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Desire S Stuck on startup and can't Hard-reset

Hi, i've got a big problem...
After a system crash i pull-out the battery and then pull-in to reset the device.
after that now when i turn on the telephone it remain stucked on the white screen with htc logo. tryed to factory reset but remain stucked after i press on it.
my htc has original rom. no modification. what can i do? i don't really want to spend 3 weeksfor htc assistance.
Thanks

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[Guide] How to brick your Desire S

Have i to flash a stock rom? how can i do without remove warranty? in the case it does'nt work i have to take it to htc center

You probobly fried your EMMC chip when you removed your battery.
it would be best to return it in for repair.

I think you may have same problem with me before. No choice but to bring it to repair.
Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA App

It was s-off before? Can you boot 2 recovery?

It's unlikely your chip is fried. This happened to my phone. You need to get into recovery - restart holding volume down button - and reflash a ROM, any one should do. The phone should reboot from there.
Edit: thus assumes you have a ROM stored on your phone, and you have Clockwork recovery or similar. If not, you can use adb to push a ROM to your card and reflash that. Adb comes with Android Developer Kit. Search!
Peace.
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chris5s said:
It's unlikely your chip is fried. This happened to my phone. You need to get into recovery - restart holding volume down button - and reflash a ROM, any one should do. The phone should reboot from there.
Edit: thus assumes you have a ROM stored on your phone, and you have Clockwork recovery or similar. If not, you can use adb to push a ROM to your card and reflash that. Adb comes with Android Developer Kit. Search!
Peace.
Sent from my HTC Desire S
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Same problem as topic poster, i,ve been messing a lot with custom roms on win 6.5 phones, but I havn´t done anything fancy on my Desire S , as to rooting or custom roms. (work phone!) Now I´m just curious as how I get a recovery going, when the PC doesent recognice the device when USB connected.
The eng-off file (mine is ON) with the .bat file cant connect to phone, and maybe im better off sending it to repair, but my pride wants me to solve it myself.
-Damn phone just went AWOL last night after an marked Angry Birds update, rebooted it a couple of times, because of a lot of process errors, and then all dead. (white HTC screen on -until morning)
Have the latest FOTA (DK, Nordic)
ROM: SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
Hboot: 0,98.0002
Radio: 3805.06.02.03_M
Are there any ninja tricks or is it just a "bite down", send in?
/Psudo

psudo said:
Same problem as topic poster ....
Are there any ninja tricks or is it just a "bite down", send in?
/Psudo
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Maybe best sending it in if that's a viable option.
You say it's not rooted? With stock ROM? If there is a ROM on the sdcard that you can boot then try that - power + volume up + volume down will reboot the phone, try pressing volume down as it reboots to get into recovery.
If you can't (by pressing volume down) then power off and restart (holding volume down). I had to do a battery pull to power off - if you do this while the phone is off as it reboots, and leave it out for 30 secs you should avoid any danger of bricking the phone (which has happened with some people when removing battery while phone is in this state).
Good luck!
Peace

chris5s said:
Maybe best sending it in if that's a viable option.
You say it's not rooted? With stock ROM? If there is a ROM on the sdcard that you can boot then try that - power + volume up + volume down will reboot the phone, try pressing volume down as it reboots to get into recovery.
If you can't (by pressing volume down) then power off and restart (holding volume down). I had to do a battery pull to power off - if you do this while the phone is off as it reboots, and leave it out for 30 secs you should avoid any danger of bricking the phone (which has happened with some people when removing battery while phone is in this state).
Good luck!
Peace
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"ROM on SDcard": what format would that be in? RUU.exe or?
I can get into recovery menu (HBOOT) but chosing recovery option results in "a green recycle icon with an arrow on black background" screen, a few seconds then it virbrates 6-8 times, and then fades to black, so to speak!
Factory reset option: Locks the HBOOT screen and nothing but a battery pull, will change that.
I MAY have pulled the battery and not left it out for the 30 sec bricking danger senario, that I wasn´t aware of, until resently.
So the diag. is that is probably bricked!
Thanks for the reply
/Psudo

Rom on sdcard would have to be *.zip to be flashable. If you're unrooted + stock then you won't have Clockwork recovery or similar.
Tough that factory reset doesn't give any joy. These devices.....
Looking like masonry then, unless someone else can help.
Peace
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda premium

surprisingly i got the same issue yesterday after i installed proxuser's official htc rom. Everything started fine went through setup so i assume it's not because of the rom because i don't think the phone would've started up in the first place. Anyway i am about to try and install some different roms and have also copied a backup over from my other desire s.
Will let you guys know if it worked.

[Q] Sensation is stuck on boot screen

someone screwed with my sensation while it was getting an update now it is stuck on the HTC white screen and will not doing anything. I've held the power and volume down button and tried to recover and that doesn't work. I'm dumb when it comes to this stuff. I want to take care of it myself so any help would be great.

harje1 said:
someone screwed with my sensation while it was getting an update now it is stuck on the HTC white screen and will not doing anything. I've held the power and volume down button and tried to recover and that doesn't work. I'm dumb when it comes to this stuff. I want to take care of it myself so any help would be great.
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come on people i need some help here

take out the battery and put it back in..then hold power and volume down at the same time..did ya go into bootloader? You should.
Look at what firmare you have (hboot) and find out what firmware the rom you are trying to flash requires.. if your phone wont boot yet cause of wrong firmware..take out the sdcard and do it via from your pc. Add the correct files and then insert back your sdcard into phone and hold power and volume..go into bootloader and it should update.. hope that helps

First a question: Is your phone fully stock, meaning no mods like unlocked bootloader and S-Off? If yes: Return your phone to the store you purchased it from. If no: Follow previous advice.

[Q] HOX Stuck on Boot logo

Hi there, I'm new at this forum and new at android so please be patient with me!! This is my problem and I have a few questions too.
I wanted to perform my htc one x AT&T interface so I rooted it succesfully, then I installed recovery PWRP v2.6.0.0 but i dont know what went wrong and now i cannot start my phone, it is stuck on htc boot screen. I'm really afraid of what can happen now. I've read that if you install the wrong ROM i can brick it. I want to know how to fix this, and if i can flash any any any ROM at this forum. I know that htc is not upgrading this phone to android 4.2, just to 4.0.4, which is the one i have, but can i upgrade to 4.2 sense 5 using a custom ROM? please if you need any info ask for it and thank you!! Evermore, I wiped system, sdcard, cahce, etc...

We will need some further information from you. You said your phone hangs at the HTC screen when you try to boot it, does it stay on that screen constantly, or does it perform multiple boot loops? Here's a couple of options:
Scenario A (phone stays in htc screen constantly): hold volume down + power together, keep holding them and your button lights will start flashing then the screen will turn off. After a couple of seconds let go of the power button but continue holding volume down until you reach the bootloader (a white screen with text).
Scenario B (phone performs multiple boot loops): hold the volume button while it's booting, the next time it reboots it will enter bootloader as long as you keep holding volume down.
Now that you're in the bootloader, please post the first five lines of text you see. Also please tell us which root/unlocking method you used, and whether you've flashed any custom ROMs or anything at all before your phone stopped booting.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
We will need some further information from you. You said your phone hangs at the HTC screen when you try to boot it, does it stay on that screen constantly, or does it perform multiple boot loops? Here's a couple of options:
Scenario A (phone stays in htc screen constantly): hold volume down + power together, keep holding them and your button lights will start flashing then the screen will turn off. After a couple of seconds let go of the power button but continue holding volume down until you reach the bootloader (a white screen with text).
Scenario B (phone performs multiple boot loops): hold the volume button while it's booting, the next time it reboots it will enter bootloader as long as you keep holding volume down.
Now that you're in the bootloader, please post the first five lines of text you see. Also please tell us which root/unlocking method you used, and whether you've flashed any custom ROMs or anything at all before your phone stopped booting.
Sent from my Evita
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Thank you for your reply. I fixed this problem installing DM9 ROM and now works great. Here are the first five lines you asked:
It is unlocked
EVITA PVT Ship S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.14.0002
RADIO-0.19as.32.09.11_2
OpenDSP-v29.1.0.45.0622
eMMC-boot
I used X-Factor root and at a first time it used to get stucked on htc white scrren logo, then i performed a cache restore through adb and at that time it started rebooting over and over again.
If you can help me now with the following will be great: I want to know if i can upgrade my OS to 4.2 JB with Sense 5 having superCID and s-on, or if there's a ROM out there that can simulate Sense 5 for 4.0.4. If it exist, could you tell me which will work fine? thank you very much

You can definitely run the Android 4.2.2 / Sense 5 ROMs with your current setup, no problems. You will need to flash the Beastmode kernel as well as the ROM to fix signal drop issues though. All of this can be found in our Android Development section.
Sent from my Evita

[Q] AT&T HTC One X Stuck at Viper XL Animation Screen

Hey guys,
I'll apologize in advance, since I'm sure I'm not the only one who's had this problem. I did try to use the search function, google, you name it. Didn't really come across any results that reflected my problem.
That all being said...
Tonight, my phone "died." I've been running Venom Viper XL for sometime now with no issues other than a pretty quick battery drain.
I was logging into 4square to check in tonight and I was getting a GPS error and a Wi-Fi disabled pop up. So I go into settings and check the Location stuff, turn the Google crap back on. Go back into 4square, same thing. I go back to the location settings, they were off again. Turned them back on. Saw that my wi-fi was enabled but "disconnected" so I disabled/enabled. Then my phone drops to the Viper XL splash screen. Tried to hold the power button to recycle it. HTC screen comes up, then to the Viper XL splash and stops. I tried a hard factory reset (volume down + power), same thing.
I can't get to anything. I plug it into my pc, can't get to anything.
I'm not sure what version of the Venom ROM I'm running. As far as I know, I haven't updated it in several months, even though something came out in September.
Am I stuck?

Firstly, volume down plus power isn't a factory reset, it's a hard reset. A factory reset is a very different thing. Have you tried flashing the ROM again or restoring a backup?
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Firstly, volume down plus power isn't a factory reset, it's a hard reset. A factory reset is a very different thing. Have you tried flashing the ROM again or restoring a backup?
Sent from my Evita
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I just now was able to get into recovery. I'm running a back up and will go from there.
Thank you for responding though.

Ok, cool. In future you should probably exhaust possible options before creating a new thread though.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Ok, cool. In future you should probably exhaust possible options before creating a new thread though.
Sent from my Evita
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Like I said... I searched for a couple hours, so I thought I had. I can see how nearly every thread in here is pretty much started with "Search more." I didn't want to be one of those guys.
For anyone else reading that may have a similar issue:
As long as your phone turns on, you should be able to get to the bootloader. My problem was ignorance on this part, I didn't think I was able to.
1. Hold the power button + volume down until you get into the bootloader. I found that if I held these down, release when the screen went blank, then immediately pushed them down and held them, it got me into the bootloader.
2. Boot into recovery.
3. Take a back up of your stuff.
4. Re-install your ROM. If you don't have a copy of your ROM saved on your phone, plug your phone into your computer and mount your storage. This should make your phone storage available to your PC. Copy your ROM over to your phone, re-install.
5. Reboot. Though my phone was stuck in a restart loop after this. I initially did a reflash with the latest version of Viper XL without wiping. I went back into recovery and did a new install with a wipe. Problem solved.
6. Once you're sure your phone is back up and running, reboot into recovery and do a restore of your data from the back up you made earlier.
7. Enjoy having a phone again.

BigJanko said:
1. Hold the power button + volume down until you get into the bootloader. I found that if I held these down, release when the screen went blank, then immediately pushed them down and held them, it got me into the bootloader.
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So many people are confused about how to get into bootloader. The main reason is that vol down needs to be held and not at any point released, until you get into bootloader. But the power button actually has to be released. The easiest way to accomplish this is:
- If the screen is on at all, hold both the power button and vol down until the capacitive buttons flash several times and the screen turns off. Once the screen is off, release the power button but keep holding vol down until you are in bootloader.
- If the screen is still black (or phone was powered off to begin with) simply keep holding vol down, and press the power button for a few seconds, then release it. But again, always holding vol down until the bootloader comes up.
If the phone boots normally, or goes to the boot splash, its almost always because you pressed vol down too late, or let go of it too early. As long as the screen comes on, failure to get into bootloader is almost always due to this user error.
People will often say "Press power and vol down" for bootloader. But this isn't really a complete and accurate description. And likely the reason why a lot of folks get confused.
Aside from this failure to get into bootloader, the remainder of your issue would have been easily solved if you had just originally had a nandroid on your phone. Recovering would have been as easy as:
1) Bootloader
2) Boot recovery
3) Restore nandroid
4) Keep on trucking
I'm surprised how so many people lately seem to be the practice of flashing ROMs or other mods without first making a nandroid backup. This to me is just a fundamental step in the process, and good basic practice. Failure to do so either signifies lack of knowledge, or doing mods in a careless fashion. Either way, its not good.
If you don't want the nandroid taking up all the space on the SD, I can understand that. In that case, have one on your PC that can be easily moved to your phone's SD in case of an emergency.

hi i was using my htc one x with viper xl but now i reset my system extsd cache everything .now when my device is on it shows me viper xl image alone so please kindly help me with this

kknaveenkk24 said:
hi i was using my htc one x with viper xl but now i reset my system extsd cache everything .now when my device is on it shows me viper xl image alone so please kindly help me with this
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I think you have erased system and data partition too if u have done this you must have to flash viper Rom again

[Q] [HELP] HTC One X Rooting Problem PLEASE HELP

Hello,
I would like to start off with saying I am new here and so far I love this site it has helped me a lot with rooting my phone. However, I have a problem:
Okay so I rooted the phone successfully and installed SuperSU and all that. After I did this the phone was rooted and running on jellybean just fine. Well the whole reason I wanted to root the phone in the first place was so I could install a custom ROM. So i followed this tutorial for the whole rooting process: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069904
So after I rooted I downloaded the .zip file for the rom i wanted, which in this case was one of the Beanstalk roms for evita HTC One X.
After I moved the .zip file to the phone, I booted the phone into TWRP recovery. (I am using TWRP v2.7) and flashed the ROM. After I did this I extracted the boot.img file to my desktop. After I did this I opened up the toolkit and pressed Flash a Kernel, it said it did so successfully. I rebooted the phone and got stuck at the Beanstalk boot screen, and couldnt get it to fully boot up at all.
So I booted the phone back into recovery mode, made a backup, and wiped the phone clean so i could try to start over. Well when i wiped the phone i tried to back up the phone in TWRP, only to find that my backup file has disappeared.
Now my phone is ROMless and i can only boot the phone into recovery and bootloader mode.
This wouldn't be that much of a problem, if it weren't for my PC acting up. (I'm using Windows 7 Professional) My PC recognizes the device but the drivers never successfully install, the only place where i can find the device on my computer is in the Device Manager and it says Needs troubleshooting, when i try to troubleshoot it never troubleshoots correctly and i cant find the driver. So I can't access the files on the phone to put a different ROM on the phone, and i also tried running the RUU exe file for it and that did nothing. Is there any possible way to at least get this phone back to normal?? At this point I could care less about the root or custom ROM.
If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. I'm currently stuck without a phone until I can find a way to fix this
Thanks in advance for anyone able to help me.

First off, do you have the HTC One X (Endeavoru) or the HTC One XL / at&t One X (Evita)? I ask this because you linked to a guide for the Endeavoru but you have mentioned an Evita ROM, which means you're lurking in both device forums which is dangerous. What are your bootloader details?
Sent from my Evita

I have the AT&T HTC One X (Evita, US verison) and what do you mean by bootloader details? Sorry if i sound like a noob, i'm new to rooting and such.

Your bootloader details are the lines of text that your see in your bootloader screen. To boot into the bootloader there are two methods.
With phone powered on
Hold the volume down button, then hold the power button (so you're holding both buttons together), the button lights will start to flash, they will stop flashing and the screen will go blank, after a couple of seconds let go of the power button but continue to hold the volume down button until you reach the white screen with text, this is your bootloader.
With phone powered off
Hold the volume down button, then hold the power button (so you're holding both buttons together), after a couple of seconds let go of the power button but continue to hold the volume down button until you reach the white screen with text, this is your bootloader.
Please post the first five lines.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Your bootloader details are the lines of text that your see in your bootloader screen. To boot into the bootloader there are two methods.
With phone powered on
Hold the volume down button, then hold the power button (so you're holding both buttons together), the button lights will start to flash, they will stop flashing and the screen will go blank, after a couple of seconds let go of the power button but continue to hold the volume down button until you reach the white screen with text, this is your bootloader.
With phone powered off
Hold the volume down button, then hold the power button (so you're holding both buttons together), after a couple of seconds let go of the power button but continue to hold the volume down button until you reach the white screen with text, this is your bootloader.
Please post the first five lines.
Sent from my Evita
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Yes i'm aware of what bootloader is (not trying to sound sarcastic or anything) but the first five lines are these:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
EVITA PUT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.14.0000
RADIO-0.24p.32.09.06
OpenDSP-v34.1.0.45.1219
eMMC-boot
Nov 26 2012, 18:37:14:-1
its a little more than 5 lines but yeah. I heard theres a way to flash the device with a third party software called ODIN if the pc wont recognize the device normally? Do you know anything about that?

ViolentPoptart said:
Yes i'm aware of what bootloader is (not trying to sound sarcastic or anything) but the first five lines are these:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
EVITA PUT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.14.0000
RADIO-0.24p.32.09.06
OpenDSP-v34.1.0.45.1219
eMMC-boot
Nov 26 2012, 18:37:14:-1
its a little more than 5 lines but yeah. I heard theres a way to flash the device with a third party software called ODIN if the pc wont recognize the device normally? Do you know anything about that?
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Well, you did ask what I meant by bootloader details, so I answered. You absolutely can't use ODIN, that's Samsung software.
My advice is to get rid of whatever toolkit you're using and learn to do things manually, it's very easy, plus clearly toolkits are unreliable. You're gonna need to resolve your driver issue, probably by installing HTC Sync Manager, which will install drivers. Once you've gotten your drivers sorted out you can head to my How-To Guide For Beginners thread for detailed instructions on how to flash the boot.img manually.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Well, you did ask what I meant by bootloader details, so I answered. You absolutely can't use ODIN, that's Samsung software.
My advice is to get rid of whatever toolkit you're using and learn to do things manually, it's very easy, plus clearly toolkits are unreliable. You're gonna need to resolve your driver issue, probably by installing HTC Sync Manager, which will install drivers. Once you've gotten your drivers sorted out you can head to my How-To Guide For Beginners thread for detailed instructions on how to flash the boot.img manually.
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yeah you just cleared up what you meant by details with the text lines
and ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling sync manager a few times now, it recognizes the device, but i cant access the files, the phone only shows up in Devices and Printers, and it shows up as Evita with an exclamation mark and says needs troubleshooting. when i try to troubleshoot it it doesn't work. however there are also other problems with my PC, the monitor is listed as a generic pnp monitor and the graphics card is listed as standard vga graphics adapter. i think thats my main problem, im going to try to wipe my pc and reinstall windows and see if that works.

ViolentPoptart said:
yeah you just cleared up what you meant by details with the text lines
and ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling sync manager a few times now, it recognizes the device, but i cant access the files, the phone only shows up in Devices and Printers, and it shows up as Evita with an exclamation mark and says needs troubleshooting. when i try to troubleshoot it it doesn't work. however there are also other problems with my PC, the monitor is listed as a generic pnp monitor and the graphics card is listed as standard vga graphics adapter. i think thats my main problem, im going to try to wipe my pc and reinstall windows and see if that works. Where can i find your how to guide for beginners?
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Ok, yeah you probably need to sort out your PC first. My guide thread is in my signature.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Ok, yeah you probably need to sort out your PC first. My guide thread is in my signature.
Sent from my Evita
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my problem is now solved. thanks for your help