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luigibmth

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hi
i want info specific to htc desire (bravo) so im posting here, can someone point me to a giude to restore S-ON please, i tried to RUU the phone back to o2 which nearly worked but failed coz of the modified bootloder

thx in advance

ok i have found the alpharev downgrader and have S-ON back but phone still loads alpharev recovery, how do i get o2 back? will try RUU now

tried the RUU, still getting error 140, bootloader version error

found this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768256 not 100% sure it applys but it says i need a goldcard, hmmm havent got one, i should have sent the phone away for repair while it was o2 stock
 
All you need is the downgrade.img in place, then any RUU will work. If you're getting bootloader version error, the downgrade hboot cannot be in place
 
SUroot said:
All you need is the downgrade.img in place, then any RUU will work. If you're getting bootloader version error, the downgrade hboot cannot be in place
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Sorry SUroot, can you be more specific? I downloaded the 2 downgrade files from alpharev, a img and a zip, placed in root of sdcard, i installed the downgrade zip from alpharev recovery menu, it has enabled S-ON but when i reboot i still get the alpharev splash screen (which is well cool)...

can you tell me the steps to get my downgrade.img in place, or point me to the guide pls
 
luigibmth said:
Sorry SUroot, can you be more specific? I downloaded the 2 downgrade files from alpharev, a img and a zip, placed in root of sdcard, i installed the downgrade zip from alpharev recovery menu, it has enabled S-ON but when i reboot i still get the alpharev splash screen (which is well cool)...

can you tell me the steps to get my downgrade.img in place, or point me to the guide pls
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The PB99IMG.zip doesnt flash via recovery, it flashes via hboot (automatically detected) or the .img is flashed via fastboot as shauny pointed out.

Im not sure you flashed teh downgrade image, Maybe you flashed something else.

What hboot version do you now have? You could just flash the htcdev.com 2.3.3 unbranded RUU.... Basically, your hboot version can not go backwards, but the htc dev ruu is the latest so it will be fine.
 
my hboot specs...

BRAVO PVT-1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.80.0000
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101
RADIO-4.06.00.02_2
Mar 29 2010,21:34:33

since the RUU failed to work i dont have a rom to boot into
 
That's the 2nd oldest hboot there is so you can only really be flashing the 0.75 hboot, which comes with android 2.1 RUUs (which start 1.x..) so if that is what you're flashing, you're lucky it hasn't worked.

What RUU is it?
 
Wow, that's an old hboot!

Boot the phone while pressing the back key. That will put you in fastboot mode. Connect to a PC via usb and it should say "fastboot usb", and then you can run the RUU.

Edit: and flash the one SUroot suggests.
 
SUroot said:
That's the 2nd oldest hboot there is so you can only really be flashing the 0.75 hboot, which comes with android 2.1 RUUs (which start 1.x..) so if that is what you're flashing, you're lucky it hasn't worked.

What RUU is it?
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i chose a 2.1 o2 RUU as my phone was Android 2.1 when i first gotit and a few months later recieved a OTA update to 2.2 so i thought the 2.1 o2 was the right RUU - how do i know which RUU to go for?

TBH im lost, only started all this rooting stuff a couple of days ago, but not new to computers (including being a noobie ubuntu user) so will pick up fast, i want to put phone back to o2 stock so i can send back to HTC for hardware repair
 
SUroot said:
That's the 2nd oldest hboot there is so you can only really be flashing the 0.75 hboot, which comes with android 2.1 RUUs (which start 1.x..) so if that is what you're flashing, you're lucky it hasn't worked.

What RUU is it?
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the RUU i used (that failed bootloader error) is 02... Bravo...1.20.207.1...release...124865
 
Of course it worked ;)

It doesnt have to be the one that came with the phone. If you accept an OTA update, the software version changes. Even a factory reset will not change the version back.

So if you have a branded device, as long as it has the correctly branded ROM on, whatever version, it is warranty covered.

However as HTC couldnt get the 2.3.3 update pushed out officially, they just released it as an unbranded 1 version fits all. HTC Also honour wrranty on that Version.
 
SUroot said:
Of course it worked ;)

It doesnt have to be the one that came with the phone. If you accept an OTA update, the software version changes. Even a factory reset will not change the version back.

So if you have a branded device, as long as it has the correctly branded ROM on, whatever version, it is warranty covered.

However as HTC couldnt get the 2.3.3 update pushed out officially, they just released it as an unbranded 1 version fits all. HTC Also honour wrranty on that Version.
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ok thx suroot - i will call HTC and get the overheating problem sorted :D (well i hope they sort it)
 
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