If your HTC msm8960 device (evita, fireball, jewel, ville) suffers from an inability to be detected correctly in Windows 8.1 while in fastboot mode, there is a simple registry fix that may help. The issue is described in detail by Microsoft and amounts to a duplicate BOS descriptor which Windows 8.1 does not tolerate. This is something that HTC can easily fix with an updated HBOOT… but we all know that’s not happening for these devices.
Download:
htc-msm8960-win81-fastboot.reg (318.00 B)
Simply double-click htc-msm8960-win81-fastboot.reg to import the registry change.
If you’d rather write the changes yourself, here’s the entire file contents:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\usbflags\0BB40FF00100]
"SkipBOSDescriptorQuery"=dword:00000001Apart from this registry fix, you also need to have a recent release of HTC drivers installed.
The idVendor (0BB4), idProduct (0FF0), and bcdDevice (0100) fields have been verified to be consistent between evita, fireball, and ville as shown by the output of lsusb -d 0bb4: -v on each device while in fastboot mode below:
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Bus 004 Device 016: ID 0bb4:0ff0 HTC (High Tech Computer Corp.) Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.10 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x0bb4 HTC (High Tech Computer Corp.) idProduct 0x0ff0 bcdDevice 1.00 iManufacturer 1 htc, Inc iProduct 2 Android 1.0 iSerial 3 (omitted) bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 32 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x80 (Bus Powered) MaxPower 256mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 66 bInterfaceProtocol 3 iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Device Status: 0x0000 (Bus Powered) -
Bus 003 Device 077: ID 0bb4:0ff0 HTC (High Tech Computer Corp.) Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.10 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x0bb4 HTC (High Tech Computer Corp.) idProduct 0x0ff0 bcdDevice 1.00 iManufacturer 1 htc, Inc iProduct 2 Android 1.0 iSerial 3 (omitted) bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 32 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x80 (Bus Powered) MaxPower 256mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 66 bInterfaceProtocol 3 iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 1 Device Status: 0x0000 (Bus Powered) -
Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.10 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x0bb4 HTC (High Tech Computer Corp.) idProduct 0x0ff0 bcdDevice 1.00 iManufacturer 1 htc, Inc iProduct 2 Android 1.0 iSerial 3 (omitted) bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 32 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x80 (Bus Powered) MaxPower 256mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 66 bInterfaceProtocol 3 iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 1