Hoping to save an HD2...

Hoping to save an HD2... - HD2 General

Well this one's a doozy of sorts, I'll try to be brief but any advice or assistance is welcome. Got a TMOUS HD2 on Saturday, it "worked" for a bit of time with the stock WinMo6.5 on it (no, I didn't care to look at the version, etc) and after having it for a few minutes to verify everything from a hardware perspective was working, I set out to do the usual process to get Android on it. I just wanted to get a CM7.2 build on it, preferably the actual CM7.2 and not a more customized ROM.
I have done the following:
- HSPL 2.08 - check, successful (as noted on the bootloader screen), done using HSPL4
- Task29 - check, successful (as far as I can tell), done from bootloader (VolDown+Power, Task29 provided by doloop single exe)
- Radio installed: 2.15.50.14 TMOUS (yes, it's the TMOUS version), check, successful (as far as I can tell), done from HD2Toolkit 4.2.0.1
- MAGLDR 1.1.3, check, successful, done from bootloader (DFT_LEO_MAGLDR113_DAF installer)
Now, at that point it was basically blank, obviously, so I decided to try and get CWM installed and that's when everything seems to have gone wrong. I get the FATAL HIT1 errors, it won't get past that. I read a post in the hundreds if not thousands I've been reading over where someone suggested when that error comes up, do the VolUp+VolDown+Power and do the reset - it only takes a half second since the device is already blank but some people reported in posts that it seemed to fix the FATAL HIT1 error and got CWM to actually load.
Didn't help in my situation. So I decided to start over at that point and flash the stock TMOUS 2.13.531.1 nbh (downloaded direct from T-Mobile, extension changed to zip, RUU_signed.nbh extracted to microSD card and renamed to leoimg.nbh) and attempting to do it from the bootloader.
At this point that aspect starts to work but it gets to about 8% (the same place it gets when using the actual T-Mobile ROMUpdateUtility method in Windows) and then dies. But the difference with using the microSD card method is that it tells me the following:
RADIO_V2 - RSA FAIL
in big red letters so I'm suspecting there's something going on with the radio that's just not kosher with the installer. I'm not sure how to proceed at this point - I'd like to get the HD2 functional again, preferably getting the stable CM7.2 ROM on it (not a big huge fan of ICS and JB is simply not my choice right now on the HD).
Problem is I don't know how to proceed at this point. If I can get it back to the stock WM6.5 that's fine for the time being so the device works, then I'll see what's going on with getting Android on it later, but I figure I'd rather ask a question or two, or three, before sitting here flashing radio after radio not being sure just what's going on and how best to get this issue resolved.
As noted, any advice or suggestions is welcome. I'm still trying various things at this time, including figuring out which radio to fall back to and test but, it's not going well so far.

loads of threads about this, my name for it is 'stuck radio' but it can also affect the spl too. Basically, there is corruption somewhere in the first area of nand, where the spl and radio live. whether thats software corruption (pray that it is, you may just stand a chance) or hardware corruption, you can't tell. the fact that magldr flashed would suggest its not as critical as normal, , some people get rsa radio fail and nothing at all works, no task 29, changing spl doesnt work, nothung at all. Often something seems to work (hspl gives success, for instance) but nothing actually changes after reboot.
So, first thing to try is - phone into a baggie, baggie into freezer, 20 / 30 mins later get it out, and real quick get the sd card in there already with the tmous stock rom as leoimg.nbh on there, and straight into bootloader, , see if it flashes past the radio section (the radio is flashed at roughly 6 - 10%, thats why you;re hanging at 8%, , 8% or 9% are the main reported percentages , lower % seems to involve the spl more (as you would expect, it is the first thing to be flashed)
There have been a few successes using teh freezer trick, and also a few more where JTAG has fixed it, but as often as not it never gets fixed.
failing that, see if you can flash a custom winmo 6.5 rom, because although the radio is failing to flash, it may still be in working order, and since custom roms dont include a radio, it may well flash, giving you at least a partially working phone.

Yah, the more I dig into it the more it's obvious there's an issue with the radio (like, duh ). I'm attempting to flash that Dutty's Leo Sense 2.5 that I saw mentioned in several posts by people that said they had success getting the device working at least to some degree - I grabbed the ROM, extracted the contents, copied the nbh to the microSD card, renamed it to leoimg.nbh, and at the moment it's just crossing the 50% point so, that is some progress at least (probably because it doesn't have a radio as you stated).
Will see what happens, but it is frustrating to appear to be able to do everything but actually get the radio flashed. HSPL flashes work after the reboot, Task29 always works (or appears to), MAGLDR only gives me issues when I try to get into AD Recovery from time to time, and so on. The usual HD2 issues I suppose.
This is my 5th HD2 and I'd like to get it working just like the others I've owned - none of them had anything like this much difficulty with getting Android (or anything at all) working properly so, maybe my luck ran out when I decided to get this one, who knows.
While I normally always find the TMOUS version of the HD2 here in pawn shops in Vegas, in the past week there have been 4 or 5 international unbranded models that popped up but, I avoid 'em since I believe the TMOUS variant is the better choice. Got this one for $75 and swapped a decent battery from one of the international ones when the clerk wasn't looking.

So much for that idea, either way (from microSD card or from Custom_RUU) the Dutty's ROM just hangs at the white/pink "stick together" screen and does nothing else. I then attempted to do a regular install of the stock TMOUS ROM again, no dice.
Geez... this stuff sucks sometimes.
Still hoping, of course.

ah thats a shame. the only other thing that comes to mind is seeing one or two threads with teh same problem where the poster simply tried again and again with the various versions of the (correct!) stock rom, and suddenly it flashed, and once teh radio was replaced it all worked again. I would have thought though that if it were going to do that, the freezer trick would also have worked.
I'd definitely try the three released stock tmous roms, , 2.10, 2.13 and 3.14, anbd perhaps some of the lower ones, too, , , see the 't mobile test & stock roms' thread in the tmous section DO NOT flash the first few, since the first one will brick it, and the next two or three have manufacturing spls, which can prove dificult to remove. (Not that you have anything to lose.)
flash from sd card., no point messing with the .exe, , more likely to work from sd card.
Heres a thought, , , forget the internal nand completely, , set up an ext4 partition, and then using sd card based recovery, flash an android rom using nativeSD. So long as magldr can be succesfully pointed at an sd card folder, you needn't use teh nand at all.

Dammit, no luck with any SD or NativeSD either. It simply won't ever get past the GO GO GO! event, no matter what I do. Tried several different recoveries (accessed from MAGLDR) and every time they just stick at GO GO GO! and never do anything past that. It DOES note the SD card is there, MAGLDR can access it to load the kernel, but it always ends up stuck at GO GO GO! and that's that. I was thinking if I could just get some type of recovery loaded (TWRP, CWM, I don't care) then perhaps I could do something more but, it's just a NO GO GO GO!
I did find that leodiag.nbh thing and gave that a shot, the diagnostic portion won't start because of the radio timing out (go figure, with the bad radio flash) so that won't even run, and the reset function doesn't either as it only sees the microSD card and still won't work.
It's like I feel like I'm missing one single thing that could turn it all around but, I'm tired of messing with it. Found the suggestion to hold in the reset button (mine is white, never seen a yellow or red one so...) and then turn the power on but it never does a reboot no matter how long I wait with the reset button still depressed.
Guess it's just not gonna happen this time...

yea unfortunately that's very often the way these turn out. the radio is blocking flashes from happening, and android from loading.
Do make sure you've given the freezer trick a good chance before you give up, i've read threads where the flash suddenly took after several attempts, (however in all fairness, if the freezer trick does help, it is usually indicative of hardware overheating problems anyway)

Well, against my better judgment but having enough experience (read: decades) with consumer electronics I figure the freezer thing - since it does actually work with hard drives in some situations - couldn't hurt.
Sure enough, after only about 2 minutes in the freezer (laying on some frozen food) I gave the SD update a shot and sure enough it finished, and after taking it out of the freezer a few minutes later, it booted into Windows Mobile just fine but, of course, then comes the letdown.
It froze up (not literally in terms of temperature), rebooted, then rebooted again before it got back into Windows Mobile, then on the 3rd reboot it just stopped and was stuck at the "stick together" screen where it simply won't get past.
So, obviously this one is suffering from the overheating issue, and I don't have access to an SMD oven or a proper heat gun (not that I'm going to go that far to revive it), so it's on craigslist for sale as-is presently. Funny thing is I've had 23 people respond for it since I know and they know and we here at XDA know all about how popular the HD2 is, even one like this one with potential good parts for use in some other one.
Let's hope someone actually shows up with cash, could use it for bills.
Thanks for the information, sam.

By the way would someone have a spare volume button ?
Sent from my HTC HD2 using xda app-developers app

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HD2 stuck at white boot screen/ can't install Roms

Hi guys, I've a problem with my HD2 and maybe one of you has an idea of how to fix this, because I really don't want to send it in for a repair
Anyway, my phone decided to refuse to boot out of nowhere. When it happened I had Artemis v9 or v10 installed on it. The funny thing is that I didn't flash anything when the problem occured.
Whenever I start the phone I only get a white screen. Luckily, I can still access the bootloader, even thought that didn't help me until now.
my guess is that the Radio is somehow corrupted, because when I try to flash a new one I get the error saying "Radio_V2 failed" and "Update Terminated". Not even flashing with task 29 works, because I get a "Error 270" and the phone restarts itself after like 4% of flashing.
I'm really out of ideas, I tried to flash a lot of different roms and radios, even the rom that the HD2 came shipped with.

flanders3 said:
Hi guys, I've a problem with my HD2 and maybe one of you has an idea of how to fix this, because I really don't want to send it in for a repair
Anyway, my phone decided to refuse to boot out of nowhere. When it happened I had Artemis v9 or v10 installed on it. The funny thing is that I didn't flash anything when the problem occured.
Whenever I start the phone I only get a white screen. Luckily, I can still access the bootloader, even thought that didn't help me until now.
my guess is that the Radio is somehow corrupted, because when I try to flash a new one I get the error saying "Radio_V2 failed" and "Update Terminated". Not even flashing with task 29 works, because I get a "Error 270" and the phone restarts itself after like 4% of flashing.
I'm really out of ideas, I tried to flash a lot of different roms and radios, even the rom that the HD2 came shipped with.
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What radio (if any) have you flashed? Check the ROM's dedicated thread you want to flash and see if the radio is compatible.
Im betting you've flashed the wrong radio

take the rom it was shipped with, name the nbh file to LEOIMG.nbh, copy it to your sd card and go into bootloader.
it will flash your old rom and should overwrite the old radio.
DN41

I installed Radio 2.06.51.07, which was recommended as far as I know.
I tried to install every "official" rom that I could find, but no matter if I apply them via SD card, USB or .exe, the install never finishes.
Tried to install just the OS without a radio and that worked, so I'm almost sure it is somehow radio related.
Now the problem is that I can't even send it to T-Mobile, because I there is no way to get rid of HSPL. BTW, it's the german T-Mobile we are talking about, not the US one. Is there a chance they won't notice the HSPL...?

so flash this one over sd-card: german t-mobile 1.72
what about performing hardreset? does the phone boot?
DN41

Tried flashing the TMO rom, but no luck either
Hard reset is strangly fast (only takes like 7 seconds) and only gives me a white screen after reboot. Apperently the HD2 shows me that HSPL is intsalled in the bootloader, but I can't change the SPL...
Already tried HSPL2, but no matter what option I choose, my bootloader always stays at 1.42 HSPL.
Edit: I would like to post pics of the error I get when flashing from the sd card or the bootloader screen, by the board rules don't want new users to post links.

djchubbs said:
Im betting you've flashed the wrong radio
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any way to repiar radio side as flashed wrong radio ??
flanders3 said:
Tried flashing the TMO rom, but no luck either
Hard reset is strangly fast (only takes like 7 seconds) and only gives me a white screen after reboot. Apperently the HD2 shows me that HSPL is intsalled in the bootloader, but I can't change the SPL...
Already tried HSPL2, but no matter what option I choose, my bootloader always stays at 1.42 HSPL.
Edit: I would like to post pics of the error I get when flashing from the sd card or the bootloader screen, by the board rules don't want new users to post links.
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same happen with me,,,

flanders3 said:
Hi guys, I've a problem with my HD2 and maybe one of you has an idea of how to fix this, because I really don't want to send it in for a repair
Anyway, my phone decided to refuse to boot out of nowhere. When it happened I had Artemis v9 or v10 installed on it. The funny thing is that I didn't flash anything when the problem occured.
Whenever I start the phone I only get a white screen. Luckily, I can still access the bootloader, even thought that didn't help me until now.
my guess is that the Radio is somehow corrupted, because when I try to flash a new one I get the error saying "Radio_V2 failed" and "Update Terminated". Not even flashing with task 29 works, because I get a "Error 270" and the phone restarts itself after like 4% of flashing.
I'm really out of ideas, I tried to flash a lot of different roms and radios, even the rom that the HD2 came shipped with.
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I have exactly the same problem.
I believe radio hardware of my HD2 has failed.
This is not related to flashing an incompatible radio, as I have flashed 1.66 official ROM about three months ago and had no problems until now.
I got the white screen, when phone was in my pocket.
Not possible to update radio, update fails with "Radio_V2 failed" and "Update Terminated".
Not possible to flash any rom, flashing fails when it comes to radio part.
MTTY didn't help as well.
I see no way but to send it back for repair.
Hope they dont realize HSPL, as it is also not possible to change SPL right now.

Hi everybody, i am facing the same issues with my knew HD2. The fact is that i received it yesterday, while trying to flsah ENERGY ROM ..i flashed also the radio .. now got the white screen with the HTC green logo, and no way to hard reset ... phone doesn't boot, can't do anything !!!!!! volume + and volume - doesn't work !!! any idea any solution ?? I am about to try flashing with the memory card but no idea if it will work, im not sure cause even the HSPL doenst appear ... anu idea ?

I've got the same problem
Mine is a Telstra (Australian) HD2, and I've been using it for about 3 weeks fine. Then a few days ago, I took it out of my pocket, and it's dead. With my one, most of the time I just get a blank screen (no HTC), and most of the time it's slightly yellow.
I'm having the exact same problems, and have done everything suggested on this page, and others. I can't send mine back either.
I'm guessing since no one's replied, there's not really a solution to this.
If it is a failed radio, I'm amazed how easily they fail, and how many people seem to have this problem.

I have the same problem today. Anybody help?

anakin621 said:
I have the same problem today. Anybody help?
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i had the same problem with my Telstra T9193. i couldnt find any solutions so its on its way back to australia under warrenty.

I had a similar problem to this, though it appears I just fixed it. I can only imagine it's just a temporary fix though, as I previously managed to get it working and running Android only to white screen again the next day.
I did a hard reset and now it loaded the white HTC screen and nothing else. I tried installing a stock ROM from the MicroSD card and got the same "Update Terminated Update Fail" error because of the Radio. Retried the update about 3 times, and it eventually installed fine.

same here, i reloaded a stock from sd to relock it, which i highly recommend for anyone having this problem - in case it needs to go for repair and it just happens to boot..it took quite a few tries to have a proper flash and it booted only a few tries afterwards and then went back to only booting the white htc screen. so frustrating. and unfortunately for me it has to go back to australia for warrenty and will likely take ages to get back

I was stuck at multi color boot screen after hard reset. Tried multiple roms.
Solution: Use the 2.13 rom from here. Worked thankfully!
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=655653

After being looooong on this forum, I finally got my first bricked HTC. I got all the same problems, white screen, no way to get HSPL gone, and no update via SD possible, no ROM update via USB in bootloader and no radio update possible...
Anybody knows how much it costs if I send it to HTC and they find yout it has been HSPL-ed?

Next with the bricked HD2
So definitely I´m in the same situation.. I have unusable SMARTPHONE!!
Even worse, because in my case i have no chance to send it to warranty repair - I was too disparate and curious so I opened my HD2 to look for an backup battery to erase everything that could have resist my countless tries to reflash, hardreset, flash RADIO, flash ROMs...
At the begging was the same (btw the same is still) : I took my phone and it did´t answer for waking it up. So I pressed red button to (soft)reset it. But it booted only to white screen (not the HTC one but "pure" withe w/o logo, w/o software info but with slightly yellow hue)
This was almost whole week ago... During that time I tried almost everything (I don´t have gold card - since I can´t get CID of any SD card I´m not able to have one and have installed HSPL 2.08 I´m ABLE to FLASH any ROM - even successfully reflashed cooked ROM via SD Card.!!) and the answer for me is probably some hardware problem....

-rr-obin said:
So definitely I´m in the same situation.. I have unusable SMARTPHONE!!
Even worse, because in my case i have no chance to send it to warranty repair - I was too disparate and curious so I opened my HD2 to look for an backup battery to erase everything that could have resist my countless tries to reflash, hardreset, flash RADIO, flash ROMs...
At the begging was the same (btw the same is still) : I took my phone and it did´t answer for waking it up. So I pressed red button to (soft)reset it. But it booted only to white screen (not the HTC one but "pure" withe w/o logo, w/o software info but with slightly yellow hue)
This was almost whole week ago... During that time I tried almost everything (I don´t have gold card - since I can´t get CID of any SD card I´m not able to have one and have installed HSPL 2.08 I´m ABLE to FLASH any ROM - even successfully reflashed cooked ROM via SD Card.!!) and the answer for me is probably some hardware problem....
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I'm sorry, I just sent my to the repair center. Hope they will repair it under warranty. Otherwise it will cost me 100 Euro, just to find out I have to pay for the repairs. Then I can choose to let the device there (then I don't pay 100 euro) or let the device ship back (I pay 100 euro for a brick) or let them do the repairs which they will say how much it will cost on top of that 100 euro ..... stress ....

Birger said:
I'm sorry, I just sent my to the repair center. Hope they will repair it under warranty. Otherwise it will cost me 100 Euro, just to find out I have to pay for the repairs. Then I can choose to let the device there (then I don't pay 100 euro) or let the device ship back (I pay 100 euro for a brick) or let them do the repairs which they will say how much it will cost on top of that 100 euro ..... stress ....
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Check this thread... unfortunately it wouldn´t be quite easy whith the service repair...
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With the radio bricked there are only two things you can try to do:
1- You can go on using your hd2 without updating the radio. Try to download a rom without radio and install it, or ask a cook to prepare a rom (you can try an official rom if you want to recover the original SPL) without radio for you.
2 - Do what I did and sell the phone as bricked, because there's no way to unbrick radio system. I tried to save my HD2 by recovering the original SPL and sending the phone to the htc customer service. I got the phone back after 2 months and it was still radio bricked
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=618084

upload a pix of your bootloader screen,I had similar kind of problem.I 've been through a lot of hardship dealing with the that.Maybe i could help u a bit.

[Q] SOD no matter what build

Well before everyone attacks me with "try searching on forums" responses, i have done that already. So here is my problem. no matter what build i use i will occassionally get sod and have to remove the battery to power it back on. the button lights turn on like its going to power on but no matter how long i wait it wont come out of sleep.
I have all display settings turned off in windows mobile before i boot into android, and i have auto like turned off in both windows and android. I have auto rotate turned off, and screen time out set to 30 min, which actually fixed my problem for a while. it always seems to happen that something happens that i have to power off my phone, and as soon as i do that is when it starts acting up and i get sod. it takes a few tries of taking out the battery for the phone to stop getting sod but after a few days it seems to come back.
I have even tried reformatting my sd card and still had the problem. i have the stock 16 gig sd card it came with. i havent flashed anything on the phone because i dont want to risk screwing up, so you guys are my last resort because i have tried everything.

Time to try different sd card.

In both windows and android, Auto light is off and you manually set the display backlight?
Have you tried the hyperdroid 1.7 version??

Vaizard84 said:
i havent flashed anything on the phone because i dont want to risk screwing up, so you guys are my last resort because i have tried everything.
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Im pretty sure this is ur problem. Lots of things go wrong with stock.
its not as hard as it seems. just follow the intructions for ur specific hd2.
(look in the usa hd2 forums) if ur a usa hd2 user. IM SURE ITS A STICKY.
IF U WANT TRY THE OFFICIAL UPDATE FROM T-MOBILE!
i have heard good things about it

Unfortunately you have no choice but to flash the HSPL, a custom rom, and a radio. these are easy. ive flashed my phone countless times. I've also flashed other peoples HD2's countless times. Even when the phone was in the middle of flashing and the power went out at my house it did not brick the phone.
If you want to run android as a daily driver (like I do) my best advice is to flash the following.
HSPL (duh lol) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6891358&postcount=1893
Radio version 2.12.50 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9GU2FF3X
WinMo rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734238
(click on the first 'ChuckyDroidRom' picture under downloads in the first post.
You will use this utility to flash the 3.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=575524
when/if you download the 3 items, create a folder on your desktop. Name it something simple. Then inside that folder create 3 folders. name them HSPL, Radio, WinMo Rom. extract the downloaded items to their respective folders.
with the customRUU utility. extract the file to each of the folders.
Then,
Flash the HSPL first, the radio second, then the winmo rom.
when finished with those use the format sd card app in windows mobile to format your sd card (the program is set to format to android specs)
then copy whatever android build you want to the sd card.
Enjoy!
if you have any questions you may feel free to PM me. I will be home all day and would not mind helping you.

wow that is a lot easier than i thought well so far its working really nice, i havent got any sod yet, keeping my fingers crossed lol. thanks everyone for the help!

Vaizard84 said:
wow that is a lot easier than i thought well so far its working really nice, i havent got any sod yet, keeping my fingers crossed lol. thanks everyone for the help!
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Yeah I promise you it was your radio/rom version. I had the EXACT same problem and nothing fixed it until I flashed and updated my radio. sometimes you just have to bit the bullet and dive deep!
cheers on your fixed phone, and knock on wood for no more SOD!

If you do experience SOD again. I recommend a faster SD card. I was having issues with any build I was using. Up to date flashed radio and lite WM rom, my only cure was faster SD card. I went from the stock 16GB C2, to an 8GB C6 (17.99 from Amazon), and I have not experienced SOD anymore. I have issues where sometimes the screen will not come back on right away, and I have to wait a few seconds, but it never sleeps on me anymore.

HD2 won't install WM6.5 rom after using NAND

I have been using NAND since the public release on NYE. Most recenly when updating ROMs I had tons of freezing, & still do. Initially i thought it was a problem with the SD and did the panasonic format util & tried booting with no card at all. Same **** happened again. So I thought to flash a stock rom (winmo6.5) and see if there were any problems. I figured let's do a Task29, I even reflashed the radio & HSPL. When I flash an offical or custom ROM its gets to like 53% and then vibrates like 5 times. The process finishes normally, but upon reboot it makes the same 5 vibrates and stays stuck on the "Stick Together" screen. Also I did get OzDroid to fully boot one time, but the screen was unresponsive 100%. I don't know what the deal is, but this is all the stuff I know how to do & after much searching I still don't know what the multiple vibrates mean. I don't know if its time to send it in or what

Try to redownliad another official rom. Maybe it was F'ed up

Already did that. Tried using the SD method using LEOIMG.nbh on the root, by renaming the the official Tmousa .exe to .zip and extracting the RUU_signed.nbh
I got it to boot finally, but when it came to the initial settings screen (picking carriers etc) it got completely unresponsive. I have tried flashing an Energy rom, OzDroid, official tmousa ship rom, t-mobile.com official update rom; All ending in failure. I think UltimateDroid fried it.......i'm gonna cap who ported that crap
Edit:
I got it working again by doing a factory restore (vol+ & vol-) + power, and then flashing the most recent RUU_signed.ngh found in the latest tmousa .exe - Haven't tried to flash magldr or any other roms as I suspect the nand/and/or ram is damaged. We'll see how it goes, it may have been bad sectors or a ****ed up allocation of some kind. Hopefully this fixed it.
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It's still ****ed.......tried to install magldr and it works.......sometimes. Sometimes it won't load the recovery at all. Sometimes it boots the android rom all the way and then freezes when it gets to the initial setup screen (which I have also tried bypassing w/the 4 corners method) but it still freezes eventually. Guess this piece is ****ed.

That sucks man. Definitely something wrong

Hehe good luck bro

It's probably user error. I'm almost certain it is as no HD2 will mess up from nand. You should sell it and get a nokia 3595. Leave the smart phones to smart people.

[Q] ClockworkMod installing problem and fatal hit error at AD Recovery..help ?

Hello..a friend of mine gave me a HD2 to fix, said it can't load anything. As I own a HD2, I took it just to see what's wrong. I own an Asian HD2, and everything is fine, I tried various ROMs..both Android and WinPhone, settled at Hyperdroid. Anyway, I have no idea where the heck the other HD2 is from, neither my friend has.
So, the phone had nothing in it and was stuck at the HTC logo, so I loaded into bootloader and saw HSPL 3.03. Then I changed it to 2.08 in order to install MIUI android. Then I installed MAGLDR. The issue occured when I went to install CWM. I loaded the 150M partition at USB Flasher, it was doing all fine until it became stuck at "reset now...!". So I just took the battery off, and tried to load into AD recovery. While it loads to 1, then it shows "fatal hit" error. I tried a lot of times including task 29, but it persists. Was the phone bricked from earlier ? Something like heating issues I assume. Anyway, I tried to install my phones stock WinMo rom to it from SD but it also gives error like failed, not allow etc. The both phone looks the same, under the battery hood of my phone, it's written HTC HD2 T5858. On the other one, nothing. Rest visuals are same.
So is there any way I can bring this anonymous HD2 to life ? I think it's almost dead but still if there's any way you people can come up with. I'm using a 2GB Sandisk MicroSD and the phone's S/N is HT01CNW04979 ; if that helps to sort out the phone's identity. Your help is much appreciated. Thanks

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1520439
this is a thread I created 3 days ago....me, another user, and now you...
our hd2s are going to diee D: stop joking, I (and toher guys) think that is hardware related....like in my case....but I don't really know what's the problem, just guessing....take a look to my post

True that. Only the difference is, it's happening to me during clockwork recovery installation. And I don't know where the heck is the phone from so that I can load custom WinMo lol. My own HD2 is doing just fine by the way.
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[Q]A Leo unit won't flash

Hey guys!
I'm having a rather strange problem with an HD2 unit. It belongs to a friend of mine and since I used to own one he turned to me for help, but as it appears I am helpless in the matter as well.
He claims he hadn't experienced any problems ever since he got it. He was using a custom WM6.5 ROM flashed by me no less than a year ago. Suddenly phone just rebooted showed a splash-screen, then 7 vibrates then nothing. I did a google search etc. and I found out this points to a MB hardware problems.
The thing is this:
I AM able to re-flash HSPL and OSPL properly.
I AM able to flash MAGLDR 1.13, but it won' boot. I just see the title, but no menu after that. PC installation states install finishes correctly.
I am NOT able to flash any radio custom or stock, nor am I able to flash any stock or custom ROM.
So I was just wondering - before I decide to give my friend advice to pay money for MB replacement should I try anything else?
Note: I DID try putting the phone (battery out) in the freezer for a few mins in a plastic bag. No change in any proccess whatsoever.
P.S. I believe I forgot to mention it is a EU HD2 unit.

Bad news
IMO it's a faulty MB, I doubt anyone could revive it, if freezer trick is not working, this is final verdict: dead!!!

I am still considering the option of the oven though... I just might take it apart and put the MB in the oven... or use a hot-air station... I'd be really thankful if someone shares experience and conclusions about similar activities

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