yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iggi007:
I'm being dumb...

Gents,

Struggling here... Seems my HD2 is a locked version without any branding. This I figure as it's a WWE_3.14.405.2 but rather a 421...

So I had pcwe build me two images - sorry 'bout that my boy - and toasted my SD with the correct one. When I do the reboot I only get the gray "Installing" screen for a second before I get the rainbow...

Now I tried with my 1.66 stock ROM and the new 3.14 ROM. I also tried SPL 1.42.0000 and SPL 1.66.0000, with all the combination's of ROM's to SPL's...

Any ideas?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] igavio:
I bought my HTC HD2 from a greek eshop and it came with greek ROM. Alas, when I tried to upgrade from 1.66 ELL to 3.14 ELL, the HTC site said NO, because my device was branded for Vodafone Germany, as I found out!

So, I downloaded 3.14.482.2 ELL from XDA, but it could not install it because of the branding.

I applied the method described in this thread, and I installed the new official ROM in a snap. pcwe sent the image 15 minutes after my PM. Thank God we are in near time zones. And thank pcwe for tutorial and image file. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mskip:
Well what method did you use when you upgraded your phone to the 1.66 Stock Rom?

I think people are getting a bit confused as to exactly what a GoldCard will do for them. All a GoldCard will do is bypass the carrier ID check when you attempt to flash a stock rom via the microsd card that you wrote the GoldCard to. A GoldCard wont unbrand your phone, that is only acomplished by flashing an HTC Stock Rom. If you flash a carriers Stock Rom then it will still be branded with whatever that carrier added to it. That means that you have to use that same card everytime you want to flash a stock rom and you have to use the same method to flash it (via the same microsd card). It wont sim unlock your phone and it wont let you flash any other roms apart from stock roms.

In every other respect HardSPL is ALOT better and ALOT safer as HardSPL will allow you to flash Radios, Splashscreens, Custom Roms and Stock Roms aswell as protecting your phone from being bricked.

The GoldCard method was created before HardSPL came along for the HD2 when it was the only method of changing your Stock Rom. After HardSPL it was only ever needed if someone flashed a Rom with a higher version than HardSPL covered and they needed to go back to a lower SPL.

If all you want to do is flash a 3.14 Stock Rom then the simplest method to use is to install HardSPL (any version) and then flash the 3.14 Stock Rom via activesync. This will overwrite HardSPL and give you a Stock Rom along with the included Radio and matched SPL. You then dont have to rely on waiting for someone to create a GoldCard for you. If you then want to flash a Custom Rom that needs a Stock SPL you can flash it via SSPL method.

I guess my conclusion is can people please stop asking for GoldCards JUST to flash a Stock Rom unless they either cant sync their pc and phone (rendering activesync useless), have already tried HardSPL and cant do it or they cant boot into their OS. All the requests in different threads are starting to grow out of control and turning more into a GoldCard farm rather than a recovery process.

@ pcwe, maybe you can pick parts of this post and add it to the top of your first post to clear up any uncertainties people might have about GoldCards.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] htc_best:
thank you pcwe it worked thank you so much :D <3
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
Thanks a lot for this additional explanations on what exactly a Goldcard does.

Things might be different with other cooked ROMs. But as I view things from Artemis' point of view, everyone having a branded phone needs a goldcard since Artemis 40+ depends on SPL 3.03 to function properly. SPL 3.03 only comes with the Stock ROM 3.14 and so far there is no HSPL for 3.03 in sight. Unfortunately, also no operator has, so far, released its branded 3.14 Stock ROM (except for TM-US as I just learned). So everyone wanting to install Artemis Generation IV has to either:

1. Wait for a new HSPL

2. Wait for their operators branded Stock ROM 3.14 to be released

3. Use a Goldcard

I will put your explanation of what a Goldcard does on first page and also link to this post. Thanks for your support.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Blairware:
Might be slightly off topic

Actually T-Mobile has a Stock ROM that was just released, and is essentially the leaked one from last month. Can't see how this would be useful however; the ROM build is: 3.14.531.1 - BUT, since Artemis' ROM states that it is NOT for T-Mobile (1024 ROM size) I suppose the point is moot.

I would love to try the Artemis v40 ROM, and was actually close to grabbing it when I saw the restriction against TMOUS. I got caught myself last May when the T-Mobile ROM rolled out 2.13.531.1 and had SPL 2.10 - HSPL only supported 2.08 - Lots of confusion those couple of weeks too, since the original shipped ROM for TMOUS was 2.10 (with SPL 2.08) and folks had the build and SPL #'s mixed up....

I had to read quite a way into this thread to get this all straight in my head, so I wish you luck warding off all the unnecessary Gold Card image requests. All I can say is, Thank Heaven (and Cottula) for HSPL, I don't care for SD image updates!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] groscalin:
Thanx for sending the goldcard image.

Following the tutorial, ugrading from 1.43 ROM to latest 3.14 Rom went like a charm.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jmarley:
Good info Mark except for My phone a 3.14 flash did not overwrite HSPL !

I tried also an image from the SD card and it did a partial flash....failed with the phone locked in boot loader and it would not accept any of the stock roms.. from SD or USB :eek:

After a couple of hours panic I found My old sd card and gold card image which I had endless hassle with originally (the card used to become unremarkable during its setup ) I found a sd format utility and wiped it and with a hex editor put the gold card image on it along with a 3.14 IMG and fortunately the phone took it !

With the original hspl I had no issues flashing 3.14 over active sync but I thought it best to get the right SPL on there as it was miss reporting RAM etc..

Bottom line all these phone's seem to respond slightly differently to flashing, I can only think it's down to the various network branding etc.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eddie1234567:
Worked a treat, now up to 3.14 and a wee beer is winging it's way as we speak
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mw3010:
thank you pcwe everything went perfectly
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sprongebob:
auf meinen o2 branding geht es nicht bekomme die meldung not allow

also doch warten bis o2 die neue stock rom liefert
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LpubV:
I was stuck in bootloader SPL3.03 with a French SFR branded phone

GoldCard allowed me to go back to 1.43 stock ROM (with kackable SPL1.42)

I try to install 3.14 stock ROM ... unsuccessfully until now

maybe because I'm not in SPL1.66

I'm gonna make additional tests ...

best regards and thanks for your help (GoldCard.img)

Laurent
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mskip:
This is an English speaking forum please use a translator if you dont speak english and want to post a message.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] maksym:
Solved!

Ok, I found the reason.

When I run GetCID in PSAS, it finds out that the CID for my SD card is 9B000000400000000000020002000000. I use that CID to generate the goldcard.img. However, there is a problem with this. What alerted me to a problem is the fact that the size is determined to be 1Gb, while the card is 2Gb - the stock SanDisk that came with HD2.

Out of desperation, I downloaded the pre-generated goldcard for CID 9E000000400000000000020002000000 from here - and guess what? It worked, everything updated!

That makes me think that there is a bug in PSAS software. I can try and provide the screenshots.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mjr Tom:
Image wanted

Hi,

i need an image for CID: 00000000000000002000000030000306

Thanks a lot!

Greets

Tom
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lyriquidperfection:
GoldCard for ascoandy

ascoandy your GoldCard is ready for collection.

Device: Leo

BR

Gaz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lyriquidperfection:
GoldCard for mjr tom

mjr tom your GoldCard is ready for collection.

Device: Leo

BR

Gaz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lyriquidperfection:
Hi, I ran into a few problems while trying to create my own GoldCard. What you should do is the following to create a flawless GoldCard:

Right Click on the PSAS/RevSkills icon and Enable Compatibility Mode for WinXP SP3.

Run as administrator just to be sure.

Then generate your GoldCard in the usual way.

You know if your GoldCard has been created correctly because it should be readable in both windows and on your device.

If after you have created your GoldCard the SD card is NOT readable and requires formatting. Re-Format and try using the method above.

BR

Gaz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sundind:
Dear all,

I would like to get rid of my movistar branding. Could someone make me a HD2 goldcard file? My serial is F4A6002DF27771304732305553445303.

Many thanks in advance!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lyriquidperfection:
GoldCard for sundind

sundind your GoldCard is ready for collection.

Device: Leo

BR

Gaz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sundind:
Hello again, I have a Spanish hd2 movistar, I downloaded the stock rom 1.66 for Spain, 3.14, 1.48 and the last I tried the 1.48 worldwide and nothing. Everything is because I have the SPL 3.03 and I want downgrade SPL to install android on nand and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

1-formatting the SD to FAT32 (2GB Kingston)

2-no label

3-open PSAs and write the goldcard

4-extract the ruusigned.nbh and renamed to LEOIMG.nbh

5-copy the file to the sd

6-Boot bootloader and started loading grey screen

7-message 0028002 not allowed

Goldcard image is well done is because I have not done it, the cid I checked a bunch of times so the problem can only be the sd or the rom, what do you think?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jrcalderon:
Hey buddy, you must be doing somehting wrong with the ID of the SD card. I m also from Spain and had the same issue you have (I write in english so the rst can understand and/or correct me). I was lack in the smae point as you are. I didnt purchase the software, I used the services of "pcwe" as he offered in the post http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=825397 and it worked so well for me following the steps you are just posting. I do think you must be doing something wrong between getting the CCID and writting the GOLD CARD image. take a look at the post, maybe there is soemthing you are missing?

Good luck
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mskip:
Users who want a GoldCard to downgrade their SPL or to install 2.08.HSPL for use with Magldr/Android/WP7 can now use the NEW HSPL4 which has full support for SPL3.03.0000 Roms.

You can use my Flashing Guide *HERE* which has instructions using Activesync OR Bootloader flashing methods.

I hope this will cut down a bit on requests for GoldCards :)

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
Hi all. This is just to let you know that I'm still alive. I haven't abandoned XDA but I'm currently preparing my move to another country (consolidation of three country offices in Europe). As I leave next week, I'm not always online anymore and very busy packing and organising. Sorry for all that had to wait and thanks to all that keep answering post and generating goldcards.

Patrik
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
I have added links to images for frequently used CIDs on the Tutorial (first post end of section "B.O.2. Option 2: PSAS free Version"). This may help to save some time and energy:GoldCard_9B000000400000000000020002000000.img

GoldCard_9D000000400000000000020002000000.img

GoldCard_9E000000400000000000020002000000.img
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] matteus240:
Thanks PCWE!

Method worked perfectly!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lyriquidperfection:
GoldCard for persian_carbuncle

persian_carbuncle, your GoldCard is ready for collection.

Device: Leo

BR

Gaz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aristofanisl:
Hi ppl.

My friend's HTC HD2 has some serious problem i guess.He flashed a nand android rom and everything went well for a week.Then he decided to install an app from market that partitions sd card and bam after 10min his mobile went pure white screen.

He has 2.08HSPL which after many HSPL installs he cant change it at all althought setup is succesfull.We tried sd flash stock rom and usb flash nothing works.On usb sometimes it goes 1% and then exits with error 262 and on sd card (both stock sd card and 4gb/8gb sds) it fails on update radio V2.

His phone goes white screen with no bottom left info msg.

When we charge it led is working but stays on even when we get charger out.

Makes me think he doesnt even have radio and rom inside.

Tried to flash radio same result as above.Tried Task 29 same think.

What makes me think that he didnt brick the phone is that he can boot on tricolor mode.

PC only sees the qualcom thing.

Any info would be rly nice.

As my last resort to try and fix it is Gold Card with the stock rom for Greek and I request one from you guys if u can ofc.

SD id is: D4A1006002009C0447323041534D5402

this id is from my stock sd 2gb

Thank in advance!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aristofanisl:
bump

None can help?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] uli71:
Have you tried to PM one of the guys named in post #1 of this thread?

This might be faster, than waiting.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aristofanisl:
Yep i did but no response :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mskip:
Here is a GoldCard for your storage card to try and flash a stock rom:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/38hzyj

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
Sorry, I have finished moving and I'm now back online.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Xblister:
Sent the guys from the 1st post a message too, are there more ppl who can create a goldcard for me?

thanks in advance,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lyriquidperfection:
GoldCard for user Xblister

Xblister, your GoldCard is ready for collection.

Device: Leo

BR

Gaz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] b12rtc:
Thank you pcwe!

For this great tutorial and for your help, a beer for you: Confirmation number: 9SR288976V0925131. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
Much appreciated, thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jackkr:
help me

can i get gold key for

B2A50000000000104231554732534860

thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] froibet:
do i need to be in windows 6.5 to get the CID?

i can only get in bootloader. :(

i have no radio on my phone = can't get into 6.5
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] flame10:
Same issue,can't this be done from a sd card reader

Ok I took a friends mobile and got the CID

8382006A75A620804732305553445303

can anybody please provide me with a gold key
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
Sent you a PM. Have fun.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] flame10:
Thanks pcwe, thanks a lot. I got your message with the goldcard .. I couldn't try creating the goldcard yet .. the card is actually from a friend of mine, I'll get it tomorrow and then only will be able to create the gold card, I'm not very sure if I'll be successful, since the windows mobile phone which I used had a sdcard slot and I had to use a micro sd adapter.. So if I'm unsuccessful I might ask for your help again.

Edit: The Whole process went quite good, you got another HD2 unbricked.. My Friend says thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] parthakolkata1:
My HTC HD2 is working fine now

Thanks for the gold card, my HTC HD2 is booted with windows stock ROM now and working fine.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] parthakolkata1:
MY HTC HD2 is working fine now

Thanks for the Gold card. MY HTC HD2 is working fine now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sajjji:
can a friend give me a gold key ( image file )

849A002BBBF99C0347313041534D5402

thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
Do you still need the image? (Usually it is better to send a PM to one of the friends listed on the tutorial, so you will get your image quicker.)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] da_mayhem:
@pcwe - Bro thank you! though this isn't a Maple thread, appreciate your effort and help reviving my HTC Snap. The Goldcard image works flawless and brought the device back to life again.

Thank you!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
Always glad to help and thank you for leaving a feedback.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PasSlert:
I followed this great tut step by step. Thanks a lot. ;)

I'm now wainting the image file.

I'll give you enough money to pay you some beers you deserve. :D

Edit: Yeah, it solved my "Upgrade error code". Thanks pcwe for providing me a goldcard.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jaybtee:
Hi All,

I have a O2 Branded unlocked HD2. It has been updated to 3.14 but still O2 and spl 3.03. I would like to try and run Android on this phone and have followed various threads to try and do so.

I flashed HSPL4 and downgraded the spl to 2.08.

I then tried to flash MAGLDR 1.13. That is as far as I have gone as I get an error code 262 when I try to flash MAGLDR. I can still recover from that error and boot into original O2 rom.

Am I doing something wrong here? I have read so much in this forum my head hurts.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mskip:
Did you select 2.08.0000 OR 2.08.HSPL from the list in the HSPL4 program? You need to select 2.08.HSPL to install HArdSPL. You can check by going into the bootloader screen and reading the second line. If you arent sure how to do that then read my rom flashing guide for insructions.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ashamsu:
Dear Member...........

can i use android phone to create goldcard for htc hd2............

that is can i use android mobile to get MMC cid and to create gold card in psas website by entering the cid of mmc by selecting phone type as windows 7.

iam using igb memory card with fat32 and android gold card creator program. in that it is showing cid and reverse cid.

which cid number i have to use to create gold card......

example..........

Executing adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid

Reading adb output

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

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

035344535530314780901c667f008652

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

CID: 035344535530314780901C667F008652

Reversing CID

CID: 0086007F661C90804731305553445303
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
I sent you a PM with both goldcards.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] markov10:
If anyone could generate me a goldcard, I would be thankful.

70A90092B771A96047323044534D5402
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
Did you get your image or would you still need one?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egypro:
the free link is not working
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
Thank you for reporting. The zip file has been renamed. I fixed the link.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] icqlite:
Thanks friend.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eyeb:
wondering if someone had a spare goldcard they can mail me :S I'll give a dollar or 2 for a 1gb one (or if someone wants to loan me one I can pay shipping lol) not sure if i bricked my hd2 or not but nothing is flashing even though i can get to bootloader so I'm giving goldcard a shot as last hope

pm me if you got one, not sure if i'll see replay posted on thread

edit: forgot to mention, I'm asking this because I couldn't get the psas to read my sd card on 2 computers, it got stuck/froze reading the cid
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jdiascoimbra:
I would like to debrand my htc hd2 from tmn-portugal

2gb microsd - CID : D899D703E099D703E899D703989CD703

DISK ID 07

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
I sent you a link as a reply to your PM.

Enjoy,

Patrik
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jdiascoimbra:
Network is locked, please input unlock code...

And now, with the Revskills when i get SD serial the CID is:

9E000000400000000000020002000000

I use the 9E000000400000000000020002000000.img and the problem is the same.

Ideas? solutions?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
Can you post the CIDs you get for all Disk IDs? Is the CID below, the CID that corresponds to the actual, known size of your card?

At what stage of unlocking do you get the error?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ivan L:
PSAS RevSkills crash

Hi!

First of all, thanks you for the awesome guide!

I run into trouble already when trying to extract the CID. PSAS RevSkills crash and die on me when clicking on the "Get SD Serial and ID" button. Tried two different PC's, both running Win7, one with SD adapter straight in, and the other having the phone+microSD mounted as USB memory. It also crash when no SD is mounted at all.

I found the serial to be 3A87-1E17, does that help at all? Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!

I have to flash the ROM the gold-card way since I have the wrong HSPA installed now and the screen is constantly unresponsive. RMA!

~~~~****~~~~

Update:

I found the CID through the android app GoldCard Helper. So easy. 00b900066567250747323041534d5402

Maybe that helps at least? :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcwe:
I'm using RevSkills with Windows 7. Hard to say what causes the problem. Anyway, I prepared you the image for the serial you found and PMed the link.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fengle:
HTC P800 (P3300) 2.8Inch Full Touch Screen With Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC System WIFI Mobile Smart Phone http://711.la/h1y14
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shenchuo:
very nice thread!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shenchuo:
it looks so ugly, why it is so popular?http://snipr.com/21kyxlx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] skinniezinho:
well this is a great great tutorial for noobs like me in wm6.5 devices =)

Although I have a small problem, after I create the gold card (the only thing that I can blame is using the phone as card reader, since I have no card reader), and boot with power and volume down it doesn't go to the flash menu, it goes to a menu with red,green,blue white and says Serial.

The serial is 9E000000400000000000020002000000 (it match the 2gb card that I am using).I downloaded the img from here..

For those with windows 7, revskills worked for me using xp compability mode and admin rights...

Other thing, there is an option called Offset to write to..mine is 0...is that ok?

One more time thanks for this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shangjin:
it seems nice.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] skinniezinho:
Anyone?i've been trying this with different pcs (windows 7 32bit) and it is the same...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Hazeno:
Thank you very much PCWE, Your guide and Goldcard Image worked flawlessly. Managed to get rid of ALL the bloatware T-Mobile prove after i Subsidy unlocked. Posted reply here incase anyone else has the same CID. Slim chance i know but its always a help.

Ill be hitting you a thanks and a token of gratitude on payday.