[Q] problem Flashing stock RUU

Hello,

I have a stock Bell HTC Raider, locked, unrooted, basically never touched, all original software and state. It is updated to latest OTA software.

I'm trying to wipe it and reinstall the stock rom because it is starting to act funny and I want to start from scratch.

I am trying to flash the version 3.5 bell RUU, and it will see that I have version 3.38 on phone, and RUU is same version 3.38, and when I click "next" it will go to screen which says "sending" and it will just hang there. The "sending" progress bar just keep incrementing continuously but nothing else happens. the phone is on the white HTC logo.

I gave up after 2 hours of this. Tried several times. Phone info is not wiped, same old ROM is still on it with my apps and everything.

I also tried to put the PH39.zip file for rogers on the card (can't find one for bell) and it gives me a "wrong CID, flash fail" error.


I'm running windows 7, I am admin on the PC, I also ran the RUU as administrator.

I installed latest HTC Synch, and I can open the phone as a USB drive and copy data to it, but I don't see it in HTC synch.

HTC synch does automatically launch when I plug phone in, so it sees something, but when I go to the "home" tab it says that no device is connected. I did select "htc synch" as the connection method on phone. USB debug mode is on.

Any ideas of what could be wrong?

Is there any working link for the PH39 zip file for bell?

each umaxces

Update:

in the mean time I bit the bullet and unlocked the bootloader (still S-ON), put WCX recovery on and flashed the cyanogenmod 11 *kitkat) rom.

That had the low call volume problem, so I flashed Holic's 1.3 ROM (back to ICS) which so far works perfectly.

So I am in fact able to flash other roms in recovery but I can't get back to stock using the Bell RUU.

If I ever want to return to stock, what do I do?

I managed to return to stock using the RUU without problems.

I didn't do anything different this time, it's just that I wasn't trying to flash the stock ROM while already on the stock ROM.

Maybe that doesn't work?

you can close this thread now. thanks.