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Htc desire s stuck at Htc logo , even cannot make factory reset

Hi experts
One of my friend brought his Htc stuck at Htc logo even I cannot make factory reset in boot mode.. When I click factory reset nothing happens.. Don't know where to start? Can somebody tech me
I made gold card successfully
Thank you

Give some more info please
1) what is written on the top part of the screen when in boot mode
it should look similar to this:
Code:
---AlphaRev---
SAGA pvt ship S-off RL
HBOOT-6.98.1002
RADIO-3805.04.02.01_M
eMMC-boot
2) can you access RECOVERY from the boot mode menu
if yes make a picture of it and attach it here
Also see here, there are some ways to restore from white screen issue.

SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.98.0002
RADIO - 3805.06.02.03_M
eMMC - boot
and if i press recovery showing recovery symbol and phone get off and vibrating 3 times
And i downloaded this file
RUU_Saga_hTC_Asia_WWE_1.48.707.1_Radio_20.28I.30.085AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199476_signed.exe
when i try to update ..its stuck at rebooting to bootloader

I have a similar problem. But mine is s-off and unrooted, it occurred when I tried updating with the system OTA update (about 230mb in size). It updated, showed the circular green stuff on the black screen, booted a few times then just stuck at the HTC screen on the white background.
-Revolutionary-
SAGA PUT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-6.98.1002
RADIO- 3822.10.08.04_M
eMMC-boot
Mar 10 2011, 14:58:38
Please would appreciate your help

sharaz191 said:
SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.98.0002
RADIO - 3805.06.02.03_M
eMMC - boot
and if i press recovery showing recovery symbol and phone get off and vibrating 3 times
And i downloaded this file
RUU_Saga_hTC_Asia_WWE_1.48.707.1_Radio_20.28I.30.085AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199476_signed.exe
when i try to update ..its stuck at rebooting to bootloader
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It seems that your problem is complicated. Stock software and no recovery access makes it difficult to give an appropriate advice. Maybe something wrong was flashed on this phone or the worst case - "fried" eMMC chip. You can try to search across the forum for any similar or try various solutions but I cannot advice how to proceed. Sorry
linkin8k said:
I have a similar problem. But mine is s-off and unrooted, it occurred when I tried updating with the system OTA update (about 230mb in size). It updated, showed the circular green stuff on the black screen, booted a few times then just stuck at the HTC screen on the white background.
-Revolutionary-
SAGA PUT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-6.98.1002
RADIO- 3822.10.08.04_M
eMMC-boot
Mar 10 2011, 14:58:38
Please would appreciate your help
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There are at least 10 other threads from the past 2 weeks with exactly the same problem. Do some reading, the solution is simple...

Please just tell me what to do or give me the thread cause I have searched and can't find precisely what will help. Just post something please I beg you.

here you go
Sent from my HTC Desire S using Tapatalk

Can I solve by jtag?

sharaz191 said:
Can I solve by jtag?
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Surely simpler to return under warranty?
Swyped from my Desire S using XDA Premium

Tried everything in the thread and it won't still work.

I downloaded RUU_Saga_S_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.5_Radio_20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04_M_release_219480_signed and used it. It showed successful but got stuck at the htc logo white screen again. When i tried using the ruu again it showed the old version which it supposedly upgraded was still in the phone.
Please help am so frustrated

linkin8k said:
I downloaded RUU_Saga_S_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.5_Radio_20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04_M_release_219480_signed and used it. It showed successful but got stuck at the htc logo white screen again. When i tried using the ruu again it showed the old version which it supposedly upgraded was still in the phone.
Please help am so frustrated
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Hint - flash hboot 0.98.2000
After use the latest RUU 2.10.401.8
Sent from my HTC Desire S using Tapatalk

Thanks for the quick reply. I have already tried flashing hboot_0.98.0000_361a7ba6_0310 onto it using android flasher in "fastboot usb plug" but it reboots and gets stuck at the htc logo again until i remove the battery.
Also here is what androidflasher shows me :
sending "hboot" (1024kb)...
OKAY [0.191s]
writing "hboot"...
(bootloader) image update is bypassed!
OKAY [0.030s]
finished.total time:0.221s
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [0.248s]
finished.total time:0.248s
rebooting....
finished. total time: 0.244s

**update**
was able to flash 4ext recovery using android flasher onto my device and tried updating with the ruu again. It still gets stuck at the htc logo white background (so i painfully remove battery again) but when i try running the ruu again from my pc it shows that i have the same version as the ruu.
Still stuck at white screen. Help!!!

linkin8k said:
**update**
was able to flash 4ext recovery using android flasher onto my device and tried updating with the ruu again. It still gets stuck at the htc logo white background (so i painfully remove battery again) but when i try running the ruu again from my pc it shows that i have the same version as the ruu.
Still stuck at white screen. Help!!!
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see the version of the bootloader
if it is still 6.98.xxxx this is you problem. Flash 0.98.2000 with PG88IMG.zip from the SDcard or try 2.00.2002 - you can find this in the forums also

linkin8k
I have the same problem and I have not found the solution up here.

can anybody tell me can i solve this by JAG?i can do jtag my self

thanks for the replies sorry i couldn't post yesterday was trying to be in a festive mood.
**my progress**
I have tried all i can to update the bootloader, from putting the pg88img file in through root of sd to update through 4ext recovery to tryin to use android flasher to put the 0.98.2000 it won't just update.
please what else can i do?? is there a hboot installer for windows for me to try??
please help AmidaBuddha u have done a lot but i still need a little help. thanks

As much as i know would be the last possible solution to replace the bootloader with dd command inside adb shell or try to flash it with fastboot (to make this the htc drivers [if you are using windows] and the android sdk with the given android plattform-tools must be installed, if some parts are not present look at the index thread)
Walkthrough:
fastboot:
reboot your device to bootloader and put it in fastboot mode
open commanline at your pc
attach device to pc
cd to the directory where the hboot.img is ( extract it from the pg88img.zip file)
Code:
fastboot devices
(your device should show up as some letters and digits at the right of it should stand recovery, also the adb daemon is started if it wasn't running before)
fastboot flash hboot hboot.img
this replaces your current hboot with the hboot.img file, don't interrupt the process or pull the usb cable, this can brick your device, i'm not responsible if something goes wrong.
dd:
put the needed .img file of the bootloader at the root of your sd (extract it from the pg88img.zip file) and rename it to hboot.img
reboot to recovery
Open commandline at your pc
attach device to pc
Code:
adb devices
(your device should show up as some letters and digits at the right of it should stand recovery, also the adb daemon is started if it wasn't running before)
adb shell
(this opens the adb command shell, from where you can execute shell commands right at your device)
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 of=/sdcard/backup.img
(this backups your current bootloader partition to the backup.img file)
dd if=/sdcard/hboot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
(this replaces your bootloader partition with the boot.img)
exit
(exits adb shell)
adb reboot bootloader
(reboots your device to bootloader)
this backups your current bootloader to /sdcard/backup.img and replaces it with the boot.img, but beware this is hard stuff and be carefull, don't stop the execution of the any dd command and never pull the usb-cable while it writes your bootloader, this definitly can brick your device, i'm not responsible if something goes wrong, good luck.

Tectas thanks, see what i get using fastboot:
on command line:
c:\users>fastboot devices
SH14HTJ05*** fastboot
c:users> cd c:\temp
c:\temp>fastboot flash hboot hboot.img
sending `hboot` <1024 kb>... OKAY
writing `hboot`... INFOimage update is bypassed!
OKAY
on phone under bootloader menu:
Can not roll back hboot version
........
will try dd option now.

[Q] HTC Sensation XE Flashes Frequently

Hi I unlocked my phone from a thread here in xda forum but can not find the link now. Recently I factory reset my phone because my it became terribly slow. Now when I go to an app and back to home, my home page always flashes white with HTC written and loading sign appears and then gets back to normal. But I cannot go to the market or online anymore and also cannot sign in to google account. So I wanted to restore the data from a backup I did before. I am not sure through which software I did that. I have some files in a backup folder I kept in my PC. The files are
1) .android_secure.vfat.tar
2)boot.img
3)cache.ext4.tar
4)data.ext4.tar
5)nandroid.md5
6)recovery.img
7)system.ext4.tar
Now I tried to install CWM recovery. I tried the method where you have to put a CWM image file and adb files in a folder(total 5 files) and install them through command prompt whlie your phone connected to PC as fastboot USB in bootloader. But when I tried to install it I got "writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)" this method. I don't know if the way I am following is the right one or not. I want to just go to the position where I unlocked my phone first time. Some information appears in the top screen when I boot into the bootloader.
***LOCKED***
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-1.27.0000
RADIO-11.22.3504.07_M
OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0131
eMMC-boot Jan 13 2012, 17:33:44
Maybe this will help to understand what I have done with this device which apparently I don't. Also when I try to go to the recovery option in the bootloader it shows a Red Triangle with exclamation mark infront of a device picture.
My phone's software info are,
Android version: 4.0.3
HTC Sense version: 3.6
Can anyone please help me to get my phone to normal. Thanks.

[Q] Stuck on Splash Screen, adb and fastboot not responding

HTC z710a
Unlocked with S-On
hboot 1-27.0000 pyramid
android 4.0.3
ROM version 3.32.666.53
Unknown Radio
rooted with superuser
I tried to install SmartDroidBerserk 2.2 for my htc sensation tonight. After following the instructions on your website http(removeThis://)smartdroidromsDOTcom/berserk.htm I ran into a huge problem; I'm stuck on the HTC splash screen.
I followed the instructions up to where it said to flash the rom. I believe that I misread this part as meaning that you could install the rom from the zip on the sd card, so I tried to do so. I got an installation error with a status 1 message during the installation. I thought that if I tried to reboot my phone that I could try to reinstall the rom or revert back to an old backup through recovery and then try to actually flash the rom the 'proper' way.
I'm now stuck on the HTC splash screen and can't do anything with my smartphone. I tried to connect it to my computer to run adb to get it back into the bootloader. When I try adb devices it doesn't even recognize that my phone is attached. The same goes for fastboot devices - no return. When I go to my computer and try and select my phone as a removable disk, windows asks me to insert a disk into the disk drive because I formatted the phone during your installation process. After I discovered that I can't use adb to get back into the bootloader, I tried to press volume down and power at the same time but I still can't get into the bootloader with that method, it just stalls on the htc splash screen, not even displaying the "quietly brillant" slogan.
If there's anything that anyone can think that would help my situation, I'd be extremely grateful! I've got a 600$ brick!!

tehwarden said:
I tried to install SmartDroidBerserk 2.2 for my htc sensation tonight. After following the instructions on your website http(removeThis://)smartdroidromsDOTcom/berserk.htm I ran into a huge problem; I'm stuck on the HTC splash screen.
I followed the instructions up to where it said to flash the rom. I believe that I misread this part as meaning that you could install the rom from the zip on the sd card, so I tried to do so. I got an installation error with a status 1 message during the installation. I thought that if I tried to reboot my phone that I could try to reinstall the rom or revert back to an old backup through recovery and then try to actually flash the rom the 'proper' way.
I'm now stuck on the HTC splash screen and can't do anything with my smartphone. I tried to connect it to my computer to run adb to get it back into the bootloader. When I try adb devices it doesn't even recognize that my phone is attached. The same goes for fastboot devices - no return. When I go to my computer and try and select my phone as a removable disk, windows asks me to insert a disk into the disk drive because I formatted the phone during your installation process. After I discovered that I can't use adb to get back into the bootloader, I tried to press volume down and power at the same time but I still can't get into the bootloader with that method, it just stalls on the htc splash screen, not even displaying the "quietly brillant" slogan.
If there's anything that anyone can think that would help my situation, I'd be extremely grateful! I've got a 600$ brick!!
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if doesn't someone else come with other solution try to use the unbricking project
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23078349
edit: pull out your battery,put it again and then hold power button+volume down together
hold until it shows you the bootloader

tlyVisa dutch
rzr86 said:
if doesn't someone else come with other solution try to use the unbricking project
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23078349
edit: pull out your battery,put it again and then hold power button+volume down together
hold until it shows you the bootloader
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I was able to get into the bootloader by holding down Vol + power (guess I wasn't holding it down long enough). When I get into the bootloader and try to go into recovery my phone still gets stuck on the htc splash screen for some odd reason. I was able to get it to go into recovery without a problem (until now of course). I'm not able to get into recovery to restore my backup(s).
Unlocked (with htc dev)
Pyramid PVT Ship S-On RL
HBOOT 1.27.0000
eMMC-boot
I'm reading over the unbricking project now and I'll try it tonight....this so sucks the big one (and hard).....

tehwarden said:
I was able to get into the bootloader by holding down Vol + power (guess I wasn't holding it down long enough). When I get into the bootloader and try to go into recovery my phone still gets stuck on the htc splash screen for some odd reason. I was able to get it to go into recovery without a problem (until now of course). I'm not able to get into recovery to restore my backup(s).
Unlocked (with htc dev)
Pyramid PVT Ship S-On RL
HBOOT 1.27.0000
eMMC-boot
I'm reading over the unbricking project now and I'll try it tonight....this so sucks the big one (and hard).....
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at least you managed to enter into the bootloader.then your device it is not bricked
there is no need to use it
see then here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861
about adb and fasboot commands did you open the command window in the folder where adb and fastboot files are?

rzr86 said:
at least you managed to enter into the bootloader.then your device it is not bricked
there is no need to use it
see then here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861
about adb and fasboot commands did you open the command window in the folder where adb and fastboot files are?
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yes, I put adb and fastboot in a folder C:\mini-adb and navigated to that folder. adb would print out 'attached devices are' and nothing below it when I would run adb devices. fastboot devices simply returned nothing.
I got to the second step part 9 where it asked me to fastboot reboot after flashing the recovery (which was successfully written) however when I try to reboot it just stays stuck on the htc splash screen still.

Sorry for the double post.. I just removed my battery and was able to go back into the bootloader and could get into recovery. I was able to restore a prior rooted backup but whenever I try to reboot my smartphone it loads into recovery and not into my rom.
I have the added problem of not being able to access the sd card where I would put the Android Revolution .zip file. Whenever I try to access the phone's drive windows ask me to please insert a disk into removable disk F:.
EDIT: I just used the rom in the opening post instead of using the Android Revolution rom and it installed just fine. I can use my phone again! Thanks so much rzr!

tehwarden said:
Sorry for the double post.. I just removed my battery and was able to go back into the bootloader and could get into recovery. I was able to restore a prior rooted backup but whenever I try to reboot my smartphone it loads into recovery and not into my rom.
I have the added problem of not being able to access the sd card where I would put the Android Revolution .zip file. Whenever I try to access the phone's drive windows ask me to please insert a disk into removable disk F:.
EDIT: I just used the rom in the opening post instead of using the Android Revolution rom and it installed just fine. I can use my phone again! Thanks so much rzr!
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haha i was about to tell you now try flashing the rom to see if it will work but you already did it
happy for you man:good:
and you can always hit the thanks button if i really helped you somehow

Inspire 4g MAJOR Problem !

I am SO Freaking lost..... My problem is my phone will freez at the HTC splash screen, and the only things I can get into is bootloader and 4ext recovery. I can't flash any images they don't want to be flashed with the PD98img.zip I can't do anyting my phone is empty with no android os.. I am stuck. I can't seem to do much with fastboot with images either.

AlphaOmegaPrimus said:
I am SO Freaking lost..... My problem is my phone will freez at the HTC splash screen, and the only things I can get into is bootloader and 4ext recovery. I can't flash any images they don't want to be flashed with the PD98img.zip I can't do anyting my phone is empty with no android os.. I am stuck. I can't seem to do much with fastboot with images either.
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can you give some background as what you did to get the phone into this state?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208507 I tried this to restore my phone thinking it would fix all my problems instead I must have messed something up, and now i'm pretty sure my phone is a paper weight. I managed to run fastboot oem rebootRUU and installed htc_inspire4g_att_RUU_3.20.502.52_US.exe but it hangs at white screen with HTC logo.

Did you try both flash packages?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I527 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

jzsidebott said:
Did you try both flash packages?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I527 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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I'm a NOOB, I have no idea what you mean by that. Sorry

AlphaOmegaPrimus said:
I'm a NOOB, I have no idea what you mean by that. Sorry
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In the link you provided, on the first page, there were two seperate downloads, depending on when the phone was developed. "Download (restores to official Froyo 2.2.2) (315MB)" and also "Download (restores to official Gingerbread 2.3.3) (309MB)". Was just wondering which one you tried if any at all.

The only thing I can boot into is the 4ext Recovery Touch & hboot Can someone send me stock inspire 4g rom 4ext backup files they are *.tar files [email protected] Or [email protected]
Would that restore my system ?
the phone is
*** Unlocked ***
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0030
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.17.14.11_M
eMMC-boot
If this helps
The 4ext Touch Recovery says under info
system ext3 549.2mb 504.9 free
data ext3 1.1gb 1.0 free
cache ext3 140.4mb 127.6 free
sdcard fat32 1.9gb 1.9 free

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208507
4.Reboot to HBOOT: Shutdown completely (disconnect USB if connected and pull battery if necessary) then while holding down the VOL-DOWN key, press the POWER key for about half a second. The phone should boot into HBOOT, check the PD98IMG.zip for consistency, then prompt you to install. Select VOL-UP to install.
5.Once installed, HBOOT will prompt you to reboot by pressing the POWER button. Do this
I can get to step 4 and instead of flashing the PD98IMG.zip is says parsing and just goes back to hboot. I can't flash anything.

I have been making some MAJOR progress on my phone.. after messing around with a lot of fastboot commands, I found this with helped .. fastboot -c "lge.kcal=0|0|0|x" boot customrecovery.img if forces some images to boot.
Also the link I posted above only will work if my phone is relocked. I can't even make post in the Inspire 4G Android Development , because i'm "too new " to ask a question. But I managed to get his program to run again and I've noticed something. on step 7
7.Once successfully completed, the phone will automatically reboot to HBOOT and begin the process of installing the RUU. The only thing you have to do at this point is acknowledge the prompt to install by pressing VOL-UP. (Note: the RUU install may skip a couple of images during the install but this is normal.
IT FAILS to copy the RUU to the sdcard. and that's what has left my phone without an OS. I've also got the stock RUU htc_inspire4g_att_RUU_3.20.502.52_US.exe to run and complete But my phone hangs after the HTC logo..
So i'm headed in the right direction. Any ideas ???? ~ T

SO I've made a HUGE step in progress yesterday, I installed JellyTime rom and inspire mod and gapps. and forced the boot.img file to boot using fastboot -c "lge.kcal=0|0|0|x" boot boot.img it made the boot.img to run and start JellyTime. I've got android installed on the phone now. The only problem is I need to S-OFF so I can fastboot flash boot boot.img. It won't do it right now, As of now the phone will bootup and hang on the White HTC logo screen, Every attempt to S-OFF the phone has failed so far. Any Ideas ?

Your phone is bricked?
Try flashing this ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=996368

AlphaOmegaPrimus said:
SO I've made a HUGE step in progress yesterday, I installed JellyTime rom and inspire mod and gapps. and forced the boot.img file to boot using fastboot -c "lge.kcal=0|0|0|x" boot boot.img it made the boot.img to run and start JellyTime. I've got android installed on the phone now. The only problem is I need to S-OFF so I can fastboot flash boot boot.img. It won't do it right now, As of now the phone will bootup and hang on the White HTC logo screen, Every attempt to S-OFF the phone has failed so far. Any Ideas ?
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You don't need S-Off to fastboot flash boot.img. Just an unlocked bootloader.
bayartiesto said:
Your phone is bricked?
Try flashing this ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=996368
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This is not at all helpful. He is asking for boot.img or S-Off help. If he can't do that his ROM is irrelevant.

OMG. this is the worst place for help ever. I have Jelly time installed and I can get into it But only AFTER forcing the boot.img to boot. I CANNOT boot into jellytime by it's self normally. BECAUSE I cannot flash the boot.img file I get an error message. Because I need S-OFF to be off. right now it's on. Everything I've tried has failed.

AlphaOmegaPrimus said:
OMG. this is the worst place for help ever.
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This is just about the worst way to start a post where you're asking for help.
AlphaOmegaPrimus said:
I have Jelly time installed and I can get into it But only AFTER forcing the boot.img to boot. I CANNOT boot into jellytime by it's self normally. BECAUSE I cannot flash the boot.img file I get an error message. Because I need S-OFF to be off. right now it's on. Everything I've tried has failed.
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Did you even read what I wrote before??
bananagranola said:
You don't need S-Off to fastboot flash boot.img. Just an unlocked bootloader.
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Also, you haven't told us what error message you get when you try to flash the boot.img. And is your bootloader unlocked??

AlphaOmegaPrimus said:
OMG. this is the worst place for help ever. I have Jelly time installed and I can get into it But only AFTER forcing the boot.img to boot. I CANNOT boot into jellytime by it's self normally. BECAUSE I cannot flash the boot.img file I get an error message. Because I need S-OFF to be off. right now it's on. Everything I've tried has failed.
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What does forcing the boot.img means? there is no other way to flash a boot.img that in fastboot if you are S-ON. There is no need to be S-OFF to fastboot flash. In fact, having S-OFF is not enough to enable flash commands in fastboot (you actually need ENG S-OFF for that).
I suggest that you give detail information about the errors and what you are doing if you want to get helped.

Hello,
I have htc inspire. My phone was new sept 2011 and worked until july 2012. My phone was set to charge only and usb debug disable and was never rooted. One night I put the phone to charge and the next day it I turned it on but it never made past the white screen. I have tried to put the rom on sd card as PD98IMG. I tried RUU. The phone lists:
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.85.0024 MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 12 2011,00:55:45
When I try using RUU it gets stuck on reloading bootloader
When I try the PD98IMG method using a goldcard, it gets stuck:
parsing...[SD ZIP]
[1] BOOTLOADER -UPDATING
[2] BOOT
[3] RECOVERY
etc
Please help

Not sure but What helped me get past the HTC logo screen is just recovering the old Stock of the phone.
The link provided is to return back to old stock AT&T Roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1385016
Boot your phone in Bootloader mode (PWR + VOL DOWN).
Run the RUU Installer.
For S-Off, Advanced Hack Kit (AAHK) was quite a big help to me.

My problem is I have s-on. Phone freezes when I try pd98img on sd goldcard. I can connect with fastboot but I am not sure how to use it. The phone was in charge only & usb debug off when it use to work.
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.85.0024 MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 12 2011,00:55:45
Any help would be greatly appreciated

Can't access recovery

A friend has given me his Desire S to fix what I originally thought was just a stuck power button that prevented it from starting up. But the button is now fixes and I've been trying the last few days to get it to start up.
What I have tried so far is to enter Recovery mode, but upon choosing it, the phone would just go to the HTC logo screen, fibrate once and then fibrate agian after a second or two for a few times and the screen would go blank. The same happens with normal bootup. It also seems that the phone is still running with the blank screen because I have to pull the battery to startup again.
I then tried to use the latest RUU (Android 4.0) from HTC but the phone is not recognized by the computer (I think it is because it didn't startup enough to be able to present itself to the computer). So I unlocked it and used fastboot (from Ubuntu as OS) to flash the recovery (recovery_signed.img) and boot (boot_signed.img) from the RUU. With this recovery and normal startup would remain at the HTC screen and wouldn't go blank as before - still fibrates a few times.
I also tried to rename the rom.zip to PG88IMG.zip and putting it on a SD and the bootloader does detect it, but presents the normal boot screen afterwards (I think it complains about it being incorrect - the display is too quick for me to see the error).
Now I also have a Desire S and made a backup of it before I installed a custom ROM. So I also tried the recovery.img that I have from this backup, but then recovery is stuck on the blank screen again.
Is there anything that I did wrong, missed or may not have tried yet? And how can I go about to fix it?
PHONE DETAILS (from bootloader screen)
*** UNLOCKED ***
SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0002
RADIO-3822.10.08.04_M
eMMC-boot

The PG88IMG wont work coz ur s-on. Ul need to extract the zip file and put the recovery.img in ur fastboot folder and then flash it from fastboot, volume down + power then select select fastboot then plug ur phone into pc and open a fastboot command window and type
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Also a ruu u run from fastboot and u need to relock ur bootloader.
(i dunno how all this is done using ubuntu but thats how on windows so im sure ul know or figure it out)

Ok, didn't know that I needed S-OFF for PG88IMG - thanks for pointing that out . I did flash the recovery (paragraph 3), it is just named `recovery_signed.img` and not 'recovery.img` - I assume that there isn't a difference between the two?
Do I open the RUU while in fastboot on the phone (after relocking) or do I run it from a fastboot command?
(On Ubuntu fastboot is installed as a program so I can call it after I CD to the extracted rom folder and I assume it is working since I didn't get any errors)

Pieter2627 said:
Ok, didn't know that I needed S-OFF for PG88IMG - thanks for pointing that out . I did flash the recovery (paragraph 3), it is just named `recovery_signed.img` and not 'recovery.img` - I assume that there isn't a difference between the two?
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Well it depends, could be 4ext recovery, CWM, or TWRP. But as far as the name, could be called peterpan.img and it wouldnt matter haha
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Do I open the RUU while in fastboot on the phone (after relocking) or do I run it from a fastboot command?
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Yh boot ur phone into fastboot, connect it to pc, relock bootloader and then run ruu. The ruu should be exe file so just double click it to run.

Ok, relocked it and went into fastboot mode and then opened the RUU, but was not recognized. Then followed this (droid-now.com/2013/10/fix-working-fastboot-drivers-windows-8-1-x64/) since I used Win 8.1 for the RUU and it flashed successfully.
But it is still stuck on the HTC screen - gave it 30 minutes for the first boot after flash. Recovery is also still stuck, so I reflashed and same issue.
Radio is now 3831.19.00.110