[Desire HD General] sameer.verma:
Trying to root HTC desire HD A9191

Hi,

I am trying the aahk2 method to downgrade my phone. However I am not able to do so.

Here is the output for the aahk2 console. Please analyze and let me know what is incorrect I am using Samsung SD card formatted with 4KB sector size.

Attaching the aahk2 console output.

Ace Advanced Hack Kit 2

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MAIN MENU | |
1 - Hack Ace <----------------------------+ * S-OFF |
| * SIM Unlock |
h - Prepare HTCdev unlocked device | * SuperCID |
| * Root |
| * Touch Recovery |
| |
**********************************************************************
t - Toggle Flash Method - current method is fastbootRUU
**********************************************************************

q - Quit

[Select and press Enter]1
This version of Android cannot use the hack kit at this time!

You can downgrade if you like, then rerun the hack step.
WARNING: THIS WILL WIPE DATA
Would you like to downgrade? [y/n]y
File "PD98IMG/PD98IMG-GB2.zip" found and checked successfully
Do you want to proceed with downgrade? [y,n]y
Pushing rom to sdcard...
This takes time. Please be patient!
1988 KB/s (259503624 bytes in 127.439s)
2134 KB/s (572752 bytes in 0.262s)
1565 KB/s (19240 bytes in 0.012s)
785 KB/s (14475 bytes in 0.018s)
Starting stock recovery the first time to init....

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USER INTERACTION REQUIRED ( 1 of 2 )

STEP ONE: When you see the ugly red triangle, push/hold vol-UP and then push
power to start stock recovery.
STEP TWO: When you get to the blue stock recovery menu, choose reboot and push
power.

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TacoRoot: HTC Edition v1
By Justin Case (jcase)
Presented by TeamAndIRC, RootzWiki and AndroidPolice
With great assistance from Reid Holland (Erishasnobattery)
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TacoRoot: HTC Edition v1 is based on a vulnerability independently discovered by
both Justin Case and Dan Rosenberg (Rosenberg fist). I believe unrevoked and
AlpahRev were also aware of it.
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Usage:
--recovery : For this exploit to work, you must have booted recovery at least once after your last factory reset.
--setup : Setup the phone for root, must be done before --root.
--root : Root the phone.
--undo : Remove TacoRoot.
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Rebooting into recovery, please press Volume+, Volume- and Power at the same time, and reboot the system.
rm failed for /data/data/recovery/log, No such file or directory
link failed No such file or directory
Starting stock recovery for the last time....

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USER INTERACTION REQUIRED ( 2 of 2 )

STEP ONE: When you see the ugly red triangle, push/hold vol-UP and then push
power to start stock recovery.
STEP TWO: When you get to the blue stock recovery menu, choose reboot and push
power.

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TacoRoot: HTC Edition v1
By Justin Case (jcase)
Presented by TeamAndIRC, RootzWiki and AndroidPolice
With great assistance from Reid Holland (Erishasnobattery)
----------
TacoRoot: HTC Edition v1 is based on a vulnerability independently discovered by
both Justin Case and Dan Rosenberg (Rosenberg fist). I believe unrevoked and
AlpahRev were also aware of it.
----------
Usage:
--recovery : For this exploit to work, you must have booted recovery at least once after your last factory reset.
--setup : Setup the phone for root, must be done before --root.
--root : Root the phone.
--undo : Remove TacoRoot.
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Rebooting into root.
cannot create /data/local.prop: permission denied
Creating goldcard...
HTC android goldcard tool Copyright (C) 2011, Wayne D. Hoxsie Jr.
Original code by B. Kerler. Special thanks to ATTN1 and the XDA team.
Donations can be made to the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

or to B. Kerler:

/dev/block/mmcblk1: cannot open for write: Permission denied
Setting mainver lower to allow downgrade...
--set_version set. VERSION will be changed to: 1.31.405.6
Misc partition is "/dev/block/mmcblk0p17"
Patching and backing up misc partition...
Error opening input file.
rm failed for /data/local.prop, No such file or directory
Initializing for downgrade...

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*** !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ***
*** READ CAREFULLY AND ***
*** WAIT UNTIL EACH STEP COMPLETES ***
*** !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ***

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** STEP ONE:
** The phone will now reboot into HBOOT.
** It will then check the file just sent.
** If everything is okay, the phone will
** prompt you to continue by pressing
** VOLUME UP. It will reboot, flashing twice.

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** STEP TWO:
** AFTER STEP ONE IS COMPLETED
** When you are promted to do that, push power button.

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If downgrade is successful, you may set up the phone and try to hack it again.

Once the downgrade is successful, press a key to return to the menu...
Otherwise, copy and paste the output into a text file for evaluation.
Press any key to continue . . .

After this phone reboots checks the PD98 file and gives some missing file error and then analyzes the PD98IMG file with blue progress bar. When this finished a gold bar appears and finishes with error CID incorrect! Update failed. Plz help