[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raofarabi:
I Have Read This Somewhere Else..

I dont understand the use Of CD ?

Else is right?

Please Help

I just got a new HTC Desire (old one died) and the old rooting methods I used to use for it, refused to work.

This is for getting root and S-OFF with the Telstra branded HTC Desire (stock ROM) with HBOOT 0.93, PVT4 and block size of 40000.

None of the various Unrevoked 3.21 and AmonRa 2.0.1/CWM methods seemed to work for me, so after four hours of trying different combinations of custom recoveries with different versions of Unrevoked, this is what I found to work:

(note, this guide is for OS X)

- download Unrevoked 3.3.2 from http://unrevoked.com/recovery/

- download AmonRa 2.0.1 from http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20471345/SUr...y-RA_2.0.1.img (the Desire specific one didn't work for me)

- download AlphaRev 1.8 from http://alpharev.nl/

- Boot your phone. Make sure that you have the 2GB microsd that came with it, I couldn't get this to work with 8GB and 16GB cards, though you can swap it out after root, no worries.

- Plug it into your Mac with the USB cable and choose "Charge only" and tick the box down the bottom

- Go to Settings -> Applications -> Development and turn on USB debugging

- Remove the USB cable from the Mac

- Open the Unrevoked DMG and run the contents

- Go to "File" and untick "Disable security on phone"

- Go to "File" and choose "custom recovery" and browse to where you stored "recovery-RA_2.0.1.img" and choose it

- Plug the phone back into the Mac via USB and accept the dialogue warnings

- Wait for the tool to do its thing - can take 5-7 minutes, will reboot several times, the Unrevoked tool will tell you what is going on

- Root shall be achieved

- Reboot into recovery (power plus back) and do a nandroid backup (guides on this elsewhere)

- Reboot your phone

- Put a blank CD into your Mac and wait for the prompt to come up and ask you what you want to do with it

- Choose "Disc Utility" and hit OK

- Drag alpharev.iso to the left hand column

- Click burn in the top menu

- Hold down command+option+shift+delete and reboot your Mac

- Alternatively, just reboot and hold down C whilst booting it

- Choose the CD icon that comes up (it will say Windows, but don't worry)

- Wait for AlphaRev to do its thing, it might take a little while and will eventually ask you to plug your phone in, it will also ask if you want to flash the CWM AlphaRev recovery (I chose yes)

- Hmm, what next... I think that this is where you plug in your phone

- Follow the onscreen instructions to the letter and let it do its thing - takes about five minutes

- When your phone says that it is safe to reboot, don't do it, let the Linux distro do that for you

- Shortly after this, your phone will reboot and show the AlphaRev boot splash instead of the annoying Telstra one, then go to the second Telstra splash and boot up.

From here, you can reboot into recovery (either via downloading ROM Manager from the market or the power/back button combo) and flash your ROM of choice.

A couple of suggestions though - make sure that your battery is fully charged before doing this so that you don't bugger up the battery life and do a full wipe prior to flashing.

Hope that this helps some people out.