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[Q] HTC Desire S stuck on boot screen

Hi,
I got an HTC Desire S from a friend for free! Cool ain't it? Yes, but there is a catch, he gave it to be because he couldn't get it to work again.
Here is the situation: the phone boot until the HTC boot screen, then is stuck. The only thing I have access to is the recovery menu.
The phone is not rooted, everything is as it was when it was bought from SFR.
- I tried removing the battery for a while and putting it back in, but that didn't work
- I tried doing a factory reset, but that failed
- I tried using and HTC RUU to install the system, but that too failed.
- I tried something by putting a zip file on the SD card name something like PD..IMG.zip, but the recovery menu just said it couldn't load the file and that's it.
The bootloader is HBOOT-0.98.0002, if that's helpful.
So, I'd really like to find a way to install android on this phone, and have it working again!
I'm not a computer noob, I'm even writing some softwares for both android and computer.
However, I'm not really familiar with the whole process of fixing a phone, and so far everything I tried failed.
I would really be grateful if anyone could show me the way, because right now I'm lost in the middle of all the methods!

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Sounds like the eMMC is gone. Hard to tell though since your phone is stock.
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@geenux
I think you can start reading here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1150917&highlight=emmc

Check and post why RUU is failing. "It failed" doesn't tell anyone anything. Since the phone is stock, you'll need the latest compatible RUU for the phone (if branded - RUU of the brand, if not - generic RUU).

[Q] Recover from failed root attempt thru TWRP?

I tried following this guide to root my HTC One XL, but flashing CWM didn't work. It all seemed to succeed in the Command Prompt, but the phone never rebooted and going into Recovery resulted in the message 'This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside or HTC without HTC's written permission. Failure to comply may lead to legal action.'
I tried several different versions of CWM (5.8.2.7, 5.8.3.1, 5.8.4.0, and an interim build from Modaco), with the same result, before trying this. That completely broke my phone, and all I could get into was the 'development purposes' screen or fastboot. The actual phone was gone.
After stumbling upon the EndeavorU/Evita distinction - my phone is an Evita - I found this and flashed that TWRP recovery. Success!
However, there's no sign of the SuperSU zip. I definitely put it on my phone following the first rooting guide, but either TWRP can't find it or it was lost when I completely screwed my phone up.
Is there any way to get from where I am now to a functioning phone, through TWRP? Searching for 'TWRP tutorial' just results in page after page of 'how to install TWRP', which is the one bit I've actually managed to do successfully so far.
I currently have no phone whatsoever, so things are kinda desperate at this point.

[Completed] [Q] red text on htc 600c

Hi, I'm still rather new to this and I was trying to root my HTC desire 600c . When I went to start up my phone is gets stuck on the screen with htc's brand name and below it in red text it says "this build is for development purposes only do not distridute outside of htc without htc's written permission. failure to comply may lead to legal action".
when it first did this i thought it would just take awhile to load, i waited for 30 minutes.
I've tried many things:
clearing all caches
redoing the rooting process in the above url
redownloading the files, double checking everything
factory reset. Please help me guys.

Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. You probably need to flash the stock firmware at this point. See if something in here helps, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2374813 Also see this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-desire-c Someone in that forum can help you further.

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[Completed] HTC Vivid won't boot, possibly after build.prop change

Hello,
Pretty new to rooting, tried to root my HTC Vivid to install some apps which are "incompatible" with my device. Unlocked bootloader and rooted successfully by installing TWRP recovery and installing the supersu zip. After copying the build.prop file to another folder I proceeded to make some minor changes to the build.prop file with ES File Explorer. Essentially changing the model ID of the phone to another device to try to prompt Google Play to show the incompoatible apps, didn't touch anything boot-related or anything else. Phone was working fine at that point, rebooting ok, but Google Play still showed the apps as incompatible, so I temporarily brought back the old build.prop file by copy/pasting it from the folder I made. The system indicated the copy was made successfully, and I tried to reboot once more. That is where the problem started.
When the power button is pressed for a second or so, the phone vibrates once and shows the starting splash screen (HTC) as it did when working, and then the screen goes blank, although the LED backlight is still on (so phone has power). Nothing comes after, no "HTC quietly brilliant" logo nor the chime that indicates it's booting up. At that point it stops responding to any stimulus except the removal of the battery, at which point the LED backlight finally goes off. Waiting for ~10min solved nothing, still blank black screen with backlight on. Upon reinserting the battery, the phone once again responds to the power button, with the same results.
I can boot to recovery by holding down Vol down and pressing power, and there I get the usual options including Fastboot, Recovery, etc. I tried doing a factory reset. It gives a bunch of error messages along the lines of "can't mount emmc", then says it's starting the reset, and gives a successful completion prompt after half a minute or so. However, that seems to do nothing at all to fix the problem (tried 4x times, with SD card in and out).
The only change that comes to mind is the last replacement of the build.prop file I did, which should have just restored the original. Assuming the factory reset doesn't actually reset that file (where would it get a copy to do so?) perhaps it being broken is preventing me from booting after the reset. Just my theory though, and could be something else.
From what I understand I could try putting a recovery image on the micro sd from a PC, then doing a recovery rather than a factory reset from the TWRP menu to replace all the files, including the potentially problematic build.prop. However, I didn't make a backup of the system before this happened (learning experience) and have no such image. Could anyone perhaps point me to a clean image for the Vivid that I could download and flash to my phone with recovery? Or otherwise shed some light on what could be causing the problem? I also realize there are various unbricking tutorials online, but after many hours of this I'm a bit too exhausted to follow all of those just to see if they work or not.
Edit: Upon further research I realize I can try to flash a new rom to the Vivid, but no matter how much I search I can't find a working link for a stock ICS .zip. There is a RUU .exe file from HTC but my phone can't get past fastboot, so I'd need to do this with a zip file. Anywhere I can get a working one? I could also try a custom rom, I just have 0 knowledge of those so don't know which would be a safe bet.
Would appreciate any help, and hope the post isn't overly long. Tried to give as much info as I could. I already spent a ton of time on both the root procedure and trying to fix this and would really like to hear professional opinions before breaking anything else. Thanks for reading.

Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. The best place to get help is in your device's specific forum here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-vivid They are the experts on your device. You may have already seen this but it's a good place to start, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1486024 If it were me I'd return the device to stock and start over. If you're messing with your phone you will want to be comfortable on how to return it to stock as you'll probably have to do that more than once as you learn more about your device.

jd1639 said:
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. The best place to get help is in your device's specific forum here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-vivid They are the experts on your device. You may have already seen this but it's a good place to start, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1486024 If it were me I'd return the device to stock and start over. If you're messing with your phone you will want to be comfortable on how to return it to stock as you'll probably have to do that more than once as you learn more about your device.
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Thanks for the advice, I basically got into rooting from scratch a day ago, so many resources I don't know about. Trying to return to stock, but I need a rom of the stock in .zip form since the phone can't get past recovery, and having trouble finding that. Perhaps due to age of phone, but most links to those seem to no longer be functional.
rohanreddy277 said:
Actually u shouldnt have rooted with that zip file containing supersu u actually should have done it with kingo root. anyway, the best waty to revive it is to install cyanogenmod. download the version for ur device and google how to install cyanogenmod. this will give a new life to ur phone. hope it helps.
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Right, I basically learned as I went along for this root, haven't even heard of kingo before. I was very careful, but apparently something still went wrong. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try that mod and see if it works.
Edit: I'm only finding a nightly build for the Vivid on the CyanogenMod website, with no stable versions. Nightly build is dated two years ago, so clearly no stable versions coming. While I'm in no position to be picky, and I'll try it if needed, I'd rather not break what's still functioning in my phone. Any mods out there that are stable for the Vivid?
Edit2: the nightly cyanogen build seems to have brought the phone back online, but besides the different look and feel from what I'm used to, it doesn't seem to have Google Play... so I can't download anything. It also isn't seen by HTC Sync so I can't run the RUU from there, but I did successfully extract the rom.zip file using some instruction on this forum from the stock ICS RUU .exe. However, installing that from twrp recovery fails as it cannot open the zip, and an attempt to use the "fastboot flash zip rom.zip" command fails saying it's not allowed. Integrity of zip fail is tested to be ok with an archiver program. The zip file extracts properly, and I can flash things like boot.img and recovery_signed.img to the phone, yet system.img cannot be flashed (data length too large error). Not sure what to try next.

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[Completed] [Q] please guys help me

Hi, I'm still rather new to this and I was trying to root my HTC desire 600c . When I went to start up my phone is gets stuck on the screen with htc's brand name and below it in red text it says "this build is for development purposes only do not distridute outside of htc without htc's written permission. failure to comply may lead to legal action".
when it first did this i thought it would just take awhile to load, i waited for 30 minutes.
I've tried many things:
clearing all caches
redoing the rooting process in the above url
redownloading the files, double checking everything
factory reset. Please help me guys

Duplicate.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/help/please-help-to-fix-brick-t3158810