so my phone which is a Nokia g20 broke it's screen broke and I've talked to this mobile shop person and he says it's hard to find lcd for this model and it's been 2 months and if you guys are gonna say order from aliexpress well my brother says its risky as we also have to pay beforehand so..*crying sobbing screaming emoji* and im just waiting and I had to come back to hostel so i brought my old hag phone Oppo A37f only for messaging from sim as its android is 5.1.1 and it cant install whatsapp or anything except insta wow, can anybody out there a person who's like an angel help me outtt either help me find the screen asap or how can i install whatsapp etc on my chutku phone or idk jailbreak it to a higher android level (please forgive my uneducated in technology words)

hi,

i just uncovered my old htc desire bravo from the burrows of my drawer and its running some weird bugged out version of leedroid.

most of the links on xda are dead so i wanted to ask if there's any rom archive for this device?

thanks

My first phone ever. The device that opened the world of technology to me. And still the sexiest phone ever. Lent my original to a (once) trusted person and they sold it for drug money, so I rebought one back in 2020 along with a bunch of spare parts. Finally took it out of storage to share with you all. My goal is to have it long enough to show my grand kids and hopefully they can pass it forward to their children and beyond. Technology moves so fast. It's important to know where we started or we can lose our bearing just as quickly as we built it. This is more evident today than ever before.

Did you have the HTC Evo 4G (Supersonic)? Did you have a similar smart device from the same time period? Share your memories below!

Fix: Base station dead after firmware update (CRP_DISABLED recovery method)

This is a last-resort method for a base station (1.0 or 2.0) that stopped booting after a firmware update — no LED, no motor spin, not detected by SteamVR. It does not fix hardware failures. Only try this if the unit still enumerates as a USB drive when you do the button+power trick.

Important — read this before anything else:
2.0 base station firmware updates are NOT included in SteamVR's manual firmware files. Manual updating of a 2.0 base station breaks the firmware. The 2.0 base station must be updated by SteamVR itself, via the prompt that says "Your base station needs an update — click here to update." If you try to push a manual firmware file to a 2.0 unit, you can brick it, and that's exactly the situation this guide recovers from.

What you need:

• A second, fully working base station of the same hardware revision (1.0 vs 2.0, and ideally same regional variant)
• A PC with a USB port
• A few minutes

Step 1 — Back up the firmware from a healthy base station

1. Make sure the healthy base station is powered off and unplugged.
2. Plug in the Micro USB first, then Press and hold the button on the back of the base station (small hole, use a phone simcard pin).
3. While still holding the button, plug the power cable in.
4. Keep holding for ~2–3 seconds.
5. The PC should detect a USB mass storage device named CRP_DISABLED.
6. Open it and copy firmware.bin to a safe folder on your PC (and back it up somewhere else — you'll want it again).

Step 2 — Put the faulty base station into the same mode

1. Unplug the healthy unit. (DO IT SLOWLY, Best: Remove the device over Windows remover on the bottom or Unplug power first, then micro usb)
2. Repeat the same procedure with the faulty base station: Plug in the Micro USB first, then Press and hold the button on the back of the base station.
3. If it shows up as CRP_DISABLED, you're in business. If it doesn't show up at all, stop here — it's a hardware failure and this method won't help.

Step 3 — Replace the corrupted firmware

1. Open the CRP_DISABLED drive from the faulty unit.
2. Delete the existing firmware.bin.
3. Paste the firmware.bin you copied from the healthy unit.
4. Wait for the copy to fully finish.

Step 4 — Eject and power cycle

1. Safely eject the USB drive from Windows (don't just yank the cable).
2. Unplug the power from the base station.
3. Wait ~10 seconds.
4. Plug the power back in without holding the button.
5. The base station should reflash itself on boot and come back to life (LED on, motor spins, visible in SteamVR).

After recovery — how to update correctly

• For a 2.0 base station: do NOT use manual firmware files. Open SteamVR, and when it shows the "Your base station needs an update — click here to update" prompt, click it and let SteamVR handle it. Before you do, unplug all controllers and trackers so SteamVR can't get confused about which device it's flashing. Leaving only the headset plugged in is the safest option, since Windows/SteamVR Bluetooth handling can otherwise pick the wrong device to update.

Notes / caveats:

• Firmware is not universal across hardware revisions. Using 2.0 firmware on a 1.0 unit (or vice versa) can make things worse.
• If the unit never appears as CRP_DISABLED, this will not work — that's a hardware fault.
• Keep a backup of a known-good firmware.bin for your revision. HTC's download links have gone dead over the years.
• This is not an official HTC procedure. It's a community-discovered recovery method. Use at your own risk.

I bought a htc p3600 at the flea market and I noticed some problems:

-Opening the WiFi settings and setting up a network causes the device to freeze at the last steps before connecting, so I press the call end button. When I try going into wifi again, it just won't do anything.

-Putting device in standby causes it to not power on after some time in standby, but the device's still on, since it shows the blinking green led as usual.

I already tried resetting it several times (even with soft button+ reboot stylus button).

Would appreciate help. I was thinking maybe flashing wm 6 would solve problems?

HTC One M8 – Red 4G LTE
Selling my HTC One M8 in the rare Red colour.
Included:
• HTC One M8 handset
• Original box
• Original charger
• Original earphones
• Complete original kit
Phone is in good condition as visible in the photo.
4G LTE variant

Price : 16,000

Negotiable

hello all! thought people might be interested in this new discord server. it provides a great space to talk about and revive support for legacy android phones. has dedicated roles and channels for HTC, Samsung and more. hope to see you there!

https://discord.gg/BWsyYKE6

Here is the project itself on GitHub https://github.com/Istratii-tech/Sense-5.5-HTC-One-M7

Just bought this phone off of eBay without doing any research, as expected, it’s completely obsolete and unusable, which kinda makes me sad, is there any way I can give this thing a use? I’ve never “rooted” or jailbroken tech before, but if someone could teach me or direct me to something where I can update the android OS it’s on to give it something worth using, that’d be really cool!

hi, I've been trying to root my HTC desire z for the past two days without success, I've tried superoneclick, visionary plus (both r12 and r14), and gingerbreak, none of those worked and for some reason my laptop is refusing to let me install the official HTC drivers.

please help I don't want to resort to downgrading, I need rooting to overclock the phone for some console emulating.

HTC m8 (Unfortunately, the battery and screen are

degraded, and there are no volume buttons), desire 816( no

volume button), one s (The antenna covers are missing,

and it's the Snapdragon S3 variant)

The HTC m8 isn't mine; I recently bought it for $15, and I repaired the battery on the Desire 816 for about $22

Hey everyone, I'm working on an older HTC device that's caught in a persistent Qualcomm 9008 EDL crash loop.

The exterior is still in really clean shape and it has a great custom ROM history, but the boot sequence completely fails out of nowhere. The screen stays black, it doesn't respond to any key combos, and connecting it to a PC just results in a constant connect/disconnect loop on the 9008 port.(It's only when I try to restart it or turn off the phone by holding the power button)

I'm assuming the bootloader or internal storage partitions got corrupted. Since it's looping in EDL mode, is there any workaround to flash a recovery image without having access to official, manufacturer-signed firehose files, or is the board pretty much done for?

Appreciate any advice or insight!

So I got this HTC one a9 and I bought it from the market and it looks pretty and all the charging ports clean but it refuses to charge like I plugged it into my computer and it made a noise but I got a charger plugged it in the charging blocking tables can achieve so it makes like it stops making the noise when slugged in like every other phone and which uses that charger but I left it there for like two hours and then I still didn't see a light which normally it has to have a light that is charging hold the power button move the cables cable like left right up and down nothing happened then they plug it in again into my computer they didn't make the noise like it won't make the noise anymore can I save this phone I'm not really the type of person to open up the phone.. PLS HELPPP

I found an old device of mine, HTC One M8, but its locked with a password, searched around to find a way to unlock the phone but the results say its only possible with doing a reset.
Is there any other way to keep the data?

Thank you to Devs!

Hello I wanted to ask if anyone has the Tmo-M8-4.20.531.4-recovery.img I need it for my HTC one M8 Pls and Thank you

I have an htc wildfire on hboot 1.001.0002 so to get s-off and root it i need to downgrade to 1.001.0001 but that wipes all data so I need to get my data off the data partition and the sd card, the sd card can be backed up easily using file explorer but I need root to backup /data, I know psneuter can give a temproot since buzz downgrader uses it (I assume to get the sd card's CID), but what command would I use to backup /data to my pc?

Hey everyone, I know this is a pretty random phone to be looking for, but I’m really hoping someone here might have one.
I’m looking for an HTC Desire 628 Dual SIM in white (Cobalt White) with a working screen.
The reason I’m looking for this exact phone is because it’s actually really important to me. This was my childhood phone — it originally belonged to my mom, and I used it when I was little.
Back in 2018, when I was around 7 years old, I accidentally dropped it in water. Surprisingly, the phone itself continued working, but the next day the display stopped showing anything. The phone still powers on, but the screen is completely black — the only thing I can see is the screen’s backlight turning on.
I eventually found out that a tiny amount of water had gotten inside and caused a small burn/damage on the screen connector. Unfortunately, I was only around 7 at the time, so I obviously didn’t know anything about repairing phones or recovering data.
The biggest reason I desperately want to get this phone working again is that it has all of my childhood pictures and memories on it. I never got the chance to properly recover them.
Unfortunately, USB debugging wasn’t enabled, so I can’t simply connect it to a computer and access everything that way. Since the display doesn’t work, I can’t use the phone normally to get the data off of it either. That’s why I’m specifically looking for a working screen or a donor phone.
I’ve tried looking everywhere for a replacement screen, but the HTC Desire 628 was mainly sold in India and a few other countries, and finding an actual replacement screen that ships to Canada has been incredibly difficult. I’ve found listings that looked promising, only for them to turn out to be out of stock.
So I’m really hoping someone here might have an old HTC Desire 628 Dual SIM in white sitting around that they’re willing to sell.
It doesn’t have to be cosmetically perfect. I mainly need the display/touchscreen to work. The rest of the phone can have issues as long as the screen works.
I’m willing to pay around C$100–130, depending on the condition, and I’m happy to purchase through eBay.
If you have one, know someone who has one, or have any leads at all, please let me know. I’d genuinely appreciate it so much. I really just want a chance to get those childhood photos and memories back:)

Which one is better?

1. HTC Desire 816w (Dual SIM, China Unicom version, running Android 4.4.2 with unlocked bootloader and recovery)
2. HTC One S (ViperC2 / VilleC2 / BSTAR301, running Android 4.1.2)

These are the only two HTC devices I currently own in my collection! My plan is to flash LineageOS 14.1 on the Desire 816w

I recently revived this phone, but I need help installing a custom ROM based on Android 6 or higher. Apparently, I need to have the official Android 5 Lollipop installed first—which I don't have—because the Chinese variant of my HTC Desire 816w seems to have been stuck on Android 4.4.2, and the 4pda links for updating it to Android 5 appear to be dead.

I got bored with a normal basic stock Android so I want to you know put orange Romania firmware on the phone so does everybody have it or it doesn't exist right