yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 and Desire Z General] The Prince1:
No mate, I am using ROM 4.0.4 I think this is an ice cream one. Its here on this link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2095658

The kernal as appeared in the phone:

2.6.38.8-cayniarb-ics-

stock-022612-00844-ge004de8

I got the emulator already, it came with the rom, it is Jack P one, so I am on the right way so far.

I been through the link you added already, and I post there but no reply yet.
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Well that appears to be for a different phone so the methods here wouldn't work to fix this.

More than likely you will have to ask the developer of that ROM for a fix, the HTC desire and HTC desire Z are different enough phones that I wouldn't be comfortable guessing how to do it
[G2 and Desire Z General] The Prince1:
At least I could try.

Because the method in the origenal post works for many different phones, it may work for me too.

So please help me to try that and lets see what happen!
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
I don't believe the exact method in either the MIUI thread or the one i last linked you will work on any phone but the HTC Vision, but we may be able to find a way anyhow.

But to do so i will require that you get both adb and fastboot functioning on your device first as i will need to get partition information, keychars and other files, as well as have execute shell commands. all of which will be easiest if you have adb and fastboot.

Yes it could be done with a terminal emulator or editing files with root explorer but i have never used your phone before nore looked into anything about it, so if you would like me to help this is a prerequisite. you can use the adb/fastboot guides linked in this thread to begin your setup if you so choose
[G2 and Desire Z General] sagun khadka:
i flashed eliterom . then when i tried fastboot to send boot,img it tells

C:\Users\ntc\Desktop\flash\htc\g2 (desire z)\Fastboot\Fastboot>fastboot flash bo

ot boot.img

< waiting for device >

sending 'boot' (2190 KB)... OKAY [ 0.483s]

writing 'boot'... INFOsignature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

finished. total time: 0.764s

any thing going wrong ?

---------- Post added at 01:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:16 PM ----------

yeah brother yeahhhhhhhhhhhh i dit it. my hboot was relocked then i changed it to unlocked . then tried the same process that u told to me and now my phone i opend
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Awesome!

I'm glad its all working now, to make life easier in the future I still highly recommend to follow the wiki to get s-off some time soon. You will be very happy you did,

Happy flashing!
[G2 and Desire Z General] sagun khadka:
while getting s-off for htc vision

guys i cant figure this out

C:\Users\ntc\Desktop\flash\htc\g2 (desire z)\platform-tool

hell /data/local/tmp/psneuter

Failed to set prot mask (Inappropriate ioctl for device)

help me out !
[G2 and Desire Z General] B770:
Hi,

I have a desire z with no history. I checked the water indikators on the phone. They are ok, so the phone wasn't dropped in the water or something. All screws are original and the phone wasn't opend.

If I plug in a USB cable the orange LED turns on after some time the LED turns off. After turning on the phone I only can see the green HTC logo and it stuk there.

If I want to check the device with ADB: ADB only tells me that no device is pluged in (empty List)

I tried the save boot method (holding the "s" button from the keyboard): Without any success

Informations.

Putting the phone into fastboot mode: and typing in fastboot devices: Output:

SH117RT00211 fastboot

fastboot oem jump
...
(bootloader) [ERR] Command error !!!
OKAY [ 0.016s]
finished. total time: 0.016s

Informations from the desire Z when I hold the volume down button and press the power button:

VISION PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.85.0013
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 11 2011, 23:36:27
HBOOT USB PLUG

IMAGE CRC:

osbl: 0x7EE4ED8C
ams: 0xB7A63815
hboot: 0xCCCC4C36
recovery: 0xEFBDE78C
system: 0xEC79AF73

Any idea how I can bring the phone back to live?
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Hey B770

Thanks for giving as much information as possible it shows you have done your research. But I'm sure you found the same thing, its unlikely to have a fix. Really the only thing you can try is to get the phone to except a factory reset (which I assume you tried) or find an RUU that will flash. Outside of this there isn't much to do as without s-off you are locked out of other options

Best of luck!
[G2 and Desire Z General] B770:
Hey demkantor,

thanks for your reply. I tried to make a factory reset without any success. I tried to flash a RUU which says that I have the version 2.42.405.4

Could I flash a smaller version? (e.g. 1.72.405.2)

Now the orage LED was blinking so I guess the accu is empty and I have to charge it first... After it is charged I will try to flash some RUU (from here)

Edit: I tried it now several times with diverent RUU versions. It always suck at the point where the software tries to restart the bootloader :(

Regards B770
[G2 and Desire Z General] oscarudy:
My mistress in D-istresZ

Hi, please don't hate me for asking the same dreadful question(s). If searched for an answer on the net and around this forum but unfortunately the result did tot matched my .... (you fill in, I really can't find the right word for it) yes that. But despite the fact that there's so much relevent information and all the great work and effort that has been done by you all with all the guides and topics to support other people I'm probably missing the point..still! And therefore I have a few questions:

After instlaling roms completed mini setup after booting, added my Google account, synced App Data, Calendar, Gmail and WhatsApp contacts.

I assume it has something to do with not having enough memory or not using sd-extend or swap partition. If possible I would also like to avoid using the last two but only if possible. Therefore I came up with Q #2.
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Hi [MENTION=6069275]oscarudy[/MENTION]

I for sure don't hate you, in fact I like that you searched as much as possible and took the time to read through guides, many here don't, and even with guides and vast knowledge base of xda things get confusing

By partition do you mean format? You don't often repartition the phone but the dz bootloader does have a different system partition size than the g2, a bit larger so most often needed with newer ROMs

As for the formating the phone came as ext3 but most will say changing all partitions to ext4 will help out a bunch, me included

Probably the easiest way to change this is with 4ext recovery, same with sdcard.

If you want to partition sdcard to add either swap or a separate ext partition for storage of apps/data you can not only gain storage but performance depending on the setup and how you use your device

Looking at the info you provided all seems good but I can't attest to why things are slow, I have never used the ROM you have installed and it may be just this, you can try some tweaks to it or try another one

Let me know if you still have questions

Best of luck!
[G2 and Desire Z General] oscarudy:
Thanks for replying demkantor,

I really meant partitioning as in dividing a single hard drive into many logical drives.

Here I could read about the difference between the DZ and the G2 regarding the system partition size. Unfortunately the link refers to another site.

To increase the speed I could not find any difference within ext3 or ext4 but only that "it offers improvements in scalability, reliability, and ease of management". All the partitions are formatted to ext4 because of the benefits of course.

Currently the most important apps are the default ones like the Phone and People (contacts). Beside those WhatsApp, Gmail, Google Maps, Play Store and Calendar synced with google account.

I was convinced that, and don't get me wrong still am, using a cm rom would result in better performance plus that it would look nicer. The last part didn't disappoint me at all and I still have hope that that it will work but/and I was also hoping to avoid to use sd-extend, swap or applications to tweak.

But I think I've found the answer in your last sentence, so my question then comes to this: What's your setup and which roms and Gapps did u used? Cause now I am considering to go stable or PureKat.
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Personally I use GB ROMs on my vision, to me they work the best by far. Usually would run my ROM, cyan x (found in this thread) as it has many ICS and jb features back ported to it. But you'll want yo change default theme if you need something prettier

Other than that mimicry was my go to for ICS ROMs and andromadus for jb
[G2 and Desire Z General] Zorah:
Late to the game

Hi everyone!

I would like to root an ancient but functional HTC Desire Z from Italy, but I cannot find any working link to the PC10IMG.zip file to downgrade to Froyo. The abundant but dated literature all points to either stale links or spamming sites.

Can someone point to a legit Froyo rom for me to download? Guides are excellent out there, but once I get to the PC10IMG.zip point, I am dead.

Thanks

Zorah
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
have a look in

http://thetable.poseidon.feralhosting.com/VISION/VISION/

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] Zorah:
Many Many Thanx

Got the files and succeded. My DZ is in perfect shape and I plan on squeezing the last out of it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] HTCDreamOn:
[MENTION=4334383]demkantor[/MENTION] having an RC dum moment right now :silly: flashed Sensei 1.4 which caused 4EXT to bootloop (exactly as coolos said, but I thought I was n cool n+2 for ROM warnings), and I don't have an engineering hboot so can't flash a new recovery or flash a hboot which will work. So pretty stuck.

Oops.

Any ideas? Cheers

EDIT: ....ahahaha

I forgot I had a ROM.

Spent too much time in recoveries, and not using the actual OS, that I forgot it existed :eek:
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Haha, always funny when I do something stupid and then search for the hardway out... Then the simple solution was right in front of me!

Glad it all worked out!
[G2 and Desire Z General] xavicivic:
[MENTION=4334383]demkantor[/MENTION] Thanks for the reply on the other thread! Any ideas as to why the play store refuses to work??
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Hey buddy,

My best guess is there is currently some incompatible firmware or some 'residue' leftover from an incomplete wipe

You can pull a logcat to try and help narrow it down for a fix but personally I would just start fresh

Can you give me some more info

Boot into bootloader and write down all on that screen, also let me know what recovery (and version) you're on

We can go from there

Edit

Also I know there is a lot of info on this thread, but please do read through post #5 here, it will help us both work out the bugs
[G2 and Desire Z General] xavicivic:
Im s-off

hboot 0842000

microp 0425

radio 26020115m2

I have the latest version of 4ext recovery.

Downgraded my firmware to root...then I followed this guide to fully root

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuDzgFrJ3xs

The playstore works on the rom the phone came with rooted or not. But the playstore never works after flashing custom rom with the correct gapps. I've tried from gingerbread to KK and it's all the same error from play store RPC-7:AEC-7 & RPC:S-7:AEC-0..
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Download from post 30 here (dz preferably)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1728208

First let's wipe clean, boot to fastboot and run this

fastboot erase system

fastboot erase cache

fastboot erase data

fastboot erase recovery

Now flash what you downloaded using the instruction provided in that post or just with fastboot since you're already there

Now flash the superwipe+ found here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1044992

Once complete flash a known stable ROM and gapps if needed, for this purpose I will recommend a gingerbread rom

http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=vision

Or whatever, just let me know ROM and gapps choice
[G2 and Desire Z General] xavicivic:
Oh ****! It worked! Idk what exactly fixed it but you're steps made it work! Thanks. Also what latest, most stable ROM out there for this phone?
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Glad to hear!

You'll find almost every ROM for this phone on the first page of this thread organized my date - most stable is more subjective then you think so its best to try a few out
[G2 and Desire Z General] xavicivic:
Thanks! Would you happen to know a way to increase the RAM on this phone?
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Kind of a loaded question, no way to physically create more ram but you can create a swap partition and/or compcache/zram - but either option may do just as much harm as good - all depends on how you use your phone

Now there was also work done to change where some ram was allocated if I remember correctly but not sure if that ever went anywhere on this phone, its been too long

If your main goal is to find a ROM that has a lot of free ram I often had the best results with gingerbread ROMs personally
[G2 and Desire Z General] xavicivic:
Thanks! I appreciate that. I actually did a swap of 512 mb and everything is working really well! Anything above that slowed my phone down. 512 is the sweet spot. Currently running jb
[G2 and Desire Z General] HTCDreamOn:
This is a long shot but I don't suppose [MENTION=2096888]bradley_e_smith[/MENTION] or anyone else has any Froyo ROMs? Yes, Froyo :o don't ask me why, you may find out soon enough anyway. Specifically enomthers or CM6 but at this point I'm not too bothered as I can't find any downloads.

Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Remind me via pm, I have a bunch of old ROMs on my server, a few froyos for sure
[G2 and Desire Z General] bradley_e_smith:
I think I have an old CM6 but I don't think I have an froyo.

-brad
[G2 and Desire Z General] HTCDreamOn:
thanks but demkantor's provided me with plenty.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dstsem:
hy

can enybody help me? pls!!!

i got a htc desire z 2.3 and i want to root it but its imposible. i find the ruu(exe versions) files but my radio ver is 26.10.04.03 M and i find just gingerbred(2,3) i try to put on RUU_Vision_HTC_WWE_1.34.405.3_Radio_12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.18_M2_release_154596_signed.exe but all stops vith error.

pls link me a ruu exe file with 2.2 froyo that can go on this radio......

all the nother way is to complycated for me and english

just want to root my phon the costum rom load can do but without root is imposible

thx:) :crying:
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Hey [MENTION=1239335]dstsem[/MENTION]

There are multiple ways of rooting this phone but if you don't use the gfree method linked in this guide you will have a lot of headaches in the future

I highly recommend following all the steps to downgrade fully and the root with gfree

If you want I'll be around a PC tomorrow night and I can walk you through it then if you need
[G2 and Desire Z General] dstsem:
ok

i got it end i instal jelly baby 2.0.0 but no radio app any iddea?
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Try spirit fm
[G2 and Desire Z General] Slarti77:
Hi,

I have the following G2:

PHONE: HTC G2 T-Mobile

Android v: 2.3.4

Baseband V: 12.62.60.27U_26.13.04.19_M

Kernal V: 2.6.35.10-g96de068 htc-kernal@and 18-2 #1

Build Number 2.16.531.5 CL159515 release keys

HBOOT-0.820008

Android System Recovery <e3>

It's an old phone not currently in service but I'm wanting to play around with rooting it. I've read the guide here and am wondering the following:

If I downgrade and and then root it, would I have to load up an additional rom to get it back to Gingerbread since it's no longer on T-Mobile's network?

Thx

Mark
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
If you do the downgrade to root method described here (best choice for future use) you can load whatever rom you please from there, but yes you will have downgraded to froyo so a new rom would need to be flashed if you want something newer (ota's don't work when rooted so you can't do that to get official T-Mobile rom but you can flash it directly if you want
[G2 and Desire Z General] Slarti77:
Thanks,

When I tried to download the misc_version_01.zip Avast identified it as a trojan...is it normal for anti virus programs to ID some of the files as a virus?
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Yeah, most rooting scripts get flagged because by their very nature they are trying to exploit a system

But no worries, 10s of thousands here can attest it is safe
[G2 and Desire Z General] Slarti77:
Thanks Dem,

I hope this isn't a duplicate post. I posted this question more than an hour ago and haven't seen it yet.

This has been fun. I've completed the downgrade and am now at this level:

DOWNGRADED

Android v: 2.2

Baseband V: 12.28b.60.140eu_26.03.02.26_M

Kernal V: 2.6.32.17-g9ab3677 htc-kernal@and 18-2 #1

Build Number 1.22.531.8 CL277427 release keys

HBOOT-0.820008

Android System Recovery: could not find this due to issue listed below.

Having trouble downloading root_psn.zip from cmw.cmfs.me (from the wiki). Error is "this connection timed out".

Having trouble downloading su-2.3.6.3-efgh.zip rom cmw.cmfs.me (from the wiki). Error is "this connection timed out".

Having trouble downloading vision.hboot-0.76.2000.zip. Scratch that. Tried the mirror and that worked, however, the MD5 sum on the wiki (7669AE12DC2FAA10AE555A164980EFD0 ) did not match the MD5 sum from the file (5ea9c3625339affd7aa619f3e3b3a044) Is this a problem? I'm assuming the MD5 from the WIKI should match both files.

Is there anyplace else I can get these three files?

One other thing, I was surprised that as soon as I turned on wireless (there is no active t-mobile account) I got the November 2010 G2 OTA 1.22 Update (I figured since I don't have active service with T-Mobile I would not be getting updates). I let that install. Then the July 2011 G2 OTA 2.15 Update downloaded. I have NOT run that per the instructions on the WIKI. My question is since it's downloaded will there be any issues running the rooting process with it being on the phone? I tried to find it in the /cache/ directory, but that directory is empty. My assumption is that I need root to see anything in that directory.

Finally, when I boot into the system menu (vol down and Power) it no longer give me the ability to move around and choose any of the menu options (fastboot, recovery, factory reset, etc), it simply jumps to recovery and then does some checking and saying “main version is older update fail Press Power to reboot”. Any ideas what might have gone wrong, or will this be resolved once I can finish rooting?

Thx

Mark
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
A couple things,

I link you to all the files, don't use anything that has different md5sum as you can't be sure it is good, as for the rest of the files I'll link you when I get home tonight

As for the bootloader reading, take out sdcard, it is reading the PCIMG.zip on there and not allowing you to proceed, but will with sdcard removed or file removed

But if you took the ota you will have to downgrade again, just the way things go

So sit tight and I'll post the link when I get home, if you don't here from me in about 3-4hours I forgot so pm me for a reminder
[G2 and Desire Z General] Slarti77:
No worries dude, take your time. I do have a few things I'd like to follow up on.

I only let the November 2010 G2 OTA 1.22 Update install, unless I read incorrectly, it was ok to let that install. Then the July 2011 G2 OTA 2.15 Update downloaded. I have not let that install yet. It only downloaded and I had no choice. So are you saying that even though it just downloaded I have to start over? If that's the case I'll have some more questions, but I won't burn bits with them here until I know for sure.

You were right about the SDcard....I should have thought to try that myself. I'm reading up on the fastboot from the link in your post. Lots of good info. I feel like I'm back learning DOS again, I understand enough to do the commands, but not quite sure what they all mean and how they tie together, so I'll keep reading.
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
right on, any questions you have just ask, I'd rather you understand then jump in blind. as for the need to downgrade, that all depends on current radio, newer ones dont allow the exploit, but i believe you are ok so long as youre on android 2.2 froyo (radio versions are the same there?)

here are your links!

Files for downgrade and root ---- G2 only (not for Desire Z)

best of luck!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Slarti77:
Thanks dude...i'll be working on it tomorrow!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Slarti77:
[MENTION=4334383]demkantor[/MENTION], the gfree_10.zip, psneuter.zip, and SUpack.zip all have multiple files within each zip. Do I need to put all the files from each zip into the ADB directory?

thx.
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
I assume you are running Windows? If so add a path to platform-tools in environmental variables so you have systemwide adb/fastboot

(See my links on fastboot to see how)

Then create a folder on desktop, put all .zips here, extract all into the same folder, then hold shift and right click, choose open command here, then run all commands in this terminal and you will be good!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Just adding to this, all the extra files in the zips are source code. But as the commands use the files by name, having the extra files in there won't do any harm, but they are unnecessary.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Nice to see you around Nipqer! Long time!

Yes, the above is true other than the superuser .zip has two necessary items within it, but yeah don't worry about extra files in gfree or any others
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Nice to see you too demkantor, been ages!

Glad to see you're still helping people out in here.

Wonder if the old irc channel is still active...

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] Slarti77:
Thanks guys. I already had the path in place so I put all the files into a directory and dove in. This looked like they were going well until the last step of 4.1. I got the correct code #2 for Automatic GFree hboot verification: md5sum #3 == md5sum #2 - the hboot image was successfully installed -> OK!

I then executed the last step with was the "# Reboot" command (with the "#", but I know I was in as root at this point due to the # sign). I was waiting for the phone to reboot, but it stayed on the white HTC splash screen for a long time (l left it there for about 5 min). Eventually, I pulled the battery, put it back in, and hit the power button again....then it booted to the ClockworkMod REcovery v5.8.1.0. It will only land here or on the HTC screen. If I choose "reboot system now" it just goes back to the white HTC splash screen. I'm assuming this is a "recovery bootloop"? Also, I have 4 lines at the bottom of the phone under the CWM Recovery screen. They are as follows:

g

E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log

E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log

E: can open /cache/recovery/last_log.

I did cut and paste all the info from the cmd window into a file. I'll figure out how to attach it and the drop it back in this post.

<edit>: One other thing. No matter what I choose in CWM Recovery (vol up or down and then hit Pwr), it simply goes to a black screen with a black hat on top of an orange circle...then when I press Pwr key it goes back to the CWM main menu.

Thx for the help...
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Don't worry you are just fine

I know the directions aren't too clear but when you flash the new bootloader you effectively wipe OS from phone, in recovery now you need to flash a rom, any will due

Those errors are typical and should cause no harm, if you want them gone boot into bootloader and perform

fastboot erase system -w

But really your next step is to pick a rom and flash that (along with gapps if needed) and reboot and enjoy!