[Q] Locked or Unlocked

[sudd1976]

Hey Guys,

Hope that someone can help me, I have rooted, installed recovery and custom firmware on a few HTC's.

But this has frickin stumped me !!

The desire I have gotten my hands on does not show locked or unlocked in the boot menu, but It has got S-off I didn't think it was possible??

Tried to unlock the bootloader through HTC dev and that failed, so i thought it was already unlocked

Tried flashing recovery through fast boot, but that failed!!

I'm a bit lost, anyone got any ideas as to where I'm going wrong??

 

[Chromium]

Step one: Stop trying to unlock it...there is no need

Since the phone is already s-off you dont need to worry about unlocking the bootloader.
S-off is the highest level of "openness" you can have on the desire. You have the ability to write to all of the partition that you can with an unlocked bootloader, plus more.

The fact that flashing a recovery failed is indeed a problem though. What was the exact error?

 

[sudd1976]

Step one: Stop trying to unlock it...there is no need

Since the phone is already s-off you dont need to worry about unlocking the bootloader.
S-off is the highest level of "openness" you can have on the desire. You have the ability to write to all of the partition that you can with an unlocked bootloader, plus more.

The fact that flashing a recovery failed is indeed a problem though. What was the exact error?

Dude,

Thanks for that, I'm now clearer on the bootloader issue.

This is what was returned from the fastboot command.

C:\>fastboot boot TWRP.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.829s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.830s

C:\>

Now the phone is just bootlooping at the HTC splash screen, any ideas whats gone wrong??

 

[jmcclue]

Dude,

Thanks for that, I'm now clearer on the bootloader issue.

This is what was returned from the fastboot command.

C:\>fastboot boot TWRP.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.829s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.830s

C:\>

Now the phone is just bootlooping at the HTC splash screen, any ideas whats gone wrong??

in my sig (click to show content) theres 4ext recovery as PB99IMG, click the link and follow instructions to flash recovery.

Or

Use the twrp recovery img that u have and flash it using fastboot command

fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img

Then u should be able to boot into recovery

 

[sudd1976]

It's ALIVE !!!!

in my sig (click to show content) theres 4ext recovery as PB99IMG, click the link and follow instructions to flash recovery.

Or

Use the twrp recovery img that u have and flash it using fastboot command

fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img

Then u should be able to boot into recovery

Guys,
Ok, so i realised that I was being a major dumbass and using the wrong fastboot command to try and flash my recovery.

Even when I used the command - fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img, the result was the same, no recovery for me and a bootloop

But the 4ext recovery as PB99IMG zip file on the root of my S/d card has worked, I now have a working recovery and no more bootloop.

Thanks for all your help guys

 

[jmcclue]

Guys,
Ok, so i realised that I was being a major dumbass and using the wrong fastboot command to try and flash my recovery.

Even when I used the command - fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img, the result was the same, no recovery for me and a bootloop

But the 4ext recovery as PB99IMG zip file on the root of my S/d card has worked, I now have a working recovery and no more bootloop.

Thanks for all your help guys

Glad it worked :cyclops: ps: 4ext recovery is by far the best recovery so keep using it

Out of interest, what version of twrp were u trying to flash??

This is the official device listing TWRP Recovery

But i found this version for desire

By island3r

Im guessing u tried to flash wrong version, hense the fail.

 

[sudd1976]

Glad it worked :cyclops:

Out of interest, what version of twrp were u trying to flash??

I tried flashing both of these recoveries

CWM - Touch 5.8.2.0 - Bravo
TWRP - 2.6.0.0 - 2013.07.16

Had the same result on both neither would flash in fastboot.

Taking a look through the files on the phone i can see leftover data from both CWM and also Titanium backup, so its totally been flashed and rooted before I got my hands on it.