[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhdunn:
Try this:

Introducing Ace Advanced Hack Kit

[*]COMPLETELY INTEGRATED/INVISIBLE GOLD CARD PROCESS

[*]Only ONE menu step - HACK ACE

[*]No ROM downgrade required (only radio/kernel)

[*]No wiping data

[*]Rom is fully working (yes, inc wifi)

[*]Fully rooted with insecure boot image (supports adb remount for rw system)

[*]Busybox manager app installed

[*]S-Off, superCid & carrier sim unlock

[*]Correct Radio is automagically restored for HSPA+ operation

[*]Clockworkmod Recovery and Rom Manager included

[*]Both stock Froyo and Gingerbread supported

[*]Easy return to stock

[*]Much smaller download

[*]Much smaller firmware flash to obtain the exploit - comparatively very fast processing.

Notes:

[*]Please do NOT run the hack step if you are already S-OFF and are running a custom ROM. It's pointless, and while it won't brick you, you can get jammed up a bit. This is for stock devices only.

[*]WINDOWS: IMPORTANT - disable all malware (Antivirus detection etc) detection before unarchiving the hack kit. Keep it off thoughout the hack kit processes. Many Windows malware detection programs report false positives, deleting or binding critical files required by the process.

[*]Do NOT try to run this from a VM - particularly VirtualBox. You WILL get jammed up and may wind up flashing an RUU to recover, losing data in the process.

[*]After kernel downgrade - video is lost - this is okay as adb is working and can be used to finish the process. When the process completes, everything is restored and fully working.

[*]Because the procedures have changed completely, whatever Youtube video people are watching is now completely wrong. READ THE EFFEN MANUAL. There is no substitute.

[*]Make sure you extract the hack kit to your pc maintaining the directory structure in the archive you downloaded. The docs will be in the root directory of the unarchived kit, as will the scripts. READ THE EFFEN MANUAL.

[*]I can't believe that so many people are asking where the effen manual is. THE EFFEN MANUAL IS IN THE EFFEN HACK KIT.

[*]This kit should work fine on ALL HTC Inspire and HTC Desire HD which require the radio/kernel downgrade before a root exploit is available.

Issues during downgrade:

[*]IMPORTANT: BEFORE SWITCHING FROM DISK DRIVE TO CHARGE ONLY MODE, ALWAYS EJECT THE GOLDCARD WITH PC SOFTWARE TO FLUSH WRITE BUFFERS AND AVOID CORRUPTING THE SDCARD.

[*]model ID incorrect update fail - this is because your goldcard is not working.

[*] Stop watching the out of date Youtube video, get latest version and READ THE EFFEN MANUAL. Reading is fundamental.

Download: aahk-03102011.zip md5: 73c37116324bd205bfbb9850dbcf1235

this (just below) is HUGE

viperbjk is with Revskills, and his contribution is key to finally allowing one step processing where a goldcard is required.

The entire process is now one menu step. A second step will be required to clear your conscience - DONATE to:

RevSkills http://psas.revskills.de/?q=goldcard [Donate here]

and

Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/ [Donate here]

Ace Advanced Hack Kit Changelog

AAHK 03102011

[*]Another DHD Bugfix - properly ID DHD model when checking adb connectivity

AAHK 26092011

[*]bugfix - froyo boot image restore

AAHK 25092011

[*]Added service and process stops for some known bad actors in windows

[*]Added boot images for both froyo and gingerbread for non-NAM device

[*]Stock ROMS should now be fully operational on all DHDs.

AAHK 19092011

[*]Increased Windows sleep setting

AAHK 16092011

[*]OSX wget bugfix

AAHK 14092011

[*]Froyo radio restore fix in hack process

AAHK 13092011-2

[*]Added additional serial prefix support for a EU DHD

AAHK 13092011

[*]Gold card creation now completely integrated/invisible - Only one step required

[*]Complete downgrade no longer required - no data loss

[*]Smaller, faster, process (uses small firmware update and not an entire RUU)

[*]Original ROM is retained and is fully functional, fully rooted

[*]New replacement ROM not required

[*]Correct Radio is automagically restored for HSPA+ operation

V12.3 (08-11-2011) (V12 has been moved here: http://tinyurl.com/3kwx5zt)

[*]Fixed Broken Windows script

V12.2 (08-11-2011)

[*]Fixed updated recovery

V12.1 (08-10-2011)

[*]Updated Recovery

[*]Added Missing OTA Radio update in Linux script

[*]Added clean step in options menu

V12 (08-08-2011)

[*]Froyo/Gingerbread automatically detected

[*]Android 2.3.3 (Software #2.47.502.7) support added via fre3vo. Possibly others.

[*]Downgrade failure detection

[*]Includes AT&T OTA Radio Option

[*]RCDATA included in both radios

V11 (04-29-2011)

[*]Menu Driven

[*]Now restores sound

[*]Perma rooted

[*]Rom Manager installed

[*]Fewer steps

[*]Far less user interaction

[*]Integrated cid reverser,

[*]Integrated Goldcard write

[*]No more phone term commands

[*]No more flashing CWM from ROM manager required

[*]Faster, more reliable - MAJOR UPDATE

V10 (Stone aged process)

[*]Integrated SDCard CID reverser (OSX/Linux versions (me) and Windows Version (shad0wf0x)

[*]Integrated Goldcard image writing for all supported platforms

[*]Far fewer Goldcard issues

[*]No more terminal commands

[*]Much simpler

[*]Much faster

[*]Far, far, far, far, far fewer user errors. Way less. Really.

< V10 prehistoric

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If you have read this post and the effen-manual and get stuck during processing,

help is available in IRC at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria

Yes, there are stupid questions.

Questions that will get you immediately kickbanned from the IRC channel with no further explanation:

[*]Q: Do I need to flash a ROM after the hack kit is finished?

[*]A: Kickban. The hack kit is a complete, one step process. If it finishes correctly, you are finished. What part of "fully functional" is vague?

[*]Q: Do I need to flash a radio after the hack kit is finished?

[*]A: Kickban. The hack kit is a complete, one step process. If it finishes correctly, you are finished. What part of "fully functional" is vague?

[*]Q: The options menu has options to flash radios. Do I need to flash a radio?

[*]A: Kickban. What part of "optional" is vague? This option is to make it easy for people who may have flashed another radio and want to flash back to these particular radios.

[*]Q: Do I need to plug in the phone?

[*]A: Kickban. If you know how to enable usb debugging without a USB connection, then I'll change this policy. In the meantime, asking such a question just makes me think you have not read anything and/or have dedicated yourself to being an idiot.

[*]Q: What's the best ROM?

[*]A: Kickban. The whole point of this is to give YOU control and allow YOU to decide. Yes, we prefer CM7 and I think it's the only real Android choice available, but don't ask us to think for you. If you don't see that pretty much everything else is either ripped off or HTC Non-Sense, then you haven't done your homework and that's okay. Just don't ask, because in the end, it's YOUR choice.

[*]Q: Facebook doesn't work.

[*]A: Kickban. This has nothing to do with anything but Facebook. Go ask Facebook, not us.

This IRC channel is for people who read, attempt and get stuck because of PC issues or an occasional bug introduced with a new feature.

It's not for people to troll those who dedicate their time for support without any compensation by asking a series of mindless, inane questions and observations for attention.

We're too busy for that - even if we have nothing to do. It's beyond annoying and you will be kickbanned without warning. Read, search, think, try, then ask.

The people in liberatedAria have been helping noobs without compensation for over a year now, with generally very good results and a generally good nature, despite being abused by some on almost a daily basis.

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Thanks to:

Revskills for their fantastic gold card algorithym

GenePoole for the kickass android goldcard binary based on above

agrabren for fre3vo, the Gingerbread temproot used

scotty2, the author of psneuter, misc_version and gfree

shad0wf0x for his windows scripting contributions

ktilcu for DOC contributions

anthony1s for his review and unique perpective

The > 35,000 users who have already downloaded the hack kit, most of whom seem to get though it without issue.

from my Inspire 4G using xda premium.

Good luck.