[Desire General] SeBsZ:
HOW-TO: HTC T328W from China (Bootloader unlock, rooting, installing Google apps and removing bloatware.

02/July/2012

This guide has been tested on two HTC T328W dual-sim phones bought from China. It has also been tested with the following Build numbers and baseband versions and both worked perfectly.

Dear mods: I know this is not the correct thread for this phone. Please create a new subforum for this great phone and move all T328W threads into it. They are all over the place (from One V to Desire, etc.). Thanks.

!!I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE!!

Phone 1:

Kernel: 3.0.16

Baseband: 1.04.34D.11_20.11.30.11U

Build number: 1.35.1402.1

Browser: 534.30

Phone 2:

Kernel: 3.0.16

Baseband: 1.06.34D

Build number: 1.56.1402.6

Browser: 534.30

The zip file containing all needed files can be found at mediafire . c o m / ?783kthx72x3uf5d .

I could not attach the zip file (I get a page not found) and am not allowed to post outside links yet.

Bootloader unlocking

1. Let’s change the language to English first so we understand the phone better. Open the apps menu and go to the Settings icon (the cogwheel icon). Scroll down to the setting with the “A” icon. Click the first item in the list and choose English.

2. Go to htcdev . c o m, create an account and click the Unlock bootloader icon. After logging in, choose “All Other Supported Models” from the list and click the Begin Unlock Boatloader button. Accept that you may lose any guarantee and continue to follow the instructions.

3. To enter bootloader mode, make sure the phone is off (or remove the battery for a few seconds). Then hold Volume Down and start pressing the Power button – without any USB cable. Use the up and down buttons to select “Fastboot” and select it using the Power button. Now connect your USB cable and continue following the HTC instructions.

4. All the files you need are in the zip you can get above. I also installed the HTC Sync program which installs the drivers. Using the command prompt you can simply navigate to the extracted files and run the fastboot command. (Use the command “cd C:/myextractedzip” to change to a directory).

5. Save the Unlock_Code.bin attachment which you get from HTC by Email into the same extracted zip folder and run the next command. You now have an unlocked bootloader and the phone will start up and an HTC wizard will appear where you can choose the English language again.

Flashing clockworkmod

1. Remove any USB cables and boot again into the bootloader mode. Click Fastboot and reconnect your USB cable. Now run the following command on your computer: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img . This flashes the clockworkmod recovery image onto the phone.

2. Switch off your phone. Make sure your USB cable is removed.

3. Now copy the “app” folder from the zip onto a micro-sd card. Also copy the “CWM-SuperSU-v0.92.zip” and “rootexplorer_2.16.apk” onto the micro-sd card.

4. Insert the micro-sd card into the phone and boot into boatloader mode again.

5. Now choose the recovery option instead of fastboot and wait for clockworkmod recovery to appear.

Rooting the phone

1. In clockworkmod recovery, choose install zip from sdcard

2. Choose “choose zip from sdcard” and choose “CWM-SuperSU…zip”

3. Scroll down to “Yes – Install CWM-SuperSu” and wait. Now go back and reboot the phone normally.

Installing Google Apps

1. Using the included file manager on the phone, click on “rootexplorer.apk” and install it. When launching root explorer, make sure you grant it superuser permissions.

2. Go click the “sdcard” folder and press and hold the “app” folder that you copied from the zip file. Click “copy” and then navigate to /system . Press “Mount R/W”. And then click “Paste”. Choose Yes to overwrite. Exit root explorer.

3. Now we need to fix the permissions. The easiest way is if you enable USB Debugging mode from the “Developer Options” settings. Make sure you connect your USB cable.

4. Open a command prompt to our extracted zip folder and type “adb shell”. Press enter and you should see “shell@android:/ $”. Run “su”. Run “cd /system/app”.

5. Now to fix all permissions, run “chmod 644 *.apk” and then run “chown root.root *.apk” .

6. Now run “reboot” to reboot your phone.

Removing bloatware apps

1. Thanks to dark_hawk from xda-developers, we have a list of system apps/bloatware that are save to remove. You can easily do this from the root explorer app. Go to /system/app and hold each item you want to delete. Then click delete. You can also remove each app’s odex file.

The list:

116114.apk

2254_HTCCU_WO3G_SIE.apk

DoubanFM.apk

DreyeCHSPkg40.apk

HTCCN_FileManager.apk

HTC_Widget_Renren.apk

HTC_Widget_Sina_Weibo.apk

HTC_Widget_Sina_Weibo_Nearby.apk

HTC_Widget_Sina_Weibo_Trend.apk

HTC_Widget_Sina_Weibo_Trend.apk

HtcMusicEnhancer_China_Sina.apk

HtcMusic_China_Sina.apk

PhoneMail.apk

QQ2011.apk

Renren_FSplugin.apk

Renren_GLRplugin.apk

SinaMusic.apk

Sina_Weibo_FSPlugin.apk

Sina_Weibo_GLRplugin.apk

SohuNews.apk

VDisk.apk

Weibo.apk

eMoney.apk

mapbar.apk

renren.apk

unicomclient_HTCT328W.apk

vegetable.apk

wefound.apk

2. Then run “reboot” to reboot your phone.

3. After the reboot you might still find some Chinese language apps. These can be removed with an app from the Play Store such as Root Uninstaller.

by SeBsZ.

If you have any problems, please post below and I will answer and/or update this post.