[HTC Desire 601] -Duir-:
Adding your Desire 601 hboot to the list.

-PSA-

Your OTA zip can include things like stock recovery, stock kernel, and stock hboot, just to name a few commonly modified items.

It's highly recommended to hang on to your OTA downloads when you get them. It makes a great way to hang on to stock versions of files updated by the OTA and makes returning to stock later so much easier. To do this, when the file is done downloading select install later and then copy the zip file to another location (the OTA file should be located in a folder on your external SDCARD) and then click the notification to continue the update.

hboot files not listed above:

To add your hboot to the list I will need two things:

(Both these files are found in the KitKat OTA zip so if you happen to still have your KitKat OTA extract the firmware.zip and upload it somewhere and send me the link to me. This guide assumes you don't have your OTA still.)

The stock hboot of your device

An "android-info.txt" file to allow your device to flash it

This requires some help from you to make this happen.

Part 1

To backup your stock hboot so I can modify it and remove the red text the following steps are required:

Your device must be rooted.

You must have the ADB files on your computer.

Plug your phone into your computer, open a command prompt, and type "adb shell" and press enter.

Type su and press enter to make sure you have root access. (Should get a prompt similar to root@zaracl:/ #)

Type dd if="/dev/block/mmcblk0p12" of="/storage/ext_sd/hboot.img" and press enter

Type exit and press enter (this returns you to a normal adb shell without root)

Type exit and press enter (this returns you to your computers normal command prompt)

Type adb pull /storage/ext_sd/hboot.img and press enter (this will download the file from your SDCARD to your current directory on your computer)

Keep note of this directory so you can find the file later.

Keep your command prompt open for part 2.

Click below for an example of the complete steps above as entered in the command prompt. These are copied from my command prompt.

C:\Android>adb shell

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

shell@zaracl:/ $ su

su

root@zaracl:/ # dd if="/dev/block/mmcblk0p12" of="/storage/ext_sd/hboot.img"

dd if="/dev/block/mmcblk0p12" of="/storage/ext_sd/hboot.img"

4161+0 records in

4161+0 records out

2130432 bytes transferred in 0.565 secs (3770676 bytes/sec)

root@zaracl:/ # exit

exit

shell@zaracl:/ $ exit

exit

C:\Android>adb pull /storage/ext_sd/hboot.img

3147 KB/s (2130432 bytes in 0.661s)

C:\Android>

Part 2

Obtaining the necessary information for me to make an "android-info.txt" file:

Your command prompt should still be open from part 1

Type adb reboot bootloader and press enter.

Your device will boot into fastboot and should display FASTBOOT USB

Type fastboot getvar all and press enter.

Take your mouse and highlight all the lines starting with "(bootloader)" and press enter.

Make a new text file and paste (Ctrl+V) the information into it.

Delete the following lines: serialno, imei, & meid.

Save the file.

The resulting file should look like this:

(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 2.22.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.14.50.0516
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main: 2.15.652.15
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-OFF
(bootloader) product: zara_cl
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8930
(bootloader) modelid: 0P4E10000
(bootloader) cidnum: SPCS_002
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4131mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: off
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-7778cb8b
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0

You now have what is required, all that is left is to get it to me. You can PM me the hboot.img and contents of the text file, or simply post them here in a reply to this thread. I will modify the hboot and make the android-info.txt and post them here when done.