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[SOLVED] Help HTC Desire S - have I bricked it

I have a desire S, Which is S-Off through revoltionary and rooted! But i don't have a nandroid backup and my phone will no longer boot up. what can i do? I've tried to do a factory reset in recovery mode but that doesnt work.
How can i flash a stock rom on it to get it back to normal, i think its bricked... can someone help me?

1st of all i suggest you download a custom rom from the development section here.
then flash that via recovery. then hopefully your phone will load up into the new rom.
after you confirm this to me i will help you further to get back to stock rom

Thanks for the reply.
I did what you said, i tried to install a custom rom in recovery but it ends up aborting after a while, i dont think i can get any rom to work now, its not looking good

Fingers crossed
See this thread
Attempt the commands that are shown within the first #1 of it and you should be able to determine whether or not you have a fried eMMC chip.
See links in my signature for adb & fastboot drivers and the thread you need to see.

What recovery are you using? and what rom are you trying to flash?
I suggest downloading this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048203
Once you have done this follow these steps below to the letter
1. Boot into recovery
2. Format System (not wipe option but format option !!!)
3. Format Data
4. Format Cache
5. Wipe Data/Factory reset (1st option in wipe/format menu)
6. Wipe Dalvik Cache
7. Now install zip from sd card and flash the rom
8. Reboot

It was the Saga LBC mod that i was trying to install but it didn't work, nothing works that i try. i've formatted my sd card nom. basicly ive screwed everything up i've got no back ups of any rom and i cant get anything working

pumpernickel77 said:
It was the Aage LBC mod that i was trying to install but it didn't work, nothing works that i try. i've formatted my sd card nom. basicly ive screwed everything up i've got no back ups of any rom and i cant get anything working
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can you give me a step by step explanation of what you are doing and what messages/error messages you are getting at each stage?
I will try to help you the best i can. But i need to try to understand what the main issue is 1st. Don't worry just yet!

pumpernickel77 said:
It was the Saga LBC mod that i was trying to install but it didn't work, nothing works that i try. i've formatted my sd card nom. basicly ive screwed everything up i've got no back ups of any rom and i cant get anything working
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You need to give specifics and preferably screen pictures....(if possible) did you try the commands from the thread that I posted above, or what happens when you attempted the commands layed out by Eclipse_Driod above?
The more you tell us, the more we have to work with!?

I'm sorry but I dont know how to do the command thing, i'm a newbie when it comed to that I've basicly got a desire s that wont boot up and a SD card with nothing on, i think i need to somehow put a recovery image on my phone before i can install a rom

Is there any way i can install a recovery image to the sd card from the pc, that will then allow me to install a rom?

pumpernickel77 said:
I'm sorry but I dont know how to do the command thing, i'm a neebie when it comed to that I've basicly got a desire s that wont boot up and a SD card with nothing on, i think i need to somehow put a recovery image on my phone before i can install a rom
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I believe that you already have a fully working recovery on your device, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to flash LBC ROM in the first place....so I suspect that the problem is else where....(possibly damaged eMMC chip) but unless you help us, by running the commands and testing this we are un-able to confirm this for you.
You can find the adb and fastboot commands as a link in my signature simply download and then put these on you PC and run the commands that were in the thread I posted earlier (thats also in my sig Fried eMMC?)
Although I also believe that if you're able to get to S-OFF then you're able to enter the commands from your PC that will enable you to flash a recovery onto your device.
See this post where I've previously instructed some one else how to do just this.
Any questions then just and try to take screen captures or cut 'n' pastes of all errors encountered.
Good luck

pumpernickel77 said:
I'm sorry but I dont know how to do the command thing, i'm a neebie when it comed to that I've basicly got a desire s that wont boot up and a SD card with nothing on, i think i need to somehow put a recovery image on my phone before i can install a rom
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does it not even boot into recovery?
you need to hold down the volume down button and keep it held down while you power on the device. This will make it boot into recovery mode.
But before you can do that i would advise you take the sd card out of the phone, connect it to your computer with a card reader and copy over the lbc mod rom.zip file straight onto the card, then put it back into the phone.
then turn the phone off and boot into recover as mentioned above and select install rom from sd card and select the zip file you transferred over.
after it has installed reboot phone by selecting the "reboot" option in the recovery mode.
all should now be well.
report back how this goes
and don't forget to hit that thanks button

Thanks for your patience.. I'm going to try and explain in full what i've done
I got S-off on my Desire S using "Revoluntionary" (after watching how to do it on YouTube) and after domwloading ClockWorkMod from market place I sucessfully installed Saga LBC ver 5.3. Everything was fine i was very pleased. I had a back up of the old stock ROM saved on my SD card which i did through Clockworkmod too.
Then this morning I got a update message from clockworkmod saying ver6.0 was available to download so i did. My phone never turned back on again I could get into recovery mode but nothing would work (wipe data, factory reset, Even tryin to install the old backed up rom didn;t work) it just kept freezing.
So i took my sd card out and plugged it into the pc to try to look for anothr rom to try out, thats when i ended up formattig the SD card (god knows why) So now ive got no backup, no clockworkmod, no nothing on my SD card...Am I screwed??

Thanks for your patience.. I'm going to try and explain in full what i've done
I got S-off on my Desire S using "Revoluntionary" (after watching how to do it on YouTube) and after domwloading ClockWorkMod from market place I sucessfully installed Saga LBC ver 5.3. Everything was fine i was very pleased. I had a back up of the old stock ROM saved on my SD card which i did through Clockworkmod too.
Then this morning I got a update message from clockworkmod saying ver6.0 was available to download so i did. My phone never turned back on again I could get into recovery mode but nothing would work (wipe data, factory reset, Even tryin to install the old backed up rom didn;t work) it just kept freezing.
So i took my sd card out and plugged it into the pc to try to look for anothr rom to try out, thats when i ended up formattig the SD card (god knows why) So now ive got no backup, no clockworkmod, no nothing on my SD card...Am I screwed??

from what you have told me u still have clockwordmod recovery as it is on the phone itself. not the sd card. So you are ok there. What i need you to do next it to see if you are able to boot into recovery?
if you can then try again to format data, system and cache.
then try installing a rom from your sd card.
if it is still freezing while trying to perform a format then look back at bens previous posts about using adb through your pc to find out if your emmc chip is damaged

I can boot into recovery no probs there, but when i format data, system and cache it goes so far and then aborts
Ive just tried to install the LBC rom again i renames it PG88IMG ind it asked me to install so i did. It says 'update in progress' and the bar on the right starts to fill up but it stops near the top and eventually aborts

right, the only thing i can think of to try next is following the same method you said you followed to s-off through revolutionary.
it will say you are already s-off or something but click proceed anyway. and make sure from there that you type "y" when it asks if you want it to install clockworkmod recovery. as this will reinstall a fresh recovery image for you.
this is the only thing i can think of.
let me know how it goes

did you look at my post#11 above...
The second half of it contains instructions on how you can flash a new recovery image......from your PC.

Ive just tried to do the s-off again the way i did before but i can only go as far as the part when i connect my phone and open the revolutionary programme and it doesn't detect my phone

Ok, it looks like the last option to try is flashing a new recovery image manually.
For this you will need to download and install adb. which can be found here
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-adb-and-how-to-install-it-android/
along with instructions of how to set it up and use it.
after you have done this you will need to download this
http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-saga.img
which is the latest clockworkmod recovery for your phone. and rename it to recovery.img
then copy the recovery image to a convenient location on your computer, preferably with a short path. We will be placing it on the C Drive directly (not in any folder) and using that in the next steps.
Power your device off and reboot it in fastboot mode. (holding volume down whilst pressing power on button) then select "fastboot" from the list of options you get.
Connect your device to your computer via USB and wait till you see ‘fastboot USB’ on the screen.
Launch Command Prompt and type the following command:
fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img
Wait for the process to finish and reboot your device once it’s done.

[Q] Help - HTC Desire S Can't boot

Hello, I'd like to ask you for help, because I have following problem with my htc desire S (HBOOT 2.00.0002, RADIO_3822-10-08-04_M and S-on).
I unlocked bootloader according to htcdev and rooted by SuperOneClick 2.3.3. Than I installed 4EXT Recovery v 2.2.7 RC5 and prepared ROM files (Endymion_V3.1_base_release.zip and Endymion_V3.4_updater.zip) on my SDcard.
After that I entered Bootloader and 4Ext Recovery without any problem. And here is probably my fault. I have formated everything with SDcard exception - that means also /boot. Following installation of both prepared files (Endymion_3.1 + 3.4) from SDcard ended with "success".
BUT. When I rebooted phone, display remained white with green letters HTC only. To switch the phone off I had to remove battery. On the other hand
I am able to start bootloader (SD Checking: Load PG88DIAG.ZIP - No Image; Load PG88DIAG.nbh - No Image or wrong image) and 4Ext Recovery.
Let me know please, what to do and how to repait it.
Thank you.

rubep said:
Hello, I'd like to ask you for help, because I have following problem with my htc desire S (HBOOT 2.00.0002, RADIO_3822-10-08-04_M and S-on).
I unlocked bootloader according to htcdev and rooted by SuperOneClick 2.3.3. Than I installed 4EXT Recovery v 2.2.7 RC5 and prepared ROM files (Endymion_V3.1_base_release.zip and Endymion_V3.4_updater.zip) on my SDcard.
After that I entered Bootloader and 4Ext Recovery without any problem. And here is probably my fault. I have formated everything with SDcard exception - that means also /boot. Following installation of both prepared files (Endymion_3.1 + 3.4) from SDcard ended with "success".
BUT. When I rebooted phone, display remained white with green letters HTC only. To switch the phone off I had to remove battery. On the other hand
I am able to start bootloader (SD Checking: Load PG88DIAG.ZIP - No Image; Load PG88DIAG.nbh - No Image or wrong image) and 4Ext Recovery.
Let me know please, what to do and how to repait it.
Thank you.
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You need to extract boot.img from the endymion zip file and flash it using fastboot.
The command you'll need to execute is:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
For details on how yo set up fastboot click on the link on my signature.
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Download the rom again, extract boot.img from the zip and flash with fastboot

Thank you very much. After boot flash everything works again.

i hade the same problem last weak but after flashing boot,img it was not gone. then i have take out the sd card and ...TADA.. it boots.
Ok then i have shut down the phon ant put the card back in and same problem hangs on htc logo.
then i have put the card in my computer backedup the stuff i need and formated the carde new with fat 32 and put it back in the phone.
And it boots

Trying to flash revolution

Hello I've just s-off'd, installed clockwork recovery and rooted my phone, set the supercid.
I was following this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1471941
I have put the PG58IMG.zip, radio file, super wipe and Android revolution ROM files all onto the root of my SD card. I rebooted into Hboot mode and it asked if I wanted to install the update which I said yes to.
Now every time I try to boot the phone it gets to the HTC quietly brilliant logo and then just restarts itself. I can get into HBOOT mode where it just asks me to install the update again.
Can anyone help please?

You have to remove the firmware PG58IMG.zip file from your SD or it will attempt to update everytime you launch the bootloader

just remove your sd card when you boot then after it boots you in hboot put your sd card back in and go to recovery and remove the file

One S bricked beyond repair?

So, a friend came to me and gave me his newly acquired One S and asked whether or not I could get it back up and running..
Apparently, from what I understand, he got the phone, unlocked the bootloader, but then didnt know that he should install a custom recovery image before attempting to flash CM10, so he used the stock recovery to flash the .zip from the SD Card. After rebooting (I have no idea if the flashing was successful) the phone is stuck on the quietly brilliant screen.
So, I took the phone, rebooted into the bootloader and used fastboot to boot up into a clockwork .img. Everything good so far, however, the problem is that its seemingly impossible to mount the SD card. My friend told me he fiddled around and "tried stuff", so I suspect somehow he must have messed with the sd card partition.
Since the SD card partition isnt actually on a physical removable sd card, I am running out of ideas.
Anyone have any bright tips? All I need is to get the Sd card mounted so that I can flash a ROM properly.
Thanks!

Try running an RUU.
-MobileUS HTC One S running Stock Rooted 2.21.

fmedrano1977 said:
Try running an RUU.
-MobileUS HTC One S running Stock Rooted 2.21.
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Yeah, but I cant get the RUU on the device, since the SD Card partition is broken..

Untouchab1e said:
Yeah, but I cant get the RUU on the device, since the SD Card partition is broken..
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Ruu is installed from a computer, flash standard recovery and lock the boot loader and then run the ruu.
Sent from my HTC One S using Tapatalk 2

RUU runs life an exe file on a PC, since your friend didn't install a custom recovery, just relock bootloader and run RUU while phone is plugged in to pc in fastboot mode.
T-MobileUS HTC One S running Stock Rooted 2.21.

Had a similar issue that you can't mount SD from clockworkmod, it mounts ok on TWRP, flash that recovery instead.

fmedrano1977 said:
RUU runs life an exe file on a PC, since your friend didn't install a custom recovery, just relock bootloader and run RUU while phone is plugged in to pc in fastboot mode.
T-MobileUS HTC One S running Stock Rooted 2.21.
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Aha, right!
However, this still doesnt resolve the issue of a broken SD Card partition..

It probably isn't broken. I've never managed to mount SD through CWM. Try flash TWRP recovery and mount through there.

Dude just listen to everyone and download the ruu and run it only way to fix it I think
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There is a sticky in Q&A on how to fix unmountable /sdcard. (Basically: Flash stock recovery through fastboot, then clear storage in bootloader, then flash your favorite custom recovery again.)
It would not surprise me if this is the same thing a RUU does (except for flashing your favorite custom recovery of course). If so, you don't need to fix your sdcard before running the RUU if you decide to go that route..
Beware that the RUU will also update your hboot, which you may not want.
If you don't want to re-lock, RUU, re-submit token, re-unlock, re-root, just manually fix the sdcard mounting issue. Once you can mount your sdcard in recovery, you can just adb push a rom to it, flash it, (wipe cache), boot it. (Depending on your ROM/hboot/recovery, you may have to flash the boot img through fastboot. The best time to do so is before booting into recovery.)
@djsubtronic: There is some misunderstanding about what 'mounting the sdcard' means.
If you can't mount it onto the root file system in recovery, you have a problem and it must be fixed. In this case you can't push/pull to your sdcard or select a zip from it for flashing. If you can't mount it on your computer over USB from recovery, that's not a problem and you don't really need it as you can still adb push/pull.

Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
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dave il barbaro said:
Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
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Thanks for all the feedback guys! Once my mate responds Ill give it a go!

Unfortunately, so far, no luck..
Booting into the bootloader and selecting "Clear Storage" seemingly did little other than boot up into the stock recovery. After going back to the bootloader and selecting factory reset (which also just booted up stock recovery), I made him do a data wipe/factory reset.. which seemingly ran okay, but the problem still persists.. sdcard partition doesnt mount in neither Clockwork nor TWRP, and the boot is stuck on the HTC quietly brilliant screen..
My next idae I guess is to try and install a RUU.. just need to set up a Windows VM as neither of us runs Windows

I had a situation similiar, when i went to flash, i had the recovery twrp, but something happened when i went to flash, and my sdcard got corrupted,
i cant remember if i formatted the sdcard thru windows, but i think i formatted it twrp, and then was up and running,
or in windows7 disk management i had to fix the partition then formatted...
this happened over a month ago took over an hour...
but i really really really dont think ur phone is bricked... i can be fixed...
get the ruu and go over a friends house who has windows.... hope it works...

Thanks, booted up a Win 7 VM and pushed in the RUU, partition table reconstructed and everything is back to normal.. Thats another One S now kicking CM10
Thanks for the advice everyone!

Issue with SD Card on CM10

Hi,
This is my first time flashing so go easy on me
Basically I started with my stock HTC One S, unlocked the bootloader, rooted the handset, then flashed CWM 5.8.3.1 onto it. I mounted the SD Card on my PC, copied the CM10 and GApps ZIPs over to the SD Card then installed them with CWM.
After that the handset wouldn't boot past the HTC screen. I kept installing the ZIPs over and over then whilst I was panicing and clicking everything I could find wiped the Dalvik Cache/factory reset/cache/EVERYTHING. After that point it just would not mount the /sdcard. I managed to get it booting by flashing the boot.img using fastboot. But I still can't access the sdcard.
In JB it just says its safe to remove the sd card permanently. If I try and push anything to it using ADB it says that the volume is write protected.
I have no clue how I can fix this without having to reflash which is a massive pain in the arse.
If anyone has any tips I would really appreciate it!

Did you ever fix this problem? Mine has done the exact same thing! :crying:

Hi I had the same problem,I used the hasoon all in one tool to flash twrp recovery then I adb pushed a rooted stock Rom to system to remount the sdcard (Rom from andrdandy Rom list) then I adb pushed viperone s Rom to the sdcard
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