Desire, unrevoked failed -> unable to reboot when connected to usb

[swimon]

Hello,

I'm having some troubles while trying to root my friend's phone.
I tried using UnRevoked. I used the same method for my own phone and it worked without any issues, so the drivers etc should be installed properly.

During the rooting procedure Unrevoked will reboot the device, but the device got stuck on the HTC loading screen. And just stayed there, nothing happend. Unrevoked screen displayed: "Waiting for device to reboot"

I pulled the battery and rebooted with usb cable still plugged in. But device wouldnt reboot, it got stuck on HTC loading screen again...

I finally pulled the battery again, tried reboot without usb cable, this worked, when I advanced to the second HTC loading screen (the one with 'quietly brillant' subtitle), at which point I quickly plugged the usb cable back in, so maybe Unrevoked would pick up where it was. But I now got the error: "coudln't find misc"

So long story short: Rooting failed, thankfully I can still boot and everything is still there. Rebooting phone with usb plugged in doesn't work. I also sometimes get the "7 vibrates" when trying to boot (not sure what that means, googling this error didn't help me alot though...)

Phone is running android 2.2 btw, is there an (easy) solution to rooting without having to reboot the phone while connected to usb?

Sorry for the lengthy read and thanks in advance everyone!

Grtz!

 

[Roger Mellie]

Are you using ClockworkMod or AmonRA as the recovery image?
Maybe try the one you haven't tried yet?

R.

 

[swimon]

hi & thanks,

I just tried the default one, so that would be Clockwork recovery.
Which version of amon ra do you suggest?

Although I don't think that would solve the issue, since it just seems that the phone doesnt want to boot up whenever it is connected to USB...

Grtz

 

[Roger Mellie]

I haven't had any problems with RA version 2.0.1, and I think it's the image that Robocik recommended with his RCMixHD ROM.
Just noticed the link in his thread no longer works but it seems to be available on a German forum (Google 'RA recovery 2.0.1' and follow the link to the androidhilfe.de forum - sorry but I'm not permitted to post the link).
There are ways to flash it through fastboot, but it not something I've needed to do.
Good luck!

 

[swimon]

I just discovered another symptom:

The phone also keeps asking to set the time zone quite often!
Is this normal? The is usually still correct, but it still asks me to set, which I find odd.

I'm pulling the battery on this phone alot, but still I thought there was some kind of internal battery to store this kind of information? Could it be a symptom that there's something wrong with the phone?

The first symptom was never booting when connected to USB.

2nd: Sometimes getting stuck at same bootscreen, even when not connected to USB.
Also shutting down is sometimes difficult, getting stuck at HTC bootscreen again.

3rd: Often asks to set the time.

Edit: It booted succesfully while connected to USB this time... I hate it when there always seems to be an exeption to a problem right after you post it online

Edit2: The time setting problem might be because there's no simcard in the phone?

 

[MatDrOiD]

You need a fully working sd and sim card to root your phone with unrevoked.

For the problem with the time: menu>settings>date & time>uncheck "automatic (use network provided values)".

 

[swimon]

Thanks, I'll try this that later this evening!

 

[Rageypeep]

can i ask... if you plug in your phone to your PC, do you get the option to mount as disk drive (want to make sure you dont have a USB brick)

 

[mguli1]

sorry for posting this here, but im kinda new to this...
i wanted to root my htc desire, but ive encountered some problems. i installed Linux on my laptop and then installed Unrevoked3.
Heres the catch, it recognises my phone and everything, but then it says that something couldny be installed... it says <internal error installing package failed>. i dont really now what to do. i would REALLY apreciate all the help i can get. i just wanted to root my phone and i read a lot of stuff about it, but i dont get the bigger picture. when something goes wrong i dont know what to.
so PLEASE HELP...

 

[swimon]

can i ask... if you plug in your phone to your PC, do you get the option to mount as disk drive (want to make sure you dont have a USB brick)

hi,

I can still use the phone as a USB drive (luckily)

thanks

sorry for posting this here, but im kinda new to this...
i wanted to root my htc desire, but ive encountered some problems. i installed Linux on my laptop and then installed Unrevoked3.
Heres the catch, it recognises my phone and everything, but then it says that something couldny be installed... it says <internal error installing package failed>. i dont really now what to do. i would REALLY apreciate all the help i can get. i just wanted to root my phone and i read a lot of stuff about it, but i dont get the bigger picture. when something goes wrong i dont know what to.
so PLEASE HELP...

- got the modified usb drivers?
- usb debugging enabled?

btw: u didnt need to install linux just to root your phone, windows will do just fine
(normally...)

 

[MatDrOiD]

sorry for posting this here, but im kinda new to this...
i wanted to root my htc desire, but ive encountered some problems. i installed Linux on my laptop and then installed Unrevoked3.
Heres the catch, it recognises my phone and everything, but then it says that something couldny be installed... it says <internal error installing package failed>. i dont really now what to do. i would REALLY apreciate all the help i can get. i just wanted to root my phone and i read a lot of stuff about it, but i dont get the bigger picture. when something goes wrong i dont know what to.
so PLEASE HELP...

Here you find solutions which maybe also work for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902307

@swimon:
When using linux you do not need to install the modified usb drivers. You only need to this in windows.

 

[swimon]

Thanks for all the help everyone.

I tried running the unrevoked root procedure again, this time with a working SIM card inserted.

Everything works fine, phone reboots when it should reboot and everything. But it still doesn't work. I get the error "Internal Error: Couldn't find misc" while the phone keeps rebooting over and over...

I noticed though, that I got a lot of notifications by windows "usb device not recognized" "usb device not working properly" etc during the procedure, I cant remember if this happened the when I rooted my first phone... Or could this be a sign that there's something wrong with the drivers?

What now?!

@mattdroid: oh okay, didn't know that.

 

[MatDrOiD]

Okay check list:
Installed modified hboot drivers?
Uninstalled htc sync (and not the drivers)?
Usb debugging enabled (settings>applications>development)?
Set phone's connection type to "only charge" (if you have problems try "storage") and "never ask again" (settings>connect with pc)?

Which pvt version does your friend's desire have (boot into hboot bootloader, first line)?

 

[swimon]

Okay check list:
Installed modified hboot drivers?
Uninstalled htc sync (and not the drivers)?
Usb debugging enabled (settings>applications>development)?
Set phone's connection type to "only charge" (if you have problems try "storage") and "never ask again" (settings>connect with pc)?

Which pvt version does your friend's desire have (boot into hboot bootloader, first line)?

1. I think I have the right ones, but maybe something was changed to them, how can I know if I still have the right ones?

2. Never had HTC sync installed...

(i'll just uninstall all my android drivers and reinstall them to make sure steps 1 and 2 can be considered as checked)

3. Check

4. Check

Your other question:
PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18

Thanks for helping

 

[MatDrOiD]

1. I think I have the right ones, but maybe something was changed to them, how can I know if I still have the right ones?

2. Never had HTC sync installed...

(i'll just uninstall all my android drivers and reinstall them to make sure steps 1 and 2 can be considered as checked)

3. Check

4. Check

Your other question:
PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18

Thanks for helping

When connect your phone to your computer (in usb debug mode and on only charge), in the device manager of windows you should be able to find a device like "android phone 1.0". If this is so, the drivers are installed correctly.

Just to be sure, do this procedure again:
1.) Install htc sync (you need this program to install drivers correctly)
2.) Install hboot drivers: http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install
3.)
a) Disconnect phone from pc
b) Make sure you have the following settings in your phone:

• 
  Checked "unknown sources" in settings>applications?

• 
  Usb debugging enabled (settings>applications>development)?

• 
  Set phone's connection type to "only charge" (if you have problems try "storage") and "never ask again" (settings>connect with pc)?

4.) Reboot phone
5.) Uninstall only htc sync and not the drivers (htc sync driver installer)
6.) Reboot computer (important)
7.) Now start unrevoked (reflash_package.exe) with administrator rights in windows
8.) Connect phone with computer
9.) WAIT ... WAIT .... WAIT until unrevoked says "done"

 

[swimon]

Thanks for the nice little tutorial!
will try and post results tomorrow!

I have been running unrevoked normally (without administrator rights) this whole time, maybe that has been causing the problem.

Grtz!

 

[jhonybravo4u]

Thanks for the nice little tutorial!
will try and post results tomorrow!

I have been running unrevoked normally (without administrator rights) this whole time, maybe that has been causing the problem.

Grtz!

Well.. this happend to me.. what i have done was.. i just downloaded older version of unrevoked and it work like a charm..may be you can give it a shot

 

[swimon]

But I think older versions of unrevoked don't support android 2.2 ?

Going to try MatDroid method now

 

[swimon]

FFS!

I tried everything from scratch. Like MatDroid described.

Seems like this phone just doesn't want to reboot when it's on USB!!

How long are your supposed to wait when unrevoked displays "waiting for reboot" and the phone is on HTC boot screen?

And what could cause this phone to have so much difficulties powering on and off?

Grtz

edit: first thing unrevoked does is pushing the recovery, later it get's stuck on bootscreen, but doesn't this mean the recovery is already on my phone and I can maybe install it manually?

Grtz

 

[MatDrOiD]

FFS!

I tried everything from scratch. Like MatDroid described.

Seems like this phone just doesn't want to reboot when it's on USB!!

How long are your supposed to wait when unrevoked displays "waiting for reboot" and the phone is on HTC boot screen?

And what could cause this phone to have so much difficulties powering on and off?

Grtz

edit: first thing unrevoked does is pushing the recovery, later it get's stuck on bootscreen, but doesn't this mean the recovery is already on my phone and I can maybe install it manually?

Grtz

Sometimes unrevoked cannot do the "final reboot". After 20 minutes without changes, pull the battery and wait 10 minutes. Now put battery in and start phone. If you have the superuser app in your applications, everything is fine. After this, check wether unrevoked flash recovery.