yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Inspire 4G] attn1:
This is because your windows virus detection sortware is eating the rage file. You are getting the error message: cannot stat 'tools/root/rage': No such file or directory, meaning the file is not in that path on your hard drive, yet it's in the hack kit achive.

over 95% of issues are now related to Windows7's bad behaviour, or the bad behaviour of various malware detection programs for Windows.

You may have to:

disable ALL of your malware detection

make SURE you have opened your command prompt as Administrator.

restart at the install-downgrade step. rerun the downgrade - your gold card is establish good at this point so it should be a simple matter.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Tracym:
getting error trying to run hackerize ace

All,

I keep getting :

error device not found

when trying to run the hackerize-ace setup-downgrade

from the command prompt?

what am i doing wrong?

thanks,
[HTC Inspire 4G] perezinthenet:
When I download the hack kit it only has an image file in it
[HTC Inspire 4G] Tracym:
have root but have an error

Ok, i was able to get root and then the bootloader opens with fastboot usb

I select hboot, it begins to run then error's.

I get a found new hardware message and Windows needs to install drivers for android 1.0?

also, it changes to hboot usb plug?

No idea where to go from here.

Thanks,
[HTC Inspire 4G] Sportsguy15:
Have you downloaded the Android SDK?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Tracym:
no,

also getting the htc sync port not responding

Do I need the android SDK?

Also, I can get the bootloader to run but it erros.

says:

Main version is older

update failed

What am i doing wrong?

I am so close!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] attn1:
You don't need the android sdk.
[HTC Inspire 4G] attn1:
Re-read the first post in this thread. Mainver older means the setup-downgrade step failed.

Either:

You did not enable USB Debugging

You do not have the windows drivers linked in ppost #1 installed properly.

The setup-downgrade step did not complete successfully the first time. On some machines this needs to be run twice in a row. Watch your error messages.
[HTC Inspire 4G] eighty1:
If I use the goldcard app from the Market can I go straight to the next step in the directions or is there a command I still need to enter? Also do I put the goldcard.img on my sdcard or no? Im using a Mac by the way.
[HTC Inspire 4G] rodanjeff:
Hey guys, need help as well. Downloaded this package, got the 1st step done (getting the goldcard) and passed the 2nd step (downgrade the ROM). Now i am stuck with step 3 (Temproot, radio S-off, permroot).

On the phone's terminal after the $ character, i type /data/local/tmp/rage and hit enter. I get the "permission denied" response... What do i do after this?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Sportsguy15:
Make sure you turn off your Antivirus, it will disable Rage.
[HTC Inspire 4G] rodanjeff:
I don't have any antivirus installed. Also turned off the firewall. Still did not work..
[HTC Inspire 4G] winlive:
i have the same problem this evening, tried a couple times and always came back to "no image"

sixteh - were you able to finally get it to work?

IsraelIR - did you do anything different at all before start over with setup-downgrae?

anyone else knows how to fix this?

i def followed the instruction step by step so i really don't know what is wrong.

any help is much appreciated.

thank you.
[HTC Inspire 4G] IsraelR:
I couldn't remember if I had opened up the terminal as administrator, so I exited out of the terminal and reopened it as administrator, rechecked that usb debugging was still enabled and the phone was set to charge only. Ran hackerize-ace setup-downgrade twice (took to tries to get the # symbol), and reran install-downgrade. It worked just fine that time.
[HTC Inspire 4G] frickinjerms:
hxd isnt recognizing the sd card as a physical disk and its formatted to fat32 and ideas guys? tried using it in the phone as disk drive and also tried using it in an sdcard adapter...
[HTC Inspire 4G] javanutsy:
This made me LOL! Thanks attn1, I had to resort to your method bc the 'simple one click' was failing.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Mr Kyle:
I just used a mix of V2+V4 of this and it worked just fine, no issues that stopped me from getting root s-off or otherwise. Although I have done the Goldcard method before, this is no harder than rooting any other device. attn1 has done a great job with the Inspire and the Aria before it. And if he had a donate link anywhere i would gladly do so.

Oh attn1 btw CM7 for inspire does have FM radio. idk why i thought it didn't
[HTC Inspire 4G] eighty1:
Just got incorrect model ID, anyone know what this means?

NVM: gotta get goldcard squared away.
[HTC Inspire 4G] papanut:
thanks

I want to thank attn1 for his work in putting together this kit and helping me along a bit in the irc channel. I'm new to smart phones and android, but with some help, and after reading up on the process, was able to get thru it successfully. It's great to have a phone that now seems like it's mine, not having apps I can't uninstall and features locked down etc.

THANK YOU!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] winlive:
I was able to get the # symbol on the first try. Ran install-downgrade, waited patiently for it to get pushed to the micro SD card. Did hboot, and it still says no image. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Can anyone help?

Please?
[HTC Inspire 4G] IsraelR:
Connect your phone as a disk drive and check to see if the PD98IMG file made it through.
[HTC Inspire 4G] eighty1:
After finally getting the goldcard squared away and not getting incorrect model id, finally everything goes smooth until I got to rom manager and opened it up. It then said I have to be rooted and superuser was not found. ????? Any suggestions?

Edit: I think something is going wrong when I run sh hackerize-ace.sh clean because both times that I did it it just said checking adb connection and nothing happened so I proceeded with the next, so not sure if I messed it up there or not. ? I now have s-off in bootloader but no root.
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
go to market and download superuser and busybox. If those install, you're rooted.
[HTC Inspire 4G] eighty1:
Both installed but neither fixed my root situation. Went into rom manager and it still said im not rooted. Went into to superuser and it said there is an update but it could not update and went into busy box and it just says you are not rooted. Should I start the process all over again?
[HTC Inspire 4G] rodanjeff:
Hey guys, i hope someone can help me. I am getting the "permission denied" response on the phone's terminal whenever i type the /data/local/tmp/rage. What am i doing wrong?
[HTC Inspire 4G] winlive:
i did that as well, and do see PD98IMG.zip on the micro sd card.

i just don't know what else i can do.
[HTC Inspire 4G] eighty1:
Im now rooted. Had to use the one click method
[HTC Inspire 4G] cnnxda:
after installing this hack. i lost the ability to do mobile hotspot. my company gave me the ability to mobile hotspot and now when i hit the check box it lights up and disables right away.

any way to fix this?
[HTC Inspire 4G] nhshah7:
Protocol error on hackerize-ace rage, missing ./gfree

Hey guys,

I've run into some problems on the hackerize-ace rage step.

I've followed the video walk through and readme instructions up to this point and am not entirely sure what's going on...When I type in hackerize-ace rage (usb debugging on, phone as charge only), i get the error:

hackerize-ace rage
xxx KB/s <5392 bytes in 0.00xs>
protocol failure
Unable to chmod /data/local/gfree: No such file or directory
protocol failure
protocol failure

But the weird part is that if i keep running the rage command, every now and then it will start transferring files and pushing files to the phone (terminal emulator, VISIONary +, ROM Manager).

i tried continuing to the rest of the section and when i got to the command for ./gfree -f, it told me "./gfree: not found"

can i just push the gfree file to the /data/ folder on my phone through adb? i dont know if there are any other files i should make sure are there too, i don't want to screw anything up but it's not working as it should :\

EDIT 1:

restarted my computer once, it bluescreened so i restarted twice (yeah, i need to reinstall windows...), ran the rage command once or twice more and worked (only errors it gave me were that packages were already there. continued through gfree and sync. hopefully everything else works flawlessly!

EDIT 2:

So seems it was only an issue with my computer messing something up. every few steps at the command line, I ran into the same error (protocol failure) so I had to restart my computer but then i was able to finish everything. just finished flashing the android revolution hd rom!

but...i dont think my sound is working :\ (even after flashing the stock radio as in the video walkthrough and instructions in this kit)

EDIT 3:

Okay, flashed the telus kernel again over the android revolution hd rom and sound works!!! :):):):):):):):)

Thanks soooo much to EVERYONE that contributed to this. It took me 3-4 hours, but I finally got it and I'm extremely psyched about it!
[HTC Inspire 4G] muthabusser:
Some new-bee questions.....?

Hello all. I used attn1's hack to get root and GTG's ROM (now removed from forum) and all is good. No problems, everything works great. So here is my questions:

1) What is "FASTBOOT" used for, and do I keep it checked "ON" or "OFF" during everyday phone use?

2) Do I have "ENG -S off" from rooting with attn1's root hack? My boot screen top line reads " ace PVT -S RL" . What is ENG -S used for, and do I need it?

3)After I installed GTG's ROM my APN's (MEdia Net & MMC) now have little "PAD LOCKS" in front of them and I did not have them in my shipping screens before rooting. Can they be removed or the APN's deleted and replaced with new ones for tethering?

THANK YOU.. to all for making the Android system so great to have!

Glenn - (an "OLD DOG" trying to learn some new tricks!) :D
[HTC Inspire 4G] lrs421:
Fastboot can be found in menu, settings, applications.

The hack kit turn radio s-off not English s-off.

Padlocks on the apns are normal. You cant delete it but you can add a new one. Check in the general section for enabling tethering by adding a custom apn.

Good luck my friend :)

Sent from Desire HD or Inspire 4G or whatever this thing is called via premium XDA app.
[HTC Inspire 4G] 1meanrex:
Took me about two hours but I got this to work, all in all it was not that much harder than rooting my captivate, there was just more hands on work and no pics :( the one thing I did notice was that sometimes the Cmd lines had spaces that were very in discreet. Overall though if you read the instructions and kinda follow along in the forum you will solve almost all your problems. THANKS ATTN1!!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] g3t0ut:
ok so this is my first time ever doing anything to a android device, i made the gold card following the instructions and stuff, got it and it says gold card successful when i am done.. so this is where i think I get stuck

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>cd c:\ace-hack-kit-v9

c:\ace-hack-kit-v9>hackerize-ace setup-downgrade

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

1270 KB/s (557962 bytes in 0.429s)

572 KB/s (15837 bytes in 0.027s)

Starting adb shell to test temp root, please be patient...

if you see a '#' prompt, okay to proceed

if you see a '$' prompt, temproot failed

type exit at the prompt to continue

The system cannot find the path specified.

error: device not found

error: device not found

c:\ace-hack-kit-v9>hackerize-ace setup-downgrade

1187 KB/s (557962 bytes in 0.459s)

1031 KB/s (15837 bytes in 0.015s)

mmap() failed. Operation not permitted

Starting adb shell to test temp root, please be patient...

if you see a '#' prompt, okay to proceed

if you see a '$' prompt, temproot failed

type exit at the prompt to continue

The system cannot find the path specified.

# exit

exit

--set_version set. VERSION will be changed to: 1.31.405.6

Patching and backing up partition 17...

Error opening backup file.

c:\ace-hack-kit-v9>

i am guessing it is when it says Error opening backup file?

what am i doing wrong?

I have also tried the one click method and it does the exact same thing, one the one click method i get to hboot then it says it cant find the file
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Im not an expert but, it looks like you need updated drivers. Download the Android SDK open it for the drives then retry.
[HTC Inspire 4G] pololance:
I know you got it fixed with the one-click method, but I wanted to share my experience.

I was trying to locate the shutdown animation to change it to whatever I wanted. In doing so I noticed I wasn't rooted since I couldn't mount certain folders in R/W. I decided to update SuperUser and BusyBox. SuperUser was already up to date so I proceeded with BusyBox, which wasn't. Once it was updated I was able to mount anything in R/W and change permissions as needed.

I used the original Hack Kit by attn1.
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Ive never had problems with the hack it. I rooted my phone a few hours after the hack kit was posted. Every thing has been great. I also updated busybox on the second inspire I rooted. This worked for that one.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nick281051:
havent been able to get hsupa on any rom, can anyone help me out? ive flashed more than a few timees and none give me hsupa(flashed radios as well and no luck)
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
All of the roms have it. it took a little time for mine to start working. It also depends on the tower your using at the time.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nick281051:
how long exactly? i tend to frequently flash and btw should i flash thhe radio with the hack kit or a diffferent one?
[HTC Inspire 4G] g3t0ut:
thanks for the help klquick! FINALLY got it rooted, but now i have another problem.. when i try to run rom manager clockwork recovery doesn't work, and when i click fix permissions, superuser force closes, and then fix permissions doesn't work..
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
With the kit you should already have clockwork recovery 2.5.1.3 installed. Download rom manager from the market and just make a back up. Try not to fix permissions to much it can mess up some stuff. If your getting FC try to reboot or flash a different rom.
[HTC Inspire 4G] g3t0ut:
I finally got clockwork recovery to work, but im pretty sure i bricked my phone.. going to get a new one now.. what happened was clockwork recovery worked, i tried to flash coredroid and it went to reboot to hboot and stuff then it just stayed at the screen with HTC on it.
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Flashed cyrangen mod. Then flash clockworkmod recovery 2.5. 1.3. I think your using the wrong recovery. If you can get into the bootloader your not bricked.
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Then flash coredroid

I was once soft bricked like this because of the wrong clockwork recovery. CM7 will work.
[HTC Inspire 4G] g3t0ut:
It couldnt get to bootloader. it just sat at the HTC screen, and wouldn't turn off or go further, the phone said that it was going to reboot into bootloader, but then that is when it just sat at the HTC screen. Got a new one, a little nervous to have the same thing happen again. i think the problem was with superuser it kept force closing, even after restart it got through clockwork but force closed before it the phone rebooted to flash the rom.

I am pretty new to this stuff, and some of this stuff is still a little confusing to me, im not exactly sure what im doing wrong but i know i must be missing something
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Just pull the battery. Go into recovery. Then flash CM7 it should work.
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Hold down vol button and press power to get into hboot
[HTC Inspire 4G] g3t0ut:
thanks man, klquick you rock!
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Did you get your phone going? Once you flash 2.1. 5.3 recovery you will be able to flash any rom. Let me know if you need more help.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ko0ky:
Thanks

just wanted to say Thanks to the people that helped and in fact did put this together. Once again you have made a great phone as it was intended to be and I surely appreciate it greatly.

THANK YOU!

----

I don't know if this has been answered but here's a few things I found..

HTC Sense (for windows) needs to be installed before you begin.

I used an app from the market as I have seen mentioned here called goldcard helper, it worked great although I did grab the wrong number on my first attempt. Make sure you use the mmc2 #.

If you need help, there's an chat channel you can join with some really helpful people - http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria

If you got some help, don't forget to say Thanks.. it's only polite.

Sorry if I repeated anything, just want to help the next guy if I can.
[HTC Inspire 4G] RangerMoe:
I've done everything here and all seems to work, but still no sound after flashing the radio. Also can't get the Rom Manager to work, didn't have that problem with it on my Cappy (gives "An error occurred while flashing your recovery"). Any idea's
[HTC Inspire 4G] IsraelR:
The radio won't restore sound. A compatible kernal does that, or flashing a new rom.
[HTC Inspire 4G] RangerMoe:
looking forward to flashing a new Rom but might need to run the downgrade again in hopes of getting Rom manager to work.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Lawrencechung:
Thank you very much!

Spent about 4 hours and finally get my HTC Inspire rooted. So far so good (only the sound seems a little bit downgraded). I'm using the 'Telus kernel' as suggested by attn1. Faced two major road blocks and want to share:-

1. During downgrade, got "model ID incorrect update fail " - this is because goldcard is not working. Redo the goldcard and can move on

2. During 'Install Clockwork recovery from Rom Manager', got 'error flashing ........'. Get it thro' by doing restore via reboot.

Thanks you very much for you guys effort!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
You need to re root your phone. It sounds like your not rooted.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Lawrencechung:
The voice activated dialing is lost! anyone know why?

After successfully rooted the HTC Inspire. I now can use internet tethering, internet pass thro'........very nice.

But the voice activated dial is lost. Before I install the Desire HD ROM, I can press and hold my bluetooth and activate voice dialing. Now this function has disappeared.

Anyone can help me? Thanks in advance!
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Good Work ATT1

Att1 thanks for a great hack kit. I just rooted a 3rd Inspire (my buddies girl friend lol). As always everything works great. so far Ive used Ace hack kit v1 on my phone ace hack kit v8 on my wifes phone and ace hack kit v9 on my buddies GF. Thanks for the good work.
[HTC Inspire 4G] xero91:
THANK YOU!

I just got my Inspire last night on an impulse upgrade while browsing at the AT&T store. Thanks to everyone who put this thread and the hack kit together I have the phone rooted within 24 hours. I knew nothing about Android coming into this. However, with a few hours of reading and about 1/2 hour performing the steps in the hack kit I am rooted.
[HTC Inspire 4G] strauss0829:
Just used this kit and worked flawlessly .....and then flashed ur Rom and works well
[HTC Inspire 4G] ronan_zj:
Downloaded the V9 kit, but the read me instruction is incomplete...

anyhelp?
[HTC Inspire 4G] onesojourner:
I am sure this a noob mistake but can some on tell me why my phone does not appear to be connected? I am running ubuntu 10.10.

root@desktop:/home/peter/hack# sh hackerize-ace.sh setup-downgrade

Checking adb connection...

Error detecting HTC phone on USB connection.

root@desktop:/home/peter/hack#

I have tried disconnecting, reconnecting and rebooting the phone. I still have the same issue.
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Sounds like you need the drivers. Download android sdk and try again.
[HTC Inspire 4G] onesojourner:
alright I downloaded the sdk but I am not sure what I need to do with it now. from what I have read it sound like this is just an android emulator for developing apps?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Brau0303:
You should also be able to get the drivers by installing the version of HTC Sync that is available via the product support page (it is best to un-install the sync app for this process tho) The drivers/driver loader are seperate components that will not be removed by un-installing htc sync. also I think there was a link to the driver set in the how-to document in the v9 kit (i used it today to root my device).

http://www.htc.com/us/support/inspire-att/downloads

Cheers

BR
[HTC Inspire 4G] habanosrus:
...then...is the instruction "Ensure you have unzipped the SDK, ..." obsolete?
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
I couldn't root until i download the sdk upziped it. I have now rooted 3 inspires with the hack kit.
[HTC Inspire 4G] onesojourner:
htc sync isn't really an option on ubuntu since its an exe file.

I have unzipped the sdk, there has to be something more I'm supposed to do with it though right?
[HTC Inspire 4G] edwinw84:
having same problem how can i fix this issue
[HTC Inspire 4G] onesojourner:
Also when I plug the phone into my computer and I choose sync or storage on the phone it shows up under /media/android phone.
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Click on ATTN1's freenote chat channel. Those guys are really helpful. I dont know much about the linix os
[HTC Inspire 4G] cableguychad:
I ran the hack kit, pushed the the downgrade and phone rebooted. Clicked power on fastboot usb to get to hboot. The phone is just sitting with hboot highlighted. goldcard went ok. virus and firewall is turned off.

any thoughts. thanks
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Did you hit the power button to start hboot. Just read what i wrote. Did it say failed on the command prompt
[HTC Inspire 4G] cableguychad:
yeah it hasn't done anything. This is my third try, the pd98img is on the sdcard everytime.
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Just tell it to reboot. If nothing works. Then install your recovery.
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
Make sure you turned usb debugging back on.
[HTC Inspire 4G] pkubanek:
Thanks a lot..

Thanks, after flashing kernel, sounds start to work.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wiingy:
Rooted my Inspire yesterday using attn1's hack kit along with r34p3rex's outdated youtube video's. Was my first root ever and found the process easy.

I am from Aust and the phone is working better now then it did stock from at&t. Using Android Revolution 4G 3.1 and haven't found any issues yet.

Thanks for the kit attn1.
[HTC Inspire 4G] vwood2121:
help downloading the hack kit

everytime i click to download the hack kit it opens an about blank page with a download bar flashing at the top but when i click on it and click downliad it does nothing is there another link
[HTC Inspire 4G] Noz85:
You need to open the file with winrar or 7 zip.

sent from my HTC Inspired Desire HD 4G
[HTC Inspire 4G] substance12:
so is the readme incorrect? it has the ".sh"
[HTC Inspire 4G] hpgt:
yeah the readme has a typo, just drop the .sh
[HTC Inspire 4G] hpgt:
Then where should we read the CID from?????

I used mmc2 instead of mmc0 and was able to make it work.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ljwnow:
Thanks. I am making a new one.
[HTC Inspire 4G] laxwillsch:
Man I feel like a noob I was just getting good on the captivate. Is it not possible to gain temp root through visionary like the glacier?
[HTC Inspire 4G] JCreazy:
Visionary will not work
[HTC Inspire 4G] Rock3nrenigade:
Well that sucks, I cant understand any of this haha
[HTC Inspire 4G] attn1:
adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc2/mmc2:*/cid

try replacing mmc0 with mmc2 (2 places) when you run that command on the Inspire.
[HTC Inspire 4G] alwayslearning:
use gold card helper from the market and it tells you the mmc2, very easy, then take the code and use it on the website in the instructions.
[HTC Inspire 4G] borguesian:
Worked great! Thanks so much!
[HTC Inspire 4G] laxwillsch:
What kind of gold card are u guys using? My sandisk will not work, no matter how many times I try it and not a single store around me sells Kingston. I need some help from someone....