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[Desire HD Android Development] Jenxie:
Nope :( do you think any of theese will work? http://xdafil.es/index.php?path=DesireHD/RUU/
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
The WWE ones will surely work well when CID is HTC__001, but the software will still not be the same as stock, ofc.
[Desire HD Android Development] Jenxie:
Thx for the ideas and pointing me into the right direction, i'm extremly grateful for you responses, think i'm getting the bigger picture now heh.
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
Followed your guide still can't is it because in Asia its suppose to be a .707 ruu? Instead of 405.6?
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Well normally yes, but we are using 405.6 because it is WWE, and it debrands a phone easily.
[Desire HD Android Development] Trailblaze:
Hi guys right I've been at this now for too long! I have made gold cards for CIDs of mmc0 and mmc2 cant get a CID for mmc1.

Question: when submitting the CID number to the Gold Card Generator, I have reversed the CID number as advised, and I take it the first two digits are replaced with 00 eg if the CID was 123456789 when entering the CID to the generator will it be 007654321 or 987654300?

The problems I have is when I go into boot loader mode, I get the message loading SD Image PD98img1, then it says no Img???

Then wrong img??

I have reformatted the SD card in the phone, applied the Goldcard Mod, copied the PD98img onto the card, but for some reason the phone is not picking up the img. I have temp root in cmd #

Please could somebody help?

Edit-------------------------------------------------

Found these very useful links so happy with CID

Just search the Android market for "Goldcard helper" and it will tell you the correct reversed number that you need to generate a gold card.

and to check CID reversed; http://www.string-functions.com/reverse.aspx

Edit Finally DOWNGRADED, made a Gold Card using mmc2 (as stated in first post!) The Goldcard helper App really helped.

Thanks for the thread.
[Desire HD Android Development] nanujra:
A friend of mine encounters an error when trying to run the PD98IMG.zip.

He has created a goldcard succesfully and he reaches the temproot stage(the # appears) despite there being an error that says "operation not permitted" when he enters the command line,"adb shell /data/local/tmp/psneuter"

But when he reboots the phone into the bootloader with the PD98IMG.zip on the sd card, there is and error while running the process saying, "no image or wrong image" and it doesn't ask him if he wants to start the update. The md5 sum of the PD98IMG.zip is correct.

Can anyone help? Thanks
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
after days i finally downgrade my build. problem was not the sd goldcard. but actually my ruu. i downloaded my region ruu which was asia and extract the rom, renamed it to PD98IMG.zip. the rest are same steps as the author had stated. i changed the last command to suit my region which is to 1.31.707.1 and it worked flawlessly. thanks jkoljo for your perfect guide and patience to users like me. thanks again
[Desire HD Android Development] anaskr:
how to find out that ? i live in kuwait .. mine is made in taiwan ...i always get a CID error or a no img found in two sd cards respectively (Default and a new one)

and my phone is totally unlocked officially .. not branded ever

software information:

Android version: 2.2.1

baseband version:12.28g.60.140fU_26.05.05.27_M3

kernel version: 2.6.32.21-g46445e7

htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

Fri Jan 28 00:16:54 CST 2011

Build Number:

1.84.707.2 CL335251 release-keys

Software number

1.84.707.2

Broswer version

webkit 3.1

AND I AM NOT ARABIC :)
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
There is a way of finding if you need a goldcard or not by checking your phone cid tru adb terminal. Search in the forums. There is a list of cid which dont need goldcard. The rest is needed. My cid is 044 by the way. Secondly download your original ruu. There maybe a few just download it and extract the rom.zip and rename it to pd98img.zip lastly... Do not use goldcard helper app. Do not as their cid is diff. I did it manually like the author posted up the links. I used a samsung 2gb card for this. U will get it. Patience. I gave up the first five hours of trying. Then researched more abt it and gave it a second try. Works the first time i tried again.
[Desire HD Android Development] Gibbo3771:
Right.

Goldcard done, everything done step my step but it still says CID Incorrect.

Is it safe to go ahead and just repeat the goldcard steps on the same card again?
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
Ok this is what i did.

1. Format the sd card externally using fat32 format.

2. Plug sd into my phone and use adb shell to get the sd cid using mmc2 (set mode to charge only)

3. Go to the website to reverse the cid (found few pages back) and changed then first 2 digits to 00 (after reverse).

4. Go to the website to get the goldcard image

5. Use the hex editor as instructed from modaco goldcard creator.

6. Download the ruu for my region and run the .exe but dont let it flash your phone. Find the rom.zip from my temp folder, copy it to my desktop and renamed it to PD98IMG.zip.

7. Run the adb push of psneuter and misc_version commands as instructed. But i changed the last command to suit my ruu. Example if my ruu is asia_wwe_1.32.707.1.zip then my last command would be -s 1.31.707.1

8. Set to disk drive mode and copy the pd98img.zip into root of sd card and change back to charge only mode.

9. Boot into bootloader, volume down, manually. Presto it works.

I would do a full format just incase your goldcard image is incorrect. Do not use goldcard helper app. I used a 2gb samsung card. Hope this helps. Just my opinion that some region lock phones might only accept the specific region ruu. But works for me. Gd luck.
[Desire HD Android Development] Gibbo3771:
Right well getting annoyed now.

I have done these steps 15-20 times and just continuely get a CID Incorrect error on the boat loader screen.

I have tried without a goldcard, with one...same problem.

Whats this about the RUU type? As in I might need a UK version rather than a US version as opposed to an Asia version?

My phone is tmobile branded
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
Search the forum on how to check your stock phone cid tru adb. Also do a search on where to get the stock ruu to download. All u can get from xda. Once u get the correct ruu you should be able to do without a glitch. Be patient n never give up. If u have tried for hours today then stop. Find the right ruu maybe a few if ur not sure. Extract the rom.zip from the ruu and try again another day. Thats what i did. Research n do it another day on a fresh mind. U wont get irritated. I know how u feel. But at last i got it and some knowledge gained n to be shared.

1. Get few ruu which u think might be yours. Abt 300 mb per ruu .exe

2. Stop trying and do abit more reading. Which i did. Tot i did not need it as the steps were straight forward.

3. Try changing the last commands to fit the ruu version which you download.

4. Make sure the cid sd is mmc2 not mmc0 or mmc1

5. Have a spare sd to try out if you are in doubt ur sd card might not support goldcard.
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
http://www.iloveabath.co.uk/index.php?dir=RUUs/

Afew uk ruu i found
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
Got mine from here. Click on the small arrow on the left to download

http://xdafil.es/index.php?path=DesireHD/RUU/
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
I got my sd cid using adb command and reversed it here and changing the front 2 numbers to 00 after reverse.

http://www.string-functions.com/reverse.aspx
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
Check your current build number eg 1.84.405.6 or 1.84.707.1 that will give u an idea if which 1.32.***.* ruu u should download.
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
Mine previously was on 1.84.707.1 build so i downloaded the asia 1.32.707.1 then i changed the last command to

./misc_version -s 1.31.707.1
[Desire HD Android Development] Gibbo3771:
Ahhhh right ok, I have 1.75.110.2.

So I am looking for a ruu with 1.32.110.2.

Well I couldnt find one after lookin via the links posted above :(

A quick google however found me ones that are <1.3 and none are .110.2 :(

HALP
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
Maybe u can try the 1.39.111.1 as its from tmobile and its the closest.
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
Gonna sleep now will try to help if u faced any problems. Take it easy u will get it done not now but definately later. Gd luck bro
[Desire HD Android Development] anaskr:
when i try finding my cid it says permission denied ..

my phone is unbranded :(
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Follow the guide, and when you get #, you can use getprop.
[Desire HD Android Development] Gibbo3771:
I have downloaded 3 different ruu roms from the links posted a page back, ran the exe that came down but none of them will install.

Stumped :(

EDIT: Just noticed its been asking me for weeks to upgrade to a higher version, I am going to try an upgrade then downgrade :)
[Desire HD Android Development] Gibbo3771:
My last post and attempt for tonight...

What I have done:

First time followed steps, it never worked so went for goldcard method.

Goldcard is working afaik.

Put file on SD card, Said "CID Incorrect"

Retried the steps over and over and over...and over...

Then I tried downloading RUU's linked a page back, versions from 1.20.xxx.x to 1.32.xxx.x and ran them and no luck.

I then eventually updated my ROM, it was asking me for weeks but never done it.

So now I have a 1.85.110.3, I can not find a RUU rom to downgrade to with same x.xx.110.3

So I am stumped
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
Have u tried the 1.39.111.1? Do not let the ruu flash your phone. U let it run after that u need to find the rom.zip in your temp folder, copy it somewhere safe and rename it to PD98IMG.zip. then follow jkoljo steps
[Desire HD Android Development] cornholio21:
Uhm, the url doesn't work for me. So how can I create a Goldcard?

Thanks!
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
I can reverse the CID for you. Just use mmc2 to get it, and post it here :)

Gibbo, what method are you using to reverse the CID? I can do it for you, too.
[Desire HD Android Development] Gibbo3771:
I pulled an all nighter, 17 hours later and I got it.

When I was getting the CID using cmd, it was giving me...

00ba002c5c0b17010303030303d435b1

Thats reversed after all, so after checking the number 10x or so, I decided to try an alternative which was Goldcardhelper.

It gave me a different number,

00ba005c2c0b17010303030303d435b1

I have no idea how but yeah, its downgraded now.

If people are having trouble getting a CID error even after goldcard it might be worth a shot at this app
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
well good for u gibbo. i could not have got it with goldcard helper. but again u got urs using it and i got mine using cmd. lol either way u got it done hehehe
[Desire HD Android Development] Trailblaze:
Same here Gibbo the goldcard helper app did the trick for me.
[Desire HD Android Development] Gibbo3771:
Thanks to the guys who helped and threw ideas my way, greatly appreciate the patience and time :D

I am now happily running MDJ's Ultimate Droid ROM with the stock original 1.32 on backed up :D.

However I am yet to flash the radio, device not found error kept popping up hehe.

Will get around to it :)

gl to future flashers
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
Device not found maybe didnt set to charge only mode? Hehe
[Desire HD Android Development] hayabusa08:
Anyway the hardest part is over. Hehe the rest is easy
[Desire HD Android Development] amin_65:
problem with downgrade

hi

i do the procedure step by step but i can not downgrade my dhd device

when i enter the adb push in cmd have this: 0 bytes in ... seconds

what is rong?

i make the goldcard too but still have an CID incorrect Error

would u please help me

thanks
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Nothing is wrong in that screenie, you should make your goldcard again. Make sure that you use mmc2, and you reverse the CID properly. Many people are experiencing issues because hexrev.soaa is not available atm. I can reverse the CID correctly for you.
[Desire HD Android Development] amin_65:
ok i use the mmc2 instead of mmc1 or mmc0 and got this cid No:

1b534d3030303030107f2051b200ac0c

and the reverse that i used is:

c0ca002b1502f7010303030303d435b1

but also have incorrect cid error too

is the reverse correct?

thanks for your attention.
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Correct reversal is: 00ac00b251207f1030303030304d531b
[Desire HD Android Development] amin_65:
thanks for your useful help

successfully downgrade to 1.32

thanks a lot
[Desire HD Android Development] anaskr:
err.. i still didn get it..

my unbranded htc ... i get CID error for the 8gb default sdcard and for 2gb from a nokia phone i get img not found..

someone told me to find the cid .. i went to the emulator something and it says permission not granted or something on the phone ? what am i supposed to do?
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Something says something about something? Please, I can help you, but you have to be more specific. Use mmc2 while making the goldcard, give me the CID and I will reverse it.
[Desire HD Android Development] pop1290:
Cid reverse please

Dear jkoljo,

My CID is : 0353445355303447800881c3cd00a7e2

Could you possibly send me the reverse. I have used different methods but they did not work. Thank you.
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Reversed CID is: 00a700cdc38108804734305553445303
[Desire HD Android Development] anaskr:
but mine is and unbranded phone? why would i need a gold card??

and when i went to terminal emulator to find out the CID .. it says permission not granted ...
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
When you get CID error, you need a goldcard. It is either regional or branded phone.

Follow the guide until you get #, and then try whatever you are trying again.
[Desire HD Android Development] anaskr:
regional i suppose now ...hmm

ok so how to find the cid now ? sorry for being a noob i just switched from symbian
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
What are you doing? Just follow the goldcard guide. There is no need to hassle with additional weird stuff.
[Desire HD Android Development] anaskr:
gold card wont be usable again for read and write?
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
It will work normally as a goldcard, no problem. So you can use it in your phone.
[Desire HD Android Development] descenpet:
You can still use it as a normal card later on.
[Desire HD Android Development] jkiflie:
After installing all the appropiate drivers i'm still getting "adb is not recognized as an internal external blah blah blah"

I mean i've navigated to the "downgrade" folder then when i copy and paste "adb push psneuter /data/local/tmp" then press enter I'm getting the message above.....

Help. pls.
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
You do not have adb.exe in the downgrade folder. That is the only possible explanation. Make sure that the folder structure is not like c:\downgrade\downgrade\adb...
[Desire HD Android Development] Lozzo:
Delurk

*pop*

You can still use the Gold Card as normal in your phone.

Just remember to delete the PD98IMG.zip from the card after you've downgraded.

Unlike I did the first time, which wiped my phone again the next time I went into recovery.

Won't be making that mistake again...
[Desire HD Android Development] rizzypizzy:
Hi.

I just wanted to let others know that if you downloaded the stock rom from the first page, then you need to change the version in the cmd prompt to 1.32.406

I followed the instructions religiously, and I kept on getting the

no image found

error. When I changed the version to 1.32.406, it installed the first time.

Hope this helps someone.
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
No you do not need to change it. It was probably just some temporary fault in your SD or something.
[Desire HD Android Development] jkiflie:
I had a "downgrade" folder within a "downgrade" folder DOH!!!! Tks jkoljo

All good now :p
[Desire HD Android Development] nestu:
Tried, but no-go

Guys, sorry to ask.

Followed all the instructiions to the letter in first post, did all the "adb" commands and got the right reaction. Correctly installed PD98IMG.ZIP, got all the right messages in the bootloader. Phone rebooted with new ROM, no problem, but visionary+ still stuck at black rooting screen. Strangely, when I check the software version it still says 1.32, when I patched it to 1.31 using the "./misc_version -s" command - which indicated succesful completion. I didn't touch the newly installed ROM from the moment I installed it to the moment I came to run visionary+. Maybe this has already been encountered? What am I missing here?

Ah well, would have been nice to try out Revolution, now I will have to try resetting factory defaults - unless anyone can give me a pointer or two :)

I did all this on my HTC Desire HD which was previously running the latest upgraded Froyo.

Cheers.
[Desire HD Android Development] goofylad:
Hi

got everything above done and but when i reboot the phone to the bootloader the phone checks the SD card no image or wrong image is the message i get, i have tried twice now on the 2 different downloaded stock rom but 4 times in total i get no image or wrong image

anyone got any suggestions on where am going wrong?

was the SD card no conpatialbe with goldcard....

re-done another card i had and it found the image loaded it then it said checking image..... then it just jumped back to the bootloader main menu no option to upgrade

anyone have that​
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
You are missing "shell" there.

Uninstall Visionary and try it again. Make sure that USB Debugging is enabled. It might sometimes take a few tries to get Visionary working.

You did patch it, but flashing the PD98IMG.zip changed it to 1.32 :) That is the way we fool your device to flash the PD98IMG.zip, which would normally be impossible. So we fool the device to think that it is an update.

Try a full format to FAT32. Then make sure that the PD98IMG.zip is the only file in your SD card. Some SD cards just refuse to work with the bootloader, nobody knows why. You can try redownloading the PD98IMG.zip, or at least check the md5sum.
[Desire HD Android Development] nestu:
@ jkoljo. Cheers. Will give it another bash next week. Just got the phone back to a decent state and am a bit knackered to try it all over again just yet. Wish to enjoy the device in any "working state"... at least for a few days ;) Experimetation to resume shortly :)

Have a nice one.
[Desire HD Android Development] nestu:
@ jkoljo: Oh... BTW, when you say "uninstall visionary and try again", do you mean try the whole procedure (i.e. pushing the files, changing permissions, running psneuter, etc + re-flashing) from scratch, or just reinstalling visionary and re-running it several times?

Thanks again.
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Nope, you are now in rootable build, so just install Visionary again. You will never need to run those commands (psneuter etc) again.
[Desire HD Android Development] richrach:
I have Virgin desire hd,

I made goldcard

to continue with this step (the downgrade):

adb push psneuter /data/local/tmp
adb push misc_version /data/local/tmp
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/psneuter
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version
adb shell /data/local/tmp/psneuter
adb shell

do I need to keep the goldcard sd inside the device or to switch to the other sd card?
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
You can keep the goldcard in. It acts like a normal SD, but when you go to bootloader, it just has some special features :)
[Desire HD Android Development] richrach:
So if I understand correctly I need to get out the goldcard just after the device is rooted and before I flash new ROM?
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
It does not matter, you can keep the goldcard in the phone during the whole process. Actually the misc_version binary needs an SD card to be available in the phone.
[Desire HD Android Development] :
After successful downgrading is it normal for the phone to search for the PD98IMG.zip when rebooting into the bootloader despite it being removed from the SD card and a whole new custom ROM being flashed etc?
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Sure, all Desire HDs search for zips when you go to bootloader.
[Desire HD Android Development] ruthless1337:
Telus Desire HD Downgrade

Hello,

I am planning on using your guide to downgrade my Telus Desire HD from 1.84.661.1. As you mention on the first page that the older 1.32.405.6 software version is not 100% compatible with Telus Desire HD and I would loose sound. I am just wondering how flashing a new custom ROM restores the sound?

I am planning on flashing either the latest CyanogenMod-7 or Android Revolution HD rom. Do these custom roms include the latest software builds modified so they can be permanently rooted as well as be 100% compatible with the Telus Desire HD? Or do they keep running on the older 1.32.405.6 build? If so how does the sound work on the Telus Desire HD then? Can someone please clarify this for me. Thanks!
[Desire HD Android Development] harsharockzzz:
Help me with Downgrade folder

Dude, I have a DHD vodafone uk.

And I'm done with goldcard and downloaded the old rom.

Now, I'm unable to get to the downgrade folder. can you please help me with that ?

Thank you :)
[Desire HD Android Development] valcyone:
@Jkoljo

Hi,

I plan to downgrade a brand new DHD. I've already done this for another one, so no problem with your donwgrade method. Everything's working fine.

My new DHD is branded from SFR. The rom version is 1.75.x.x.

It's not rooted nor radio S-OFF of course.

Is there a tool to backup the rom before downgrading (for future repair return for example)?

No RUU exists for this operator ROM.

Thanks for your advice !
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
There is no way to backup it :(

For directory change commands, google the words "windows cd cmd". It should give you some idea.
[Desire HD Android Development] Thekn:
If i want to go back to 1.72, can I do this by using "Software Update" in Settings App?
[Desire HD Android Development] ruthless1337:
Can anyone clarify this....
[Desire HD Android Development] Thekn:
I have Flashed the Official HTC RUU 1.72. But it only contains English Language.

So if I follow this tutorial, and go back to 1.32.. I only have temproot right?

So after I restart, the temproot is gone and I can do a Software Update in Settings App to get the 1.72 version with all the languages?
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Sure, but when you do ota, you lose root again. You can add more languages using the app morelocale 2.
[Desire HD Android Development] bratboo:
Hi!

Can I use this to downgrade from Build Number 1.35.762?

Thanks!
[Desire HD Android Development] jkoljo:
Sure you can, but why would you want to downgrade that build? It is 100% rootable.
[Desire HD Android Development] bratboo:
Oh! I though it should be build 1.32.405.6! So we can start using visionary and so on?
[Desire HD Android Development] UpInTheAir:
The op page one states system requirements 1.72 or above. So no need to downgrade ;-) . Just follow the Devs links to his other threads for the goldcard, permroot visionary & s-off tool & eng s-off tool.
[Desire HD Android Development] 36VAN:
Hi,

http://hexrev.soaa.me/ is down, can anyone teach me how to reverse my code?

0353445355303847800a30c6fb00a94e

thank you so much!
[Desire HD Android Development] Andy:
Your Reversed CID is 00a900fbc6300a804738305553445303
[Desire HD Android Development] 36VAN:
thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!
[Desire HD Android Development] narkolitar:
Incorrect CID, and i have a gold card

I have done everything by the book, my device is branded by the t mobile but sim unlocked. When I insert gold card on wich I have placed the immage file (*.zip) and go to bootloader it checks the immage and then it says incorrect CID.

Can anyone help me with this

Thanks a lot!

MM