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HTC Desires S - Dropped, Stuck on Boot Logo

Hey guys,
Got a bit of a weird situation here and have spent 3 days pondering this and surfing the web with no success -
I noticed my friends HTC Desire S had a crack in the screen so offered to repair it for her, free of charge - say for my cost. I didn't get a chance to do it before holiday so went to pick it up when I got back and she explained that since then the phone has developed a fault and now won't turn on past the boot logo. I have no idea if this is related to her dropping it - I'm assuming it was a bad app download or something?
I followed various guides on YouTube, XDA forums and other external sources but am getting stuck at a particular stage which is what I think I need help with - I may just be chasing my tail but don't have the background to know otherwise. I have download Fastboot drivers, Revolutionary etc. with the intention of S-OFFing the phone and re-flashing the software - doesn't technically need to be custom but it seems easier to get hold of. I do not know if Fastboot or debugging mode are turned on/off due to the inability to turn the phone on.
Revolution sticks 'Waiting for Device...' - Here's what I've tried:
- Factory resetting the device from the bootloader menu but it freezes. (It also freezes if I select 'reboot bootloader')
- I have tried multiple USB cables in 3 laptops (with the drivers installed) but have had no success.
- Using Fastboot.exe to test if the laptops can see the device - which they can.
Eventually I got frustrated with this so moved on to the screen - no problems replacing that. No internal damage that I can see.
All the buttons work, it still vibrates etc. I can't test the sound - I'm running out of troubleshooting ideas and trying not to be too invasive where I'm unsure of what I'm doing to save bricking the phone.
Here is the Bootloader Info:
""SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.98.0002
RADIO-3805.06.02.03_M
eMMC-boot
Mar 30 2011,17:29:31""
Does anyone have any suggestions of a path to follow or any step by steps to eradicate my problem?
I will post back my triumph (if possible) so others can hopefully overcome it!
Also, any advice on which RUU to use? I don't know the network the phone is on but can find it out.
Thanks alot for reading!
Josh

If it is not a hardware fault using a RUU should make the phone running again.
You do not need additional modification, just start the RUU while connected to a PC is FASTBOOT USB mode.
How to know the proper RUU version see here
P.S.: this will work only if you have not tried any other RUU so far.
Revolutionary uses adb not fastboot, this is the reason it cannot find the device. It will work only when fully booted in the OS or in a custom recovery.
Sent from my HTC Desire S

Thanks for the quick reply mate, I started downloading a Vodaphone RUU straightaway.
I am now having an issue with this - the phone is plugged in and sat waiting in Fastboot USB (on the bootloader,) I run the RUU on the computer, run through all the menu's and when it attempts to apply the Radio Update it sticks at 'Rebooting the Bootloader' and seemingly freezes the phone. As mentioned above, if I try this manually it does the same thing.
Any Ideas?

If it is the right RUU then most probably it is some kind of hardware problem. Sorry but this was the only software fix that I can suggest.
You can try to revive it with JTAG if you have such service in your area.
Sent from my HTC Desire S

[Q] HTC Desire S keeps rebooting on HTC logo - phone is relocked - plz help!

Hi,
I have my HTC Desire S for about 6 month and it worked fine. About three weeks ago I installed the official ICS upgrade for this phone. The phone was rooted (by me) so I re-locked it in order to apply the update (sorry if I'm not using the right terms, I a bit new for this..).
A week ago, while in visiting in Rome, I tried to open my phone after the flight and it started a reboot loop. After a while it somehow recovered, and from the HTC recovery log I saw there was some "radio failure".
During the last week it would reboot from time to time, and I thought I would check it out when coming back home.
Now, trying to open it after the flight home - it won't even get beyond the HTC logo, just stuck in endless reboot loop.
I read some posts on this problem, but because my phone is re-locked I don't know what I can do: any thread about this problem requires the phone to be rooted. And I'm not sure how to root it because any thread about performing a root requires to open the phone and set up some settings, like 'enable debugging' for the USB connection (which I cannot do because phone keeps rebooting..).
Here is what I see at the HBOOT screen, hope it helps:
*** RELOCKED ***
SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.02.0002
RADIO-3831. 19.00.110
eMMC-boot
Jul 31 2012, 15:41:32
Trying to select FACTORY RESET will not help.
Trying to select RECOVERY ends with an error (I get a screen with a nice picture of the phone and red exclamation mark near it).
PLZ HELP!!
Thanks
Update: I've unlocked my phone again using the HTC site, so now the HBOOT screen shows *** UNLOCKED *** as the first line, other lines are the same (if this helps...)
UPDATE: I've used some very good guide (unfortunately I cannot post the link because I'm a new user..) for rooting and flashing a new ROM to my phone (downgraded to Gingerbread ROM), BUT the phone keeps rebooting..
Help plz....

As it did work until you opened the phone, either you made a physical problem, and now need a new board because it is defective, torn, cracked or something...
Or you made a mistake by removing the battery while the phone was still (partially) powered. This may cause some partition damage like on a pc. As there is no chkdsk available, the easiest solution is to repartition and reformat.
I read you already have reformatted the data partition by factory reset, and tried to repartition by installing that old update.
That would not work, as a normal flashing of a (custom or original) rom will / can not repartition the emmc chip. The only way to do that is to execute the RUU again what made phone get the ICS Update.
If that doesn't solve your problem, your phone seems to be defective.
The last option that remains then is to replace the emmc chip.
Verstuurd van mijn Nexus 7 met Tapatalk

Thanks for the reply.
Can you explain how should I reformat and repartition? I have now the ClockworkMod Recovery (V5.8.1.5)
I cannot run RUU because the exe file tries to connect to the phone and gets an connection error. It only worked when the phone completed its upload and now (because of the reboot-loop) I can't get to this state.

Ok, It took me some time to understand that when in fastboot the PC has communication with the phone and I can install RUU..
So I re-install the HTC official ICS RUU for my device and it seems PROBLEM SOLVED!
Phone has started, I could play with it a bit... and no reboots yet.
Let's see if it keeps like that for several hours / days... I hope it is not an hardware problem and only software...
Thanks!

[Q] Stock HTC One S Boot Loop

Sorry for beginning a new thread, I searched around and haven't found this exact issue resolved elsewhere.
I have a completely stock HTC One S US T-Mob, as of now it is bootloader unlocked. It is unrooted and has never been rooted. I received this phone from insurance just a week ago, everything was running fine, all of a sudden the phone shut off and began endlessly rebooting. It boots up to the HTC logo, goes black and starts over again. The phone does not have USB debugging enabled because I never planned to modify it. I can get into the bootloader and fastboot, however, no options in the bootloader menu are responsive. If I select anything other than "Power Down" in the fastboot menu the phone instantly returns to bootlooping. I can't select "factory reset" or anything. I can't even plug the phone in to charge without it re-entering a bootloop.
I've been trying to find a way to force USB debugging, or flash a stock rom just so that I can reset the damn thing back to stock. That is why the bootloader is now unlocked. Everything was completely stock when the bootloop took hold.
I'm hoping someone can help me out with a fix. I don't care about recovering my data, I don't care about modifying this phone, I just want to get out of this bootloop and back to stock. Please help. Is there anything I can do?
Here is the text from my bootloader.
*** tampered ***
*** unlocked ***
vle pvt ship s-on rl
hboot-1.14.0005
radio-1.11t.50.02.22
opendsp-v29.1.0.45.0622
emmc-boot
Nov 21 2012, 12:17:41
Any info you need, let me know.

derpaderp said:
Sorry for beginning a new thread, I searched around and haven't found this exact issue resolved elsewhere.
I have a completely stock HTC One S US T-Mob, as of now it is bootloader unlocked. It is unrooted and has never been rooted. I received this phone from insurance just a week ago, everything was running fine, all of a sudden the phone shut off and began endlessly rebooting. It boots up to the HTC logo, goes black and starts over again. The phone does not have USB debugging enabled because I never planned to modify it. I can get into the bootloader and fastboot, however, no options in the bootloader menu are responsive. If I select anything other than "Power Down" in the fastboot menu the phone instantly returns to bootlooping. I can't select "factory reset" or anything. I can't even plug the phone in to charge without it re-entering a bootloop.
I've been trying to find a way to force USB debugging, or flash a stock rom just so that I can reset the damn thing back to stock. That is why the bootloader is now unlocked. Everything was completely stock when the bootloop took hold.
I'm hoping someone can help me out with a fix. I don't care about recovering my data, I don't care about modifying this phone, I just want to get out of this bootloop and back to stock. Please help. Is there anything I can do?
Here is the text from my bootloader.
*** tampered ***
*** unlocked ***
vle pvt ship s-on rl
hboot-1.14.0005
radio-1.11t.50.02.22
opendsp-v29.1.0.45.0622
emmc-boot
Nov 21 2012, 12:17:41
Any info you need, let me know.
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Well it seems most of the damage has been done. I would flash RUU using the all in one tool kit. It might be possible your boot image became corrupt. You could even flash a custom rom at this point since your bootloader is already unlocked.

biggardr said:
Well it seems most of the damage has been done. I would flash RUU using the all in one tool kit. It might be possible your boot image became corrupt. You could even flash a custom rom at this point since your bootloader is already unlocked.
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Hey, thank you so much for your reply. I've got the All-In-One toolkit, and when I try to use it to flash an RUU or ROM it says Device Not Found. I have HTC Sync installed, so the drivers should be there, and everything else looks to be in place. The All-In-One dialogue says that USB debugging must be enabled, and it is not.
Is there a way around?

can't get out of boot loop!
was on ElementalX 5.0, but i started experiencing bad battery life, so flashed ElementalX 4.3, and got stuck in the loop.
when i had boot loop happening before, i just had to flash boot.img via cmd, but that's not doing anything.

A fix for my phone (HTC ONE MINI)

Hey Guys,
I have an htc one mini and it was kept switched off for a months time as i had gone on a holiday and didnt carry the current smartphone which i have.
Once i was back and tried turning it on, it has redirected me to the recovery screen and I am not able to navigate anywhere further. I feel it has been bricked somehow. I tried few ways to fix it like using the htc dev tools but i was constantly receiving this error (171) so i couldnt continue further.
I am using a windows 10 laptop.
This is the message shown on the screen at the moment
***LOCKED***
M4_UL PVT Ship S-ON RL
HBOOT - 2 .22.0000
OS - 3.12.61.4
eMMC - Boot 1024 MB
July 17 2014 , 15:20:09.0
Any kind of fix will be really helpful for me
THANKS

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.