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Recovering from a bad flash...

I was running xelencin's latest custom rom. I have used his previous versions and all was good.
This one hung at 98%. I was just letting it do its thing when out of nowhere, BSOD. So now my phone is just sitting at 98%. I thought there was a forum post here about recovering but I'm not able to find it.
Thanks.

Update: After a soft reset, I am back to the multicolor screen. When I plug it in, it says USB in the bottom left hand corner. Device manager shows a PocketPC USB Sync device as well.
When I perform a hard reset (Comm Button + Voice Dial held, then press soft reset with stylus), I am taken right back to the same multicolor screen.

You're at the bootloader.
This is a Good Thing(tm).
At this point, you should be able to rerun any (assuming you are CID unlocked) any RUU ROM upgrade. Let it do its thing and you'll be good to go.

gamescan said:
You're at the bootloader.
This is a Good Thing(tm).
At this point, you should be able to rerun any (assuming you are CID unlocked) any RUU ROM upgrade. Let it do its thing and you'll be good to go.
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For those that get stuck here in the future:
I had to extract the installer so as I could get past the CID unlock. I then ran "ROMUpdateUtility_Wizard_NoID.exe" and all went well!

rosewood said:
For those that get stuck here in the future:
I had to extract the installer so as I could get past the CID unlock. I then ran "ROMUpdateUtility_Wizard_NoID.exe" and all went well!
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Yep, I went thru the exact same thing yesterday when trying to upgrade to 2.24. My PC decided to shutdown (not restart, a complete instant shutdown!) at 8% flashing. I decided to grab the "Mr Clean AKU2.3 ROM" which already had the ROM flash program available separately and then just put in the .nbf file I wanted and it was good to go

if your not cid unlocked, then what? xtract what? to wherehow can i transfer any thing, it seems though the device screen says usb, the avtivesync doesnt detects my phone. n?m, ive got it

What happen when your not CID unlocked? I had removed my hardspl before I tried to again flash a rom. I am stucked with the bootloader now...
Pls help

xpxj said:
What happen when your not CID unlocked? I had removed my hardspl before I tried to again flash a rom. I am stucked with the bootloader now...
Pls help
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Only Official stock rom or the wizard_love rom will get flashed,no other wm6 rom is possible.

Vista RUU

Does anyone know of or have an RUU version that works on Windows Vista? The version included in the "Update your phone on Widows Vista" thread doesn't work. It gives a "this utility is out of date" error every time.
Note that the driver instructions given in the above thread work perfectly! However, Vista users are still stuck without a working RUU.
I've searched through these forums and beyond, but haven't been able to find a solution. All of the other RUU's posted here fail, as does the RUU I extracted from AT&T's latest update for the Wizard (which is not a WM6 update, I know. I just tried the RUU that's in the update.)
I'm able to update my Hermes on Vista all the time, using RUU Wrapper. However, the only method I've gotten to work for my Wizard is ShellTool. That, however, fails about 75% of the time, so I have no reliable way to update my Wizard. I don't have access to an XP system, and dual booting my desktop is out the question.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Exactly the same problem. Help would be appreciated

same here -.-

[FIXED] SPL 1.54 / HSPL Problem

I think I've been a total idiot and messed up my HD. I hope there's a way to salvage the situation!
I was attempting to flash a 1.56 ROM so tried to downgrade to SPL 1.54; this was going along nicely until it encountered an error and tried to re-start the flash. Now the device is stuck on "Loading..." before begining the flashing process.
If I soft-reset the device, the SPL has changed to 1.54.0000 according to the Bootloader screen but it says "Upgrade ROM code error Please try again".
I've googled that error message and found a few hits but none of them presented a solution; just people asking this question.
Since that, I've tried to Hard-Reset but it brings me back to the same Bootloader error.
I've tried to flash a ROM but the device can't connect to Activesync to use the RUU_Wrapper and flashing via the BLACIMG.nbh on my SD card won't work either; it just goes back to the same Bootloader error screen and gets stuck on the "Loading..." again.
I've also tried to flash the new HSPL which is 1.56 capable but that suffers the same problem.
Anyone have any suggestions? Please? Never encountered anything like this in years of flashing my Blueangel and Tytn.
Full details from my bootloader screen:
RUUNBH
BLAC100 32M
SPL-1.54.0000
MicroP-Blackstone (LED) v6
Upgrade ROM code error
Please try again
Serial

Please use "Search" function before you posting a new thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502167

That doesn't seem to be the same problem as the one I'm encountering. I found that thread via Google as I said I had searched in my post and flashing the stock HTC ROM that came with my device did nothing to solve the problem; 3 machines here, one running XP, one running Vista and one running 7 all fail to connect to the device to allow for any sort of flashing and flashing via an SD card does not provoke a response either.
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Sorry - realised that my reply sounded a little stroppy! Blame it on the stress of having a possible brick on my hands! Thanks for the attempt to help but, like it says above, that solution hasn't worked for me

dom_mitchell1 said:
That doesn't seem to be the same problem as the one I'm encountering. I found that thread via Google as I said I had searched in my post and flashing the stock HTC ROM that came with my device did nothing to solve the problem; 3 machines here, one running XP, one running Vista and one running 7 all fail to connect to the device to allow for any sort of flashing and flashing via an SD card does not provoke a response either.
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Sorry - realised that my reply sounded a little stroppy! Blame it on the stress of having a possible brick on my hands! Thanks for the attempt to help but, like it says above, that solution hasn't worked for me
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Have you tried reading cRaCKwHoRe's guide for flashing 1.56 roms. Can be found in my signature. If you follow his steps, you should have no problems

dom_mitchell1 said:
That doesn't seem to be the same problem as the one I'm encountering. I found that thread via Google as I said I had searched in my post and flashing the stock HTC ROM that came with my device did nothing to solve the problem; 3 machines here, one running XP, one running Vista and one running 7 all fail to connect to the device to allow for any sort of flashing and flashing via an SD card does not provoke a response either.
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Sorry - realised that my reply sounded a little stroppy! Blame it on the stress of having a possible brick on my hands! Thanks for the attempt to help but, like it says above, that solution hasn't worked for me
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Hi, dom_mitchell1...did you manager to fix you HD ? I have encountered the "exact" same problem...I went from 1.56 to 1.54...and now I am stuck on the bootloader at "Loading...." If you have a fix...can you please let me know...and save my HD as well....thx

If you use USPL you will be able to flash everything you want.

Fallen Spartan said:
Have you tried reading cRaCKwHoRe's guide for flashing 1.56 roms. Can be found in my signature. If you follow his steps, you should have no problems
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That's what I was following when things went wrong. Don't know what I did but during the downgrade process the flash "encountered an error" and had to restart....only it never did and just left me stuck in the bootloader with an error message.
It's fixed up now though and I'm running Dutty's shipped version quite happily. To fix it I tried different .msi packages from HTC and eventually one of them managed a successful flash. From there I was able to continue with cRaCKwHoRe's guide.

i had a similar problem i was upgrading to 1.56 so i to my thinking reverted to a stock rom them loaded 1.14 stock spl where my phone started showing the error screen i investigated and found that the stock rom id downlosded from the stock rom section must have been tampered with as the signarure was incommplete. so now the spl was reading 114000... as it was stuck in tri screen the data had loaded to my device it justxwasnt signed so wouldnt work i dowladed the appropriat 1.56 rom from htc which includdes the new 1.54spl started it and there i whent stock 1.56 rom with stock 1.54 spl. i than loaded olinexs new hspl im running vista so had to use the manual tool but othere than that installed ok.
i hope that helped in short as long as ur screen is reading a stock spl u can install an apropriat 1.56 rom from htc i belive the issue is caused by impropper signage of some stuff marked as stock here.

Is anyone working on rooting 2.03?

Well, Paul from Modaco isn't really keen on rooting the 2.03 since he is preoccupied with the new devices. I wonder if anyone from XDA is working on it.
Because i really want to use custom roms instead of the stock rom. Didn't like the HTC sense, because it suck up so much ram.
Hopefully, anyone from xda can give us Legend owners some answers.

Have you looked at this forum topic about downgrading HBOOT and RUU? The procedure is for the Desire, but it might work on the Legend too.

I have tryed to downgrad hboot by "The procedure for the Desire" ,but is't not work ,because it's only for rooted phone .
without root ,we can't downgrad hboot
without downgrad hboot ,we can't root

This method should supposedly work on any HTC 2.1 device. If that one doesn't, this one should.
EDIT: typo.

Thanks for the links, I tried about 30 times trying to get the loop exploit to work. Just never would show in devices in recovery mode, followed both guides.

Tamimego said:
Thanks for the links, I tried about 30 times trying to get the loop exploit to work. Just never would show in devices in recovery mode, followed both guides.
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Damn. I was sure one of these was gonna work, since they're both based on the HTC Legend OTA exploit. Just a stupid question, but do you have HTC Sync installed (I think it provides some of the needed drivers)?

I tried both methods on FW 2.03.405.3 but it seems like it does not work in this particular firmware.
device just won't be detected in recovery mode.

what windows version are you using? and what version 32 or 64 bit ?
i had an issue on my hero, i had to use htc 64 bit driver when it couldn't find the phone. I had to go to device manager and select the android driver manually...

yep. Both methods do NOT work with the Bell/Virgin Legend... Device is unable to connect while in recovery mode. Even tried updating/changing the driver... no go. (win7 x64)

that does not work at home either with the 2.03
"error: device not found"

schpinn said:
Damn. I was sure one of these was gonna work, since they're both based on the HTC Legend OTA exploit. Just a stupid question, but do you have HTC Sync installed (I think it provides some of the needed drivers)?
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Windows 7 x32 with latest HTC Sync from the website.

i read that if you try downgrading using an official rom from htc to 1.31 of htcs website or somewhere on the forum it will work.
once downgraded to 1.31 you can root and install whatever roms you want.

where ??????
it is impossible

it will work, only if you done the update over OTA. If you done it over RUU it won't work due to the bootloader being upgraded.

masterbalby said:
that does not work at home either with the 2.03
"error: device not found"
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Just wait for 10 - 15 second after the device connect to PC, it always work for me. PC will load the driver first, and of course you already install HTC syn.

like i said
If you've done an update from version 1.31.xx.xx to 2.03.xx.xx over the air you can downgrade with the RUU file.
If like me you've used the 2.03 RUU file,well...your screwed,just like me
at this time there is no solution for it yet, and honestly, i don't see anyone bothering with it,trying to find a solution except for all of us legend users. I know that lots of us are attempting to follow every single root guide there is on the web, but the result will always be the same...no success untill a new rooting guide or bootloader downgrade possibility appears... it's sad dude

Did anyone try this method? It's a new method for the Droid Eris, but it should work on all HTC phones with Android 2.1. It's worth a shot..

where did you see that it should work for everybody?
i've been searching the threads and don't see anything about it.

schpinn said:
Did anyone try this method? It's a new method for the Droid Eris, but it should work on all HTC phones with Android 2.1. It's worth a shot..
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Giving it a shot. Why not, eh?

me also...

/system error

I am trying to mess around with my step-son's m7
I tried a wipe and reflash of the current rom he was on.
i got an error could not mount /system
i have since tried everything i know to fix the problem:
twrp recovery version 2.7.0.1 was already on it so i tried to upgrade to 2.8.3.0- that didn't work i am now on 2.8.1
i have tried to install badboyz/ rooted stock rom with the latest modified firmware/ liquidsmooth (it is the only rom that will flash and boot but i get a simcard error
any help would be appreciated.
i also tried to ruu but the program will not start on my windows 8.1 pc

I get the same error. I'm currently on the latest GPE rom by gruesomewolf. Seems like this one and the Eragon ROM are the only ones that will flash.
Good luck to you too. If I figure it out I'll let you know.
Sent from my HTC One using XDA Free mobile app

Kenpoman said:
i also tried to ruu but the program will not start on my windows 8.1 pc
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Did it give an error? I've run the latest RUU executable on my Win 8.1 PC with no problem.

the ruu from htc (the executable) failed to start at all.
the ruu from OMJ gave me a side by side error which points to a corrupt c++ install. i re-installed the 2012 c++ from microsoft and the error still persists
unfortunately this is not my phone so i do not have all the time in the world to fix it.
it only has to last until the M9 comes out then he will get my M8.

Kenpoman said:
the ruu from htc (the executable) failed to start at all.
the ruu from OMJ gave me a side by side error which points to a corrupt c++ install. i re-installed the 2012 c++ from microsoft and the error still persists
unfortunately this is not my phone so i do not have all the time in the world to fix it.
it only has to last until the M9 comes out then he will get my M8.
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I believe C++ 2008 will fix the side by side error

BD619 said:
I believe C++ 2008 will fix the side by side error
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I had already tried that and it still won't work