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[Desire Android Development] MojUk:
Hi guys....i have yet to root my phone, was about to do it tonight and then started reading the 'fake-flash' post...what part does this play in this process and will the guide need to be amended to fit in this new process?

cheers

moj
[Desire Android Development] lixxus:
your phone needs to be rooted in order to use that method. its supposed to be a quicker way for people to swap and flash roms without using pc
[Desire Android Development] MojUk:
Ok cool that was how i understood it....was hoping someone might say that :D

So it basically means that once step 2 is complete (rooted and tooted) then i don't need to use step 4 to flash roms i can simply use fake-flash? :D
[Desire Android Development] lixxus:
yes thats correct.

im still trying to gather all this too. there needs to be a definitive guide on everything. as the desire is still new and the source code hasnt been released, bits and pieces are still being put together.

i think if you flash to htc generic. you will unroot your phone. so its best to stay with the one paul provides untill and good working rom is made
[Desire Android Development] MojUk:
Ok cool, thanks man :D I will root my phone later and then use fake-flash to install cyanogen mod my behnam!
[Desire Android Development] garfield-xda:
Is it necessary to flash with testimage before rooting? What is the difference between testimage.zip from the rooting kits and rom.zip from the stock? I've noticed testimage's version is lower than stock's one.
[Desire Android Development] alienwolf426:
Hi GUys,

i tried rooting my desire using the post 2 and i get this error during step1. I'm running linux. The command line says the following:

Desire Root Step 1

Erasing cache and rebooting in RUU mode...

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

About to start flash...
< waiting for device >
sending 'zip' (138708 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...
FAILED (remote: 42 custom id check fail)
sending 'zip' (138708 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...
FAILED (remote: 42 custom id check fail)

Rebooting to bootloader...

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.

If you notice it says "FAILED (remote: 42 custom id check fail)"

ANyone know what that means or how should i go about resolving this issue.

THanks
[Desire Android Development] shamus007:
hi guys, thanks for the tutorial, rooted and flashed my desire:D
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
What you did and where you get this error??
[Desire Android Development] SilverHedgehog:
Seems that the file didn't fully download.

I redownloaded the file, but I still couldn't install, because it was a wrong version or something. Where can I get the zip version?
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
exe - http://www.multiupload.com/UOWLL86GVB

zip - http://www.multiupload.com/DP9ZRXSMYS
[Desire Android Development] theBIGone:
Thank you for this thread. I am now Rooted and Flashed without problems!
[Desire Android Development] SilverHedgehog:
Okay, I unrooted using the zip file, thanks.
[Desire Android Development] sjunaz:
Hi all

I have an unbranded HTC Desire, purchased in the UK running Android 2.2 with the latest OTA update.

Info about my phone - unsure if this is relevant.

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Aug 10 2010,17:52:10

I started rooting my device using the 'How to root the HTC Desire' guide on theunlockr.com, but I am now stuck on on step 5. of part III.

I get the following error mesage:

-- Installing: SDCARD:unrevoked-forever.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...

unrEVOked forever S-OFF patch v1.3

Verifying system type...
E:unsupported system
E:Update failed. Check /sdcard/soff.log.
E:Error in /sdcard/unrevoked-forever.zip
(Status 42)
Installation aborted.

Is this problem related to my radio version? If so, should I downgrade using the Downgrade Froyo (2.2) to Stock 2.1 guide?

Do I have any other choices?
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
I think you try to disable in UNREVOKED in FILE>ENABLE .....

YOu should root carefully step by step
[Desire Android Development] qmj90:
I have successfully done it with unrevoked without a goldcard. Just followed turkey's guide. With the newest unrevoked it means nothing your desire is branded or not. I haven't flashed the rom yet, but I can use applications which need root access. I will flash rom in next weeks and then I will refer.

Leave this outdated post and go to Turkey's ultimate guide!!! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=814381
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
You think i didn't try turkey's method?

I spent a lot of times on many various forums and etc.

I tried without goldcard by turkey's method and it didn't get me desired result

Anyway, everybody chooses its own way:)
[Desire Android Development] sjunaz:
Where do I do this?

When I open unrevoked there is no such thing, only

"Disable phone security" which is ticked.

I tried running Revoked again once, which didn't work - I then did a factory reset from SD & Phone Storage, and ran it again - and it is working.

Revoked Forever however, still is not working.
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
You tried to disable phone security and failed?

And now is it ok?
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
If your phone is branded so make goldcad

and then install stock ROM

you can take 2.29.405.2 or .5
[Desire Android Development] MeX_DK:
Im looking to root my Desire, but I have a few questions.

1: How can i tell what version my bootloader is, and if its able to root it

2: Will rooting complete wipe my phone or can I root without having to reinstall everything?

Im running Froyo on it right now with software 2.29.405.5

Looking forward to any help and pointers.
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
Oh boy,

What a collection of false information on the last few pages. First of all, don't believe everything andro says. Her sure tries to help, but is kinda new.

Gold card: is not needed usually, since most desire phones are not sim locked. If you are sure, you are sim locked, or you get "invalid CID" error somewhere, you need it. Else just skip the gold card.

Opening post/downgrading: the opening post is totally outdated. Don't even consider downgrading. The current way to root a desire phone is simple: unrevoked. It not only gives you root, but far more important gives you a custom recovery. With that recovery you can flash custom roms and do backup and restore of your current rom state.

Branding: branding on desire is nothing special. Its just the htc rom with some additional crap from your provider. As soon as you flash a custom rom, branding is gone. Consider doing a backup of your branded rom for later warranty issues.

Kinds of roms: some kinds of roms that come to mind:

- sense roms: based on official desire htc firmware, mixed with new features like updated kernel. Famous in this category: leedroid

- sense hd roms: based on on latest htc roms FOR OTHER PHONES ported to desire. Current rims have HD in name, since desire hd had the newest sense version. That name scheme might change in the future.

- AOSP roms. Based on google android sources, these roms don't wanna use sense at all, since most people consider it bloatware.

Most famous aosp rom: cyanogenmod ... The grand father of all kernels and roms.

- miui: a totally different approach. Miui team changes the whole looks of android ui. Much looks like iphone crossed with android features

I hope I did not forget too much I had in mind when starting typing this and hope this clears some of the miss information from the last pages.

Cheers

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
Unrevoked forever: for cdma devices only, working same as unrevoked, but also putting phone to s-off

Unrevoked: for the more popular gsm devices.

See unrevoked.com for a full list of supported devices.

S-off: security off. converts your phone to a developers phone, enabling features most users don't need. Becoming more and more popular since it offers an easy way to change the mtd partition layout. Default layout is for sense roms, wasting a lot of space on system partition for other roms

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
Didn't know this guide. Pretty user friendly, well explained and going "the right way"

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
Hey guy, ma y be you are not right!!!!

If you did something and it's good so it doesn't mean that it would be right for everybody.Personally i couldn't debrand without goldcard.

And these methods that i suggest are very useful and work fine.

If you will read posts before it already helped to someone.....

And in every post i write "MAKE GOLDCARD(

OPTIONALLY

)"

I didn't suggest downgrading and suggest to debrand the phone by making goldcard(optionally) and then install ROM

It suits to unroot method too.

I only suggest steps which user should make. The guides how to implement it described in general thread....

All that i wrote here is true and are used on all forums to make easy installing ROM process.

There are a lot of tools to check CID , adb command and etc

But why to complicate the simple user by this, that's why i suggest simple ways....

People asked and i returned them answers, and you trying to describe what means branding and kinds of roms. It's good but doesn;t resolve their problems:D

And last thing everybody chooses its own way how to debrand, unroot and install.....

Don't take it personally but you are not right, every thing that i wrote here is true and experienced by many people,including me.
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
You didn't this guide and i knew, but to me it wasn't useful so for this special user it was good and for me it wasn't.

So don't mislead users by your posts;)

P.S. I'm a member of big two official forums one in ISRAEL and other in RUSSIA.

A lot of info and experienced methods i get from their, of course XDA forum is the father of those forums:D
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
turkeys guide explains the unrevoked way in depth. thats the method 99.99% of all people use today. if it didn't work for you, you did something wrong. period. maybe its erase size 40000/pvt4 at an too early date or its just a wrong windows driver, which did lead to your result.

please dont tell people to use an outdated method, because you screwed up. all i said above is right - its the result of reading this forum for a long time.

if you have futher objections, send me a private message, since this post isnt the right place for this.
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
I don't want to prove who's right or not...

And i don't want to get in debates with you....

By the way these ways that i described are last and officially published on all forums. Before to make something on my desire i checked and read every night adn day a lot of forums. For example if you type in google "to root desire" you can get old method:)

Why you're so angry , just be a friend and if you wanna to help to people,do it....;)

Take it easy, it's just a forum:D

Meanwhile it helped to a lot of people on other forums and here include to solve their problems.

And i will repeat : everybody chooses its own way ....... Like which custom ROM is best? you have to try it

On this note we'll finish our debate and just be friends, ok dude?:)
[Desire Android Development] achillesmk:
HI,

I've tried to root my HTC Desire following this

theunlockr.com/2010/09/20/how-to-root-the-htc-desire-unrevoked-method/

And I have problems, after installing HBOOT drivers ( which was successful ) I restart my phone, run unrevoked app and connect my phone to USB ... but unrevoked didn't recognize the phone ... so it wasn't rooted ...

My HTC Desire is locked ( branded ) ...

HBOOT-0.93.0001

RADIO5.11.05.27

Any help how to root it succesffuly ...
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
Don't forget to change mode of your phone to usb debugging and connect to pc after starting your unrevoked application.......
[Desire Android Development] achillesmk:
I forgot to mention that... USBdebugging mode is enabled and yes ... I tried connect to the PC after starting unrevoked ... when I connect to PC I'm choosing Charge only as it is described in the post ...

Maybe is important to say that my Desire is SIM LOcked ...
[Desire Android Development] andro2011:
Personally i didn't stuck to SIM LOCKED Phone.

May you should to unlock it before...... But it my guess:)

May be respectable mad-murdock will suggest which option to resolve it?
[Desire Android Development] Cindres:
I'm having a bit of a strange issue. Rooted, ran unrevoked, went to the toilet while it went through. Came back, unrevoked said Done. (I did watch some of the process, saw the black/green clockwork menu appear and reboot).

Now it's definitely rooted, i have Superuser on the menu, i can get to the clockwork recovery screen on bootup, but when i select options on the black/green recovery screen all i get is a black screen. If i hit power again it immediately goes back to the menu, nothing happens.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: Crap, sorry guys, a more accurate google led me to the answer.

Use the trackpad to select -.-

PROBLEM SOLVED.
[Desire Android Development] sn33ky:
I got a problem with rooting my desire. I Tryed 3 Different PC's with Windows XP, Windows 7 (64bit and 32bit). I even formated a PC to install a clean windows XP.

After USB driver installation the device is rebooting into the android system and Unrevoked gives the message "communications with phone unexpectedly interrupted" right after the moment it tells "Loading Root". It is the moment it gives the PIN screen.
[Desire Android Development] DroidBois:
A friend just turned up with a branded HTC Desire A8181 from Korea, they told him that it was locked but he turned up here in Australia and put in an Optus SIM and it worked, so we are presuming it is not locked (BTW I am curious why rooting wouldn't just over-ride a SIM lock anyway). It IS branded however.

Can anyone suggest if the Unrevoked method would work or do we still require a 'Gold Card'? It looks awfully complicated so I would like to avoid having to use a Gold Card at all costs.
[Desire Android Development] pordel:
A serious problem after debranding desire.

Hello Dear sir, according to procedure presented in post #3, I made a gold card an download r5-desire-root-alt after doing step1-windows, my phone was dead an just a vibrate when pushing power button. I did this procedure again but nothing changed. hboot was 0.80 and build was 1.21. what can I do to make my phone alive. this is urgent. help me please.
[Desire Android Development] CitizenLee:
My friend has a Vodafone UK branded Desire and last night we tried Unrevoked.

I installed all the drivers etc (no probs there) and then ran the flash exe. It went through the process as expected and managed to install Clockwork, however when we then tried to flash Unrevoked_Forever.zip it gets stuck at the "Verifying Device Type" screen. We had to pull the battery in the end, but the phone rebooted ok.

I assume this because he has Android 2.2 and HBOOT 0.92 and that the process to fix it will be to downgrade 1st and then start again from scratch?

Just thought I better get confirmation (admittedly a bit late!) as it's not my phone and I don't want to brick it!

Thanks ;)
[Desire Android Development] pordel:
Dear members, In accordance with post #1110, my Htc Desire after Debranding proccess explained in post #3 and passing step1-windows procedure, turned on but with no display and touch.How can I write an official rom and make it normal again?

I shoud be glad if any one can help me.

Thanks.
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
its probably a driver issue, like its most of the time. to resolve it:

- boot your phone to hboot (power down, press and hold volume down while power on) - check if windows detects your phone like it should

- the easy way: get a linux live cd, boot your pc from this cd and use the unrevoked linux version. you wont have to fiddle with usb drivers at all.

you find a ubuntu live cd with adb and fastboot (and wrong unrevoked) here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=741824

you just have to download unrevoked after that and run it.

edit: btw, locked and branded are two different things. branded doesnt matter at all, locked requires a gold card. but in both cases, unrevoked should detect the phone on reboot.
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
unrevoked forever is only for CDMA devices. i guess you got a GSM device.
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
same windows dilemma - use a linux live cd (read one post above)
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
since asked again a lot on the last pages:

Branded:

It means, you phone got some programs from your provider. Perhaps a theme. No need to care about it - nothing special has to be done. All custom roms are unbranded, so is your phone after you flashed a custom rom.

Sim Locked:

It means, you cannot insert a SIM card of another provider. It will give errors then. It will also give errors, if you try to install a custom rom. Usually those errors contain something like "Invalid CID" in the message. You have to create a goldcard first. There are lots of tutorials for goldcard creation around, yet i found this (device independend) one very good: http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how-to-create-a-goldcard/

Once you have the goldcard created (and inserted), you can root/flash your phone like any other unlocked phone.
[Desire Android Development] CitizenLee:
Thanks, and yeah... His Desire is from Vodafone UK so a GSM model.

With this in mind, what options does he have for permanant S-OFF? Is there a method similar to Unrevoked Forever for GSM devices?
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
nope! only alpharev s-off. but it works pretty much the same... search s-off here on xda or visit http://alpharev.nl
[Desire Android Development] CitizenLee:
Cheers mate, I'll go do some research on alpharev ;)
[Desire Android Development] teodor_ch:
Tried unrevoked3 but errored with message, failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?

I want to backup everything and then root stock rom.

Any help please?
[Desire Android Development] teodor_ch:
Worked fine with 3.21 unrevoked3
[Desire Android Development] JSmurf:
Interesting thread but I do have some questions.

I rooted my desire with Unrevoked wich worked fine. I also did the backup with Titanium Backup and Rommanager.

But now I got stuck between fear and lack of knowledge.

I wanted to root the phone to get rid of the apps I don't use and to free up some memory. Seems that rooting is not gonna help me. So I need to flash another rom.

What about the radio and the rom. I can't seem to find how to and what to install first.

My Desire is a belgian (unbranded) device SLCD running 2.2. (32.49.00.32u_5.11.05.27 build 2.29.405.5)

If I want to get back unrooted I have to choose RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.exe

Meanwhile I already tried the unrooting and that worked like a charm. So I've got no questions about that part anymore.

Any clarification is more then welcome.

Thanks in advance.
[Desire Android Development] achillesmk:
When I boot my phone to HBOOT Windows recognize it correctly... but definitly my phone is locked,so I'll try with goldcard...
[Desire Android Development] MATRIKS:
Is there a way to put sd card back from gold card
[Desire Android Development] LINKSLOVESANDROID:
does thhis method of root work on telus desire hboot 93.0001 and radio 5 11:05 27?
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
Ok guys, having a Desire since it came out, rooted from first day, everything worked fine until few days ago.

I flahed [ROM][New Sense][24 JAN] Cool Z/HD ROM v1 Stable FIT IN 250MB NAND A2SD & DATA2EXT and problem came. Before I had HBOOT 0.75 and S-OFF but after flashing this rom (I always flash rom's with Rom Manager) my Desire went S-ON!

So now when I eneter bootloader it says:

Bravo unknown ship S-ON

HBOOT - 0.75.000

MICROP - 031d

I cannot enter classic recovery(via cmd) nor Rom Manager can flash any rom - it just stays on a red triangle image!

Any idea how to patch this, cause I am haveing some serious stability issues with current ROM(sms does not work!)??
[Desire Android Development] rolfd:
How about trying one of the older recoveries that were an update.zip that you placed on the SD card. It's been ages since I used one though! They were the ones that you put on SD then booted the handset while holding the volume button, then "Apply update.zip"

I think it was an amonra one that I used to have always on SD incase something happened.
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
You mean smth like this?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=839621

But it says I need to be S-OFF to install this?!?
[Desire Android Development] rolfd:
I was thinking of this one, although just be careful as these older ones were risking the USB brick. You can recover from that anyway though!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=689778
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
It says:

Extract Above Given .zip to Desktop

For Xp user -> Run recovery-windows.bat

For Vista & Windows 7 -. Run recovery-windows.bat AS ADMINISTRATOR

Downloaded this:

Download:

Desire Fake-Flash Recovery:

Click Here to Download

-> Thx to INXTUX

but no .bat inside?!?
[Desire Android Development] rolfd:
I just re-read the link you posted in post 1028. You can flash this recovery using unrEVOked. You don't need s-off for it.
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
Ok, what I did is rrunned whole process of rooting via unrevoked(followed instructions)

Everything went fine until it sayed rooting...

And than after few mins message appeard:

Error: failed to get root.

probably becuase I am rooted!

So my question is how to flash that recovery via unrevoked?

One thing I tried before unrevoked

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=689778

Downloaded this update.zip and puted it on SD card:

Desire Fake-Flash Recovery:

Click Here to Download

-> Thx to INXTUX

Than I downloaded this and extrcted on my desktop

Previous Versions

Download V1

Multiupload

Puted Desire in HBOOT, slected recovery, it went itno red triangle, runned windows-recovery.bat, it runs several commands in cmd but nothing happens on Desire(it should get into recovery).

So probably I am missing recovery software on Desire, or am I wrong?

EDIT:

I'm in recovery baby :)

Tnx so much for all your help rolfd
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
Ok, flashed new rom, everything fine, but my question is, how did that happened, how suddenly my Desire become S-ON?
[Desire Android Development] rolfd:
Glad you are sorted. I'd maybe ask the dev if he has any ideas. I'm lost on how flashing a rom would make your handset s-on again :confused:
[Desire Android Development] buckshotjr:
Ok, I have an unbranded desire. I CANNOT:

- install any ROM/zip/whatever

- unroot using your link/RUU's and guide

- what the hell am I doing wrong?

I've now tried all 3 of the WWE RUU's for unbranded desires and it keeps returning Error 130: Incorrect RUU. ??????
[Desire Android Development] senkai16:
Same here. I am getting an error on the final part or the unrooting, I dont know what the problem is. now im stuck with an HTC logo in the middle with four triangle and an exclamation point inside the triangle on the four corners of the screen.

i tried the asia RUU
[Desire Android Development] Jimmy.tech96:
Thanks for such a brief guide... Keep sharing.:o
[Desire Android Development] davonhui:
how can i know my phone is HB booted?it seems that my phone doesnt work in the step of HB booting