computer and the phone will now say "fastboot USB". When it's in that mode, you can use fastboot commands from the computer to flash a new recovery.

Setting up fastboot on the computer and how to flash recovery are described SUroot's adb and fastboot faq.
 
defroster said:
right i have sorted it thx all
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Also, for future reference, if you have S-Off'd you could use a tool called "Android Flasher". I'm not 100% on this but it looks like a gui for fastboot commands. Can use it for changing radios, recovery and some other things such as splash images. Dead simple. Load the file, put your phone in fastboot, connect to pc and press "go" flash away! That simple.
 
One thing from this thread - my PC stopped seeing the phone whilst I was trying to root etc. It was Windows playing up - probably as new phone drivers were loaded etc. A quick restart cured the problem.
 
Tyseyh said:
Why would you need to be s-off if android isn't running?
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S-off will enable you to fastboot flash what you need to get the phone running (custom recovery, radio, hboot and stuff), as i understand things.
 
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