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Help Stuck on H-BOOT....Woo!

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Minimoke8394

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Hi all,
I've tried to find some solutions by scanning through established topics, but I just can't seem to find a solution to my problem.

I woke up this morning to find my phone not turning on at all. I thought "Okay, it's dead" So I plugged it in, and found that it would only go into the HBOOT, and no further. I'm unable to scroll down to 'Recovery' with the volume keys, which were working fine yesterday when the phone was operational so I don't think there's a hardware fault there. The one time I did manage to get it onto 'Recovery' it did the white HTC splash screen, and then went black, and had a phone with a red triangle with an exclamation mark in it. (The same sign you get when a text message is unable to send) The phone does recognise when it's plugged into a computer, but the computer refuses to recognise it properly. I just get the 3 short 'du-du-dun' thing you get when Windows is in a mood with a device.

I did install Gingerbread yesterday, which all seemed to go well. Can anyone think why this has happened? Am at a bit of a loss really, and could really do with a decent mobile phone back as I'm quite dependant on it when it comes to appointments and whatnot.

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me, I anticipate your reply.

Kind regards,
Chris.
 
Thanks for your reply. It doesn't, no, just stays on the HBOOT screen, where I'm unable to choose any other options. Even just pressing the power button to boot doesn't work if the SD card isn't in. Does this hold any relevance? The rear light also flashes twice sometimes before it turns on, if that's useful information at all. Thanks again.

Chris.
 
Need some more info here. Are you rooted, what gingerbread did you install, was it the official htc 2.3 upgrade rru?
 
Not sure if this helps. I started out S-Off, Rooted, Clockworkmod Recovery 2.5.07. Same thing happened. Woke up one morning and the phone was in HTC white screen. I would not reboot and I was only able to get into Fastboot. Could not even get into recovery. Here's what I did:

1. Using Fastboot, flashed http://alpharev.nl/bravo_downgrade.img
2. Found the right RUU (be careful as it is important to find the right one).

It got my phone back to Stock ROM, HBoot and recovery. I started all over again.

1. Ran unrevoked to root and installed Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7
2. S-Off with Revolutionary (declined recovery installation)
3. Flashed http://alpharev.nl/bravo_alphaspl-cm7r2.img as I wanted maximum data space
4. Installed LeeDroid v3.3.3 Data version

Phone is back to where I started.
 
Sorry for the late reply, have been a bit preoccupied.

Right, the phone has never been updated or tampered with before, so no rooting or anything. The update I got was the official one from their Dev website yeah, version 2.3. I started it without the SIM card or memory card, with it plugged in, then removed the battery and inserted both the cards, and managed to get it to the HTC splash screen. Then that goes black, with a little phone, and a green icon on it, then that changes to the 'Message not sent after multiple retries' symbol. I'm at a bit of a loss here I'm afraid. Does this information help at all guys?

Thanks for the advice Paladin, I'm not interested in rooting the device, so would I get the standard phone OS back after installing the RUU with FastBoot? Just want my phone back, ha. Am using an old Samsung brick....Is nice having some battery life though! :P

Thanks,
Chris.
 
ive got exactly the same problem as Minimoke8394

ive got an htc desire and it will only go into hboot and then none of the buttons will work.
it was fine yesterday and today hboot of irritation!!!!

it does the sd scan and says wrong img file so ive downloaded that img file that you said and would you know it , ive got no way of putting the dam thing on the sd card!!!
and to top it off the phone wont be recognised by the computer anymore, it just comes up with android 1.o with an exclamation mark in device manager. im puzzled! so if i can get that file on the sd card in theory will it make it boot up?

i only got the phone about a week ago from my bro it worked for a week then did this so im a bit peeeeved!
 
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