[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tranceonline:
Hi all, first of all: i am from germany, so sorry for my bad english :D

So i tried to root my phone the "manual" way and used a german tutorial.

i'll explain what i did step by step:

- first i go the needed files, superuser.apk, SU, rage, root, busybox, wpx.ko (for my handset, here from the forum "2.6.32.21-gbe90714")

- adb push su /sdcard/su

- adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk

- adb push rage /data/local/tmp/rage

- adb push busybox /data/local/tmp/busybox

- adb push root /data/local/tmp/root

- adb shell cd /data/local/tmp; chmod 0755 rage busybox root;

usb disconnected and in terminal:

- /data/local/tmp/rage

after forking all the innocent children, in the tut it says:

"reset terminal. it should shut down. start it again and click away the FC, start it again and u should see a # in the terminal command line"

all that happend like he said!

- than connect usb

- adb push wpx.ko /data/local

- usb off

- in terminal "insmod /data/local/wpx.ko"

than he says, if everything goes right, it should appear "init_module 'wpthis-OTA.ko' failed (Function not implemented)" and you have temp root.

this all worked too, but now the bad part.

in the tut he says, in terminal do "/data/local/tmp/root"

when i did that, for me it said "mkdir failed. folder already exists"

so i opened the root file and did all my self by hand.

what i did was:

#!/system/bin/sh

#clean up after rage
/data/local/tmp/busybox killall rage

#remount system as read/write
mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system

#set up busybox
mkdir /system/xbin [COLOR="Red"]<- this i skipped! Folder existed allready[/COLOR]
/data/local/tmp/busybox cp /data/local/tmp/busybox /system/xbin/busybox
chmod 4755 /system/xbin/busybox
/system/xbin/busybox --install -s /system/bin

#set up su and Superuser.apk
cp /sdcard/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk
cp /sdcard/su /system/bin/su
chmod 4755 /system/bin/su

#remount system as read-only
mount -o ro,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system

ok, so far so good. it worked!

THAN the tut says, type "sync" in terminal, wait about one or two minutes and reboot. now u should see superuser and so on in the appdrawer list.

i did but there is NOTHING! no superuser rights at all!

than i was dissapointed and tried visionary+r14. did the temp root, it took really long (bout 1-2 min) and in the middle, the screen went black for some seconds. i only saw the statusbar. it ends and i click "permroot", nothing happens. i wait and wait. after about 5 mins, i restarted visionary, klicked permroot again and this time , after about 20 seconds the phone reboots. BUT, adw.launcher was gone FC, newsrob FC, browser FC'ses, gapps FC. And it didn't stop FC'ing. after about 2 minutes the phone restarted itself and booted normally.

Now my phone works almost, but adw.launcher, browser, newsrob and so on are still FC'ing when i try to launch them. 3 or 4 games too.

In german forum they say, first i have to reflash a RUU to restore my system and than i should try visionary directly and it should work.

my questions now:

1. What did i do wrong?

2. What went wrong?

3. Which RUU do i need?

4. How should i root my phone? Which TuT may i use?

My system build is: 1.32.405.3 CL275498 release-keys

Baseband: 12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.15_M3

Im thankfull for every help i can get!