RUU as .zip ... possible?

patpending · November 6th, 2010, 09:59 AM

Hi everyone,

So, I'm at my wits end - I've been trying to use the RUU executable file to bring my phone back to HTC Telstra Stock ROM (for random reasons).

Whenever I run the file, no matter what I do, it will not recognise Bootloader.

I've tried all manner of combinations of plugging/unplugging, forcing to bootloader by key press sequences etc etc.

No matter what I try, the RUU program simiply doesn't recognise it, and simply states "Cannot connect to your Android Phone".

I guess my question is simple ... these RUU files with the stock ROM's, are they available as a .zip I can easily flash using ROM Manager??

Thanks in advance,
Dave.

Rastaman-FB · November 6th, 2010, 10:57 AM

they can be, some people have converted them in the past

if i was you i would connect the device, uninstall all htc programs and then go into device manager and makesure all drivers for the phone is uninstalled

turn off debugmode, disconnect device, install htcsync and then connect the device to allow it to pick up the drivers.
after its installed the drivers then enable debug mode where it will probably have trouble (you will need to allow it to search automatically and then it will find it)
power down and boot into fastboot, check device manager and it should say Anndroid bootloader interface or my HTC. if it just has an exclemation then you will need to update the driver and again let it search
once it detects it as bootloader or my HTC then run the RUU

patpending · November 6th, 2010, 11:15 AM

Really appreciate that reply - I'll give it a go when I haven't been up for 19.5 hours

I think the only issue I can possible see with this scenario is the RUU file goes through a verification process for current systems ... will it simply skip this step if it detects the bootloader?

I guess I'll just give it a shot and see how I go!

Cheers Rasta,
Dave.

EddyOS · November 6th, 2010, 11:23 AM

You can extract the ROM.zip from any RUU to install via ZIP

Start the RUU and once at the first main screen click Start>Run and type

%temp%

now, find the newest folder and in there will be a ZIP file called Rom - copy this to your desktop and rename it PB99IMG. Now copy this to your SD card and start the phone in HBOOT (turn it on whilst holding volume down). It will find the file and start the update. Just follow the instructions...

It will wipe your phone, though

patpending · November 6th, 2010, 11:48 PM

Eddy!

Mate, you are a F*!#ing Legend!!!

Worked a fecking treat - THANKYOU!

stibbaman afro · March 7th, 2011, 05:27 AM

hey aim new to this forum i am a happy owner off a htc desire unbranded rooted whit unrevoked 3 i played around whit a lots of roms ande every thing was working fine the latest rom i used was gingerbread 2.3 whit the working cam i love that rom untill i installed a new game dont remenber the name not inportent what is is that my mobile phone keeps crashing and falling out (rebooting) afther i haved installed that game i tryed everything to fix the problem but aim realy stuck right now i am cooling my nervs by smoking highgrade aim lucky that the only thing thats still works is hboot and recovery
afther a wile it crashes to realy need help tnx jah blessings

EddyOS · March 7th, 2011, 07:00 AM

You could just do a hard reset but this would leave you with no data so you'd need to set everything up from scratch. Failing that you'll need to try and find the RUU that your phone came with and go back to stock

InfernalByte · March 7th, 2011, 09:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stibbaman afro

hey aim new to this forum i am a happy owner off a htc desire unbranded rooted whit unrevoked 3 i played around whit a lots of roms ande every thing was working fine the latest rom i used was gingerbread 2.3 whit the working cam i love that rom untill i installed a new game dont remenber the name not inportent what is is that my mobile phone keeps crashing and falling out (rebooting) afther i haved installed that game i tryed everything to fix the problem but aim realy stuck right now i am cooling my nervs by smoking highgrade aim lucky that the only thing thats still works is hboot and recovery
afther a wile it crashes to realy need help tnx jah blessings

My spell checker crashed the other day too funnily enough.

Rastaman-FB · March 7th, 2011, 10:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stibbaman afro

hey aim new to this forum i am a happy owner off a htc desire unbranded rooted whit unrevoked 3 i played around whit a lots of roms ande every thing was working fine the latest rom i used was gingerbread 2.3 whit the working cam i love that rom untill i installed a new game dont remenber the name not inportent what is is that my mobile phone keeps crashing and falling out (rebooting) afther i haved installed that game i tryed everything to fix the problem but aim realy stuck right now i am cooling my nervs by smoking highgrade aim lucky that the only thing thats still works is hboot and recovery
afther a wile it crashes to realy need help tnx jah blessings

wah gwarn bredrin, yu nah av fi worry man. tings be bad but ya blix aint boom.
you can try go fi recovery an erase cache n dalvic and reboot ickle more but if it nah work den you will av fi wipe an install new rom again from start (dats if yu nuh dun backup pon de rom before ya mashup da ting)
Irie bredda
Jah bless, peace and unity

EddyOS · March 7th, 2011, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rastaman-FB

wah gwarn bredrin, yu nah av fi worry man. tings be bad but ya blix aint boom.
you can try go fi recovery an erase cache n dalvic and reboot ickle more but if it nah work den you will av fi wipe an install new rom again from start (dats if yu nuh dun backup pon de rom before ya mashup da ting)
Irie bredda
Jah bless, peace and unity

I applaud this reply

SUroot · March 7th, 2011, 11:20 AM

Sounds of the wickedness.

shauny13 · March 7th, 2011, 11:34 AM

u lot r cruel!

Rastaman-FB · March 7th, 2011, 01:36 PM

nah man, hes a rasta
he said Jah bless and I man has an afro

was speaking broken english

stibbaman afro · March 8th, 2011, 01:15 AM

tnx for all ya comment but i allready tryed the hard reboot and giong back to stock doesnt seems to work hboot said bad or wrong image take s a long time to load to i think my phone is history and the good dayz are over now whit my htc desire and i dint remeber what rom was installed from factory i read a forum it say s that my motherbord can b broken if your phone keeps crashing
i cant even load up a rom man

stibbaman afro · March 8th, 2011, 01:32 AM

ja man i man nickname stibbaman =rasta man whit afro and iv got jah love and jah lightning like thunder jah kings off king wipe away wipe away the wicked blessings bredda

Rastaman-FB · March 8th, 2011, 03:07 AM

eh breddah, if you can get fi hboot then ya can get ya phone back a work.
yuh can get fi recovery right? av yuh try wipe data/factory reset from clockwork and den flash a new rom dem from sdcard just fi get da phone to a working order?

if that nuh work then wi av fi find out what version of rom you were on before you flash it an which carrier its form my yout.
boot fi hboot an select fastboot
connect device to computer
in command prompt type "fastboot oem boot"
look for tha area that says "INFOCID IS " and give us the value

bless

stibbaman afro · March 8th, 2011, 05:09 AM

tnx bro for fast reply i try it right now

stibbaman afro · March 8th, 2011, 10:05 AM

hey i still keep on crashing my phone

InfernalByte · March 8th, 2011, 10:35 AM

I needs a lie down mon!

SUroot · March 8th, 2011, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stibbaman afro

hey i still keep on crashing my phone

You did this part?

Quote:

boot fi hboot an select fastboot
connect device to computer
in command prompt type "fastboot oem boot"
look for tha area that says "INFOCID IS " and give us the value

stibbaman afro · March 8th, 2011, 12:56 PM

when in hboot and i conect my phone to pc i go to cmd prompt and type fast
boot oem boot then nothings happen it dont kowez commend

Rastaman-FB · March 8th, 2011, 01:50 PM

ahh you probably dont have the android sdk tooks installed

check this thread for it http://androidforums.com/desire-all-things-root/158131-guide-how-easily-remove-installed-system-apps.html

once installed Type cd\android-sdk-windows\tools
once in that location do
fastboot oem boot

stibbaman afro · March 8th, 2011, 02:10 PM

i have installed android sdk tools but it doesnt work or i just do it wrong

SUroot · March 8th, 2011, 02:13 PM

What doesn't work? You're using a command prompt? You don't install it, you extract it. Did you read much.of the link? It gives step by step. Follow until you are in tools via cmd

Rastaman-FB · March 8th, 2011, 02:17 PM

hmm should be cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools
once in that location do
fastboot oem boot

i typod

stibbaman afro · March 8th, 2011, 04:53 PM

eh bredda i have a rom running again but not everything works
but aim happy that i have it running what can i do now ?

WHAT DOES NOT WORK

- still freez
- still rboots
- some app let phone freez/reboot
- some time wifi lets phone freez/reboot
- games let phone freez/reboot
- some time live wallpapers lets phone freez/reboot

WHAT DOES WORK

- internet
- home Launcher
- rom manager
- villian setup

AND EVEN MORE WORKS
AND

SUroot · March 8th, 2011, 04:55 PM

maybe hardware fault? Now it boots try RUU again perhaps? See if it can be returned

stibbaman afro · March 8th, 2011, 06:20 PM

jeah the motherbord can be overheat cuz when i plug in usb to pc and select sync on phone it freez it wil also freez when phone is on and i load battery only it takes longer to freez but it was all hapening afther i installed a new hd game that wasnt even for the desire but i had more new hd games running whitout problem but afther the last game i installed my phone crashed when installation was done screen reboot game suposed to start afther it but it crashed and turnd on and turned off rebooting all crazy afther that ####game install befor i never had this problem i dint have the wrong radio or rom i think it just curupted data on that app it have 2 or i hope cause then aim shur i fix the problem myself

stibbaman afro · March 8th, 2011, 06:36 PM

still my phone is not woking like it supose to but its running and i wanne tnx ya foks for ya reply jah still give me inspiration iv been trying to fix my phone for dayz now ending up on a lot off treads and forums it helped me a lot to but i almost gave up and saw my phone ash a dead andoid and it cant be i cant not put it in a grave and leave it behinde i love her she is my desire and tnx to ya there i might fond i way to bring her back to live jeah to LIVE i knowe what i m saying or meaning aight hhhaha i wont give her up

stibbaman afro · March 8th, 2011, 06:54 PM

ah i have android sdk woking to now

stibbaman afro · March 10th, 2011, 04:18 AM

when in command prompt i type fastboot oem boot and it finds device finaly. my phone boot up
then it freeze and log on windows command promt cmd say s failed to many links then it stops

sdk is working but i still end up frozen again or rebooting

Rastaman-FB · March 10th, 2011, 04:21 AM

yeah thats supposed to happen

but in that log in the command prompt half way down you should have INFOCID IS

stibbaman afro · March 10th, 2011, 05:32 AM

cmd promt log

android-sdk-windowns\tools>fastboot oem boot

[bootloader] setup_tag addr=0xa0000100 cmdline add=0x8e07f9f0
[bootloader] tag:ramdisk ok
[bootloader] tag:smi ok
[bootloader] tag:hwid 0x0
[bootloader] tag:skuid 0x21f04
[bootloader] tag:hero panel = 0x0
[bootloader] tag:engineerid = 0x0
[bootloader] mcp dual-die
[bootloader] mcp dual die
[bootloader] tag: mono-die= 0x0

Rastaman-FB · March 10th, 2011, 05:35 AM

hmmmm
thats very odd
let me test something and get back to you

EDIT:

hmm is that all it says?

something not right ive tried to replicate it
mine looks like this

Quote:

... INFOsetup_tag addr=0xA0000100 cmdline add=0x8E07F9F0
INFOTAG:Ramdisk OK
INFOTAG:smi ok, size = 0
INFOTAG:hwid 0x0
INFOTAG:skuid 0x26A04
INFOTAG:hero panel = 0x3
INFOTAG:engineerid = 0x0
INFOMCP dual-die
INFOMCP dual-die
INFOTAG:mono-die = 0x0
INFODevice CID is not super CID
INFOCID is O2___001
INFOsetting->cid::O2___001

are you using the standard htc cable that comes with the device or an aftermarket

stibbaman afro · March 10th, 2011, 06:08 AM

cmd promt log

android-sdk-windowns\tools>fastboot oem boot

[bootloader] setup_tag addr=0xa0000100 cmdline add=0x8e07f9f0
[bootloader] tag:ramdisk ok
[bootloader] tag:smi ok
[bootloader] tag:hwid 0x0
[bootloader] tag:skuid 0x21f04
[bootloader] tag:hero panel = 0x0
[bootloader] tag:engineerid = 0x0
[bootloader] mcp dual-die
[bootloader] mcp dual die
[bootloader] tag: mono-die= 0x0
[bootloader] device CID is not super CID
[bootloader] CID is htc__E11
[bootloader] setting->cid::htc__E11
[bootloader] serial number:mb030pl09678
[bootloader] commandline from head: no_console_suspend=1 console=null
[bootloader] command line lenght=436
[bootloader] active commandline:board_bravo.disable_uart3=0 board_bravo.
[bootloader] usb_hd2w_sw=nul board_bravo.disable_sdcard=0 diag.enabled=0 board
[bootlaoder] rd_bravo.debug_uart=0 smisize=0 userdate_sel=0 androidboot.cid=htc__E11andoid. carrier=htc-dutch androidboot.mid=pb9920000 andoidboot.keycaps=qwerty anoidboot.mode=normal andoidboot.serialno=mb030pl09678 androidboot.bootloader=0.93.000
[bootloader] mmc =false andoidboot.baseband=5.14.05.17 andoidboot.cid=htc
[bootloader] aArm_partion[0].name=misc
[bootloader] aArm_partion[1].name=recovery
[bootloader] aArm_partion[2].name=boot
[bootloader] aArm_partion[3].name=system
[bootloader] aArm_partion[4].name=cache
[bootloader] aArm_partion[5].name=userdate
[bootloader] partion number =6
[bootloader] valid partion number=6
[bootloader] mpu_nand_acpu_rw A1E 1000
[bootloader] jump-to_kenel; machine_id(2457), tags_addr(0x20000100), kernel_addr(0x2008000)
[bootloade] ____________hboot boot time:10832 msec
FALLED [STATUS READ FAILED [TOO MANY LINKS]]]
finished

stibbaman afro · March 10th, 2011, 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rastaman-FB

hmmmm
thats very odd
let me test something and get back to you

EDIT:

hmm is that all it says?

something not right ive tried to replicate it
mine looks like this

are you using the standard htc cable that comes with the device or an aftermarket

i used the htc hd usb cable

stibbaman afro · March 10th, 2011, 06:12 AM

i use the htc hd2 usb cable

Rastaman-FB · March 10th, 2011, 07:47 AM

thats better
[bootloader] CID is htc__E11

ok so you are running an official unbranded desire rom

you can use this
Shipped ROMs

to return to stock

stibbaman afro · March 10th, 2011, 11:23 AM

Shipped ROMs i downloaded it but there is on error in file when i open the zip file whit winrar just to check

stibbaman afro · March 10th, 2011, 11:53 AM

the only rom i can get to work is not stock it is a gingervillain 1.4 rom any difrent rom wil just not boot afther installation done. even when gingervillain 1.4 is running not everything works so aim still trying to get a PB99IMG.zip to work but it doesnt when its done reading the image hboot restarts then nothing happens it supose to flash it but it does not i end up frozen still

Rastaman-FB · March 10th, 2011, 12:37 PM

get this
Free Download Manager | Download

use that download the pb99img to make sure it doesnt corrupt it

you will get faster download and itll make sure it completes (usually anyway)

stibbaman afro · March 10th, 2011, 12:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rastaman-FB

get this
Free Download Manager | Download

use that download the pb99img to make sure it doesnt corrupt it

you will get faster download and itll make sure it completes (usually anyway)

tnx i will check it out right now

stibbaman afro · March 10th, 2011, 01:02 PM

aim downloading the PB99IMG_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_r eleas
e_159811_signed.zip... now whit Free Download Manager | Download it download is done befor i put it on sd do i hae to change the name pb99img_2.29.405.5_ radio ..... to only pb99img ???? i find it out i think i have to

stibbaman afro · March 10th, 2011, 01:36 PM

i did it changed the name to pb99img then i put it on sd card but it go s wrong agian in hboot it loads take longer then normal and when it supose to flash it brings me back to hboot thats not suposed to happen so i checkt the file in recovery and over there it coud not open full zip file cause it bad or something

SUroot · March 10th, 2011, 01:51 PM

we need to find an alternative source then in that case. when it says (bad) that means it is corrupt.

Its a real shame shipped roms is this poor at data integrity

Rastaman-FB · March 10th, 2011, 01:51 PM

hmmm, corrupt sdcard? could you open it normally on windows before you put it onto the device
btw it does go back to hboot when it tries to flash it with a red status bar on the right hand side

SUroot · March 10th, 2011, 01:56 PM

You can extract pb99img from ruu cant you? Dont you just open the RUU and get it from a temp folder or something?

Here is a good source for the full ruu

Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!

Edit>

Guide courtesy EddyOS to do this attached.

Rastaman-FB · March 10th, 2011, 01:58 PM

wtf im going nuts i not reading my own posts

Rastaman-FB · March 10th, 2011, 02:02 PM

right ive just downloaded it using the same method that the download is not corrupt so i dont know what that is, i even extracted it all

something is wrong with the sdcard or sommat maybe if its corrupting it

how big is the file you have?

stibbaman afro · March 10th, 2011, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rastaman-FB

right ive just downloaded it using the same method that the download is not corrupt so i dont know what that is, i even extracted it all

something is wrong with the sdcard or sommat maybe if its corrupting it

how big is the file you have?

file is 161 mb