My friend's Desire stopped working. Turn it on and you get a white screen with the HTC logo. That's it.

I have a Desire that I successfully rooted with the help of this forum and wondered if there's anything I can do to help him?

He's already sent it to HTC but it was returned as there were signs of water damage. This water damage was 11 months ago and hasn't affected the phone during that time.

I have the phone in front of me, anyone give me any options to try? He doesn't really mind what I try as it's currently broken and out of warranty.

Thanks in advance.

 

Holding down on volume and choosing recovery sends it back to the white screen. So does clear storage.

RUU, remind me please?

He doesn't really care about loss of data at this stage.

 

It's on Orange but unbranded from Carphone Warehouse. I've just realised he hasn't given me the SIM or memory card with it. Will that matter? He'll get it to me soon anyway.

Are there any decent (kinda n00b-friendly) guides knocking about at all?

 

Excellent. Seems to have done the trick. Haven't tried with a SIM in it yet but it's not frozen anymore.

Thanks for that mate.