[Desire General] annafil:
EDIT: Regarding ROOTING: there are now rooted 2.2 official ROMs available with all kinds of goodies. If you have a rooted phone, or wanted to root anyway, you have the option of using those ROMs. This thread is then not for you.

BY FOLLOWING THE BELOW STEPS YOU WILL LOSE ROOT. If you want to root in the future, use a custom rom from the development section.

You do NOT need to have a rooted phone to do the below modifications. Everything is done using only official HTC Roms. You will have the official 2.2 Update as a result of the below steps.

Now back to your regular programme :)

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Ok for those who have itchy hands and must have the europe Froyo update on their non-Europe handsets:

The trick: treat your phone as if it were branded, even if you thought it wasn't. This applies especially to those with chinese input. This means you will need to do two things: create a gold card and de-brand your phone to European WWE 1.21 firmware.

Estimated time: give it an evening. There are a lot of things to do, so it may take a while, even if you're awesome and you've rooted and done other things to your phone you shouldn't do :)

Creating a gold card has been covered in detail see:

http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how-to-create-a-goldcard/

But a few TIPS to note:

1. backup whatever you have on your memory card, just in case before starting the gold card creation process. you may have to format it.

2. look for the gold card creation tool, it will save you a lot of time

3. you will need to store your upgrade image on your gold card. when you are done creating your gold card, double check that when you unplug it from your computer and plug it back in, you are still able to put files in it. ie you do NOT get the message from Windows suggesting you should format it. If you get this message, do the gold card process again.

Now that you have a Gold Card...

Step 1: Unlocking

Get the WWE image:

http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Bra...00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe

This is a windows installer and is run from your computer. This WILL wipe all data from your phone and perform a factory reset.

I recommend using something like myBackup to backup your important information (bookmarks, smses etc). You can even back up Apps with myBackup, but since you are wiping data you might as well reinstall as you are not likely to get your Apps preferences back. Reinstalling also puts more of your apps into your SD memory, froyo style.

So, do a backup to your regular SD card, shut down. Pop in your Gold Card, boot up your phone, go into HTC sync mode (this enables USB debugging), and then run the above exe.

Follow instructions in the installer.

Step 2:

Now you have an unbranded phone. Keep your gold card in there, don't bother setting up your phone as you can do all this after we get froyo. And if something fails, you will be kicking yourself for having to do it again :)

Grab the update image from:

http://liveimage.htc.com/OTA_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.09.405.8-1.21.405.2_release4dua3bcrut4wrv30.zip

Hopefully it stays up there for some time, but if it gets taken down I'm sure you will be able to find someone who has a copy :P

When done downloading, rename this file "update.zip" and copy this file onto your Gold Card.

This is why it was important in step 1 to make sure your Gold Card can still accept writing files to it.

Step 3: The update

Shut down your phone. Boot recovery mode.