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How I got my HTC legend loaded..Expanded jc36

I'm new here - first post:eek:. Normally just leech forums but thought this might help someone somewhere save a bit of reading.

This process worked for me your mileage may vary...

This is jc36 awesome instructions, slightly elaborated on.

I claim no ownership of anything below, it has all been pulled from other post/sites.

I’ve only put in some extra details to make it easier to follow.

This should go without saying but all of these instructions are based on :

1)	You having the android SDK installed. http://developer.android.com/sdk/exploring.html Also on some OS versions you may need to update your System PATH variable to include the install directory of the SDK.

2)	You should also have HTC Sync installed

3)	Legend USB drivers on your system.

4)	The knowledge you could loop or brick your phone

Go to http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/

Register on the site and select your device. The HTC site says to check your version of ROM but you should just install their RUU listed for your supplier. Mine matched the version listed in the chart and it gave the (bootloader) [ERR] Command error !!! with fastboot oem get_identifier_token with that version. So I updated to their RUU and all went well.

Follow the instructions on the site and unlock the bootloader by using the Unlock_code.bin and PBxxxxxxx_Legend_Froyo_S_hboot_1.02.0000_R.exe files they provide. Remember to have HTC sync installed on your computer and running.

Get HTC Super Tools from

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1343114

Run it, do options 1 and 3, in that order, to root your phone

When you download this app you may get a virus notification, this is because the file roots your phone! Hopefully you know this because this is why you are downloading this application.

My antivirus detected it as Zerg Rush exploit. So downloading/installing with anti-virus disabled is your best bet from sources listed above.

Get Clockwork Recovery Mod from

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1290841

Use 1st step for S-OFF method to install ClockworkRecovery

I used these two commands from the above tutorial.

1) adb reboot bootloader

2) fastboot flash recovery recovery_legend_5.0.2.8.img

Enter the first command at the DOS prompt and wait for it to reach the Boatloader screen on your phone. Then enter the second “fastboot” command at the Dos prompt ensuring the recovery file is in the same folder as fastboot.exe. Ie C:\Android

Boot into Recovery mode and take a backup of your ROM by holding down the volume key and the On/Off button, use the optical track mouse button to select your choice from the menu items and the back button is still the back button.

Download the ROM of your choice and copy it to the root of your SD card. I downloaded 3 different ones just in case, (7,9,10 versions) and keep on the SD card.

Also copy tiny gapps to the root of your SD.

On reboot an Android application Superuser SDD had an update for me, which I did as a precaution which may not be necessary.

Boot into Recovery Mode, do a data wipe/factory reset and a cache wipe.

Select Install from zip in Recovery, navigate to your ROM in SD Card and install it. Once it is installed, select install from zip again and choose the tiny gapps from your sd card as well that is for the version of ROM you are installing.

Just remember for this section this nukes everything on the sd card. So have a backup. If you are unsure of what this does or the commands you may want to read the tutorials a few times or do the default settings.

Once you have rooted and loaded your new rom, you’ll want to load apps but still be restricted by the size of the HTC internal memory etc. So look for an app called S2E and if you have $5 buy the gold version to help out the dev.

This app can mount the sd card as ext 3 or ext4(preferred) giving you the additional space you need. You can be lazy and just partition an ext3 from CWR advanced and use s2e to move applications to it.

The faster the speed of the card the better your user experience will be. Busybox is an app that will help with creating an ext4 partition. Tutorial here is based for CM7 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1477996

But should work for other versions as well.

Mini partition tool will also work http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1072369

Hope this helps.

This is a long process, at least for the first timers.

You may get stuck at various places, please let us know if you do

---------- Post added at 11:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:41 AM ----------

http://madteam.co/news/2011/10/simple2ext-guide-on-cm7/

This is a better guide

Once you have rooted and loaded your new rom, you’ll want to load apps but still be restricted by the size of the HTC internal memory etc. So look for an app called S2E and if you have $5 buy the gold version to help out the dev.

This app can mount the sd card as ext 3 or ext4(preferred) giving you the additional space you need. You can be lazy and just partition an ext3 from CWR advanced and use s2e to move applications to it.

The faster the speed of the card the better your user experience will be. Busybox is an app that will help with creating an ext4 partition. Tutorial here is based for CM7 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1477996

But should work for other versions as well.

Mini partition tool will also work http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1072369

Hope this helps.

This is a long process, at least for the first timers.

You may get stuck at various places, please let us know if you do[/QUOTE]