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i bought a phone on ebay thinking i was getting a deal come to find out the phone appears to be bricked it boot to bootloader straight away when i tryed to follow steps on trying to flash back to stock with PD98diag.zip on micro sd i get error message Main version is older ! update fail press <power> to reboot selecting reboot made no difference back to same boot loader when i try factory defaults reboots to the same boot loader , in recovery option selected i get ! with icon and reboots back to boot loader i cant seem to escape this !fast boot same thing back to this dreaded loader i even tryed ace hack 12.3 i get device is offline althought initialy it see's it at the main menu i tryed running Offical RUU and i get error 170 every singal time please help
HBOOT-0.85.0019
MICROP_0433
RADIO-26.06.06.30_M
eMMC-boot
dec 27 2010
Inspire 4g

Maybe this will help you get back to stock....
Here...

gmanunited said:
Maybe this will help you get back to stock....
Here...
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no go it dosnt load a driver during charging mode

try this one... its the gingerbread ruu already in PD98IMG.zip... see if this works
http://www.multiupload.com/P13PZJ2JBN

marsdta said:
try this one... its the gingerbread ruu already in PD98IMG.zip... see if this works
i got it to magically to restore after 5 hours of messing around but as it booted it had a sign saying it was in safe mode on the bottem left corner so i rebooted and bam its back to bootloader screen so evidently there is something wrong with this phone .
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I would personally run the ruu, to fully wipe and start from scratch. You never know what the previous owner did or did not do. If that doesn't help then I would say the phone does have an issue

tokoam said:
i bought a phone on ebay thinking i was getting a deal come to find out the phone appears to be bricked it boot to bootloader straight away when i tryed to follow steps on trying to flash back to stock with PD98diag.zip on micro sd i get error message Main version is older ! update fail press <power> to reboot selecting reboot made no difference back to same boot loader when i try factory defaults reboots to the same boot loader , in recovery option selected i get ! with icon and reboots back to boot loader i cant seem to escape this !fast boot same thing back to this dreaded loader i even tryed ace hack 12.3 i get device is offline althought initialy it see's it at the main menu i tryed running Offical RUU and i get error 170 every singal time please help
HBOOT-0.85.0019
MICROP_0433
RADIO-26.06.06.30_M
eMMC-boot
dec 27 2010
Inspire 4g
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If you're getting that message, then you are trying to install an RUU that is older than the version reported by the phone. Try using the RUU just recently released for GB:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191959
Use the PD98IMG.zip linked at the bottom of the first post and try it exactly as you did above. If it still fails, then the device has likely been rooted in the past and used a DHD ROM with a later version number, then returned to S-ON. You'll need to re-root in this case. Use the Ace Hack Kit. It should still work even if your version is messed up since the first step is to "fake" and older version code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952352

i can get it to boot 3 out of 30 times after offical gingerbread ruu but when it boots it boots to safe mode everytime any ideas guy ?

Somebody was/is having the safemode problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1222646
Gene suggested that maybe the volume button might be stuck and that's what is causing the safemode

I ran into safe mode awhile ago, I somehow got out of it, made a post and no one responded.. lol
Sent from my Motorola StarTac using XDA App.

[Q] Black screen on Start Up and Vibrates for about 2 minutes

hi,
Ive recently rooted my phone with no problems using the ace hack kit. i tried flashing the newest andriod revolution hd rom and was having problems with the superuser app force closing and the phone wasnt giving me root privledges. i decided to try and reroot the phone using the ace hack kit. (i realize this was my mistake). it stopped in the middle of the process. so i had to pull the battery. when i tried turning the phone back on the screen was black for about 6 or 7 mins. no vibrations or leds to indicate the phone was on. then the htc white screen comes on and the phone vibrates for 2 or 3 minutes straight and proceeds to come on. Ive tried to flash other roms using cwm recovery and itll load what ever rom i choose but i cant get into the hboot or anything and it does the the black screen everytime along with the vibration. is there anyway to fix this? ive tried over and over to boot into recovery through usb but it doesnt work.
so ive done a little research, could this be a eMMC problem? if so is it fixable... And if not would replacing the hboot help?

You've got a bad or corrupt hboot. The wrong hboot (ENG hboot included in a short-lived version of the hack kit on the newest run of Inspires) or a corrupt hboot from an interrupted hack kit run.

Thanks for the help. I tried replacing the eng hboot with the link provided on freenode and it work.

After a failed attempt at running the ace hack kit (could only get into hboot), and an ever worse failed attempt at restoring to a stock rom (my stupid mistake), I am seeing the same signature as jbryancs.
Would you share the link and instructions for replacing the hboot? Any assistance is much appreciated.

wleven said:
After a failed attempt at running the ace hack kit (could only get into hboot), and an ever worse failed attempt at restoring to a stock rom (my stupid mistake), I am seeing the same signature as jbryancs.
Would you share the link and instructions for replacing the hboot? Any assistance is much appreciated.
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really? so jumping into the IRC channel is not your best move as instructed to the OP?

I was hoping not to disturb the IRC, but I will jump in tomorrow. Just for background, here's a rough list of what I've done and what I'm seeing now.
Setup: Linux Mint 11 (Ubuntu Derivative) Clean Install for ACE Hack Kit, WinXP for the rest.
1. Ran ACE Hack Kit first time -> stalled early in process
2. Rebooted phone and everything appeared normal
3. Rac ACE Hack Kit second time -> completed process, but noticed some errors/warnings along the way
4. Rebooted phone and it would be stuck at the white HTC logo screen
5. Rebooted to hboot, but none of the options there would restore the phone.
6. Downloaded original ACE firmware and copied ZIP to SD card. It recognized this and performed install, in all appearances successfully until the reboot.
7. On reboot, the phone appeared completely dead. Later discovered that it would spring to life after ~7mins, vibrate 2-3 min, and then boot into Froyo
Phase II
1. Downloaded gingerbread RUU from HTC and ran it. Gets stuck on "Waiting for bootloader"
2. Thought perhaps hboot was corrupted, so ran instructions here "wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Ace:_Rooting_%26_CyanogenMod" to install hboot-eng and clockworkmod
3. This did not fix the booting (still wait 7mins, vibrate 2-3), but I do have root now, as verified through su root on the phone's terminal console.
4. Tried the RUU again, stuck on "Waiting for bootloader"
5. Noticed that if I had the phone USB connected to the PC when power cycling, it would come to a black HTC screen after about 7mins. In this mode, the phone seems to connect in Android bootloader interface.
6. Tried the RUU again, and this time it makes it past "Waiting for bootloader", but hangs (no error message) on "Sending". I've left it for nearly an hour with no change -- just keeps showing the black HTC screen.
I still can't get the phone into HBOOT (using the volume down + power method).

Hello,
Could someone tell me if there's an enclosure or a solution to this problem?
I've searched a few forums, and it appear to me that the conclusion is the old (ENG) HBOOT is incompatible with newer hardware.
Thanks.

hchao said:
Hello,
Could someone tell me if there's an enclosure or a solution to this problem?
I've searched a few forums, and it appear to me that the conclusion is the old (ENG) HBOOT is incompatible with newer hardware.
Thanks.
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You will have to flash the original RUU again and then try to root the cell with the Hack Kit. You can find the original RUU in the general section or go to the htc site and just run the .exe update from fastboot. Let your cell reboot (it will take about 30 minutes) and then flash it.

jbryancs said:
hi,
Ive recently rooted my phone with no problems using the ace hack kit. i tried flashing the newest andriod revolution hd rom and was having problems with the superuser app force closing and the phone wasnt giving me root privledges. i decided to try and reroot the phone using the ace hack kit. (i realize this was my mistake). it stopped in the middle of the process. so i had to pull the battery. when i tried turning the phone back on the screen was black for about 6 or 7 mins. no vibrations or leds to indicate the phone was on. then the htc white screen comes on and the phone vibrates for 2 or 3 minutes straight and proceeds to come on. Ive tried to flash other roms using cwm recovery and itll load what ever rom i choose but i cant get into the hboot or anything and it does the the black screen everytime along with the vibration. is there anyway to fix this? ive tried over and over to boot into recovery through usb but it doesnt work.
so ive done a little research, could this be a eMMC problem? if so is it fixable... And if not would replacing the hboot help?
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I am having this same problem I have searched and searched and this post was the only one that had the same issue could someone please help me out on this and post the fix. Thanks

[Q] Problems of engineering menu HBOOT HTC Inspire 4G

Has bought from the USA of HTC Inspite 4g (AT&T). Wanted to receive Root, S-OFF, Rom manager with ClockworkMod. Has started to do to change an insertion. Has received goldcard. After an overload phone has started to change an insertion. This process proceeded 2 hours (in the end of process there was a black screen). I have decided to overload phone. Has stopped process. After that problems have begun. Root, S-OFF, Clockworkmod I have received. But after reboot of phone it does not work about 10 minutes. 5 minutes at it absolutely black screen, then the white screen with an inscription of HTC simultaneously work 3 minutes the motor, loading of 2 minutes then begins. Process of switching-on or reboot of phone proceeds 10 minutes. Tried to replace an insertion once again. After that changes nothing. Did before setting of an insertion full surep wipe. It has not helped. I still have a problem. I want to enter into engineering menu HBOOT. I push down+power. I wait for 5 minutes (phone so is overloaded). I enter in HBOOT, but thus buttons (volume up and down, power) any more do not work. As to me to receive normal phone. I can not HBOOT make in it recovery. Where to me to take for HTC INspire 4G (AT&T) PD98IMG.zip. Also help me with the instruction. How to apply this file in RECOVERY.

I'm having a hard time with your English (or is it just fed into google translate?).
It looks like you installed the ENG hboot on a later model device that is incompatible.
You need to get it to boot (it will eventually) and put the newer hboot back on it. You can do this through ADB from a console. Here are the instructions:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/495273/

@ Gene Poole
I had a hard time with his English too, but I understand exactly what he is saying because I did the same thing. I will try to re-explain it and hopefully someone can help us out.
In a nutshell, it sounds like we both flashed an Engineering HBoot starting with a stock US ATT Inspire 4G that came with Gingerbread. Specifically, what I did was I followed a guide on Cyanogenmod's wiki for the Inspire 4G which gave direction to downgrade to Froyo, root, and setup to use eng hboot. This apparently was a huge mistake. After the downgrade, when rebooting or powering on the phone, nothing would happen for a long time (black screen for 5 - 10 minutes, i.e. phone was off), then, screen would turn on with white background and HTC logo and phone would vibrate non-stop for several minutes, and eventually, phone would turn on. After the downgrade and making it to the home screen, I copied CM7 zip on to the SD card and rebooted into recovery via adb. Same exact weird process happened with phone being off for several minutes, then vibrating, then eventually i made it to cwm recovery. After installing CM7 and rebooting, same crazy startup process and made it into CM7 home screen.
I was hoping once CM7 was installed that the crazy startup process would disappear but it didn't. I saw afterwards in a CM forum that this happened to someone else and they had asked if the wiki could be updated to point to the Ace hack kit guide to rooting the Inspire 4g (which mentions that eng hboot shouldn't be used with the phone I had as configured). I then rebooted into bootloader via adb and after crazy startup and fastboot did not work at all (fastboot devices returned nothing). Further still, no buttons work in hboot at all (Vol Up, Vol Down, Power).
At this point, I could still get into the phone, but I wanted to try to undo everything I did and start over using the Ace hack kit. I then tried to use the Ace hack kit to unroot the phone by using the ATT GB RUU. The process seemed to go pretty far, but after a reboot, the phone never came back, and that's where I am currently. If I start the phone, it does crazy startup but never fully boots...stays on white HTC screen forever...which means I can't use adb (to my knowledge). I was able to get to hboot by putting elastics around volume down button and waiting a very long time, but it looks like hboot is still the eng hboot because none of the buttons work and I can't use fastboot. I was hoping that as part of RUU flashing that hboot would be restored to original one. I put the RUU (PD98IMG.img) on SD card, but again I can't get to it because buttons don't work.
So, it sounds like spv4 above is in a very similar boat. I have no idea what else to try. Only thing I can think of is if it's possible to somehow modify an RUU to start automatically when getting to hboot without any user input.
If anyone has any suggestions, I am more than willing to try anything. Thanks very much.
EDIT: So, as I was typing this post earlier, I had been "sitting" in hboot the whole time. When I was done, I looked at phone and PD98IMG.zip was been applied to phone automatically! Don't know if this was common knowledge or not, but everything updated OK. When it was done, hitting the power button to reboot didn't work, but I just removed battery and when putting it back in, phone booted normally back to what looks like stock RUU. Hopefully this info helps someone else.

JayB059 said:
@ Gene Poole
EDIT: So, as I was typing this post earlier, I had been "sitting" in hboot the whole time. When I was done, I looked at phone and PD98IMG.zip was been applied to phone automatically! Don't know if this was common knowledge or not, but everything updated OK. When it was done, hitting the power button to reboot didn't work, but I just removed battery and when putting it back in, phone booted normally back to what looks like stock RUU. Hopefully this info helps someone else.
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Great! Glad you got it back, but you could have saved a lot of time.
The main problem is that the ENG hboot (or pre-GB hboots) doesn't recognize something in the hardware of the new phones. The end result is that the hboot runs at about 50x slower. It eventually gets booted, and once booted to an OS (either the main OS or the recovery OS) it runs fine since hboot has exited and passed control to the OS. So anytime hboot is in control, things crawl at a snail's pace.
Because the OS runs fine and hboot has exited, it is possible to overwrite the hboot partition from the booted OS. That's what you are doing in the instructions that I posted a few posts back. Once the correct hboot is installed, all is fine.
I agree that someone needs to update the cyanogenmod wiki. It's way out of date.

I'm currently experiencing the same problem.
I followed the instructions on how to downgrade using a goldcard, successfully rooted and i also flashed TrickDroid on it, but every time i turn the device on i have to hold the power button for 20 seconds and wait 10 minutes till the HTC logo appears, then it takes 2 minutes vibrating and i seriously can't deal with this.
can you please tell me how to fix this?

Revolver95 said:
I'm currently experiencing the same problem.
I followed the instructions on how to downgrade using a goldcard, successfully rooted and i also flashed TrickDroid on it, but every time i turn the device on i have to hold the power button for 20 seconds and wait 10 minutes till the HTC logo appears, then it takes 2 minutes vibrating and i seriously can't deal with this.
can you please tell me how to fix this?
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Find the fix in the guide in my signature....you need to have basic knowledge of adb commands. If you need further help just let me know. :good:

Moved to Q & A section.
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Please HELP! Bootloader is Corrupt. DO NOT REBOOT!

Please Help!!
I have an Inspire 4G and i was trying to put ENG-OFF following this steps: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=855403 to run "Desire HD s easy-off.exe" gave me "Bootloader is Corrupt. DO NOT REBOOT!" (He went out alone) and I could not take him with anything, you connect to the charger and nothing, the PC and nothing, as 20 minutes after i had pressed the power button turned on the cel with the white screen and vibrating continuously approx 8min, the problem is that in the beginning it takes too ... Now every time I reboot so, and if I discharge the battery will be useless because I do not grab power when connected to the charger or the pc .....
- I can not enter the bootloader, I managed to do with the "Super Tool V3" and the recovery reinstall the ROM, I thought it would end the problem but stayed the same, takes too long to start and does not grasp the power of the charger ... .
What can i do? What is it?
If I noticed that the bootloader says "ENG-OFF" and if you step back to ENG-ON?
I greatly appreciate (and have no idea how) that can help me please .....
(sorry about my english)

You have a newer version Inspire that came preloaded with Gingerbread. I believe trying to achieve Eng-off has flashed a previous bootloader that is incompatible with your phone. Since you say you can't get to your bootloader then you will need to install the stock ATT gingerbread ROM using your PC. Get it here: http://dl4.htc.com/RUU_Ace_Gingerbr...60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_200368_signed.exe You will then have to re-root using the Hack Kit.

rikrdoVe said:
Please Help!!
I have an Inspire 4G and i was trying to put ENG-OFF following this steps: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=855403 to run "Desire HD s easy-off.exe" gave me "Bootloader is Corrupt. DO NOT REBOOT!" (He went out alone) and I could not take him with anything, you connect to the charger and nothing, the PC and nothing, as 20 minutes after i had pressed the power button turned on the cel with the white screen and vibrating continuously approx 8min, the problem is that in the beginning it takes too ... Now every time I reboot so, and if I discharge the battery will be useless because I do not grab power when connected to the charger or the pc .....
- I can not enter the bootloader, I managed to do with the "Super Tool V3" and the recovery reinstall the ROM, I thought it would end the problem but stayed the same, takes too long to start and does not grasp the power of the charger ... .
What can i do? What is it?
If I noticed that the bootloader says "ENG-OFF" and if you step back to ENG-ON?
I greatly appreciate (and have no idea how) that can help me please .....
(sorry about my english)
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Maybe u missed the part where it said that it was not compatible with GB shipped devices. You have definetely messed your bootloader. You need to fix that first. Hit the Hack Kit IRC channel and we will lend you a hand.
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#aahkSupport

Mora ntoChni
Agoattamer said:
You have a newer version Inspire that came preloaded with Gingerbread. I believe trying to achieve Eng-off has flashed a previous bootloader that is incompatible with your phone. Since you say you can't get to your bootloader then you will need to install the stock ATT gingerbread ROM using your PC. You will then have to re-root using the Hack Kit.
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Well, i flashed via RUU with PD98IMG.zip from bootloader, i can enter to hboot only with "Super Tool V·" but Vol down + Power doesnt work..
But i'm still with the same problem, it takes 20 minutes to start...
Any other option?

Agoattamer said:
You have a newer version Inspire that came preloaded with Gingerbread. I believe trying to achieve Eng-off has flashed a previous bootloader that is incompatible with your phone. Since you say you can't get to your bootloader then you will need to install the stock ATT gingerbread ROM using your PC. You will then have to re-root using the Hack Kit.
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Well, i flashed via RUU with PD98IMG.zip from bootloader, i can enter to hboot only with "Super Tool V·" but Vol down + Power doesnt work..
But i'm still with the same problem, it takes 20 minutes to start...
Any other option?

Big troubles in a little HTC One XL

Hi everyone. I'm having some issues with an HTC One XL, model PJ83100.
Basically it won't boot up. It shows the HTC logo and reboots, it shows the logo again and reboots again, and so on until the battery dies.:crying:
Now, I can enter the bootloader screen and the fastboot too, with a great deal of effort I must say, since quickly pressing the power button repeatedly it's needed and doesn't work everytime.
The drivers and the adb tools are configurative on my pc and working.
Already successfully installed the update HTC_One_X_RUU_5.18.502.1 and the latest 5.18 OTA firmware.
Now, the bootloader screen shows this:
*** UNLOCKED ***
EVITA PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
CID-11111111
HBOOT-2.18.0000
RADIO-1.35a.32.45.27
OpenDSP-v33.1.0.45.1128
eMMC-boot
Dec 3 2013,17:10:01:22502
Now, I don't really know where to go from here. I tried installing openrecovery-twrp-2.6.0.0-evita.img and openrecovery-twrp-2.6.1.0-evita.img but neither works. If I try to boot to recovery then it starts the reboot cycle over again, only this time the first time it shows the logo with the red text bellow like it's going to enter recovery but then the reboot cycle again.
What can I do to make this phone alive again? What could it be happening?

- Ok LordBaal19, have you tried flashing the twrp-3.1.0-0-evita.img ?
- No LordBaal19, I haven't.
- Try it.
- Okay.... hey it worked! Now I can access Team Win Recovery Project 3.1.0-0.... Now what?
- I don't know... try to install a rom? What about Avatar ROM cm-1.0b-20121206-evita.zip?
- Already tried. It installs but when loading with the mask animation it reboots and never finish loading.

I never finished repairing this toaster. It turned out it has a defective memory which caused all the errors.