yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Click Android Development] yash08:
Manuvaidya:

1. To remove simlock successfully on orange uk htc tattoo, you are forced to flash the rom

2. If you were on orange uk, you will have an android with all the software that orange removed and it will be debranded. And knowing that it can be flashed this will encourage ppl to cook roms.

3. Unfortunately there is no way yet to get root access on the tattoo

Hope this helps you out mate
[Click Android Development] MiSSigNNo:
No advantages actually, simply I hate much the mobile-branded roms. Also I tried my sim before I flashed to enter the unlock code and nothing happened, but after, I tried and then it asked me for the unlock code and I could manage to make it successfully.

I don't have the root-superuser mode. I'm sure there are plenty of opportunities with that, but we must look forward on finding the method to make it.

By the way In my "experience" with past branded-roms, they used to be slower since they had plenty of ****ty apps of the brand to make you spend money, and waste unnecesarily memory from the device, this is why the first two things I do everytime I buy an HTC is to flash to default rom and unlock them :) Since it was more difficult than other times with WM I decided to make this mini-guide, to help others make it easier.
[Click Android Development] apie2004:
Hi Guys,

I got to the last stage of this walkthrough and when i run the exe for the ROM i get an error 170 on the USB cable. Do you have any ideas what this could be?

Thanks

James
[Click Android Development] MiSSigNNo:
You didn't make the goldcard correctly. start from the beginning on the goldcard creation. to know if gold card is well created when entering hboot, press the unlock button (call button if i can remember) and there you will se a green message like "key is OK" if not well made there will be a message in red saying "key error" or something like that
[Click Android Development] apie2004:
Thanks for that guys, still no luck though :(. I think I might be doing something wrong so here are the results i get as i go along.

adb shell =035344535530324780010f90d4009868

reverse code=009800d4900f01804732305553445303

goldcard.img=

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 53 41 30 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 23 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 68 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 84 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 29 00 00 00 00 00 FA 00 00 BE 00 00 00 00 19 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 2B BA AA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 21 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 53 41 30 30 00 00 00 EF 00 83 80 00 00 3B 00 00 52 00 00 71 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 09 00 00 38 00 00 00 00 B4 83 00 00 5E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 D2 00 00 00 00 20 00 45 3B 00 00 00 81 00 00 00 00 00 DD 00 98 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 DE 00 00 00 00 00 3B 00 3C 00 82 53 5A 82 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

I keep getting the same results over and over again so I think I might be going wrong somewhere... Any more ideas?
[Click Android Development] Ali 24789:
I'm afraid I'm stuck near the very beginning. :(

When I navigate to the sdk tools folder and run the command, I get the following:

C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found

Is there something I'm doing wrong? I'm running Win 7 x64 and trying to flash a Vodafone branded HTC (build number is apparently "1.67.161.5 CL#74011 release-keys").

Edit: I did format the card to FAT32 like you said.
[Click Android Development] apie2004:
I found that you need the andriod drivers installed for adb shell to work, if you run SDK setup in the andriod sdk folder and install the driver component, then point the device in device manager towards the new downloaded folder, should be called usb_driver. Hope that helps
[Click Android Development] Ali 24789:
Well I tried opening SDK Setup but all that happened was a command prompt window just appeared and then disappeared almost instantly (with Windows then complaining that the program might not have installed correctly). I also tried running it as administrator but got the same result. And nothing happens when I try opening it with cmd.
[Click Android Development] apie2004:
I also tried a couple of other cards, one broke the card and hboot was really unresponsive. The first card did the same sort of thing, CID error or similar
[Click Android Development] Ali 24789:
Success! :D

I read through this guide about getting adb to work, replaced the current driver with the one linked to there and then also realised that you couldn't get adb to work while the phone was in 'Disk Drive' mode (what a n00b I am). The only way I could get into 'USB Debugging' was by choosing 'HTC Sync' on the phone (but not actually have HTC Sync open on my PC). Once I did that, adb worked properly.

I'm guessing my mistake was just not having the phone in 'USB Debugging', so the old driver would probably have worked as well but at this point I don't really care.

Anyway, I managed to follow the rest of your guide just fine, MiSSigNNo, and it worked! Though I think maybe you should rewrite point number 17 in your original post; from the way you worded it, I thought there was an actual reboot button, different from the power button. A better wording would be something like: "Switch the phone off. Press the Power button to switch it back on but immediately hold down the Volume Down button after pressing the Power button until the HBoot menu appears (at which point you can let go of Volume Down)"

Otherwise I have no complaints, and I cannot thank you enough for posting the guide. It's so nice to be able to get rid of network branding (even if it was only slight in the case of Vodafone), and have a newer version of the system!

Do you know where we can keep track of the WWE Flash releases? It'd be nice to stay up to date I guess.

Edit: lol silly me, wasn't actually checking the rest of the forum so didn't see the thread on WWE ROM links.
[Click Android Development] apie2004:
what brand of sd card did you use? It's just that i've read somewhere that sandisk (the one i have) doesnt work as a goldcard. Tried it with one that didnt have a brand on it and that didnt work either
[Click Android Development] Ali 24789:
I used a SanDisk (it's the 2GB card that came with the phone) so it can't be true that all SanDisk cards don't work. Not that I know much about these things.
[Click Android Development] MiSSigNNo:
apie try this reversed code:

009800d4900f01804732305553445303

remember when opening the hex editor you must edit the PHYSICAL DRIVE not the LOGICAL. Check that also, it took me some tries until i discovered.
[Click Android Development] apie2004:
Hi Missingo,

I must be doing something wrong because it didn't work with that code either. When i press send on the hboot page i get 2 errors in red, mccmc and cid. Any help would be appreciated. I am sure I am editing the correct physical disk.

Thanks again

Apie
[Click Android Development] Zeffir:
I'm getting the same exact problem as apie is.

I do exactly as the tutorial says but the card always ends up getting two red errors at mccmc and cid.

Adb Shell CiD: 03534453553032478070ad8acc00983c

Reversed CiD: 009800cc8aad70804732305553445303

I've repeated the process 4 times already, double checking everything. Yet it always messes up. I've already tried using a different MicroSD card but that really didn't help either.

My operating systems is Windows 7 also, I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
[Click Android Development] Zeffir:
I'm hoping problem just might be I need a faster SD Card, I'm using the standard 2gb SD Card. I guess not all cards are the same, but I'll buy a class 6 SD card and see if that helps.

Edit: New SD card, same problem.

EDIT:

HURRAH!!!

After spending most of my Christmas eve trying to figure it out, I finally did.

The problem wasn't that I had a bad goldcard or SD card.

It was that I didn't have the correct drivers installed, I didn't have the bootloader driver installed.
[Click Android Development] Zeffir:
Also! MiSSigNNo!

Instead of having to start in Flashboot USB Mode, all I had to do was connect it via HTC Sync and execute the RUU rom, after that it was a piece of cake.
[Click Android Development] MiSSigNNo:
Great, then I believe that with a GoldKey we can mostly do pretty all the things able yet to do with this machine not having to enter special flash modes
[Click Android Development] jusumgeezer:
Maybe I am having the same problems too, my gold card seems ok.

what are the drivers you used & how did you install them?
[Click Android Development] Nirvana98:
Hi,

thanks so much for your Guide....it's so interesting...anyway i'd like to know how i can backup my rom before flashing....

Thanks

Nirvana
[Click Android Development] iliko:
Buy a iSmartSim! See my post.

I passed exactly same steps as you did. I requested my money back as the unlock code did not work for me. See my video on youtube.

The reason it does not unlock the phone after flashing is Radio module. To flash it we need to root Tatoo's. Unfortunately no one rooted it yet. :-(
[Click Android Development] r2b2:
So once I have done this can I just put my data back onto the memory card without deleting the Gold card data? Then if I want to reflash the ROM in the future will it work straight away with that memory card if is inserted, even with my data on?

Thanks
[Click Android Development] MiSSigNNo:
Exactly. Also you can do a gold card without formating one microsd (despite it is recommended). Is just did one yesterday and worked fine.
[Click Android Development] manuvaidya:
hi guys, can i install cyanogen modded ROM into my htc tattoo??? just curious to know before i try that .... anyone who has idea about the basics of updating/flashing android throw some light on pros & cons of this procedure on htc tattoo... please...

waiting for your invaluable responses ASAP....:(
[Click Android Development] crosspoint:
hello!

first of all sorry about my stupid questions but i'm a newbie...

when i flash my htc tattoo am i able to install a new theme with metamorph?

is there any possibility to install a new theme without flashing my tattoo??

thx!

edit: okay i know now that i need a costum ROM like cyanogen and root access to replace the ****ty sense-theme with a cooler one. but it seems to me that there are no costum ROMs available for the Tattoo and that there is unfortunately no way (at the moment) to root it. :( am i right?? if anybody knows more please tell us!!!
[Click Android Development] SEngine:
Ehi guys.

I have followed step by step your guide.

But i don'u undestund where is the problem

I got CID, create goldcard but in the Hboot do not flash the phone.

On screen i see the check of yhe files (CLICDIAG,.....CLICIMG), check the CLICIMG file and then the phone go back the initial menù.

Otherwise if i try the fastboot usb method (using RUU on Windows 7), after some seconds, obtain only a "ERROR 170 - USB do not link to phone"

Please help me.
[Click Android Development] SEngine:
OK !!!!!!

The problem was WINZOZ 7

I have repeated all steps of the Missigno's guide and the phone flash done very well.

Now i have the last HTC ROM NO-Brand and the phone works overall very fine

Thanks to all peoples that spend their time to "search" new ways.

Now the next challenge is to obtain the root user
[Click Android Development] MiSSigNNo:
Cyanogen's rom was made for another device, G1 I think, it wont work even on other android devices different than that, so Tattoo is not an exception yet.

By the way, about the theme changer, i'm not very sure about it, its very "secure" to flash the rom, since it almost done by the official htc updater, just need the gold card well done (and if not well done then it will throw an error, and just have to make it good).

I know that most of the very high-end apps like the wifi thetering (that I would like to use to share my connection in meetings with my co-workers) are not working until root mode is obtained. I'm looking forward for this everyday, so unless anyone finds anything, i might be reporting as soon as I find something!

thanks all for the feedback :)
[Click Android Development] r2b2:
Has anyone managed to successfully flash the ROM using Windows 7?

Both my laptop and desktop run it, so I'll have to borrow another PC if it's not working for anyone.

Thanks.
[Click Android Development] colonel:
Just a word on unlocking codes. If u get one, remember to use in the native rom before you flash.

In terms of rooting, this is the important next step. We need to find out how paul's (modaco) brilliant utility for the pulse works. This requires no custom rom, radio or flashing.
[Click Android Development] eyegor:
Could attempting to boot a recovery image made for another phone (magic/hero) through fastboot damage the tattoo in any way?

I've got a rooted Magic that i love, now just want to find a way to root my tattoo aswell :)
[Click Android Development] khanklan:
unlocking

hi

sorry if this is a really dumb question but I am new to this

does flashing my tattoo also unlock it from orange UK?

also....

does it work using windows 7 because quite a few people on windows 7 seem to be having problems?

thanks for all your work :)

please reply asap

5. Go the the Command line (Start->Execute->write cmd and OK), and there you should find where you unzip the android-sdk tools, example cd c:\androidtools\tools

im sorry but can someone please tell me how to do this, i don't quite understand :(
[Click Android Development] khanklan:
5. Go the the Command line (Start->Execute->write cmd and OK), and there you should find where you unzip the android-sdk tools, example cd c:\androidtools\tools

im sorry but can someone please tell me how to do this

thanks.
[Click Android Development] khanklan:
5. Go the the Command line (Start->Execute->write cmd and OK), and there you should find where you unzip the android-sdk tools, example cd c:\androidtools\tools

sorry but can someone please tell how to do this

thanks
[Click Android Development] khanklan:
hi

i have got onto step 6 however whenever i run the command an error message appears saying there is no such file or directory but i have done everything like you said

PLEASE HELP

P.S sorry for all the posts i just really want to get this done
[Click Android Development] r2b2:
I got the RUU update to recognise the handset on Windows 7, and it started doing it. Then it installed some drivers and Windows asked to be restarted. The flash had already started and the handset got stuck on the HTC logo.

I left it for half an hour, but when it didn't change I removed the battery. Now it's bricked. Won't power on at all, won't charge, and can't get into any of the boot menus.

Replacement is on its way tomorrow. I'm unsure whether to try it again. I think it was Windows 7 that was the problem but can't confirm it.

Is it worth trying on an XP/Vista laptop I have access to at work do you reckon? I don't think Orange would give me another replacement if it went wrong... :-S
[Click Android Development] r2b2:
Open up the folder in My Computer where you extracted the files to. At the top of the window highlight everything after "c:\" , right-click and select Copy.

Open the command prompt (cmd) and type "cd\" then paste what's in the clipboard.

(you may need to right click on the command prompt taskbar, select Properties, then put a tick in "Quick Edit Mode" - You can then paste by right-clicking in the window)

This is for those people who do not understand the command prompt, and will hopefully make it a bit easier for them.
[Click Android Development] andrei_niculas:
android 2 eclair

if do this flash i will have the android 2 eclair? my tattoo right now its not branded what will be the diference? if I will flash my tattoo.
[Click Android Development] andrei_niculas:
eror 131

its ok thill I rund te ruu.... ,after I enter from the phone in to the fastboot menu. It starts but when is "updating signature" it stops and it shows the first window and it says this: " ERROR [131]: CUSTOMER ID ERROR The ROM Update Utility cannot update your Android phone.Please get the correct ROM Update Utility and try again."......HELP PLEASE
[Click Android Development] r2b2:
Re-ran the RUU after connecting to HTC Sync on an XP computer and update went through fine, even though the software version I was updating to was technically a lower version.

Thanks for your help everyone. It looks much nicer than the Orange-branded ROM. :-)
[Click Android Development] MiSSigNNo:
This is the typical error when flashing without a GoldCard (or a goldcard badly made). Try to follow all the guidelines back again
[Click Android Development] zenga:
Question

Hi

The card must be in the phone or it can be in a card reader when macking the gold card?

Mine always says "device not found"
[Click Android Development] zenga:
Yessss

Yes

Finaly did it. Removed the Vodafone menus:)

One question..

Now i can flash normaly to any rom or i must keep the gold card and use it everytime a want to flash?

Thanks
[Click Android Development] Coburn64:
Goldcard is only to flash offical ROMs at this stage. We can't flash our own ROMs because the Tattoo has some sneaky security checks in it's firmware.
[Click Android Development] jv91:
ok so i get to the part where its time to flash but im confused at that point...how exactly do i go about flashing the actual rom? thanks for the help ahead of time :D
[Click Android Development] jv91:
ok so i keep getting the same error 141 and i know it has to do with the goldcard but i can't figure out how to do it correctly. i'm very confused in the part that says "Select offset 00000000 till offset 00000170 (including the 00000170 line), click on Edit tab and then Paste Write." If someone can explain this in very simple terms? im sorry for being so annoying xD
[Click Android Development] javipece:
Hello, in the 8. Go to this page to generate your GoldCard image: http://revskills.de/pages/goldcard.html

And put your reversed number and you email. You will receive an email with a file called "goldcard.img"

Other way to generate Goldcard Image?, the service is not free now.
[Click Android Development] Coburn64:
Works freely for me, you just have to scroll down the page. :cool:
[Click Android Development] mainfram3:
I'm trying to downgrade my stock Tattoo (Vodafone branded) to

RUU Click HTC WWE 1.56.405.1 WWE signed NoDriver. This is because I believe this ROM as a lower versioned HBoot, and it may give us other options.

I keep getting error 140: Bootloader version errror. I created a goldcard and it seems fine, since I'm not getting a CID error. Does anyone know a way around this ? I believe some Hero owner's had the same problem... ?

PS - I'm uploading 1.56 to megaupload, since the link in the ROMs thread is not working.
[Click Android Development] MiSSigNNo:
Cannot use the ROM i put on the first page? It works the link good.

By the way, you get that error everytime GoldCard is not well created... just one little mistake and is not done. I say this by experience, that I though the same as you once I got the same error once and once again
[Click Android Development] mainfram3:
Hola! :)

Are you 100% sure about that ? Because I searched all the errors related to a bad goldcard and I never found any evidence that error 140 was related to it.

Furthermore, I took the rom from the 1.56 RUU, wrote it to the sdcard as CLICIMG.zip and I got the same error: "Main version is older" (or something like that). I believe that the bootloader is refusing to write an older HBoot over a more recent one :mad:

Either way, I wanted to test that because I believed that the 0.50 version could have been an Engineering HBoot, but now I believe that it's a standard SHIP S-On SPL :(

Tough I would love to see someone prove me wrong and be able to flash the 1.56 rom to a :cool:
[Click Android Development] MiSSigNNo:
Something happened to me same when you talk about the CLICKIMG.zip idea (not a good idea btw). Have you edited the hex part into the SD as a Logical Drive or a Physical Drive? Be aware of this part because is critical.
[Click Android Development] mainfram3:
MiSSigNNo,

I recreated the goldcard and I couldn't downgrade to 1.56. I was able to upgrade from the stock Vodafone rom to 1.67. Since my device is CID locked, this proves that the Goldcard was OK.

Then, I tried to downgrade to 1.56. It failed with Error 140 (Bootloader won't downgrade). I then tried to "downgrade" to 1.67.161 (Vodafoen UK) and it was succesfull. So, I believe that even with a Goldcard, it's not possible to downgrade the HBoot/Bootloader/SPL.
[Click Android Development] mobisat:
I did mine the exact same way as the tutorial, I flashed first then tried to unlock via code and got the same results as Tony2k below. My tattoo is locked to Orange UK. As suggested in this thread I purchased a i-smart SIM and put this under my O2 SIM, now my tattoo works with O2. Not the best solution but is the best I can do until we can get a hacked radio rom.

If you have an unlock code then try this FIRST before flashing the rom.

At least now my phone is debranded from Orange
[Click Android Development] :
Moment of truth........just booting up now i hope.

Phone boots up... but when entering the unlock code although it says successful... its not!
[Click Android Development] Zecanilis:
If you are from Orange network, then you are not the only one. Many people had the same result has you.

Cheers
[Click Android Development] mobisat:
get your hands on an i-smart sim until we can get a hacked radio rom m8y...
[Click Android Development] zoko:
for those who have knowledge, the Gold card is well created?

tks, sorry for the noob question.

tks friend :-)
[Click Android Development] Zecanilis:
Yes!

I think you're done! :D

Cheers
[Click Android Development] MiSSigNNo:
I was wondering... It is possible to do this method in Windows 7?

I read before and I found one dude that got the 170 USB error with Windows 7. He might have gone to windows xp.

No I tried flashing back a second HTC Tattoo I got, and get this error (i used to do this process on windows xp before, now i have windows 7 x64)

I could manage to do the gold card, and I also tried the clicimg.zip idea, it makes like a flashing process but doesn't do anything when it ends...

Kind of strange for me now. I've seen there has been plenty of dev on this device.

Any ideas about this?

Kind Regards
[Click Android Development] Zecanilis:
I done this process in win 7 32b, but i had some problems with it's drivers.

Had to change the default driver to the attached one.

Cheers