yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Oh Come on! I had explained that in my opening post!

Quoting my OP:

Goto your Temp folder.

Delete all files in it.

Now Run the downloaded RUU. It will show you a window, but dont press anything in that window.

Without closing the RUU program, minimize it, and go back to your Temp folder. You will notice that there are two new folders here. Either navigate into them, or use the Windows Search function to find "rom.zip". Rename this file as "PB99IMG.zip". Be careful not to add an additional .zip extension, in which case the file becomes PB99IMG.zip.zip. Such a file wont be recognized by Android.

Here's an alternate link to the same file.

EDIT:

I've updated the Second post with some FAQs.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rraaka:
DD,

so happy to locate the rom.zip. when i extract with winrar i find it will give me hboot of 0.93 which i dont want since many are facing problems unrooting it with unrevoked.

i had eclair before i rooted and still have hboot 0.80. now im using customs roms.

i dont have warranty problems since i didnt buy it over the counter and I live in the same region as you. In my city there is no HTC customer care centre.

i tried cmd to determine ruu compatiblity and i get a huge log which i dont know how to reproduce here.

Thanks for your continued help.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
I think you'll be hardpressed to find an Hboot version of 0.80 now. If you use the latest WWE, believe me, there wont be rooting problems, unless your hardware has some issue. I've been rooting it every week since last month. Keep me updated if you want any further help.

If you live in India, then you can use the WWE only with goldcard. Also WWE is the only RUU you get, since the Indian RUU is very old, and not compatible with SLCD.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rraaka:
DD.i just realised i couldnt pm you so ill get back to you on this thread if i face an emergency.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Sure.

Just keep in mind that the Indian RUU and Asian RUU are not the same. Even if you purchased in India, you cant use the Asia RUU w/o a goldcard. In that case, it is better to go with the WWE RUU since that is updated faster.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rekekjeks:
I get the exact same problem on two different computers but I'm unable to work out a solution.

Care to explain?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
That seems to be a Windows error message rather than an Android RUU Error code. Sorry cant help, rather than suggest you redownload the file or use another RUU.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kempshott:
Confused noob here - if, as the first post says, flashing with a stock RUU changes infoCID from branded to stock HTC, why are there lots of posts here and elsewhere saying you still need a Goldcard to install subsequent (stock HTC presumably) OTA updates?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Sorry, there is indeed a mistake in my post. I will get back to you about the infoCID issue. But to clarify, if you've unrooted to a Stock HTC WWE version, you dont need goldcard in the future for OTA.

EDIT: InfoCID is not changed. Goldcard only bypasses the InfoCID value. But, once a goldcard is used and an RUU is installed, no goldcard is needed to run the OTAs of that RUU.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angusc:
I also kept getting this error but think it was due to a corrupt download from shipped-roms.com eventually after getting a complete dl the error message issues did not occur. I searchrd google for my stock rom "ARA" now i have that i made a goldcard and installed WWE 2.29.405.5 Using an RUU without any issues.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 44IN:
Please help, followed the guide carefully, but stuck at CID incorrect at trying to unroot white Desire from unrevoked. Made gold card and everything but I'm missing something ????
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Format card once more as Fat32, and copy the file. If still same error happens, recreate goldcard
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 44IN:
Thanks, will give it a go, do you know any other guides for gold card creating, I am using this tool and say everything is ok, but, I am guessin if it still shows CID incorrect it maybe could be that gold card did not happen well?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
The tool is good. If it says it is created successfully, you can relax. There is a very long guide on Unlocker. Very easy to go wrong doing it. Wouldnt recommend it at all.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 44IN:
Yes, yes, I saw that guide but also thought no need for it because I see this tool makes adb command and everything should be OK but that's also why I cant figure out why CID warning again...:(

I'll give it a go again what else..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Follow this word-for-word:

Format your current goldcard fat32, put PB99IMG.zip (with correct name. Not PB99IMG.zip.zip) on card, reboot in recovery mode.

If there are other partitions, you will have to remove them and make a single FAT32 primary partition. (Use Gparted LiveCD)

If it still doesnt work, use the tool again.

If again it doesnt work, use another sdcard.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 44IN:
Thank you very much, some oil is gonna burn tonight :)

Let me ask you, as I'm strugglin' with this device for a few days now in meantime I fixed this Desire with my personal settings and it would be PITA to do it all over again so can I backup it to be restored in exact way? Titanium maybe or? Because MyBackupPro with root acces does not do the job properly..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
I would recommed TB, MyBackup Pro also gave me problems with parse errors upon restoring apps + data, and system settings.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wholet:
Hi i need to ask something :) i bought my desire like 3 months ago from a seller and seller said that it came from dubai but not sure about it but it wasnt has a brand logo like t mobile or something it just said htc quietly brilliant before i rooted now i need to unroot it to send it to htc for repair but i dont know what RUU to use i had 2.2 before i root it but which RUU am i going to use ? is this thing unrooting have serious problems like cant turn on your phone again or something like that ? as it can be seen i dont have any ideas -not really much- about unrooting if anyone can help it will be awesome :) thanks i can add some more details in future :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
Warranties, if like other products, aren't transferable. If you're not the original buyer then you have no warranty as it's 2nd hand
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wholet:
I know that i dont have warranty but i want to sell the phone too so i need to unroot it :) or maybe i dont need to unroot :D i want to unroot it before i sell but how ?

i explained my problem in the post i posted pefore :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
This whole thread is exactly about how to unroot.

As for your specific problem, find out the CID of your device with "fastboot oem gencheckpt"-That will guide you on which RUU to use.

Description of how to use adb and fastboot are beyond the scope of this thread, so kindly search and read other threads on these before posting other specific problems regarding the Unrooting process.

We'll be happy to help out regarding the latter.

Also create a goldcard right now, so that you can unroot to an unbranded RUU if need be.

As long as you stick with a new RUU, you shouldnt have problems.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wholet:
thanks. but what is CID and goldcard ? they said that you dont need anything download the official one and then run it ? my phone was not branded. and also i dont know where my phone came from should i install the WWE version so i wouldnt have any problems when unrooting ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Please read the thread linked to my signature. The thread also has links to tutorials on adb and describes fastboot.

Since you seem very unfamiliar with all this, read the thread first and then, I advice you to do this:

Create a goldcard (First step)

Insert goldcard

Copy this PB99IMG.zip to your SD card after formatting it to Fat32

Follow the opening post.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wholet:
thanks for all your help i am looking the topic from your signature :) you wrote 2 ways one is shippedroms download and run second one is more complicated is there any differents ? both returns your phone to unrooted phone so i am going to download a rom from shipped roms and start that exe and my phone will be rooted i am asking this cause i didnt come across with gold card or the things that you mentioned at the topic the places i looked always said download the rom from shipped roms and run the exe htc sync must be installed thats all :D doing the method no. 1 is easy i think :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
First one may fail if there are driver problems. Other differences have been mentioned in the op. I prefer the second and this thread is about that. However,use whichever u prefer.end result is the same. Goldcard is describedin depth in the thread from my signature. You will need this inserted while doing either method.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wholet:
thanks. i read the topic and i see now that the 2nd method is more safier then running an exe file plus i dont know whic region is my desire too so making a goldcard and continue with the steps as you wrote at no.2 :)

and i have one more question how can i find the RUU'S for the 2nd method ? am i going to download them from the shipped roms too ? or is there any other way or i didnt understood it completely :D

Put the file PB99IMG.zip into the root of the goldcard. Note that the name must be PB99IMG.zip and not PB99IMG.zip.zip. Windows has a tendency to rename it as the latter.

how can i find that ? the PB99IMG.zip am i going to download it from somewhere ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dex484:
I did as you described, but when i give command on cmd, after lot of information, i got "FAILED <status read failed <Too many links>> while on the phone i got "E:Invalid command argument"...

What kind of info do you need to tell me what's my shipped ROM?

some of info:

INFO Device CID is not super CID

CID is HTC__032

.

.

.

HTC_032 andrioidboot.carrier=HTC-EastEurope androidboot.mid

etc.

Thanks in advance :)

EDIT

Ok.. I downgrade it.. thanks to this thread [HOWTO] Downgrade Froyo (2.2) to Stock 2.1 (ANY HBOOT | WIN/LINUX/MAC | ROOT) ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
You neednt have downgraded. Your CID indicates that your device is unbranded, and any of the WWE RUUs would work fine for you without a goldcard.

Next time, READ my post! :D

See the post which I wrote. I gave you the direct link to the file.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzmay:
I tried to download this PB99IMG_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49 .00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed

But is not working could someone be nice enough to link me a working PB99IMG.zip of the lates 2.29.405.5 please
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikep99:
try this http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...9.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.zip

from shipped roms
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
I believe he downloaded the same file. Would you post details of how it is not working? What error code, etc? Or does the phone fail to recognize it altogether?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzmay:
Indeed I tried to downloading it from there, and the phone simply does not recognizes, I believe the file is incomplete, since a normal .zip shall be around 170 mb and both files that are on that site are one 6mb and the other 115 kb.

Please if someone of you guys have gone through this process would be great to get this file, I cant do it myself since I am on a mac
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
My upload speeds are horrible! Shipped roms have a tendency to break downloads midway. Try disabling any download managers, and try from Google Chrome..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
And yes, your file is incomplete.

PB99IMG_WWE_2.29.405.5 and PB99IMG_WWE_2.29.405.2-Both are 164mb each.

Here are alternate links to RUU..

http://www.4shared.com/file/S4donxGS/RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_229405.html

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N03CIN0U

http://www.mediafire.com/?bbb7m2b4t5jejhm

Of course you will have to get rom.zip from Temp, and rename it properly
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzmay:
Thanks but for this i need windows right?? could you explain me how to do it, shall I run the ruu with the phone connected or not? where is that temp folder? will this work on VM?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
I'm sorry, but yes, you do need Windows for this. In Win, you run the RUU w/o the phone. Clear the temp folder just before this. Then, Just click the exe and wait for it to popup the first window. Then, minimize it, and "Search" the Temp folder for rom.zip. Copy it to the root of goldcard. Rename the "rom" part to PB99IMG. Take care not to add a ".zip" of your own even if the file does not show ".zip"

Now, assuming your card has only 1 partition and that is a Primary Fat32, the file will be detected on starting up the phone with "Vol- and Power" buttons pressed together. Follow the prompts and refer to the OP.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzmay:
thanks again what you mean by run the ruu w/o the phone??

shall it be plug you mean?

really thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
It means the phone shouldnt be connected. Only in the later steps of the RUU is the phone needed to be connected.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzmay:
The last thing the temp folder where should it be?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Start>Run>%TEMP%

And press enter. :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzmay:
I am doing exactly what you are telling me however on my temp folder there is nothing :/

Any ideas?

By the way I am on Windows 7 and this is the path C:\Windows\Temp is that correct?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
Typing %temp% takes you to where it is, but you obviously need to be at the first screen of the RUU before looking in there

Think I might do a little video this evening showing people how to do it as, although it's VERY easy, some people still can't do it
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzmay:
this is what I am doing.

I run the exe file, then when I get the very first screen of it where it appears the picture of a Desire telling welcome to the ROM update utility for your android phone. I select I agree on the terms and click next.

Once I am in there I go Start, then type in search Run. The it opens Run telling me to type the name of a program, folder, document, etc

Then I type temp and select ok and I see nothing, am I doing correct the procedure?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Obviously not, since you're typing "temp" and not "%temp%"

Hmm.. I agree too, that it's one of the simplest things to do. I've detailed that in my OP and yet repeated it again! Maybe a vid would do it better! :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Just saw the edit now..

Probably that should be it..Unless you have multiple users, in which case, the path would be something like this:

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Temp

But you can directly go there if you type %temp%, which is an Environment variable (a shortcut/alias, if you please)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
Just done this, take a look at it...it's a Word document inside the ZIP file so obviously extract it out :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzmay:
I have fixed it now guys, thanks a lot for the patience, and if someone else need the zip let me know. I will be happy to share it
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
@Eddy,

If you arent posting it anywhere, tell me. I would like to add it to the OP, with full credits of course :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzmay:
If you want I can give you the PB99IMG.zip I have tried it now and is working
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
@droidzone

Go ahead and use it, I've no issues :D

@buzmay

I don't need it, I have my RUU/PB99IMG kept safe ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
I have them of course (every version of them) :D. Only reason I couldnt upload it is b/c of my slow upload speed.

Edit: Thanks, Eddy..I've added to post 2, as a FAQ..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] budssgc:
Okay i have a htc desire From NTELOS

bravoc dv2 ship s-off

hboot -0.90.0000

radio-2.05.10.08.11

firmware version 2.1-update1

baseband version 2.05.10.08.11

build number 1.28.557.2 cl263104

kernel version 2.6.29-e3566335 build 149 #1

I'm getting a model match id error/incorrect when doing either the

RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811

or the

PB99IMG_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.2_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_151783_signed

now this happens when i use any ruu.exe or the .zip whether im in rom manager or hboot or the recovery in clockworldmod 2.5.0.9

i have gone threw step by step about a 1000 times on how to make a goldcard and the PB99IMG.zip and every other way of debranding my phone, i have tried 4 different micro sd cards 1gig and 8gig sandisk, 8gig samsung, and a 2gig pny, made goldcards with all still no dice on the debranding, i wanted to get a kingston 2gig micro sd from bestbuy but they dont sell it anymore :( Now im assuming im doing something wrong with the goldcard process, i have followed the process from the unlockr.com and from this site as well which both are the same process, i have download dozens of diff ruu.exe and PB99IMG.zips from the repository none work. cant even flash a custom rom. If anyone know how to get this done please please let me know i don't care how complicated it is as long as it works.

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
What you're doing wrong is you're flashing files meant for the HTC Desire GSM, on your HTC Desire CDMA..That's dangerous..Had you flashed a radio this way, your Desire would have been permanently bricked!

Check for files meant for bravoc..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] budssgc:
dont see any bravoc in shipped-roms.com/shipped/Bravo/ is there another repository
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
'Probably' this

Do confirm with those at the Desire CDMA forum though..Isnt there one?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] budssgc:
is ntelos, telos the same as us cellular
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] budssgc:
im looking a stock rom/exe/.zip that will alow me to install android 2.2 or 2.3, is these one of those?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] budssgc:
Thanks Guys i figured it out and got it working thanks to yall! :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Great! So you used a CDMA Ruu?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] budssgc:
No couldn't find one, but i did find a cyanogenmod rom for cdma, wich gave me android 2.2.1 and im happy with that for now, if i can find a RUU that works then i go with that, mainly now im just waiting for a CDMA Android 2.3 RUU to come out, and the only reason i went threw this was for the save to sd storage and so far im happy, 512megs of internal memory is just not enuff! Thanks again, letting me know it was a CDMA was the clue i needed :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coffee4cr:
Thanks!

Thanks for this guide.

My Desire had a huge deadzone in the screen, needed to return it back
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] logah1010:
Help Unroot USCC BravoC

I have a US Cellular BravoC CDMA and I am confused about unrooting. The only RUU available is for Altell and even if it did work it would give my phone an Altell splash screen. I have extracted the rom and renamed it PB99IMG.zip. Can i switch out part of the rom (one of the .imgs) with an .img (ex: boot.img) from a nandroid backup i made? Or would that corrupt the process. Is there any way to change the splashscreen in this rom to the stock US Cellular splash screen. My phone no longer can recieve any 3g and rarely even gets 1x. I used to have great service with US Cellular on this phone. I just want it unrooted before i take it to the store. Thoughts? Advice? Thanks :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
BravoC=CDMA Desire

You need a CDMA PB99IMG.zip. My entire post is about GSM desire, so dont use any link which I've provided. Find the right file, and the rest of the steps are the same
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] logah1010:
Yes i realize that.l The Altell RUU is for the CDMA Desire. I just used your steps to extract the rom i never used your links in the first place. All i want to know is if it is possible to modify the splashscreen in the ROM so that way i can have the us cellular splash screen. Could i swap part of the rom out with an .img from a nandroid?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
If you want it to be unrooted and yet have a custom splash, that's impossible. Custom splash needs Root+S-OFF. If you can get the original RUU for your network, you can. Else, no.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Once unrooted, phones will reject any tampering with the pb99imgs. So they will reject the file if you mod it
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cadiremar:
Call me stupid, but I have read through this entire thread and can't unroot my Desire :(

I rooted my phone with unRevoked3.

Then I installed Oxygen 2.0RC7

Then I went to install a stock HTC 2.2 ROM with root to get HTC Sync to work as I wanted to unroot.

Now the phone and HTC Sync won't find each other, so I went on to the next method.

I downloaded RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.2_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_151783_signed.exe and extracted the Rom.zip and renamed it to PB99IMG.zip.

Then I copied the PB99IMG.zip to a freshly FAT32-formatted SD card and starting into HBOOT, but the PB99IMG file isn't recognized at all.

The file is called exactly PB99IMG.zip (not .zip.zip).

The phone is bought in Europe (Sweden), and is unlocked, so I shouldn't need to use a Goldcard, right? Anyway, I tried to do it, but I can't get the CID using the Gold Card Tool.

I hope this is enough info for anyone to help me.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cadiremar:
Call me stupid indeed. I had been formatting the SD card as FAT and not FAT32. The zip file is loading now and everything seems to be working out. Thanks for all the info in this thread.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msternig:
I am with USCC (CDMA) and have rootd my Desire using UnrEVOked and have installed several ROMs. I recently had the misfortune of having a bad speaker and need to return the phone for warranty repair. I was able to follow the instructions to use the USCC Froyo Update RUU (downloaded from the HTC website) to get a copy of the Rom.zip file and flash it using ClockworkMOD recovery. The install went smooth, but if I boot into recovery, it still says I am S-OFF. Is there any way to get back to S-ON with the CDMA Desire? I tried to run the UnrEVOked S-ON tool without any luck as they do not support the CDMA Desire (yet). Do I need this to be S-ON to not get charged for a voided warranty? Thanks!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
At the moment there's no way to get S-ON again with a CDMA phone so you'll have to risk it as it is