yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Android Development] mkaiser2:
Flashing rootedupdate fails

When I try the last step of the tutorial, installing the rootedupdate I get the following error: Can't format system, failure at line 3

Even with a goldcard it wouldn't work.

Is there a difference between the normal (dark green) recovery mode and the lighter one with the exclamation sign?

How I messed up my phone:

rooted with unrevoked

interrupted step 3 of Alpharev in VM

since then booting process gets stuck with t-com logo

Configuration:

Bravo PVT4 SHIP S-ON

Hboot 0.93.0001

Radio: 5.11.05.27

Microp-051d

Touch panel synt0101

Aug 10 2010
[Desire Android Development] colonia27:
As far as I remember, the problem is here: PVT4
[Desire Android Development] royston1491:
Great guide, really helped.

So happy to have my desire rooted.

Now the world is my oyster ;P
[Desire Android Development] mkaiser2:
Asian Froyo Ruu worked for me!

I managed to reanimate my almost bricked phone with the Asian Froyo Ruu:
[Desire Android Development] benqas:
Hello, recently i bought HTC Desire. It is rooted (i think) because it has Superuser icon or smth like that.

Here system software information.

Firmware 2.1-update1

Kernel 2.6.29-54b7033a htc-kernel@and18-2#1

Build number 1.22.771.1 CL175326 release-keys

Software number 1.22.771.1

Browser version Webkit3.1

First of all when i turn on my phone it loads with image with guy "why so serious" with android painted on card.

After that image goes picture similiar to painted number "3".

All i want is to get froyo version of android w/o any brands. Can someone of you all help me and say what i need to do. I would very thankful.

P.s dont judge my english...
[Desire Android Development] spage120:
Hi,

I own a rooted desire with the latest LeeDroid 2.3.

Last night i did a S-off. Everything is perfect except one thing.

I cannot flash a new recovery (AmonRA 2.0.0 GSM). I am doing the 1st page tutorial (How To Flash a New Recovery Image) but nothing happens.

When i write flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0.img it says command not found.

Am i doing something wrong? Is there any other way to do it?

Please help me

Sorry for my english
[Desire Android Development] Trdonja:
I would like to unroot my HTC Desire. But I don't know where to find shiped Rom for my phone. Could somebody help me? Info about my phone:

Android 2.2

Baseband version 32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2

Build number 2.10.405.2 CL226611

Is this helpful?

Thanks.

Borut
[Desire Android Development] MasDroid:
Search for unrEVOked 3.22 to root.
[Desire Android Development] redecs:
I have carrier locked HTC Desire with S-LCD.

From what i've read, i can root it with the latest Unrevocked version, so there is only one question remaning:

Can I create a working goldcard with HBoot 0.93?

10x in advance for the answers and patience reading this noob question!
[Desire Android Development] MattX:
HELP

HI guys.

I have a little problem and i think you can help me here.

I have got a rooted HTC Desire with a custom ROM. And i want to take back everything to the original one.

I downloaded the:

RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00. 32U_5.11.05.27_release

from this topic:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=695667

My Desire is UNBRANDED.

Modded: I tried all of WWE RUU-s from here and during send procedure it frezzez for hours, and i have to unplug the phone.

Whats the problem? Plz help.

Thank you in advance.
[Desire Android Development] duvl:
ditto above

Much the same problem as above.

My HTC Desire came unbranded (i.e. no Goldcard req'd) and unfortunately I didn't note the original rom/radio & boot details. I think it was boot ver .75 with a WWE rom.

Subsequently I rooted to obtain 2.2 etc via: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=741663

This put me on boot .80 and Android 2.2, Radio 32.44.00.32u_5.09.05.30_2

Build ver 2.10.405.2 by IEF

I've been very happy with it so far but the above rom shows no sign of updating to 2.29.405.2 This shows as being available when I check for software updates on my phone, however it won't install...because rooted I guess. I have found chasing updates to roms radios etc to time consuming, stressfull and frequent and wish now to return to an out of the box Desire and settle for OTA updates.

I have followed the XDA guide to unrooting my phone and have tried these roms:

WWE: (World Wide English)

RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.15.405.4_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4. 05.00.11_release_122704.exe

RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4. 06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe

RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00. 32U_5.11.05.27_release

All of them bring up code 155 telling me to get the correct Update Utility and try again. I've followed the suggested error work arrounds and read the read me file etc but nothing cures the problem.

Is it a boot ver .80 issue and does anyone know how to continue from here?

Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks

duvl
[Desire Android Development] MattX:
Duvl its not aobut .80 HDBOOT because mine is .93 and i get the same error too... i cant take my phone back to factory ROM, and noone answers:(
[Desire Android Development] BLKGHOST:
I may be wrong but looks like a goldcard issue to me...

Try this :

- Create Goldcard

- Extract ROM.ZIP from the Official RUU exe you want to use. I downloaded it from their main site

- Rename to PB99IMG.zip

- Boot to flashboot mode

- Flash
[Desire Android Development] audipete:
Could somone please help I tried rooting my orange branded with hboot 0.93 slcd but the phone is now stuck at bootloader. It seems to have wiped the os.

its fine now did the above post PB99IMG.zip and reflashed
[Desire Android Development] barrybear:
Hey guys! wanna ask about the security flag thing on the newer generation Desires..

I've bought mine about a few months ago, and its officially updated to 2.2. Does the security flag thing is activated on it or what?
[Desire Android Development] MasDroid:
Most likely. Load the Bootloader and see for yourself (power off phone, then hold down vol down button and press the power button once until it loads the bootloader screen). The top line will mention either S-ON (NAND security locked) or S-OFF (NAND security unlocked).
[Desire Android Development] barrybear:
Oh yeah..it says S-ON. Does that mean that i can't root my phone?

Or like if i still go ahead to root my phone, will it leave a trace behind or something? oh yeah! and its still possible to turn the S-ON back on if i intend to unroot it, yeah?
[Desire Android Development] MasDroid:
You won't lose root if your security is in S-ON. You simply cannot access and r/w to your /system and /recovery folder via your phone, unless you do it through recovery mode. You can still flash ROMs with S-ON. There are some Roms which would require S-OFF but none of the ones in ROM Manager require it. If you want to turn your security off, you can use www.unrevoked.com/forever (only for CDMA devices, not GSM) or by following the instructions found in the link below in my sig.

If you wanted to revert back to S-ON, you would need to run the relevant RUU (i.e. stock, and pull the ROM.zip and rename to PB99IMG.zip and install in hboot) if you have S-OFF.
[Desire Android Development] barrybear:
Ooo icic..so if i don't wanna turn the s-off, it'll still be okay to root my phone, and flash the leedroid ROM?
[Desire Android Development] MasDroid:
Well... you can flash official (signed) roms with S-ON, to flash custom (i.e. LeeDroid's) or unsigned roms, you do need S-OFF.
[Desire Android Development] barrybear:
Ooh okok! Thanks so much :)
[Desire Android Development] hammadiqbal37:
noob need help

hey guyz i just bought a htc desire from a website and i have a little problem, i don't know that whether it is rooted or not, but i am in doubt coz today i just found out a clockworks recovery and as i looked into the software information i found this following information:

android version: 2.2

baseband version: 32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27

Kernel Version: 2.6.32.15-gf5a401c

htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

Build Number: 2.29.405.2 CL263770 release-keys

Software number: 2.29.405.2

Browser version: Webkit3.1

please help me by looking at this info that whether my desire is rooted or not, and if i can put cyanogens latest rom in it or not??

please help me i am a noob
[Desire Android Development] fx3000se:
Updating ClockworkMod Recovery

moved it "over here" http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10115223&postcount=209

;-)
[Desire Android Development] MasDroid:
You are on stock 2.2 firmware 2.29.405.2 and are unrooted. If you want to find out how to root and flash custom ROMs, then read up on this, there are plenty of guides that explain the whole procedure on the forum.

EDIT: Just seen your edited post... yes, you are rooted and have clockwork recovery installed succeddfully. You have also achieved full root access with S-OFF.

To permanently replace your current Clockwork image:

1) Download "update.zip" of ClockwordMod v2.5.1.8.

2) Copy "update.zip" to the root of the SD card, replacing the existing file.

3) Make a copy of "update.zip" and rename the "recovery-update.zip" then copy it to sdcard / clockwordmod in place of the existing recovery-update.zip.

4) In Rom Manager, click on "Restart in Recovery"

5) The Recovery v2.5.1.8 ClockwordMod starts and replaces version 2.5.0.8 to next flash ROM in Manager.
[Desire Android Development] hoezay:
After nights and nights of reading through , ...

i think i've figured everything out.

1.All i need to know is do i need a gold card to get my desire back to stock ? ( indian , unbranded ) - i'm gonna make one anyway..

2.and how do i flash the official OTA i downloaded on the phone ( but did not install ) ..it is a zip and is onlt 4.92 mb ..

Thanks in advance.
[Desire Android Development] avroy7:
any other link for FLASHROM.zip please???????
[Desire Android Development] Dranrev:
Unrevoked 3.2.2 Fix for OTA

Has anyone tried Unrevoked: HTC Incredible OTA root fix now available this. I have a new desire running Froyo and OTA installed. I read that the procedure in page 1 is outdated. TIA
[Desire Android Development] andronel86:
great work...
[Desire Android Development] Dranrev:
After reading for hours I have rooted my phone and S-Off. Flashing here I come. Good job to the developers.
[Desire Android Development] jellyfish0000:
hi,

i have read this thread and no mention of the new desire devices. mine has (sorry about the caps, i followed what is displayed)

BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.93.0001

thank you for your help.
[Desire Android Development] theooo:
Hello guys, u've just bought desire from my friend and it's using OTA froyo update from htc (non-rooted)

Today i've tried to root it using clockwork recovery via unrevoked. It worked on first try, but when i tried to re-root it using amonra recovery 2.0 via unrevoked it says "Error:failed to root, maybe your firmware too new?"

After that i tried again using clockwork but now same message appeared; error:failed to root bla bla.

Whats should i do now to put amonra's recovery?

Ps: now everytime i try to use any application that requires root my desire will reboot.

Help me guys. Thank you very much. :(
[Desire Android Development] xavierjohn22:
If you root and you have the Super User app already why should you root again?

This is only one time. Once rooted, it will stay rooted.

If you are trying to flash a recovery then follow the instructions on flashing one. Downloads are also in the sticky thread. Both amonra and clockworkmod.
[Desire Android Development] xavierjohn22:
Go here

[CAUTION] New HTC Desire model spotted. PVT4 - S-OFF: works (AlphaRev 1.8)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=853583
[Desire Android Development] theooo:
Thanx for your answer dude, i rooted it again because i got the superuser app and everytime i run apps that requires root, my phone shows the superuser dialog box (and i always click allow) but after that it says that i didn't have root permission. (it happened on adfree, root explorer, and titanium backup).

Can u give me suggestion what to do next? Thanx again.

---Edit---

Solved, i flashed ASIA WWE RUU. :D
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
It happened to me too.

Last week i've bought my desire.I live in country where not using orange and my phone is branded to orange.

Yesterday i've rooted my phone with unrevoked. I can make backup with backup titanium but on file manage (like root explorer) when i want to delete applic i get error that i didn't have root permision.

I see applic SuperUser.But when i get in recovery mode i see it can't mount SYSTEM, i also tried via PC. I can see only SDCARD not System.

If i understand right i should before to make goldcard and what next.

Should i root again after creating gold card?

Or i have to unroot before and make this proccess from the beginig?

And what's mean to debrand?Anyway orange is not working in our country and i'm customer of our local company.

Please help me,i'm very confused with this.
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
Su binary is screwed up. Root again. even better: install a custom rom from your new obtained recovery. Leedroid if you want to have **** sense, cyanogen if you have some taste...

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
But should i make a goldcard for this?

And what's mean debrand? if i install new rom without debranding so this new will overwrite my exist that is from orange? So what's the difference?
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
Gold card is only needed for sim locked phones.

de branding just means delete the **** your provider gave you. (issues themes or crappy apps to connect to special payed services of your phone provider)

Custom roms are not branded by definition.

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
But if i install custom rom after rooting will it delete orange rom?

So i don't need to make debranding?am i right? i'm confused here...
[Desire Android Development] SheerazRaza:
Great piece of information!
[Desire Android Development] qmj90:
Help me please

Hi! I have a branded Desire with ota update 2.2 and HBOOT 0.93.

The guide tells me to downgrade to 2.1 and 0.80, and shows the thread to make it:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=768256

that thread tells me i need a working goldcard, what I could make with the 3. post of this thread, but there is: "IMPORTANT - this tutorial will not work if you have installed 2.2 OTA update from HTC!"

I can't understand. Can I root my branded 2.2 OTA phone or not, and if yes, what is the correct order to do it and with which threads?

Thank You very much!

qmj90
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
After one week of hard studying from this and other forums i succeded to get normal phone

It means i've bought last week branded orange 2.2, i made goldcard and root, after i tried install alpharev to disable s-on. But it didn't help.

Yesterday i decided to debrand this phone from orange rom. There is two ways.

One is to put zip file of stock rom on sdcard and to install from recovery, but it no succes.

The second way is to downlad exe file of the same 2.29.405.02 or 2.29.405.05 stock rom, connect phone to pc, run this exe and wait till the end when it will finish.

i hope it will help:)
[Desire Android Development] SilverHedgehog:
Hello, I currently have HTC Desire with HBOOT 0.93.0001, radio-5.09.05.30_2, unbranded, SLCD, bought in Russia. I want to unroot it, what should I use to do it?
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
1.Make a goldcard (optionally)

2.download official stock rom 2.29.405.2 or 2.29.405.5(zip or exe file)

3.if zip so move on to sdcard

4.Power off

5.POWER on + VOLUME DOWN

6.Wait untill install ROM

3.if exe so connect your phone to computer

4. Run exe and follow instructions

But first general thread in this forums contains all info about this

:)

Personnaly yesterday i made this by second way and worked fine, took 10 minutes

Good luck
[Desire Android Development] SilverHedgehog:
I get an error message:
[Desire Android Development] ap27:
Thanks for this guide! Its great info!

One question though, I have a Desire that is branded by Telstra (running the Telstra ROM) but is unlocked and I am using it in Canada. Which of the two guides would apply to me? One is for Unbranded/Unlocked and the other is Branded/Locked. I kind of have a mix of the two.
[Desire Android Development] _onoff:
Please for those with problems on the second step, please see this post @ modaco forum,

"there's several hours wasted, the gold card instructions taht are linked in the op post tells you to reverse the code you get, thing is the site apparently auto reverses the code for you!!

so all this time i thought i had gold card working when it wasn't done properly cause i was manually reversing an already reversed code....

and that's why i've been getting step 2 'error: device not found' problems ><"

Hope it Works...
[Desire Android Development] bassam:
Asia ROM H root 0.8 Gold Card

Confirm that Asian ( HK, SG and India) ROM 1.19.707.7 with Hroot 0.8 Desire are Unbranded but

Region locked

,

You must have goldcard to root them, at Post #3 or

http://android.modaco.com/content/general-discussion/305672/creating-a-goldcard/
[Desire Android Development] landwomble:
(dumb) questions

I'm running 1.21 Vanilla HTC ROM. I'm not fussed about rooting per se but do want to try one of the FroYo ROMs out.

Do I need to root the device first (this installs the recovery console?) before applying one of the custom ROMs? Can a custom ROM be packaged/installed like the OEM ones using a standalone RUU update .exe? Or do the custom ones require a modified bootloader or similar to work, so have to be installed by copying the file to the SD card then applying from the phone recovery console?

Sorry for the dumb questions but I'm new to Android...
[Desire Android Development] jowenteo:
Guys,im from sg. And I had created a gold card and when I re inserted the sd card, it didn't prompt me to format and able to see the foot print folder so I presume its a working gold card. But during step 1,i still see the error 43. And when I try step2, it show device not found either in mac, window 7. How can I root my phone ? This the 4th days of sleepless night. Please help me. I did try on ubantu and tiny core too.

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[Desire Android Development] vorapoap:
Hmm

I have tried non-gold card method but it turns out to be that the phone is region locked, and I then tried a gold-card method.

Similar to the instruction here, I follow the instruction on this page http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how-to-create-a-goldcard/

A gold card has been created, I just did a copy-and-paste process, no manual reversing the code, is this correct?.. I think the code is supposed to be automatically reversed for you

But still get error "remote: 42 custom id check fail"

And "error: device not found" in step 2

Please suggest.
[Desire Android Development] extreme22:
issues with tinycore i get this from step 1

failed (remote:43 main version check fail)

and step 2 i get error device not found and my phone wont boot it stuck on nextg welcome screen help would be nice thanks
[Desire Android Development] garfield-xda:
Can we please also have a step-by-step guide how to nandroid the new Desire from Windows? I think the guys who are familiar to *nix don't require this (at most).

From rooting to making the backup itself. With all the links, etc. It would be greatly appreciated.

I've found some unsorted peases of related info here at the XDA, but frankly as I'm way too far from development I'm just afraid of doing something wrong. But it would be nice if I finally could make exact backups of my Desire.

Thanks a lot.
[Desire Android Development] garfield-xda:
I have only got this after running step1-windows.bat:

=============

C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\r5-desire-root>step1-windows.bat

Desire Root Step 1

Erasing cache and rebooting in RUU mode...

erasing 'cache'... OKAY

... OKAY

About to start flash...

< waiting for device >

sending 'zip' (137446 KB)... OKAY

writing 'zip'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this image...

INFOsignature checking...

INFOzip header checking...

INFOzip info parsing...

INFOchecking model ID...

INFOchecking custom ID...

INFOchecking main version...

INFOstart image[hboot] unzipping for pre-update check...

INFOstart image[hboot] flushing...

INFO[RUU]WP,hboot,0

INFO[RUU]WP,hboot,100

INFOstart image[radio] unzipping for pre-update...

INFOstart image[radio] flushing...

INFO[RUU]WP,radio,0

INFO[RUU]WP,radio,6

INFO[RUU]WP,radio,14

INFO[RUU]WP,radio,19

INFO[RUU]WP,radio,27

INFO[RUU]WP,radio,36

INFO[RUU]WP,radio,44

INFO[RUU]WP,radio,51

INFO[RUU]WP,radio,59

INFO[RUU]WP,radio,100

FAILED (remote: 90 hboot pre-update! please flush image again immediately)

sending 'zip' (137446 KB)... FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

Rebooting to bootloader...

rebooting into bootloader... FAILED (command write failed (No such file or directory))

Step 1 complete - now use the bootloader menu to enter recovery mode.

To do this, press the power button, wait a few seconds, then use the volume keys and power button to select the RECOVERY option.

=============

What is wrong?
[Desire Android Development] MasDroid:
That suggests you need to first create a Gold Card and your handset must be network branded.
[Desire Android Development] plasmafire:
Error in step1

Hi guys, thanks for all the awesome work, but I get an error similar to garfield.

D:\android\r5-desire-root>step1-windows.bat
Desire Root Step 1

Erasing cache and rebooting in RUU mode...

erasing 'cache'... OKAY
... OKAY

About to start flash...
< waiting for device >
sending 'zip' (137446 KB)... OKAY
writing 'zip'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this image...
INFOsignature checking...
INFOzip header checking...
INFOzip info parsing...
INFOchecking model ID...
INFOchecking custom ID...
INFOchecking main version...
INFOstart image[hboot] unzipping for pre-update check...
INFOstart image[hboot] flushing...
INFO[RUU]WP,hboot,0
INFO[RUU]WP,hboot,100
INFOstart image[radio] unzipping for pre-update...
INFOstart image[radio] flushing...
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,0
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,6
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,14
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,19
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,27
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,36
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,44
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,51
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,59
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,100
FAILED (remote: 90 hboot pre-update! please flush image again immediately)
sending 'zip' (137446 KB)... FAILED (command write failed (No such file or direc
tory))

Rebooting to bootloader...

< waiting for device >
rebooting into bootloader... OKAY

Step 1 complete - now use the bootloader menu to enter recovery mode.

To do this, press the power button, wait a few seconds, then use the volume keys
and power button to select the RECOVERY option.

Ok, the error above resolved.. by opening the actual Step1.bat file, and manually entering in the steps one by one, my guess is that the repeated installation step below happens too quickly for the computer to detect the device, and hence fails.

fastboot-windows.exe flash zip testimage.zip

fastboot-windows.exe flash zip testimage.zip

Error 2) In step 2 I got the error below.

31 files pushed. 0 files skipped.
1745 KB/s (3709881 bytes in 2.075s)

Pushing update file to device sdcard - this may take a few minutes...

protocol failure

Now wipe and apply rootedupdate.zip from the recovery image menu.

error: device not found

The error went away by manually running the installation steps

adb-windows.exe shell mount /sdcard

adb-windows.exe push rootedupdate.zip /sdcard

and then

adb-windows.exe shell nohup /sbin/recovery &

about 5 mins later

After that, just selected the wipe and flashed the zip file, and I have root! Lovin it!
[Desire Android Development] /yce/:
nothing happens when I launches the windows-recovery.bat file in flashrom.zip, the command propt just "blinks" (disappears superfast) and nothing more happens. why not? I have vista 64bit.

edit: I made it, thx for the guide!