[Q] Can't get past activation - HTC Droid DNA

Today I woke up to my phone saying Please insert Sim card, it was inserted. I restarted, no dice, reinstalled cm 10.2, no dice, wiped factory settings, cache, dalvik cache, then installed Paranoid android, still not working. It won't let me get past the activation screen even if I let it time out and hit skip it literally will just go back to the welcome screen and try to activate again.
I searched around and found that RUU-ing back to stock, locking the bootloader and all that would fix it so I locked the bootloader and am trying to use Ruu but half way through Ruu-ing it takes me to a black screen with a silver HTC logo on it and freezes, then Windows 8 tells me that it is not reconized and Ruu says error 171 which is a USB error. I checked under Device manager and it said unknown device so I'm obviously missing the driver so I go to install htc sync to get the driver and no dice, even if I uninstalled HTC sync and kept the driver it still didn't work. My question is which driver am I suppose to be using?
Phone: Droid DNA
Rom: Was running CM10.2 at the time then installed Paranoid Android to see if it would help
OS: Windows 8

iximoronixi said:
Today I woke up to my phone saying Please insert Sim card, it was inserted. I restarted, no dice, reinstalled cm 10.2, no dice, wiped factory settings, cache, dalvik cache, then installed Paranoid android, still not working. It won't let me get past the activation screen even if I let it time out and hit skip it literally will just go back to the welcome screen and try to activate again.
I searched around and found that RUU-ing back to stock, locking the bootloader and all that would fix it so I locked the bootloader and am trying to use Ruu but half way through Ruu-ing it takes me to a black screen with a silver HTC logo on it and freezes, then Windows 8 tells me that it is not reconized and Ruu says error 171 which is a USB error. I checked under Device manager and it said unknown device so I'm obviously missing the driver so I go to install htc sync to get the driver and no dice, even if I uninstalled HTC sync and kept the driver it still didn't work. My question is which driver am I suppose to be using?
Phone: Droid DNA
Rom: Was running CM10.2 at the time then installed Paranoid Android to see if it would help
OS: Windows 8
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Try change USB port to 2.00, usb v3.00 is causing known issues . Update ADB drivers. also under windows devices manager unknown devices try to updates driver unknown device. Try it on Windows 7 pc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2293919

finanandroid said:
Try change USB port to 2.00, usb v3.00 is causing known issues . Update ADB drivers. also under windows devices manager unknown devices try to updates driver unknown device. Try it on Windows 7 pc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2293919
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Done all of those things except trying on a windows 7 computer, let me see if I can sneak onto my mother's work laptop hah. I also read that installing PDAnet would help me, each time during install it would BSOD me
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Same thing on windows 7
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O man it is working even though adb devices showed nothing I booted to the welcome screen and started ruu there! Its always windows 8s problem isn't it?
Seriously thank you

iximoronixi said:
Done all of those things except trying on a windows 7 computer, let me see if I can sneak onto my mother's work laptop hah. I also read that installing PDAnet would help me, each time during install it would BSOD me
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Same thing on windows 7
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Did you FLASH THE STOCK HBOOT 1.15 so it matched RUU, when you ran RUU?
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iximoronixi said:
Done all of those things except trying on a windows 7 computer, let me see if I can sneak onto my mother's work laptop hah. I also read that installing PDAnet would help me, each time during install it would BSOD me
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Same thing on windows 7
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O man it is working even though adb devices showed nothing I booted to the welcome screen and started ruu there! Its always windows 8s problem isn't it?
Seriously thank you
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yes I read something about Windows 8 troubles working with adb. Hopes you back in business, but asap RUU finish and you boot in to
out the box Stock, do a Factory or phone reset from Stock Recovery*

finanandroid said:
Did you FLASH THE STOCK HBOOT 1.15 so it matched RUU, when you ran RUU?
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yes I read something about Windows 8 troubles working with adb. Hopes you back in business, but asap RUU finish and you boot in to
out the box Stock, do a Factory or phone reset from Stock Recovery*
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I am back on stock but still roaming sadly. Any ideas?

iximoronixi said:
I am back on stock but still roaming sadly. Any ideas?
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Did you Reset the phone after RUU? are u on VZW, you should receive the OTA 2.04 then 2.06
sometimes that happen, (the roaming s) if you still roaming get it to VZW to exchange SIM Card and be resetting.

finanandroid said:
Did you Reset the phone after RUU? are u on VZW, you should receive the OTA 2.04 then 2.06
sometimes that happen, (the roaming s) if you still roaming get it to VZW to exchange SIM Card and be resetting.
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Evidently resetting it via recovery was the wrong way to do it. I tried it through fastboot and it worked!!! Thank you for all your help!

I'm on my second dna, about a month in total two phones. First one rooted, s-off from stock rom flashed the latest build of cm10.1. Upon boot up the first screen where it says activating it just sat there after about 5 minutes said it couldn't activate. Odd. On my past nexus devices Samsung gs2 and gs3 it would fly past that screen. I restored my back up same thing it said I had no service. Data worked but couldn't make a call or send a text.. Didn't know what to do and luckily Verizon didn't seem to care and swapped it out. So now I'm re-rooted on this phone but to afraid to flash anything cause of what happened. Seems like the same thing that happened to you happened to me.. I don't know how to do the ruu thing and I guess u can reset the phone from boot loader?? What fixed your issue.? I really want to rock stock android but to scared to flash anything. Let's say something happens again do I just get in boot loader and reset that's it nothing else needed?
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finanandroid said:
Did you FLASH THE STOCK HBOOT 1.15 so it matched RUU, when you ran RUU?
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yes I read something about Windows 8 troubles working with adb. Hopes you back in business, but asap RUU finish and you boot in to
out the box Stock, do a Factory or phone reset from Stock Recovery*
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I can confirm not a windows 8 problem. I've done it several times on 8 pro 64 bit. Must have been something else.
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iximoronixi said:
Evidently resetting it via recovery was the wrong way to do it. I tried it through fastboot and it worked!!! Thank you for all your help!
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You welcome!
after RUU >Stock Factory Reset, can be done from the phone... Setting>Back up & Reset> Reset Phone ( is exactly the same process when you go to Bootloader, fastboot and apply /Factory Reset. my bad if you misunderstand my concept , I called Stock Recovery to the Factory image and setting of the phone as it came out of the box to differentiate from Custom Stock Recovery like CWR/TWRP. Glad that u figured it out and have your phone back. Next time i will more specific.

cstrife999 said:
I can confirm not a windows 8 problem. I've done it several times on 8 pro 64 bit. Must have been something else.
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Maybe I shouldve mentioned I am on Windows 8.1 (Which is leaps and bounds above 8) but that could have had something to do with it

iximoronixi said:
Maybe I shouldve mentioned I am on Windows 8.1 (Which is leaps and bounds above 8) but that could have had something to do with it
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yeap it need extra work around windows drivers.

iximoronixi said:
Maybe I shouldve mentioned I am on Windows 8.1 (Which is leaps and bounds above 8) but that could have had something to do with it
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I actually had to downgrade from 8.1 because it was impossible for me to get adb and fastboot working, because of the drivers. I spent the better part of a whole day trying to, its simply broken because of driver signing.

jake.corey.jacobs said:
I actually had to downgrade from 8.1 because it was impossible for me to get adb and fastboot working, because of the drivers. I spent the better part of a whole day trying to, its simply broken because of driver signing.
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Yeah it was just easier for me to use my mother's work laptop which has windows 7 on it but now moonshine won't work so there goes my day

Use Ubuntu live CD bro
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jake.corey.jacobs said:
Use Ubuntu live CD bro
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I was trying to avoid that because I have had issues with ubuntu in the past and I also have gotten s-off before without it but I honestly don't remember what way I used but I guess I'll give ubuntu a shot

There's nothing to mess up. Its a live CD and changes nothing on your HD. And nothing to install outside of Moonshine itself.
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So wait. Are you still s-off?
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jake.corey.jacobs said:
There's nothing to mess up. Its a live CD and changes nothing on your HD. And nothing to install outside of Moonshine itself.
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So wait. Are you still s-off?
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ah ok sweet thanks and no I am now s-on, tampered, and getting kind of frustrated hah
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I am still getting the don't drink and shine error on Ubuntu live as I was getting on windows

iximoronixi said:
ah ok sweet thanks and no I am now s-on, tampered, and getting kind of frustrated hah
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I am still getting the don't drink and shine error on Ubuntu live as I was getting on windows
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So you went back to s-on?
if so you can try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44796097&postcount=5

jake.corey.jacobs said:
So you went back to s-on?
if so you can try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44796097&postcount=5
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You are amazing! This worked! thank you so much!

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[Q] Why are my flashes with RSD Lite failing?

I have been having data & app issues with my Photon for the last couple of days. And wanted to flash to have a clean slate. When I try to flash any sbf I get the screen below. Pulling the battery and rebooting gets me back into the ROM, but looks like it didn't flash. I have tried different sbf, data cables, versions of RSD Lite. I am stumped, and hope the pic may shed some light on the issue.
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Never seen that before, are you putting phone in rsd mode and is rsd coming back with an error aside from the norm?
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Yep, I put the phone in RSD mode.
This is the message I get after it happens.
budney said:
Yep, I put the phone in RSD mode.
This is the message I get after it happens.
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I might try to reinstall the latest drivers/motohelper plug in the phone, see if the drivers install on the phone, and then reboot the phone, and then try RSD again...i had some driver issues the other day, so check it out.
KTT16 said:
I might try to reinstall the latest drivers/motohelper plug in the phone, see if the drivers install on the phone, and then reboot the phone, and then try RSD again...i had some driver issues the other day, so check it out.
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Good thinking, but still not flashing.
looks like it is getting stuck on the BP, it flashes the AP then the device reboots and flashed the BP. Try a stock rom
halfdriven said:
looks like it is getting stuck on the BP, it flashes the AP then the device reboots and flashed the BP. Try a stock rom
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That is what I always used and have been trying to flash.
budney said:
I have been having data & app issues with my Photon for the last couple of days. And wanted to flash to have a clean slate. When I try to flash any sbf I get the screen below. Pulling the battery and rebooting gets me back into the ROM, but looks like it didn't flash. I have tried different sbf, data cables, versions of RSD Lite. I am stumped, and hope the pic may shed some light on the issue.
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did you work it out? I had the same thing happen me.
budney said:
Good thinking, but still not flashing.
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Honestly not too sure what to tell you, sure someone will pop in and help out. I personally couldn't for the life of me get the drivers to install correctly on my main desktop to get RSDLite to work right, but I tried it on an old desktop laying around and boom first shot it worked great, if you have easy access to a second comp I would give that a shot because it seems like your missing a driver set somewhere. Have you flashed anything through RSDlite before with this computer onto your Photon or is this your first attempt?
nuxbag said:
did you work it out? I had the same thing happen me.
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Nope! Did you fix it? If so how?
w0lf215 said:
Honestly not too sure what to tell you, sure someone will pop in and help out. I personally couldn't for the life of me get the drivers to install correctly on my main desktop to get RSDLite to work right, but I tried it on an old desktop laying around and boom first shot it worked great, if you have easy access to a second comp I would give that a shot because it seems like your missing a driver set somewhere. Have you flashed anything through RSDlite before with this computer onto your Photon or is this your first attempt?
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This is the first time flashing with this Photon. It's a referb I received a few weeks ago. My original Photon flashed fine.
No spare PC or laptop around to try. Could installing XP solve the issue, or win7 32 bit? My PC is running win7 64 bit.
Try 198_7. I had the same issues with 198_6 I believe. Switching to a different sbf fixed my issues. I also had better results on a windows XP box. In pure windows and not a virtual machine.
Sent from my MoPho. All typos are the phones fault.
budney said:
This is the first time flashing with this Photon. It's a referb I received a few weeks ago. My original Photon flashed fine.
No spare PC or laptop around to try. Could installing XP solve the issue, or win7 32 bit? My PC is running win7 64 bit.
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I did it/do everything with 32bit Win7, but don't want to tell you to go through the hassle of installing an entire OS considering it is just a shot in the dark as to whether it will fix it or not. Only other thing i would think to try would be putting the phone into RSD mode and plugging it into computer and see if Windows installs any drivers that way BEFORE trying to open up and flash through RSDlite.
budney said:
Nope! Did you fix it? If so how?
yes i did get it to work
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budney said:
Nope! Did you fix it? If so how?
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can you tell me what rsd lite you are useing and where you got your DL's from. It has noting to do with XP or 7 I have both and i got the screen tare with both
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nuxbag said:
can you tell me what rsd lite you are useing and where you got your DL's from. It has noting to do with XP or 7 I have both and i got the screen tare with both
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Using 5.5 and the ROMS are from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20331570&postcount=3
Well flashing with 198_7 worked! But isn't that a leaked ROM? And where is the best place to download 198_6? Just never had luck with customs, stock + root works for me.
budney said:
Using 5.5 and the ROMS are from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20331570&postcount=3
Well flashing with 198_7 worked! But isn't that a leaked ROM? And where is the best place to download 198_6? Just never had luck with customs, stock + root works for me.
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ok if you got working then flash this 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-154_5-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US in post 3 and use mirror4 then ota update to 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_6-CM.
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budney said:
Using 5.5 and the ROMS are from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20331570&postcount=3
Well flashing with 198_7 worked! But isn't that a leaked ROM? And where is the best place to download 198_6? Just never had luck with customs, stock + root works for me.
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ok if you got working then flash this 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-154_5-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US in post 3 and use mirror4 then ota update to 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_6-CM. DL rsd lite 5.6 from post 4
nuxbag said:
ok if you got working then flash this 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-154_5-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US in post 3 and use mirror4 then ota update to 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_6-CM. DL rsd lite 5.6 from post 4
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Thanks, that sbf worked with out issue. doing the 198_6 OTA now, then root.
Thanks all for the help!
budney said:
Nope! Did you fix it? If so how?
This is the first time flashing with this Photon. It's a referb I received a few weeks ago. My original Photon flashed fine.
No spare PC or laptop around to try. Could installing XP solve the issue, or win7 32 bit? My PC is running win7 64 bit.
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can somebody help me out my phone is only have rootaccess and i try to do the second step but i always fail so i restore my computer to factory and now i already rooted my phone whats next please help?
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it really does help read all the problem ppl have so you can learnd from there mistake=]]
RSDlite as administrator
@budney
Are you running RSDlite as an administrator?
HackGerm said:
@budney
Are you running RSDlite as an administrator?
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Nope, but got it working. Was a problem with the sbf I think.

MTP USB Problem *Urgent*

I've been working at this problem for 6 hours about now...Everytime I plug in the device to put the ViperDNA rom onto it, it keeps coming up with with an MTP, or MTP USB Device driver error failed...I cannot figure out how to fix it...any suggestions?
Do you have usb debugging enabled in settings?
Also you can get the adb drivers doing a google search
cmos8088 said:
Do you have usb debugging enabled in settings?
Also you can get the adb drivers doing a google search
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Well, the problem is once i turn on the device, it goes into SoD, and I dont believe usb debuggin was on..so what do i do?
What about using "AirDroid" from the market and copy the ROM over WiFi ?
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Thats how I do it so I never have to plug it on or download the ROM directly on the phone.
zone23 said:
What about using "AirDroid" from the market and copy the ROM over WiFi ?
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Thats how I do it so I never have to plug it on or download the ROM directly on the phone.
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I can't even boot the phone...I can only get into recovery and fastboot. and those dont even connect right.
Well since your getting a SoD... you most likely have to reflash your rom. If you don't have it on your phone you will have to to a sideload install. I've never played with sideload but I am sure others will be able to help you.
Do you have the android sdk installed? Sounds like you don't have the right drivers installed. Get the sdk, open the sdk manager, update the usb driver, reboot the pc. You should be able to push the rom to the phone with Adb.
You need to be bootloader unlocked and have a recovery installed like twrp or cwm as well.
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c5satellite2 said:
Do you have the android sdk installed? Sounds like you don't have the right drivers installed. Get the sdk, open the sdk manager, update the usb driver, reboot the pc. You should be able to push the rom to the phone with Adb.
You need to be bootloader unlocked and have a recovery installed like twrp or cwm as well.
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alright, i got really close, i got adb working and i cud see the device, but then it said "protocol failure" when i pushed the rom to the phone. what now?
BTW did you happen to make a backup before flashing? If you did restore it
cmos8088 said:
BTW did you happen to make a backup before flashing? If you did restore it
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I did, and tried to do that...but it says no files found...which makes no sense, i did backup during 1.0 viper
did you update cwm I have heard others not being able to find it once they did. Also did you get that SoD from updating to a new rom? if so it is most likely corrupt or the install didn't complete.
cmos8088 said:
did you update cwm I have heard others not being able to find it once they did. Also did you get that SoD from updating to a new rom? if so it is most likely corrupt or the install didn't complete.
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Alright i got it to work, somehow (lol), shud i do rosie or desense? which one ismore stable? And no not from the rom, i used a dpi changer(density) to 480 dpi...and i restarted and just never would fully boot. But i think i got it now.
NSammut said:
Alright i got it to work, somehow (lol), shud i do rosie or desense? which one ismore stable? And no not from the rom, i used a dpi changer(density) to 480 dpi...and i restarted and just never would fully boot. But i think i got it now.
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It is a matter of preference I personally like HTC sense others hate it. You can always reflash and change it...
I'm glad you got it working
cmos8088 said:
It is a matter of preference I personally like it others don't hate it. You can always reflash and change it...
I'm glad you got it working
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Yup, thanks for your help...I honestly don't know how i got it working, but i hope it stays that way haha.
Glad to hear you are back up and running. Rosie and sense run great on the DNA. But if you are messing with the dpi you might be better off desensing.
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Moonshine Problems Come here

OK some of you guys who are racking their brains why they can't do this, you know you have everything right. Well I was one of those guys then I tried something and felt so F'n dumb. If you know you have linux live cd and your phone is set up right but something juuuust isn't right I think I know what your problem is. My dumba$$ ASSUMED I had to be in Fastboot mode, GUESS what. . . DUH, nope, your phone should be on regular. OMG after I did that and ran moonshine and let it go I was S-Off in minutes. I feel like an a$$, so if your having problems and kept booting in to fastboot stop! lol Hope this helps, thanks is always nice, peace and good luck.
So you should already know to take off fastboot in the battery section, put her in debugging mode, be on 2.06 FW. Have a linux cd burnt, I used mint 15, phone should be charged up.
Run your linux cd, if your on mint right click in the downloads folder were you should already have downloaded moonshine, like I said in the download folder right click and open terminal, then paste this command IF YOU ARE VERIZON tar -zxf moonshine_dlx_2.06.605.1.tgz that unzips moonshine in the downloads folder, now LEAVE THE TERMINAL OPEN and copy and paste this sudo ./distiller Read everything in the terminal the type Yes , read some more and type Yes when prompted again. Uh yes your phone should already be connected, Then sit back and let it do it's thing. When it is finished it WILL TELL YOU it's done and ask you to power the phone by holding Volume down and power, then life is GOOD again and you can start doing other junk to your phone again. Like CWM, make a back up MAYBE<<<YESSS do that.
People should have to take a quiz verifying that they've read the instructions before being allowed to download Moonshine.
shobon said:
People should have to take a quiz verifying that they've read the instructions before being allowed to download Moonshine.
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Yea maybe, but when you read a tut and it has pix, and people have waited a long time for this it is an easy thing to overlook.
Wait, you have to enable USB debugging?
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Serinety said:
Wait, you have to enable USB debugging?
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Really? Yes
I get mine all the way through second boot, then it says waiting for device and just dot after dot. ............................................................. Like that. I let it run for like 30 min and nothing. Followed all the steps correctly and checked twice. I'm also using mint 15.
SHANENATAS said:
Yea maybe, but when you read a tut and it has pix, and people have waited a long time for this it is an easy thing to overlook.
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There was a. Method for s off on the desire where you had to take a quiz and answer a question before it let you begin.
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Really? Yes
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Lol internet sarcasm is lost on this one
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HellRayzer said:
Followed all the steps correctly and checked twice. I'm also using mint 15.
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Must not have checked very closely. So far, every single person who has had a problem was overlooking something. Unless your phone has some anomaly ,the problem is most likely user error.
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Ah, ok I'm doing something very basic wrong. Just got on a fresh Windows machine with no SDK on it. So when I run distiller it tells me to run distiller again and read. Just downloaded the sdk right now but dont know the steps between here and being bale to run the distiller....
Sorry for my very noob query
I did a factory wipe and reset, after setting the phone via instructions, booting the phone as I would normally, installed the PDAnet driver, after uninstalling the HTC sync and drivers, reboot laptop all went well. Minutes later went to do my girls DNA without wipe and factory reset got the WTF error. So she doesn't want to reset her phone. I'm not an expert, just thought I would share my mistake and hoping you guys will to. And maybe we can help sort each other out.
Scratch that, the PdaNetA4126.exe was after moonshine, I needed that on Windows 8 later for ADB
Serinety said:
Lol internet sarcasm is lost on this one
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Must not have checked very closely. So far, every single person who has had a problem was overlooking something. Unless your phone has some anomaly ,the problem is most likely user error.
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My bad, I thought you were making fun of me. And that you might have read the directions on that part, lol. I made a versy simple mistake that took me hours to realize, okay 24 hours haha
wheeler89 said:
Ah, ok I'm doing something very basic wrong. Just got on a fresh Windows machine with no SDK on it. So when I run distiller it tells me to run distiller again and read. Just downloaded the sdk right now but dont know the steps between here and being bale to run the distiller....
Sorry for my very noob query
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Disable fast boot in settings/battery then enable USB debugging, restart your phone then hold power and volume down, wipe and factory reset. Boot your phone like you normally would. plug it in to your PC while already running your live CD, moonshine should already be in the download folder, open a terminal, if running mint just right click IN the DL folder and open terminal. I'm guessing you already downloaded and unzipped moonshine. then copy and paste this just like it is in the terminal
sudo ./distiller sit back and wait, Yes Yes then a little more waiting.
After moonshine and S-off I downloaded>>>> recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.3.2-dlx.img and used Windows/ADB to flash or install to DNA. Couldn't get adb to find DNA. . . . until I uninstalled and deleted HTC Sync and used PdaNetA4126.exe Then finally in device manager it came up an Android interface or something. So for me I made a folder called "fastboot" and dropped it right in the C drive so when I open a CMD window I can just type "cd c:\fastboot" then with phone connected in NORMAL mode and PDA installed type "adb devices" you should Fblah blahblah, that should be your DNA Then I believe you type "adb reboot bootloader" and your phone will go into fastboot mode, it should say "FASTBOOT USB" then type "fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.3.2-dlx.img" that is NOT a typo so don't fk with it! Then reboot into recovery and back up your phone. Then for me I flashed viperDNA_1.3.1.zip and Blackout_DeoDexed_LockMod.zip the lock mod puts the lock ring on the DNA on the bottom right corner of your phone. I like, a lot. The viper ROM is cool with sweet install options, the cwm is the touch version, GET IT you'll like it I promise.
That is if you download that version of cwm and place it in the same folder, hence the command.
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Ah, ok I'm doing something very basic wrong. Just got on a fresh Windows machine with no SDK on it. So when I run distiller it tells me to run distiller again and read. Just downloaded the sdk right now but dont know the steps between here and being bale to run the distiller....
Sorry for my very noob query
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The process needs to be performed using LINUX not Windoz
Shouldn't this thread be in the Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting forum?
Not that I'm advocating for one over the other. But revone does not require a wipe, can be done on any machine, and takes less than a minute with like 4 things typed in adb
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Not that I'm advocating for one over the other. But revone does not require a wipe, can be done on any machine, and takes less than a minute with like 4 things typed in adb
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Moonshine doesn't require a wipe, just some users have wiped and its moved forward, it removes whatever is preventing it from going through, an app, a setting, any number of things may get in the way, but the time to find it wasn't taken.
Moonshine can also be used on windows or Linux machines, not sure about osx.
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pio_masaki said:
Moonshine doesn't require a wipe, just some users have wiped and its moved forward, it removes whatever is preventing it from going through, an app, a setting, any number of things may get in the way, but the time to find it wasn't taken.
Moonshine can also be used on windows or Linux machines, not sure about osx.
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Confirmed: Moonshine with Windows and Linux Mint BOTH work and NO Factory Wipe necessary...at least NO Wipe for me in Windows. Just let it do it's magic; search for drivers, reboot many time..takes about 5-10 min. Some may S-OFF W/ROOT quicker than others, but it works. Amazing job by beaups and co. Thank you again
Oh wasn't sure on the details. So why are people using a Linux boot CD to do this?
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Oh wasn't sure on the details. So why are people using a Linux boot CD to do this?
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Windows was a recent update.
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What is the current procedure to root the DNA?

Back in March I was rooted, running a cool sense 5 based custom ROM and happy. But the phone had other ideas. It stopped recognizing the SIM card and the replacement phone Verizon sent was on the latest firmware which we couldn't hack. I couldn't deal with the stock configuration after having the custom ROM so I binned the phone and went back to my old GS3 hoping to someday be able to go back to the DNA.
If I understand things correctly, that day has come and we can root the current firmware equipped phones.....Correct? I've read thru a number of posts and all it has done is left me confused and hesitant to give it a shot.
Can someone help me out with the correct steps, methods and procedures to root my stock, S-on DNA running the latest OTA firmware (2.06)? Any help is greatly appreciated!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314771
scheirere said:
Back in March I was rooted, running a cool sense 5 based custom ROM and happy. But the phone had other ideas. It stopped recognizing the SIM card and the replacement phone Verizon sent was on the latest firmware which we couldn't hack. I couldn't deal with the stock configuration after having the custom ROM so I binned the phone and went back to my old GS3 hoping to someday be able to go back to the DNA.
If I understand things correctly, that day has come and we can root the current firmware equipped phones.....Correct? I've read thru a number of posts and all it has done is left me confused and hesitant to give it a shot.
Can someone help me out with the correct steps, methods and procedures to root my stock, S-on DNA running the latest OTA firmware (2.06)? Any help is greatly appreciated!!
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So I just follow the steps listed in the link above and I'll be ready to flash a custom ROM? No HTC unlock code and such?
Correct.
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Correct.
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Ok, gave it a shot with the windows version and didn't succeed. Followed the instructions and definitely made sure there was no trace of HTC Sync on the computer. When I run the Distiller.exe file, everything seems to run OK for test 1 (rebooting into bootloader) and test 2 (booting device) were the phone reboots like normal. Then the script says rebooting into bootloader (again) and sits there waiting for fastboot. It times out after 60 seconds and says connection failed. usb connection error.
Any ideas on were to go from here?
You need fastboot drivers.
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Moonshine works great
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Suggestions on were I can get those fastboot drivers?
Google HTC fastboot drivers. If you are on win8 with usb 3 ports only you can expect issues.
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Googled HTC fastboot driver and it looks like I need HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe . If I google HTC android drivers I can find another file HTCDriver_4.2.0.001.exe. Tried them both on my home windows 7 machine with a USB2 port. Nothing changed. Same results.
So I tried the window XP computer at my office that I originally used to root the old DNA. Got a little further this time. I get a message that temproot has failed. I also get a lot of stuff going on with "other devices" drivers when I watch my device manager. Is this normal during the process?
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Googled HTC fastboot driver and it looks like I need HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe . If I google HTC android drivers I can find another file HTCDriver_4.2.0.001.exe. Tried them both on my home windows 7 machine with a USB2 port. Nothing changed. Same results.
So I tried the window XP computer at my office that I originally used to root the old DNA. Got a little further this time. I get a message that temproot has failed. I also get a lot of stuff going on with "other devices" drivers when I watch my device manager. Is this normal during the process?
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Ok temproot failing means factory reset time. You should be good after that.
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That did the trick!! Factory reset and the older XP machine. God, how much I missed the custom roms for this phone. It totally transforms the device.
As for the Moonshine process, like I said, it worked for me but I did run into a few more speed bumps. Everytime the phone would reboot, I had to squash the HTCsync install. I guess it's something on the phone as I searched hi and low to find anything like it on the computer, with no luck. Anyhow, I would just cancel out everytime the message appeared on the screen. If I didn't cancel out, the moonshine script would time out and fail.
Just wanted to follow up on this in case someone else has similar issues.
Thanks again, guys!

i think i bricked my phone and i keep making it worse the more i research

long story short
htc desire 610, rooted, bootloader unlocked
needed to bypass safetynet
used magisk 12.4 worked fine, new update came
magisk no longer worked, forced me to update
update bricked my phone, bypassed this by reflashing rom in recovery
researched why new magisk update was being stubborn, one suggested updating my TWRP to latest build
updated TWRP, flashed the img while in recovery, ended up putting recovery into my boot (following a guide and wasnt paying attention)
phone now stuck in bootloop, can only go in recovery
wiped and formatted everything, decided to use adb sideload as its worked wonders for me before to try and put my rom back in
adb sideload wont detect phone, after many troublesome hours i decided to follow yet another guide i found about installing a RUU file into my phone to recover
followed guide step by step, turns out htc phones need bootloader locked, wasnt mentioned in guide
p̶h̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶s̶t̶u̶c̶k̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶R̶U̶U̶ ̶m̶o̶d̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶
S̶E̶C̶U̶R̶I̶T̶Y̶ ̶F̶A̶I̶L̶!̶ ̶
R̶U̶U̶ ̶ ̶
h̶a̶v̶n̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶s̶t̶a̶r̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶y̶e̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶w̶a̶i̶t̶ ̶u̶n̶t̶i̶l̶ ̶b̶a̶t̶t̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶d̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶(̶t̶h̶a̶n̶k̶s̶)̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶s̶c̶r̶e̶w̶d̶r̶i̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶b̶a̶t̶t̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶,̶ ̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶s̶a̶i̶d̶ ̶r̶e̶s̶t̶a̶r̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶w̶o̶n̶t̶ ̶f̶i̶x̶ ̶i̶t̶
please help....
ive read many pages about similar issues, some saying boot into fastboot, some saying "just type in cmd prompt" with an attached line of code... others saying "its easy just unlock your bootloader" but what i dont understand is how i can do this??
update: can get back into TWRP not sure what i can do from here as i dont have an SD card reader to transfer files just a usb and a phone with no OS
Swaaz said:
long story short
htc desire 610, rooted, bootloader unlocked
needed to bypass safetynet
used magisk 12.4 worked fine, new update came
magisk no longer worked, forced me to update
update bricked my phone, bypassed this by reflashing rom in recovery
researched why new magisk update was being stubborn, one suggested updating my TWRP to latest build
updated TWRP, flashed the img while in recovery, ended up putting recovery into my boot (following a guide and wasnt paying attention)
phone now stuck in bootloop, can only go in recovery
wiped and formatted everything, decided to use adb sideload as its worked wonders for me before to try and put my rom back in
adb sideload wont detect phone, after many troublesome hours i decided to follow yet another guide i found about installing a RUU file into my phone to recover
followed guide step by step, turns out htc phones need bootloader locked, wasnt mentioned in guide
phone now stuck in RUU mode with
SECURITY FAIL!
RUU
havnt been able to restart it yet have to wait until battery dies (thanks) dont have screwdriver to take battery out, others have said restarting wont fix it
please help....
ive read many pages about similar issues, some saying boot into fastboot, some saying "just type in cmd prompt" with an attached line of code... others saying "its easy just unlock your bootloader" but what i dont understand is how i can do any of this when my phone is stuck in RUU mode??
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Can't help with the issue but, the waiting on battery to die issue you can press and hold power button for 8 seconds to force it to turn off
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gabe.ulrickson said:
Can't help with the issue but, the waiting on battery to die issue you can press and hold power button for 8 seconds to force it to turn off
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this worked, i must of given up at exactly 7 seconds lol
dumb question but with all these programs ive downloaded tonight ive just about given up
if i factory reset my phone in android recovery mode (not TWRP, the one with the 4 androids) on a phone that doesnt have an OS installed there isnt some miracle chance it would revert to stock rom would it? the only thing on my phone is TWRP and i was using CM12 before everything spiraled out of control
update - phone can access TWRP so im back to square one, i tried RUU i tried adb sideload and i also tried the folliwing programs
sdkmanager
SP flash tool (cant be used with htc)
windroid toolkit
USDDeview
ODIN
i just want to start over and try again but i cant seem to fix this
No, factory reset just reinstalls the OS that was on the device. If you brick the device it doesn't have an OS to reinstall.
Unfortunately, I can't help you very much as I wasn't able to fix my Galaxy S4 that was bricked trying to unroot as my carrier data was slow and I couldnt find the series of files including Bootloader and OS that I used on my Galaxy Discover that fixed it (obviously galaxy s4 series of files) as Odin will flash stock os and with some work around flash custom os.
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The power reset is 6-15 seconds on devices but stock Android has included this feature since Android 4.0 at the earliest that I know of
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gabe.ulrickson said:
No, factory reset just reinstalls the OS that was on the device. If you brick the device it doesn't have an OS to reinstall.
Unfortunately, I can't help you very much as I wasn't able to fix my Galaxy S4 that was bricked trying to unroot as my carrier data was slow and I couldnt find the series of files including Bootloader and OS that I used on my Galaxy Discover that fixed it (obviously galaxy s4 series of files) as Odin will flash stock os and with some work around flash custom os.
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The power reset is 6-15 seconds on devices but stock Android has included this feature since Android 4.0 at the earliest that I know of
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its all good i feel like theres hope now that i can get back into recovery, tense moments such as these means id prob never of held down that button for more than 7 seconds to begin with and id still be stuck from RUU mode atleast.
just wish i knew how to get adb sideload to work its worked in the past but i cant get it to detect and the guide im reading says i have to use SP flash tool but i cant use scatter files on an htc phone.
Swaaz said:
its all good i feel like theres hope now that i can get back into recovery, tense moments such as these means id prob never of held down that button for more than 7 seconds to begin with and id still be stuck from RUU mode atleast.
just wish i knew how to get adb sideload to work its worked in the past but i cant get it to detect and the guide im reading says i have to use SP flash tool but i cant use scatter files on an htc phone.
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Hope you can figure it out
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Swaaz said:
its all good i feel like theres hope now that i can get back into recovery, tense moments such as these means id prob never of held down that button for more than 7 seconds to begin with and id still be stuck from RUU mode atleast.
just wish i knew how to get adb sideload to work its worked in the past but i cant get it to detect and the guide im reading says i have to use SP flash tool but i cant use scatter files on an htc phone.
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I don't really know adb very much as I haven't really had much experience with it.
Will probably be picking up a nexus 6 and rooting it since those are 100% stock Android and are easy to root and unbrick etc I will definitely be getting more experience with adb and root
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guess its too late in the night for anyone else's assistance ill be back tomorrow morning hopefully my boss doesnt get mad at my phone being bricked. not sure if bumping threads is allowed here so i apologize in advance
Yes its allowed as far as I know
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guess its too late in the night for anyone else's assistance ill be back tomorrow morning hopefully my boss doesnt get mad at my phone being bricked. not sure if bumping threads is allowed here so i apologize in advance
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Did you try to root your only phone, that's a very bad idea
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Yes its allowed as far as I know
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Did you try to root your only phone, that's a very bad idea
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ive rooted before, and since its rooted its easier to recover in circumstances such as these
the magisk update is what started it, old magisk stopped working and it forced me to update and that caused everything to spiral out of control
Swaaz said:
ive rooted before, and since its rooted its easier to recover in circumstances such as these
the magisk update is what started it, old magisk stopped working and it forced me to update and that caused everything to spiral out of control
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My suggestion is don't use magisk
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My suggestion is don't use magisk
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unfortunately nintendo apps have decided to label anyone with a bootloader unlocked as a filthy hacker and block access to their games
god forbid i upgrade my stock rom
That's why I try to have multiple devices to use
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disappointed... guess ill go buy an SD card reader and try and transfer the rom that way. people might think thread was solved due to how many replies there was :X
Swaaz said:
disappointed... guess ill go buy an SD card reader and try and transfer the rom that way. people might think thread was solved due to how many replies there was :X
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I don't think so...
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back to square one, new magisk update came out today which claims to not brick phones... still bricks mine
i guess thread closed. nobody here and every 2 hours i come into a different problem so ill just keep toying with it
if anyone cares, my current issue is that i cannot flash the current TWRP it always results in a bootloop im currently using an older build and ive been told that i need the newest TWRP for the newest magisk build

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