yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Inspire 4G] SpectroPro:
Ok.. a note: after posting the problems, it got all sorts of crazy. Giving all kinds of application errors, etc.. So I rebooted the computer again. 3 times. And the phone auto-rebooted like 5 or 6 times.. Then it worked with no problems (step 3 that is..) So, I am off to do steps 4-6... However, worried big time, because for every person posting it worked great for them, I am reading 2-4 people saying their phones are screwed up... UGH!!!!!

- Greg
[HTC Inspire 4G] jerimy386:
Guide

Hi there,

Nobody has publish a complete guide about what any had to do to root own phone, I do all the things by a lot of pages, who can write one good?

Regards,
[HTC Inspire 4G] crupp:
I have tried this 4 times and I can never get past the downgrade? It stays at the daemon successful prompt and I am stuck with an old ROM with no sound...not ideal.
[HTC Inspire 4G] SpectroPro:
It would be a shame if this thing actually worked bing bang boom... Ok.. I got my goldcard.img emailed to me and loaded the img file into the simplegoldcard program. On step 6, I select MMC (I:\[Removable - 7.38GB]) and click on Patch MMC. I get error: An error occured Could not get access to MMC.

I don't know what to do... HELP please...

- Greg

PS: Sooner would be much better than later, this is NOT my computer. I am borrowing it and the owner wants it back ASAP....
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nickovtyme:
Have you got your phone set to "charge only"? or "Disk Drive"?
[HTC Inspire 4G] MrMickeyMoose:
HTC Inspire 4G

My first Android phone and my first time rooting. I'm getting ready to make my GoldCard, just formatting my SD card now. I am hopeful, but we shall see.:D
[HTC Inspire 4G] SpectroPro:
As per the video, it is set as disk drive currently.

- Greg
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nickovtyme:
Have you tried reformatting? It could be a bad card. You might need to try a different sdcard.
[HTC Inspire 4G] SpectroPro:
I am currently doing another full reformat in FAT32 mode... If it doesn't work, I do have another card I can try.. However, the card has been working just fine... both are perfectly fine as far as I know, according to all the tests I have run on them.. I'll post once I do all this again...

- Greg

I wish someone would post a new video of doing all this with the new versions of the software, cause even this simplegoldcard app by nelify is NOT like the one in the video (dif options...)
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nickovtyme:
here's a link that was posted earlier in the thread to rc1 that is used in the video.

http://www.techsupporteverything.com/download/
[HTC Inspire 4G] MrMickeyMoose:
Victory is mine!

t-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, i have root, i repeat i have root!!

Thanks bubby, i will donate as soon as i get some tossin' around money!:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d
[HTC Inspire 4G] SpectroPro:
I don't want to go backwards...I am just saying..It would be nice if someone posted updated info and videos as well as step by step instructions.. It's very simple to update stuff like this... And while it is working just fine for many, I see very clearly that it is NOT working fine at all for many others..

I do appreciate your trying to help me out, though... just so you know. :)

- Greg
[HTC Inspire 4G] SpectroPro:
Well, I must be a total incompetent loser... I have actually tried 4 cards.. I used my 2 and 2 from my mom... All are 8 gig cards. I get the same error with every card. Pretty sure it is NOT the cards...so it must be me ... I simply do exactly what the program tells me to do.

One question... when I click Patch MMC, it says, put the card BACK in the COMPUTER.. I just leave it in the phone connected to the computer as drive I. Is this correct? Or, should I physically put it IN the computer and patch it there???

FYI, having to do a full reboot of the computer every time is a royal PITA!!!!! Once run, the adb program will never let you getCID a second time.. And just quitting the program and even killing adb via three finger salute force quitting will NOT allow it to work again. Computer must be rebooted... This should be fixed. Also, the error windows have spelling errors...

thanks again for any and all help... Hope I can get this taken care of... I won't have access to this computer after saturday afternoon...and currently, many things on my phone don't work as all data from the programs on the card was obviously wiped.. (however, I do have a full card backup.. but still.....)

- Greg
[HTC Inspire 4G] SHERRID76:
Dude, you are my hero!!!! :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
Bubby,

Is there any way you could put a warning in your op saying this may leave you with a blank cwm screen and telling people to refer to the faq? Not trying to be rude and I appreciate your hard work, but there is a new thread made at least twice a day about this issue in general.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Ferrari353:
I did this, and I think I lost all my contacts...I have the contacts that synced from gmail and stuff, but they don't have phone numbers...Is there any way to get them back? Like were they backed up somewhere like in my google account or anything?
[HTC Inspire 4G] ClearD:
If they're synced to your gmail, try doing a full wipe and syncing them again. If they're synced from your gmail account, then they're backed up in your Google Contacts.

You could also go into your google account on your computer and export your contacts from there in a vcf format (I think it's vcf), then transport that file to your microSD card, then in your "people" app on your phone, import your contacts from there.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Ferrari353:
I've tried syncing gmail on my phone but it doesn't seem to be adding anything new...I went into my gmail account and in "my contacts" it only shows 10 contacts with their numbers and everything...am I just not looking in the right place or something?
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
Are you logged into google?
[HTC Inspire 4G] bretthiltz:
Mine got stuck there too. Now I'm trying all over on a different computer, hopefully it'll work. If not, I guess I'm screwed. Anyone know why this happens?
[HTC Inspire 4G] SpectroPro:
Ok. I guess n one has any answers on why I am so incompetent. lol

I went out and bought 2 more cards. Another 8 gig and a 16 gig. (I can use them for other things as well...) and I get the exact same error with both cards.

So, I guess my question is now... Please, can someone point me to another way to do all this? Apparently, THIS method will NOT work for me and no one has any ideas.

TIA

- Greg
[HTC Inspire 4G] bretthiltz:
Second time around on a different computer, everything worked perfect! Now time to figure out how to install a custom rom.
[HTC Inspire 4G] tribalartgod:
Ok people... There are a few details you need to know when going into this...

"ADB" is no longer located in the /tools folder of your SDK package... That is unless you haven't updated it in a while. And if you DID NOT update your SDK package before starting this process, shame on you, NOT the OP.

**The SDK command is now located in the /platform-tools folder.

This is probably why a lot of you are getting the daemon failure message.

Moving on. ...After reading several other posts, I have noticed that people are not REVERSING their number given for the proper making of their goldcard. Or, they are trying to copy and paste the number, and missing a digit. This is a very common error, and I'd be a liar if I said it didn't happen to me.

Please...EVERY TIME you boot back into the phone, and when you start, make sure that FASTBOOT is NOT selected.

And finally... If, and ONLY IF "Rom Manager" shows you DO in fact have a recovery installed, and you still get the black screen, DO THE ENG S-OFF PATCH. Don't be scared...it takes literally 1 minute.

Anyone who still has problems ask...
[HTC Inspire 4G] shortcakiee:
hey guys!

did any of you experience a freeze after entering hboot?

i tried rooting it twice and every time it freezes after entering hboot mode

i follow the instructions carefully but nothing happens, it does not start to look for the pd98img.zip file and it just stays on the hboot screen :S

i have read the faq and did as instructed, it still freezes on hboot screen!!

any help appreciated, pleasee and thank you :(
[HTC Inspire 4G] nio151:
When I get the message "daemon started successfully" nothing happens. I've waited for about an hour but nothing happened. I followed the instructions exactly. Please help ):
[HTC Inspire 4G] whoabuddy:
"daemon started" hanging

I'm having the same issue, when I ran the script it connected to my phone the first time, gave me the "daemon started" message, and flashed the new software onto my phone. I checked that USB was on Charge Only and Fast Boot is disabled, and the script hung at "daemon started" for a little over 3 hours. I ended up aborting the batch, hoping I could restart the entire process, but now the script still hangs at "daemon started" when I run it.

Is there any trick to get things moving again? I'm a network technician by trade but new to Android, excited to get it rooted and load up my first ROM!

HTC Inspire 4G, ATT, No changes before running EXE.

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FIGURED IT OUT! Stupid move on my part, USB Debugging was not enabled on the exploited ROM, although I could've swore I checked it. Note to all: it's much easier to do this sober!
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
The only problem I see with this is the common user does not need eng s-off, and should be avoided if possible.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ClearD:
Agreed with mudknot. I need a tester with the black clockworkmod screen to test a possible fix, if any of you are interested.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
I would but I used the hack kit also check out my thread in general. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1019868

Edit:

Also what seems to be causing it ? is it the PD98IMG if so there is one posted in my thread that is confirmed to work. It also has the stock radio included.
[HTC Inspire 4G] zasanil:
Same thing happening with me when I try to go through this process. Just sits there doing nothing and freezes up my phone. have to pull the battery to make it do something. Any help please?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
I'll test for you Clear! How is the rom coming along? (Remember I mentioned something about this quite a while ago?)
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
Wolf would you mind trying the PG98IMG from the thread I posted above..? It contains a different hboot and might be an easy fix with out even eng s-off, it will flash the stock radio though. You will be on a stock rooted rom after flashing.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
I was joking around a little, but I can test it out for you. I originally used the hack kit with no problems. When I tested bubby's method a long time ago to help some others I encountered similar problems, but I have long since rehacked it via the hack kit and I don't have any problems. Just for fun I will run bubby method again to duplicate problems and then test the patched image. The use of the different hboot version should fix the issue since I discussed this issue a long time ago on this thread. It has worked for others.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
I would do it but I don't have my phone with me. If that works I don't see why you couldn't make the gui push it to the sd card then boot to hboot to flash that.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
I added a little to the last post. Which version are you using to replace the stock version?

Is it the older one?
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
hboot_7230_Ace_0.85.0019_101227
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
Ok, I will redo this method to reproduce the issues and then flash the image.
[HTC Inspire 4G] dyne2199:
Yea, I found out the hard way. Luckily, I received some much appreciated assistance and I'm good as new now.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Quincux:
A noob question: With this procedure, i will get the SIM UNLOCK?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
How is the phone working for you now. By the way, I like the Sun Tzu quote.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
I will have to finish this test out later today as I got stuck on a long phone call. I will let you know how it went.
[HTC Inspire 4G] dyne2199:
It's running like a champ, brother! Yea, 'The Art of War' is a favorite among us old, grizzled Military Vets, :-P

Sent from my TPC Rom/Buzz Kernel-powered Inspire 4G using the XDA Premium App.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ClearD:
Anyone experiencing a hang after it says the daemon started, make sure your phone is set in charge-only mode, with USB Debugging turned ON and Fastboot turned OFF.

If all of those settings are SET (DOUBLE CHECK THEM ALL), then as long as it doesn't say it's actually doing anything on your phone or computer (it will tell you if it is), you can unplug the phone from the PC and plug it back in, and that will most likely let the daemon find your phone.

Also, did you guys actually install the HTC Sync drivers, then uninstall the HTC Sync program before beginning, as stated in the FAQ?

FAQ updated to reflect this, also.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
Well if the image works that would solve the cwm screen which I don't see why it wouldn't work.

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[HTC Inspire 4G] ianskate:
Awesome! Rooting went really well, went ahead and flashed CoreDroid v5. Everything seemed to be working for a while. I gained S-OFF, and SU, however now my connection seems to have been wrecked.

Android market results in network errors, can't download or search, but phone calls seem to work however. I can also sync and send email. I've significantly dropped in bars/service.

Any thoughts?
[HTC Inspire 4G] ClearD:
Most likely a ROM issue. CoreDroid is made from the Desire HD base and might require a different radio to be flashed (I am not entirely familiar with it). If it does use the stock radio, you can try reflashing it from the radio fix in my ClearDroid thread. :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] djzikario:
I'm so stupid I tried to flash the newest clockwork recovery and it flashed the HTC Desire HD one!!! now my phone htc screen fades like its burning when i try to enter the recovery for backing up a rom or doing a restart into recovery etc... what should i do? :/

I also put a sim card from other company but signal bars has the x and says No Service?
[HTC Inspire 4G] ClearD:
Check 1 or 2 pages back, mudknot2005 has a fix, it's a bad HBOOT flash, probably not ClockWorkMod. I'm running the Desire HD 3.0.0.6 ClockWorkMod with no issues.

Might be a radio issue. Check the ClearDroid ROM thread for the "radio fix". It's simply a known good copy of the stock radio that you can flash. If that doesn't work, it's probably that the phone company you're trying to use just doesn't use the same bands that the Inspire supports.
[HTC Inspire 4G] djzikario:
Thanks for the quick reply I will try it after work.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ianskate:
Makes sense to me... Will try when I'm back at the computer. Thanks for the feedback.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ClearD:
Also, you did clear the data/cache/dalvik before installing coredroid, right?
[HTC Inspire 4G] aeneas3:
nvm found the answer i think :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] ianskate:
Yeah, through Rom Manager.

Going to try ClearD when it's done downloading, I don't really like the UI of Core. Just my opinion, haters gonna hate. :rolleyes:
[HTC Inspire 4G] oskysari:
hello friends, I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I've downloaded the program but when I try to run it at the very end says some installations files are corrupt. please download a fresh copy and retry the installation, and in the background says crc failed in resources/required/terminal.apk unexpected end of archive.

please a little help I'm running on my desktop win xp and on my laptop win 7 and in both pc and laptop happens that error.
[HTC Inspire 4G] binnym:
thanks... rooted my inspire without any issue
[HTC Inspire 4G] ClearD:
Check the faq, make sure your AntiVirus and firewall and antimalware programs are turned off and re download the program. That would be my best guess anyways. Or just a bad download :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] SpectroPro:
Ok...since no one can seem to help me and apparently I am the ONLY one that gets the errors that I get....I have a new question... I am NOT using this one click any more. I am using ace hack kit. When I get the CID number and I go to the page that reverses the number (hexrev.soaa.me) and enter it, click submit, the resulting number is reversed, however, it cuts off some digits from the start and end of the big number. Is this correct??? It does it every time.

If this is BAD, then I will just reverse the number myself to enter into the goldcard.img page (revskills) Can someone just tell me if the gold card must have all those numbers reversed or is the reverse page correct in deleting some of them???

- Greg
[HTC Inspire 4G] puneta26:
can anybody please help me!!!

i think i bricked the phone and now i cant enter to the bootloader menu... it freezes on the htc logo... doesnt boot up!!!

help please.
[HTC Inspire 4G] aeneas3:
hi all

i seem to be getting privilege errors and programs stopping unexpectedly. I am trying to change my ROM from the february one that was included with bubby's awesome tool here. I think I probably need to reroot the device but I am curious if anyone has any ideas. I am on an old pc right now so will not be able to do too much tonight.

I have rom manager v 3.0.1.5

when I try flash clockworkmod recovery I get the error "the application superuser (process com/noshufou.android.su) has stopped unexpectedly. please try again.

if I try to run "fixing permissions" I get the same error. I also get "an error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands.

This seems to happen with any program that should have superuser access.

is there a way to fix this?

I also get the same superuser error if I try to run titanium backup as well as "i could not acquire root privileges" even after installing busybox.

please point me to another thread if I missed one that helps with this error.

thanks
[HTC Inspire 4G] aeneas3:
thought i fixed it but still am getting privilige errors

edit:

this seems to be a known bug. working on fixing it as per the faq. that faq has grown since I last saw it!
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
Try pulling your battery and see if that bypasses it.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
For the SU issues try clearing cache in app management.
[HTC Inspire 4G] MrMickeyMoose:
Radio?

Does this give you Radio S-OFF as well?
[HTC Inspire 4G] booty hater:
In case anyone was wondering this works well if you somehow manage to lose root. I screwed up a rom installation tonight and managed to lose root. I used the gold card I originally made to root my phone used the program as if I was stock and original.(I already had eng s-off)

I let the program run its course following the few prompts it requires and it went off without a hitch.
[HTC Inspire 4G] oskysari:
thanks it worked
[HTC Inspire 4G] oskysari:
thanks it worked :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] oskysari:
ok now that I got it installed on my phone and have eng-s off when I try to boot into Clockwork recovery mode the phone reboots and the htc logo appears and fades black and the recovery menu doesn't appear what should I do?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
Check out the FAQ for information on this.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ClearD:
Literally 95% of the questions asked here can be solved by simply reading the FAQ and finding the answer.

Before you ask, simply read it. It's like 2 pages max, and color coded for easy reading. If the question doesn't pertain to you, skip it. That's why I took the time to write the FAQ to begin with. :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] djzikario:
Thanks a lot man, this worked 100%

Except when installing gapps it will boot loop
[HTC Inspire 4G] bigoh123:
is the link not there anymore it wont come up just keeps saying blank page???
[HTC Inspire 4G] bubby323:
Link works for me.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Trevino07:
Radio

Is radio 12.39.60.19H_26.06.04.06M the stock radio or is it a different one. I am new at this stuff.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
Stock radio.
[HTC Inspire 4G] magomaev:
error running simple root

HTC Inspire 4G Simple One Click S-OFF, Downgrade, Clockwork, Root

Scripted by bubby323 of XDA-Developers

Press any key to continue . . .

Press any key to continue . . .

Before we begin: Make sure your phone is plugged into your computer via USB and

"Charge Only" mode is selected.

Press any key to continue . . .

Also make sure you have installed, then uninstalled the "HTC Sync" program.

We need its drivers to root your device. If you have not done this, exit the pro

gram, then try again when you are finished.

Press any key to continue . . .

Changing directory to use the needed resources...

We will now stop, then restart the ADB server. When it's ready, it will say "Dae

mon started successfully "...

Restarting adb server...

Looking for device...

The script will not continue if your phone is not connected.

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

* daemon started successfully *

Pushing the files needed to downgrade your phone..

2279 KB/s (557962 bytes in 0.239s)

1718 KB/s (15837 bytes in 0.009s)

property service neutered.

killing adbd. (should restart in a second or two)

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

Patching and backing up partition 17...

Error opening backup file.

Pushing the exploitable rom to your sd card. This will take a little while. Go g

rab some cookies and milk while you're waiting.

failed to copy 'dwngrd.zip' to '/sdcard/PD98IMG.zip': Read-only file system

Done! Now rebooting into the bootloader to downgrade your Inspire...

When fastboot comes up, press the power button once to enter HBOOT on your phone

, then press enter on your keyboard.

Press any key to continue . . .
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
If you did the hack kit and you flashed a new rom then you should be rooted. Try clearing cache data for SU and TI in app management.
[HTC Inspire 4G] bigoh123:
It wont let me download the link!!! Any help? Keep getting blank page!@
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
The only things that come to mind right now is replacing SU. It may also be possible you had a bad flash. Did you wipe data before flashing? I am not sure if you said that you did this or not, but try fixing permissions through rom manager. If that does not work and replacing su does not either you may want to flash the rom again or even try a different one to see if that fixes it. The rom you are using currently should have a good SU.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
As far as the link goes, if it is not working correctly you may have to wait until later today to try it.

Good night and good luck to all.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ClearD:
Are you charge-only mode, USB debugging turned on, and fastboot turned off?
[HTC Inspire 4G] brokenstring6:
I was just trying to do the clockwork fix in bubby's program. When i used it to root my inspire it worked like a charm. was trying to do the clockwork fix, it start runny and then when it was nearly finished it say corrupt bootloader, do not reboot. I a little nervous Help Please!
[HTC Inspire 4G] gadget069:
I'm assuming everything went fine, is there way to really tell? I did sideload my first app, and use rom manager to backup the rom.
[HTC Inspire 4G] magomaev:
yes i checked multiple times charge-only mode, USB debugging turned on, and fastboot turned off. After i formatted card from PC. On my phone I when to settings --> connect to pc --> "charge only" was already selected. I selected it again anyway and clicked done on the bottom...
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
I would suggest using the full wipe zip file to wipe your phone and then flash a new rom.
[HTC Inspire 4G] cjrog1068:
Error

when i try to run this ... i get an error that its the wrong model - i have an ATT inspire 4g
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
Try doing your gold card over again. Sounds like the process did not work previously.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wolf:
Good. Sounds like the original flash went wrong or that data was not wiped and something else was messed up. Always try to wipe before installing new roms. Less headaches down the road.
[HTC Inspire 4G] xKrisx:
So this does the same thing has the Hack Kit, just compiled into a nice little program to do things for you. Or am I wrong ?
[HTC Inspire 4G] cinemuh:
This process keeps failing right after i press the power button to update. it errors "fail" and no keyboard comes up to press enter to allow me to put in the next text code. fails after the firsts code. Please help.