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[GUIDE] Rooting and flashing your patched Hero. (Windows) [Updated: 12/19]

Constructive criticism is welcome.
This is my first guide and it's quite late here so I'm going to go through this lightly first, and more in detail later.
Note: I am NOT responsible for any damage your phone may or may not receive. It is your fault for following this guide, not my fault for writing it. Just for the sake of saving you from a headache, I would recommend backing up your contacts before starting this guide.
Phase 1: Prepping your CDMA Hero for rooting/flashing.
1. Ensure that USB debugging and installing apps from unknown sources is enabled. You can do this by going into Settings> Applications Check unknown sources. From there go into Development and ensure that "Enable USB debugging" is checked.
2. Mount your SD card on your computer by plugging in the USB cable, and dragging down the notification area. BACKUP YOUR DATA! ALWAYS!
3. After your data is backed up, Safely remove hardware (I find it annoying to get the "this disk may contains errors" every time i plug it in) your Hero. Using your notification area, unmount your SD card.
4. On your hero, navigate to Settings> SD card and phone storage> unmount SD card. Then format your card. It should Auto re-mount after this.
5. Download FlashRec (great tool!) and Amon-RA's recovery image. Place them onto the root of your SD card (not in any folders, just drag and drop them.) Unmount your SDcard.
6. I used Linda File manager (from the market), but you can use one of your choice. Navigate to the root of your SDcard (you'll probably start there, if you dont just click sdcard.) Open flashrec with the installer, and wait until it's finished.
7. Open FlashRec, and attempt to make a backup (i simply named mine "/sdcard/backup"). If it success proceed to the next step. if not, refer to post 2.
8. In FlashRec, type "/sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img" without the quotes. Linux is Case-sensitive, so the capital letters have to be included. tap "download recovery image". Wait for it to finish, when it does reboot into recovery mode by powering off your phone. After it's off, hold HOME and the power button. You should see some green text on a black background.
9. First things first, Make a nandroid backup. It can, and will save your ass at some point in time. Before you flash ANYTHING to your phone, ALWAYS do a nandroid backup. Congratulations, you can now flash a custom ROM!
Phase 2:Flashing your custom ROM
Since I love Flipz and his work so much I'll be using his ROM in my guide (let me know if you have a problem with it Flipz).
0. Do a nandroid backup before you even think about downloading a ROM
1. Download Fresh 1.0.
2. Do not unzip it, leave it as it is and copy it to the root of your SD card. You can do this either from recovery mode (by enabling usb mode) or through the notification bar. Proceed to recovery mode by holding HOME+END CALL (or just disable USB mode) and select "flash update from .zip" Select the Fresh ROM and wait. It should automatically reboot after it finishes installing.
3. Be patient while it's booting, it took me about 5 minutes for the first boot, after that it gets much faster. Once it loads, everything should be all fine and dandy. If it's not, well aren't you glad you made your backup? Just proceed back into recovery and do a nandroid restore.
4. You can now delete all those .apks and .zips and whatnot. Mount your SD card on the computer, and move your backed up files back onto your card.
5: Enjoy! If you don't like the clear lock, Flipz has a patch on his website (geekfor.me) to replace it with a clear screen. This should keep all of your contacts and settings in place, but I make no promises.
Sources:
The Unlockr

How to unpatch your Sprint CDMA Hero.
Phase 1: Installing the SDK/Drivers
1. Download the SDK from Google. Create a folder at the root of your C:\ drive called android (it doesn't have to be your C:\, you can put it anywhere, but this guide will use "C:\android" as it's path.)
2. If using Windows Vista or earlier, proceed to the next step.
3. Download the driver for your system.
Windows 7 32Bit
Windows 7 64bit
To find out which drivers are right for your system, go into your control panel, and change the view type to small icons. Click on system, and check and see if it says 64-bit Operating System or 32-bit Operating System. Extract the contents into:
C:\Program Files (x86)\HTC\HTC Driver\Driver Files\Vista_x64 (for the Windows 7 64-bit)
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\HTC\HTC Driver\Driver Files\Vista_x86 (for the Windows 7 32-bit)
4. If you have not plugged your Hero into the computer yet, it's as simple as navigating to where you extracted the contents of the archive, and right clicking androidusb.INF (should be the second from the top) and clicking install.
5. Ensure that USB debugging is enabled by navigating to Settings>Applications>Devolopment. If it does not have a check next to it, tap it. Plug your phone in and wait for the drivers to install.
6. In Windows, navigate to the command prompt.
XP: Start>run type "cmd" and press enter.
Vista or later: Start/"orb" in the search box right above it, type "cmd" and press enter.
if you see a window pop up with "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe" if you have done this correctly.
7. type "cd \android\tools" and press enter. now type "adb devices". It should start a daemon, and show you a series of numbers. If it does, then congratulations! your drivers are installed properly! I'll come back and add later how to reinstall the drivers if they do not install correctly.
Phase 2: Unpatching your Hero
Ensure that you have an adaptor to plug your SDcard into your computer. I didn't use an adaptor when i did this, but I highly recomend it just to make things easier. If your phone or SDcard or computer or toaster blows up, catches fire, shoots lazer beams and burns your curtains, or causes any damage to your or anything else I take no responsibility.
1. Backup all of the data from your memory card onto your computer. Navigate to Settings> SD and phone storage. Unmount your SD card and format it.
2. Go to Settings> Applications> Devolopment and ensure USB debugging is enabled.
3. Open command prompt, as you did in Phase 1, and navigate to "C:\android\tools". Type "adb shell" and press enter. Now you're in your phones console. Type "cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid"
4. Copy down the code you get EXACTLY. Double, triple, and qraduple check. If the code is wrong, you may destroy your SD card.
5. Reverse the code.
Example:
123456789
Would become
987654321
6. replace the first two numbers/letters with zero zero. (007654321). Now on your PC, navigate to Here. Copy the number (with the zeros in place!) to the box that says CID. Click continue and wait for the email with your goldcard key. Save it to your computer.
7. Download this hex editor and install it. run it (requires administrative priveledges), and put your SDcard into your computer, or mount your SDcard.
8. In the hex editor, click on the extra tab, and open both your SDcard and the Goldcard you downloaded earlier. Ensure that "Open as read only" is unchecked when you open your SDcard. Sector size should be at "512 (Hard Disks/Floppy Disks)".
9. Go to the Goldcard tab, and press Ctrl+A to highlight all of it, then press Ctrl+C to copy it. Go to your SDcard tab, and select from 00000000 to 00000170. Now click on the edit>paste write.
10. click File>save. Remove and replace your SDcard, or unmount and remount your phone. If you can navigate into the drive, congratulations you have a Goldcard.
Phase 3: Downgrading your Hero.
1. Download the1.29 RUU. Plug your phone into the USB port with your goldcard inserted. Have your phone powered on when you do this, and ensure that it is not locked.
2. Ensure that you have HTC Sync installed, and that it connects to your phone.
3. Run the RUU and wait for it to finish. After it is finished, proceed to post 1.

If we simply want to upgrade to a different ROM or the new 1.5.2 recovery.img then can we simply pick up on your instructions from that point??
Thanks for your post. The only thing I think you are missing (for a totally new user doing this) is explaining how to boot into recovery mode when you are ready to flash the new ROM.
There is one other thing that I think would be great to have added to a post like this and that is an explanation of how to restore your programs after flashing a new ROM. Do you just reinstall them or is there a way to restore files and be able to keep your screen looking mostly the same?

Whats up with the Moto Droid? When are ROMS going to be pushed? and are you going to wright and Guide for Droid like this one?

saintirish said:
If we simply want to upgrade to a different ROM or the new 1.5.2 recovery.img then can we simply pick up on your instructions from that point??
Thanks for your post. The only thing I think you are missing (for a totally new user doing this) is explaining how to boot into recovery mode when you are ready to flash the new ROM.
There is one other thing that I think would be great to have added to a post like this and that is an explanation of how to restore your programs after flashing a new ROM. Do you just reinstall them or is there a way to restore files and be able to keep your screen looking mostly the same?
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As far as I know, you just have to reinstall your programs. This guide will also work for loading ROMs other then Freshhh, but some ROMs require you to do a wipe before you install them. Check to see if that specific ROM requires a wipe before doing an install. Yes, I have used this method to upgrade from RA's 1.2.3 to 1.5.2 with no problems.
@_Chris_Kirkland said:
Whats up with the Moto Droid? When are ROMS going to be pushed? and are you going to wright and Guide for Droid like this one?
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I have no idea about Droid modding, as I don't have a Droid. I'm not to fond of the idea of writing a guide for a phone I don't have because I wouldn't be able to verify that it works with minimal problems.

Alright, I've completed the basics of how to do this. I'll add a problems and solutions section once people start having problems.

great job, this should help folks out a good deal.

That's my intention. Just trying to make things easier for those who aren't so good with the console. I think I'm gonna go ahead and do the Win7 driver workaround now.

In step 8 of the guide I can follow along up to step 8 but when I type in the text I don't see the download option.

jfoster38122 said:
In step 8 of the guide I can follow along up to step 8 but when I type in the text I don't see the download option.
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You're talking about the FlashRec step right?
Could you tell me exactly what you can see?

So this is probably an obvious question, but I apparently not to me, but is the guide to perform a downgrade for people who have not rooted and flashed their phone? Because I was able to downgrade to 1.29 ruu after having flashed my phone with Fresh 1.0, is it because I flashed a custom rom that I could downgrade to 1.29 or is there something different now?

mark920 said:
So this is probably an obvious question, but I apparently not to me, but is the guide to perform a downgrade for people who have not rooted and flashed their phone? Because I was able to downgrade to 1.29 ruu after having flashed my phone with Fresh 1.0, is it because I flashed a customer rom that I could downgrade to 1.29 or is there something different now?
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This is a guide to try and simplify patching, but it also covers a section on how to downgrade a phone that Sprint/HTC patched so that the 1.29 RUU method wouldn't work.

How does someone get a phone that was patched by sprint/htc to not allow the 1.29ruu to work on the phone?

mark920 said:
How does someone get a phone that was patched by sprint/htc to not allow the 1.29ruu to work on the phone?
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Ether get a newer Hero, or run the software update in the phone. I ran the software update >_>

abcdfv said:
You're talking about the FlashRec step right?
Could you tell me exactly what you can see?
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Once I enter the recovery image in, the 2 options are "Flash Recovery Image" and "Restore Backup Image"
There's no download recovery image option.
- JustPyro

It may have been updated since I used it... I'll look into it
EDIT: Click on FlashRecovery image.

Excellent work! I just want to let you know that the link for the RUU 1.29 does not work (at least for me). Great guide though.

Link updated.

[TUT]Complete upgrading guide(root, unroot, flashing ROM & updates)

Here's a tutorial for the new users facing unanswered (at a first glance) questions while browsing through the tremendous amount of information that can be found.
There are many tutorials about this, but I will try to make one unique tutorial that will be easy to understand for everyone.
Press a THANKS button if you think that this TUT has helped you
IMPORTANT!
Before you proceed, you need to understand one thing: although these upgrades work in 99% of the cases, you are doing this at your own risk!
If you have any problems or question with rooting and flashing ROM's DO NOT open new thread, cause I will delete it, post everything here
Before we start, here is little Q&A section, so please READ this before opening new thread!
How to format and partition SD Card?
Read this
Is my desire already rooted?
- Check if you have superuser app in the app list all rooted phones have it
If I root a device which is already rooted, can it mess anything up?
- You can't mess anything up by re-rooting.
Will my phone get the OTA froyo update from HTC here in the US or do I have to do it manually?
- No OTA updates when rooted, to get them you will have to go back to stock to get the update(yepp unroot, or wait for devs to release rooted stock version)
What is S-OFF?
-HTC implemented security on their newer generation phones. This flag, called @secuflag, controls whether your phone has
it's NAND or flash unlocked. Most noticeably, S-ON (security on) will read-lock your /system and /recovery partition, to name a few. Also, secuflag controls whether zip files being flashed through recovery or fastboot, are signed by HTC. The now notorious S-OFF (security off) will disable this NAND security. Since we are unable to access the Radio NVRAM itself (where secuflag is stored), we turned our attention to HBOOT.
Here is How to S-OFF your HTC Desire
If you think I should add more questions and answers, send me a PM
The easiest root method of all is(works for any Desire!):
[GUIDE] One Click How to Root the GSM & CDMA Desire with Unrevoked 3.21
If you want to root using old method, and you have Android 2.2 you will need to downgrade your radio first
[HOWTO] Downgrade Froyo (2.2) to Stock 2.1 (ANY HBOOT | WIN/LINUX/MAC | ROOT)
or
[HOW-TO] downgrade HBOOT 0.92 to 0.80 again
Here is how this thread works:
Newbie Friendly How To's w/ Instructional Videos(tnx to dcogen) - post #1
Root guide for users who have unbranded(unlocked) Desire - post #2
Root guide for users who have branded(locked) Desire and
How to make GOLDCARD - post #3
Guide how to use fake-flash, unroot, flash ROM and updates - post #4
How to remove apps & boot sound, install apps, and many other things - Post #5
*Unrooting, flashing ROM and updates is same for every device.
There are several methods of rooting device and one of the safest is using Tiny Core Linux(Live CD), since I had several problems using Windows(64-bit) I recommend this option, but if you are using 32-bit OS you should be fine rooting in Windows.
If you have any comments, ideas or requests to improve this thread, post them here
If you find any step that is wrong, or should be improved reoprt it here
Let's start flashing
Newbie Friendly How To's w/ Instructional Videos
How To Setup ADB
How To Load a Theme
How To Flash a New Recovery Image
How To Switch to a Different SD Card (for use with Swap, Hero ROMs, etc.)
How To Backup/Restore Your Android Phone
HTC Desire How To's
How To: Root the HTC Desire
How To: Load a Custom ROM on the HTC Desire
How To: Unroot the HTC Desire
Credits
Paul - Rooting method, rooting tool, rooting software, etc
Android dev team - adb, android, etc
craigcrawford1988 - for Tiny Core Linux tut and links
MasDroid - for some tutorials
42turkeys - unroot guide
eViL D: - general help
VeeDubZ - how to remove apps
dcogen - Newbie Friendly How To's
whole XDA community

Root guide for users who have unbranded(unlocked) Desire
Guide to root with Tiny Core Linux
IMPORTANT - this tutorial will not work if you have installed 2.2 OTA update from HTC!
Download Tiny Core Linux Live CD
---- For a bootloader of 0.75.* or lower AND a current ROM of 1.15.* or lower Download
---- For a bootloader of 0.80.* or lower AND a current ROM of 1.21.* or lower Download
Burn the downloaded iso on CD/DVD
Boot your computer from that CD/DVD, once you booted it will ask you to press Enter or F2/F3 keys, you need to press Enter
Start the HTC Desire in bootloader by holding back and turning it on by the power button
Connect the USB cable to the phone and PC
Open a terminal by clicking the icon that looks like a monitor at the bottom on Tiny Core Linux and type the following commands:
Code:
sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/desire
sudo ./step1.sh
Wait until the phone restarts back into the white bootloader screen
In terminal type the following command:
Code:
sudo ./step2.sh
Once the phone has finished, you will see a screen with a green text. Use the optical tracker to navigate the menu to select Wipe and then press Wipe data/factory reset
Once complete you should be back in the main menu. Now select the option Flash zip from sdcard and than choose rootedupdate.zip
Once back in the main menu, choose restart the phone - the rooting process is now finished
Guide to root using Windows, MAC OS X and Linux
!Some people reported that this method needs to have GoldCard(in most cases you won't need it) even if you have unbranded device, more here
You need to have Android SDK and HTC Sync installed(for Windows users)
Download following items:
---- If you have a bootloader version 0.75.xxxx or below AND a current ROM of 1.15.xxx.x or below - DOWNLOAD / MIRROR
---- If you have a bootloader version 0.80.xxxx or below AND a current ROM of 1.21.xxx.x or below - DOWNLOAD / MIRROR
Unzip the file you downloaded to a directory, then open a command prompt / terminal window at that directory.
Turn off your HTC Desire, then turn it back on with the 'back' button held down. You'll see 'FASTBOOT' written on the screen in a red box. Connect the phone to the computer.
In the command prompt/terminal window, enter either 'step1-windows.bat'(for windows), './step1-mac.sh'(for mac) or './step1-linux.sh'(for linux)
Navigate to the 'BOOTLOADER' and then 'RECOVERY' option on the menu, using the volume buttons to move and the power button to select.
In the command prompt/terminal window, enter either 'step2-windows.bat', './step2-mac.sh' or './step2-linux.sh' as appropriate.
When this has completed, your device should be at the 'recovery'("green") screen. Select Wipe and then press Wipe data/factory reset
Once complete you should be back in the main menu. Now select the option Flash zip from sdcard and than choose rootedupdate.zip
Once back in the main menu, choose restart the phone - the rooting process is now finished

Root guide for users who have branded(locked) Desire
Before you start to root your branded(locked) Desire you need to know:
How to make GoldCard
GoldCard Tool v0.0.5
Requirements:
Latest HTC Sync software installed (www.htc.com)
Spare microSD card
Windows PC (Tested on Windows7 x64,Vista x86)
.Net Framework 2.0
Step by step instructions:
Format the microSD card to FAT32 format.
Put the microSD card in your device and boot it.
Launch GoldCard Tool (Right Click and run as Admin if needed)
Connect Android device to USB (USB Debugging must be enabled on the device)
Click 'Get CID' (If MMC1 fails try MMC0)
Click the link to open revskills.de, enter the CID number from Goldcard Tool and create your goldcard image, which will be e-mailed to you.
Enable USB Mass Storage on the device.
Click 'Refresh' and select your microSD card in the drop down menu.
Click 'Load GoldCard.img' and open the .img file you got by email.
Click 'Patch MMC'
You now have a goldcard!
[Notes]
HTC Sync is required for drivers only
Android SDK is not required
Guide to root with Tiny Core Linux
IMPORTANT - this tutorial will not work if you have installed 2.2 OTA update from HTC!
Download Tiny Core Linux Live CD
---- For a bootloader of 0.75.* or lower AND a current ROM of 1.15.* or lower Download
---- For a bootloader of 0.80.* or lower AND a current ROM of 1.21.* or lower Download
Burn the downloaded iso on CD/DVD
Boot your computer from that CD/DVD, once you booted it will ask you to press Enter or F2/F3 keys, you need to press Enter
Insert the goldcard into the phone.
Start the HTC Desire in bootloader by holding back and turning it on by the power button
Connect the USB cable to the phone and PC
Open a terminal by clicking the icon that looks like a monitor at the bottom on Tiny Core Linux and type the following commands:
Code:
sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/desire
sudo ./step1.sh
Wait until the phone restarts back into the white bootloader screen
Turn the phone off via the bootloader menu (or pull the battery and USB cable) and remove the goldcard. Put a non-goldcard SD into the phone or reformat the goldcard and put it into the phone. Put the phone back into bootloader mode (Press Power button and Back button).
In terminal type the following command:
Code:
sudo ./step2.sh
Once the phone has finished, you will see a screen with a green text. Use the optical tracker to navigate the menu to select Wipe and then press Wipe data/factory reset
Once complete you should be back in the main menu. Now select the option Flash zip from sdcard and than choose rootedupdate.zip
Once back in the main menu, choose restart the phone - the rooting process is now finished
Guide to root using Windows, MAC OS X and Linux
IMPORTANT - this tutorial will not work if you have installed 2.2 OTA update from HTC!
Download following items:
---- If you have a bootloader version 0.75.xxxx or below AND a current ROM of 1.15.xxx.x or below - DOWNLOAD / MIRROR
---- If you have a bootloader version 0.80.xxxx or below AND a current ROM of 1.21.xxx.x or below - DOWNLOAD / MIRROR
Unzip the file you downloaded to a directory, then open a command prompt / terminal window at that directory.
Turn off your HTC Desire, put GoldCard and then turn it back on with the 'back' button held down. You'll see 'FASTBOOT' written on the screen in a red box. Connect the phone to the computer.
In the command prompt/terminal window, enter either 'step1-windows.bat'(for windows), './step1-mac.sh'(for mac) or './step1-linux.sh'(for linux)
Turn the phone off via the bootloader menu (or pull the battery and USB cable) and remove the goldcard. Put a non-goldcard SD into the phone or reformat the goldcard and put it into the phone. Put the phone back into bootloader mode (Press Power button and Back button)
Navigate to the 'BOOTLOADER' and then 'RECOVERY' option on the menu, using the volume buttons to move and the power button to select.
In the command prompt/terminal window, enter either 'step2-windows.bat', './step2-mac.sh' or './step2-linux.sh' as appropriate.
When this has completed, your device should be at the 'recovery'("green") screen. Select Wipe and then press Wipe data/factory reset
Once complete you should be back in the main menu. Now select the option Flash zip from sdcard and than choose rootedupdate.zip
Once back in the main menu, choose restart the phone - the rooting process is now finished

Guide how to unroot, flash ROM and updates
fake-flash
Fake-flash is only possible with root access, you need to be rooted to use it. Basically, its a way to have recovery running on the phone without using a PC (making it safer as you are less likely to brick using no USB cable to push files, instead, you push directly from your phone). You can use "ROM Manager" from the marketplace to do this. Simply place the downloaded test recovery image on the phone and the downloaded rom zip (renamed to update.zip) and flash using ROM Manager.
Preperation
Download the fake-flash update zip from one of the links below
Copy the update.zip to the root of your SD card (the name MUST remain as update.zip)
When you want to launch the recovery image
Turn on your device with 'volume down' pressed and select 'Recovery'
When the exclamation mark appears, press and hold 'volume up' then press 'power'
Select the second option, 'Apply sdcard:update.zip
That's it, ClockworkMod recovery should launch!
DOWNLOAD
How to flash ROM
Download this
Turn off Desire and then turn it on while holding back button to enter bootloader(white screen)
Once in "white screen" press power button again to enter bootloader
Connect Desire with PC
Press Volume Down and than Power to enter Recovery
Now the red triangle should show up, go to folder you downloaded file and press recovery-windows.bat, recovery-mac.sh or recovery-linux.sh depending on which OS you have
Now you are in recovery mode (green screen), press Wipe and than Wipe data/clear storage, than press optical tracker to confirm it
After that press Volume Down to go back to main menu in recovery
Navigate to Flash zip from sdcard using optical tracker, select .zip confirm it and wait until process finish, after that press Reboot system and unplug you Desire
Enjoy your new ROM
How to change boot animation
Download this
Copy bootanimation.zip to SD Card
Turn off Desire and then turn it on while holding back button to enter bootloader(white screen)
Once in "white screen" press power button again to enter bootloader
Connect Desire with PC
Press Volume Down and than Power to enter Recovery
Now the red triangle should show up, go to folder you downloaded file and press recovery-windows.bat, recovery-mac.sh or recovery-linux.sh depending on which OS you have
Navigate to Flash zip from sdcard using optical tracker, select .zip confirm it and wait until process finish, after that press Reboot system and unplug you Desire
Unplug your HTC and enjoy your new boot animation
Alternative method to install a custom boot animation (without Recovery Mode - by MasDroid)
You need to have HTC Sync and Android SDK installed (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html).
To get adb running on the Windows OS platform, for example, download & extract the Android SDK to the following path: %SystemDrive%\android-sdk-windows (e.g. C:\android-sdk-windows)
Turn on your phone and connect it to your PC via a USB port.
Place the downloaded bootanimation.zip into the same folder as the adb app (in the tools folder of the SDK).
Open command prompt and type cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools, hit enter.
Type adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local, hit enter.
Reboot phone.
How to Unroot your HTC Desire to stock
If you Have A 0.75 Bootloader:
Generic RUU Download / Mirror #1
T-Mobile UK RUU Download
o2 UK RUU Download
3 UK RUU Download
If You Have A 0.80 Bootloader: Download
Other RUUs Avalible Here
You will need:
HTC Sync (For Drivers)
The Download Above
A Windows PC
A Goldcard (Not required for generic HTC Desires)
The Guide:
Make sure your goldcard is in your phone (If Required-if your phone is branded)
Turn your Desire on
Connect it to a Windows PC
Run the HTC RUU
Let it run
& YOUR DONE!
You can use it to return your phone for warranty purposes!

How to remove apps from ROM
You need to have root for this and Android SDK installed!
Link to detailed tutorial
Im using Paul's R4 rooting files at the location C:/users/veedubz/r4-desire-root in Windows 7 so point your Command prompt there first and im also assuming that you have a rooted Desire and can get into recovery mode
1. First get into recovery mode with the Green menu then close that command prompt and open a new one and cd to /r4-desire-root folder
2. You now need to mount the /system folder using the code below
Code:
adb-windows shell mount /system
3. Now you will need to get the list of installed apk files
Code:
adb-windows shell ls /system/app/
and the output should look like this:
Code:
AccountAndSyncSettings.apk HtcWeatherWallpaper.apk
ApplicationsProvider.apk Jbed.apk
Bluetooth.apk LiveWallpapers.apk
..... ......
HtcStreamPlayer.apk htcsettingwidgets.apk
HtcSyncwidget.apk restartapp.apk
HtcTwitter.apk teeter.apk
4. there are 2 methods of removal, they are
4a. Just delete the files
4b. Move to the sdcard
Use one of the following methods
4a. Now you have a list of the files you can chose the ones you want to remove , note that this part is case sensitive so com.htc.twitterwidget.apk is not the same as com.htc.TwitterWidget.apk, use the following code(example used is the Stocks app and widget):
Code:
adb-windows shell rm /system/app/Stock.apk
adb-windows shell rm /system/app/com.htc.StockWidget.apk
4b. Also case sensitive, to move the files to your sdcard(which aso removes from the device):
Code:
adb-windows shell mount /sdcard
adb-windows shell mkdir /sdcard/device_files
adb-windows mv /system/app/Stock.apk /sdcard/device-files
adb-windows mv /system/app/com.htc.StockWidget.apk /sdcard/device-files
The files will be moved to the new folder on your sdcard called /device-files, once there you can also backup to your pc for a bit of extra backup
5. Repeat Step 4. untill all the apk files that you want to remove are gone and to check that they are gone use
Code:
adb-windows shell ls /system/app/
Restoring your backed up files
Use the following code,
Code:
adb-windows shell mount /sdcard
adb-windows shell mv /sdcard/device-filesStock.apk /system/app/
adb-windows shell mv /sdcard/device-files/com.htc.StockWidget.apk /system/app/
How to remove apps from ROM
Read here

any one having trouble downloading the method5 for windowsfiles for hboot 0.8
the first link seems dead and the mirror downloads a corrupt file ??
...EDIT --- forgEt this post liknk 2 seems fine now THANKS !!! .. .... .....
OH and nice work

Thanks man for this guide.
It's more clear for me now =)

cheers - if i flash R5 rom,will this leave me with 121 rom or 115 rom? -I already running the 121 rom?
thanks

dread123 said:
cheers - if i flash R5 rom,will this leave me with 121 rom or 115 rom? -I already running the 121 rom?
thanks
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You will have generic 1.15 ROM

Good job!!!

Appreciate this. Thank you.

Very good tutorial dude.
This is worth to be sticky!

ignore pls answered own question

Using Modaco's guide and I am stuck in step 2!
Isn't the Modaco Custom Rom for the Desire the same rom as the one for the N1 port? If that's the case it's not that good because I had a lot of issues with the N1 port 22.1 alpha.
Using Mac OS X
Asian Unlocked Desire
1.19.707.7
HBOOT 0.80
I am so far stuck in Step 2 after installing Step 1. Tried everything and it still won't work.
# In the terminal window, enter either 'step1-windows.bat', './step1-mac.sh' or './step1-linux.sh' as appropriate.
# When this step has completed, REMOVE THE GOLDCARD and either format it and replace, or replace with a different (non goldcard) microSD.
# Navigate to the 'BOOTLOADER' and then 'RECOVERY' option on the menu, using the volume buttons to move and the power button to select.
# In the terminal window, enter either 'step2-windows.bat', './step2-mac.sh' or './step2-linux.sh' as appropriate.
# When this has completed, your device should be at the 'recovery' screen. Select the 'wipe' option, then select the option to apply an update zip from sdcard, and select 'rootedupdate.zip'. This will take a little while, so go make a nice cup of tea. When the flash has finished, reboot, and you are DONE!
After installing step 1, I proceeded to the recovery until the red triangle came out, entered step 2 and the error log shows :
./step2-mac.sh
Desire Root Step 2
Pushing required files to device...
error: protocol fault (no status)
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found
Pushing update file to device sdcard - this may take a few minutes...
error: device not found
error: device not found
Now wipe and apply rootedupdate.zip from the recovery image menu.
device not found
Tried Unplugging the unit first then plugging it to the mac only when the red triangle shows up to no avail.
Please help!
Read somewhere that its an HTC Sync issue but I am using a mac

kingofthebraves said:
Using Modaco's guide and I am stuck in step 2!
Isn't the Modaco Custom Rom for the Desire the same rom as the one for the N1 port? If that's the case it's not that good because I had a lot of issues with the N1 port 22.1 alpha.
Using Mac OS X
Asian Unlocked Desire
1.19.707.7
HBOOT 0.80
I am so far stuck in Step 2 after installing Step 1. Tried everything and it still won't work.
# In the terminal window, enter either 'step1-windows.bat', './step1-mac.sh' or './step1-linux.sh' as appropriate.
# When this step has completed, REMOVE THE GOLDCARD and either format it and replace, or replace with a different (non goldcard) microSD.
# Navigate to the 'BOOTLOADER' and then 'RECOVERY' option on the menu, using the volume buttons to move and the power button to select.
# In the terminal window, enter either 'step2-windows.bat', './step2-mac.sh' or './step2-linux.sh' as appropriate.
# When this has completed, your device should be at the 'recovery' screen. Select the 'wipe' option, then select the option to apply an update zip from sdcard, and select 'rootedupdate.zip'. This will take a little while, so go make a nice cup of tea. When the flash has finished, reboot, and you are DONE!
After installing step 1, I proceeded to the recovery until the red triangle came out, entered step 2 and the error log shows :
./step2-mac.sh
Desire Root Step 2
Pushing required files to device...
error: protocol fault (no status)
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found
Pushing update file to device sdcard - this may take a few minutes...
error: device not found
error: device not found
Now wipe and apply rootedupdate.zip from the recovery image menu.
device not found
Tried Unplugging the unit first then plugging it to the mac only when the red triangle shows up to no avail.
Please help!
Read somewhere that its an HTC Sync issue but I am using a mac
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have you installed HTC Sync?

Im running MAC OS X so no HTC sync

kingofthebraves said:
Im running MAC OS X so no HTC sync
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I haven't tried rooting with MAC, I would suggest downloading Live CD it should be safe and easy

Thanks for the guide, looks much easier to do.

getting a
failed- remote :42 custom id check fail??
when running batch 1? anyone help pls? tried to carryon and batch 2 - usb cant be found -htc sync installed?

thank you very much

OBSOLETE.

I've combined toastcfh's and TheBiles how-to's in this tutorial, so if you've already rooted using TheBiles previous method, skip to step 9. I'll make this a bit more presentable when I get home from work today. I just thought this would be helpful to those who aren't comfortable with using adb.
I'm not responsible for damages to your phone, yada yada yada, you know the drill.
IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM THAT HASN'T BEEN ADDRESSES IN THE SECOND POST, LET ME KNOW. OTHERWISE, SEE SECOND POST FOR FAQ'S. Follow these directions exactly as they are written and you won't run into any snags. It'll save us both a lot of time.​This tutorial entails making the root process as fast and easy as possible, that means we won't be backing up any of your stuff (you can if you want, of course) nor will we be doing a nandroid backup, and even better, we won't be using adb to push files. With that being said, let's get started.​
Step 1. Connect your phone to your pc via usb, then pull down the notification bar at the top of your screen and open the tab that says Charge Only and select Disk Drive then click done.
Step 2. Download this file http://link.geekfor.me/rootedromzip and put it on the root of your sd card by going to the start menu of your computer and opening up My Computer, then drop the file into the icon that reads Removable Disk. This is the root of your sd card. Remember that if you don't already know.
Step 3. Right click on the Removable Disk icon and select Eject. We're gonna flash the debug image now, say goodbye to any pic's, music, apps, texts, etc that you may have.
Step 4. Power down your phone.
Step 5. Hold down the volume down and power key simultaneously and keep holding it down until you see 3 android dudes on skateboards.
Step 6. It's going to give you some options, whether or not to install the PC36IMG.zip, select yes (volume up is yes) for any prompt you get.
Step 7. Once you've rebooted you will officially have root access. Congrats, but that's not all. There's a few more steps to gain -full- root access.
Step 8. Navigate to the root of your sd card and rename the PC36IMG.zip file whatever you want, doesn't matter. Just don't name it update. To rename the .zip file, right click on PC36IMG.zip and select rename.
Step 9. Download these files:
PC36IMG.zip -http://sdx-downloads.com/sdx/evo/troot/eng-PC36IMG.zip
mtd-eng.zip - http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=342668&d=1276481802
flash_image.zip - http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=342667&d=1276481776
recovery.img - http://files.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=amon_ra/RECOVERY/&file=recovery-RA-evo-v1.7.0.1.img
PLEASE NOTE SOME OF THE MIRRORS YOU ARE DOWNLOADING THESE FILES FROM ARE NAMED SOMETHING DIFFERENT, SO YOU WILL HAVE TO RENAME THEM ACCORDINGLY. The only one that I know of was the PC36IMG.zip file, it was named something else when I downloaded it. So name it accordingly. Right click, select Rename, then type in "PC36IMG" only, your pc adds the .zip.
Step 10. Extract the flash_image.zip and mtd-eng.zip files, do so by right clicking on them, then select Extract To flash_image\ and Extract To mtd-eng\ Open the newly extracted folders and take the flash_image file AND the mtd-eng file inside and drop them into the root of your sd card. (we remember how to do that, don't we.)
Step 11. Open up the Android Market and download the terminal emulator app by Jack Palevick, it's free.
Step 12. Make sure your sd card is no longer mounted to the computer, do so by pulling down the notification bar and switching Disk Drive to Charge Only.
Step 13. Open the terminal emulator app and type in these commands exactly as they are written. If you get an error, try again.
Note: After each line is completed, hit enter. A # sign means you've run the commands successfully.
Code:
[B]su
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
chmod 755 /data/flash_image
/data/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.img[/B]
Step 14. Remount your phone, and drop the PC36IMG.zip file onto the root of your sd card. MAKE SURE YOU USE THE CORRECT PC36IMG.ZIP FILE THAT YOU DOWNLOADED FROM STEP 9. Power down your phone.
Step 15.
Hold volume down and power to boot into hboot.
- It should now find and verify the PC36IMG.zip on the root of your sdcard. It'll show a blue status bar on the top right of the screen.
- After a minute or so it will ask u if u wanna flash Select YES.
- After it flashes the PC36IMG.zip it will ask if you wanna reboot. Select YES.
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Step 16. Once your phone has rebooted, put the recovery.img file you downloaded earlier on the root of your sdcard.
Note: If the recovery image is named something other than "recovery.img" then rename it by right clicking and typing in "recovery" as the name.
Step 17. Still know how to use terminal emulator? Open it up and type in these commands. Make sure your USB connection is in Charge Only mode first.
Code:
[B]su
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
chmod 755 /data/flash_image
/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img[/B]
*INTERMISSION*
Take uh break, eat uh cookie.
If you've made it this far and you've had no errors, then you now have full root access as well as a legit recovery.
Time to flash a ROM and the latest radio.
Step 18. Power down your phone and power it back on by holding down the Volume Up and Power key.
Step 19. Select BOOTLOADER then select Recovery.
Step 20. Select Wipe: Select wipe data factory reset then select wipe dalvik cache.
Step 21. Downlaod any ROM you'd like, I'm running BuglessPete's Bugless Beast ROM, here's the link if you want to run this one as well http://bit.ly/az4cWq
Step 22. Download the latest radio here http://link.geekfor.me/radio139000531
Step 23. In recovery mode, select the USB-MS toggle option, this mounts your sd card to your pc.
Step 24. Move your newly downloaded ROM and radio to the root of your sd card by dropping them onto the Removable Disk icon on your computer.
Step 25. Press the power key to disable USB-MS toggle.
Step 26. Select Flash Zip From Sdcard.
Step 27. Select the ROM you downloaded and you will be prompted whether or not you want to flash the file, follow through with the power key.
Step 28. Select flash zip from sdcard, then select the latest radio .zip file that you just downloaded and flash that mf'er.
Step 29. Try not to freak out when you see a static image of a phone with green arrows circling around it. Wait...
Step 30. Select Reboot System Now.
And that's it, you're done!
ALL CREDIT GOES TO THESE GUYS! toastcfh, keishou, maejrep, Paul, Amon_Ra, Koush, TheBiles, and anybody else I forgot.
Grammatical errors? I just worked a 12 hour shift and got right on this, I have to be in bed in about an hour, so **** you.

Problems flashing a ROM after you've completed the process?
This is more than likely on account of the Dev who made the ROM not signing it, tell them if they sign it that you'll love them forever. Or switch to Koush's recovery. This is pretty much guaranteed to work, as Koush's recovery has a toggle signature verification feature. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=702214 Or, if you've the know-how, sign it yourself. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473580
ATTENTION: To the few getting the not enough space error when flashing the recovery image, Amon Ra has addressed the issue here, to no avail according to those who have tried his alternative recovery. At least we now know what the cause of the error is. Thanks again, Amon Ra.
Amon_RA said:
You have a bad block in your recovery (like a bad sector on your harddisk), these bad blocks are skipped when flashing. A bad block means you have less usable space on your recovery partition, hence the not enough space left to flash this recovery...
I made this recovery specially for you, it's 1MB less than the normal recovery (left out the evo charging stuff), all functions of the normal recovery should still work. Could you please give it a try and let me know?
Code:
fastboot flash recovery tiny-recovery.img
OR
flash_image recovery /sdcard/tiny-recovery.img
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Bad block? Not enough space on sd error when trying to flash the recovery image? Try these.
Amon_RA said:
Could you please try to flash recovery-RA-evo-v1.7.0.2.img and use fastboot to flash :
Code:
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-evo-v1.7.0.2.img
I'll most likely not make my recovery compatible with Koush's rommanger because I would need to almost rewrite it fully.
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tlisak25 said:
If people are still having problems tell them to unroot and start from scratch without doing system update from Sprint thanks for all or your help
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In on this.
Will try this out right now and edit my post later.
[Edit]
Oh, so the only difference is instead of using ADB you're using the "terminal emulator" app.
It's a good guide and am sure it works. But if you know how to use ADB, I'd actually prefer ADB. It's much easier to type on your keyboard.
But GREAT guide none-the-less. For people who don't know how to use ADB.

It's not so much that people can't fiure out how to use ADB as it is they can't figure out how to install and run it. Even when I first got into Android I had no clue it was used through a cmd prompt for the first 2 weeks.

arozer said:
In on this.
Will try this out right now and edit my post later.
[Edit]
Oh, so the only difference is instead of using ADB you're using the "terminal emulator" app.
It's a good guide and am sure it works. But if you know how to use ADB, I'd actually prefer ADB. It's much easier to type on your keyboard.
But GREAT guide none-the-less. For people who don't know how to use ADB.
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Exactly. Also, it's for those who rooted using TheBiles Idiot Proof method and were confused as to whether or not they could follow through with toastcfh's part 2nd part on gaining full root access.

Re: (How-To) FULL ROOT WITHOUT ADB.
ADB is just easier, in my opinion. I like bring able to easily copy and paste and type with a real keyboard. Plus, it's just good to know how to use. Not that I don't use the terminal on the phone, though! BTEP, for the win.
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Sent from my HTC EVO 4G using Tapatalk Pro.

TheBiles said:
ADB is just easier, in my opinion. I like bring able to easily copy and paste and type with a real keyboard. Plus, it's just good to know how to use. Not that I don't use the terminal on the phone, though! BTEP, for the win.
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Sent from my HTC EVO 4G using Tapatalk Pro.
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Totally agreed. But this method is meant to make rooting as fast and easy as possible (for those who don't know how to neither set up, nor use adb, as setting it up as well as familiarizing yourself with it takes time) Although learning adb is a definite must.

i'm a "noob" and ive had my evo since the release and have been tring to acomplish full root without any luck using adb bs this is the easiest most well explaid way to do so and i am more greatful than words could express. if i can find a way to donate with out a credit card i will gladly help ur cause keep up the great work

bdd123456789 said:
i'm a "noob" and ive had my evo since the release and have been tring to acomplish full root without any luck using adb bs this is the easiest most well explaid way to do so and i am more greatful than words could express. if i can find a way to donate with out a credit card i will gladly help ur cause keep up the great work
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I'm just glad it helped. Lol If there's anyone you should donate to, it's toastcfh. Without him, we wouldn't have root.

The download link for the PC36IMG.zip in step #9 is broken...I am assuming that the PC36IMG.zip in step 9 is different than the PC36IMG.zip in step 2. If its no different, then I will just proceed downloading the rest of the files and go from there, but If so can I get a mirror link?

nol3n said:
The download link for the PC36IMG.zip in step #9 is broken...I am assuming that the PC36IMG.zip in step 9 is different than the PC36IMG.zip in step 2. If its no different, then I will just proceed downloading the rest of the files and go from there, but If so can I get a mirror link?
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Just a second, I'll get you a link.

the recovery.img link in step #9 is broken as well...

nol3n said:
The download link for the PC36IMG.zip in step #9 is broken...I am assuming that the PC36IMG.zip in step 9 is different than the PC36IMG.zip in step 2. If its no different, then I will just proceed downloading the rest of the files and go from there, but If so can I get a mirror link?
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http://www.joeyconway.com/sdx/evo/troot/eng-PC36IMG.zip
Got it from toastcfh's thread. Should work. I'll update the link now.

Go damn it. -.- I'll update them all now. Thanks for the heads up.

thx for the hard work.

Lol Not really doing much but stealing links. They're all updated now.

evo root
I did the idiot guide but cant get ADB working on my windows 7. Should I go ahead and try this? Thx!

crpercodani said:
It's not so much that people can't fiure out how to use ADB as it is they can't figure out how to install and run it. Even when I first got into Android I had no clue it was used through a cmd prompt for the first 2 weeks.
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Exactly! It took me 2 solid days of searching for the required driver for my laptop. I finally got it to work last night. None of the instructions on xda worked. The USB remover listed here didn't work, the driver in the SDK kit didn't work, nothing worked. I finally found another download for the USB remover and another link to a 32-bit driver that finally worked.

kevinniven said:
I did the idiot guide but cant get ADB working on my windows 7. Should I go ahead and try this? Thx!
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It's pretty much the fastest/easiest (if you don't have adb set up) way to get full root access on your Evo, so...yes, that'd be a good idea. Lol

S
kevinniven said:
I did the idiot guide but cant get ADB working on my windows 7. Should I go ahead and try this? Thx!
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Oh yeah, start from step 9 since you're coming from the first part of TheBiles Idiot Proof guide.

New clarified method for rooting the HTC Aria (for those who are having trouble)

Credit goes to eugene373 and attn1. These are mostly their instructions, but I did change, clarify, and add a few steps. If you can't get any of the other methods working, try this one.
Prerequisites...
Note: If you're in Linux, you only need to do Step 4, Step 6, and Step 7.
Step 0.
Download and install HTC Sync: http://www.htc.com/us/support/aria-att/downloads/
Step 1.
Download and unzip the Android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Step 2.
Go into the folder where you unzipped the Android SDK and open "SDK Setup.exe".
If you aren't greeted with a failed to fetch URL error, proceed to Step 3. If you did receive this error, go to Settings in the "Choose Packages to Install" window and check "Force https;//... sources to be fetched using http://..."
Close and re-open "SDK Setup.exe".
Step 3.
When the "Choose Packages to Install" window pops up, make sure the package "Usb Driver package, revision x" is checked. You can uncheck everything else. Click Install. After it downloads and installs, close "Android SDK and AVD Manager".
Step 4.
With your device unplugged from your computer, go to Settings > Application > Development on your device and turn on USB Debugging.
Step 5.
Now plug your device in to your computer. This is just to make sure the USB drivers are installed.
Once they are installed, unplug your device and turn it off.
Step 6.
This step is optional, but it may prevent an error later on in the process. If you've never formatted your SD card from a computer, remove it from the phone and format it in Windows or OSX with an external card reader. Then place the formatted card back in your phone, but leave the phone off.
Step 7.
Download the updated Root.zip from eugene373's guide: Root the Slide & Other HTC Devices*6/15/2010* How-To Updated 6/29/2010
Now let's get started...
Step 0.
Unzip Root.zip
Step 1.
Place the contents ("update.zip", "ota.zip", and "loop") into the Android SDK tools folder.
Step 2.
Open Command Prompt or Terminal and CD to the SDK tools directory.
Step 3.
Power on your device into the bootloader by holding the "Volume Down" key and simultaneously pressing Power.
Once you're in the bootloader, wait about 30 seconds until some diagnostic checking is done.
Press "Volume Down" to highlight Recovery, but do not push Power to execute just yet.
Step 4.
Now run your loop file from the prompt (either type "loop" in Windows or "./loop.sh" in Linux) (refer to ice3186's post for Mac instructions)
Note: The loop does nothing but show you the connection status of your phone. It's not technically required, but we'll use it in this guide.
Step 5.
Once the loop is running in your prompt, get ready to connect the phone to the computer with the USB cable, but don't connect one end quite yet. With Recovery still highlighted on your phone, you will need to push the Power button and then immediately plug in the other end of the USB cord.
Step 6.
After a few seconds, you should see your device listed in the loop.
Step 7.
Unplug the USB cable from the bottom of your phone and plug it back in. You probably don't need to do this, but let's be safe. Wait for your device to show up in the loop again. Hit CTRL-C to terminate the loop.
Step 8.
You should see a triangle/exclaimation over a phone graphic.
Hold the "Volume Up" key (note it's Volume UP this time) and simultaneously press Power.
After the menu comes up, use the volume and power buttons to select and run update.zip. (This will fail, but we already know that! Select it anyway.)
Step 9.
Paste the following command into your prompt and press Enter.
adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip (*OSX users add a ./ in front of all terminal commands please)
Step 10.
This is very important!! Have this next command ready in your prompt before running update.zip again!!
This is the command. Paste it into your prompt, but DO NOT press Enter yet.
adb push update.zip /sdcard
Step 11.
Run update.zip and as soon as you see a faint progress bar appear behind the text at the bottom of the screen, push Enter to execute the command in your prompt.
Step 12.
If successful, you should see Clockwork Recovery and you now have Su and Superuser.apk installed! You can now reboot your phone into the OS to verify. If unsuccessful, repeat steps 11 and 12.
Step 13.
This step is optional, but it will save you the pain of going through all of these steps again in the future.
Unrevoked team: Recovery reflash tool (updated - Now for Aria/Liberty!)

I think some trouble shooting comments should be mentioned, so I'll just write a few things I noticed while rooting my device (for 7 frustration filled hours).
If you cannot see your device show up in 'adb devices' in recovery, boot into the OS normally and see if it shows up. If it does not, then it's a safe bet that you have one of two problems - you do not have all the drivers installed, or you do not have 'usb debugging' enabled. This can be enabled in 'settings->applications->development->usb debugging'. To avoid driver issues, it's highly recommended that you do this process in linux or osx.
If, on the other hand, your phone DOES show up in Android but not in recovery, or if it just blips on the screen for a second (when running the loop) as an offline device, then it might be the formatting of your sd card. Do NOT format your sd card from your phone or within Android. The ONLY time I managed to get the phone to show up in recovery without disappearing immediately was by removing the sd card, formatting it in windows or osx with an external card reader, copying the files over (new rom or rooting files), and then replacing it in the phone while the phone is off. After putting the card back in your phone, try the procedure again - go to the bootloader->hboot->recovery (while the cable is unplugged), then press the power button and immediately after plug the cable in (usually works when you plug the cable in about .2-.5 seconds later). If it does not show up at all, reboot the phone and try again, but do NOT let it boot back to Android. You can get back in to the bootloader by waiting until the 'HTC quietly brilliant' screen shows up and typing 'adb reboot bootloader' with the usb cable attached.
It took me a really long time to figure that out. I don't think the type of sd card matters so much as the formatting of it. I actually used the 2gb card that came with the phone, and it worked almost every single time after I reformatted the card.
Also, if you manage to get it working and root the phone, do yourself a huge favor and install the custom Unrevoked recovery image mentioned in the original rooting thread, so you never have to deal with this nonsense ever again.
Also also, if you get to the step where you do 'adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip' and you get an error:0, installation aborted message, you did something wrong. The problem is that you aren't actually supposed to flash ota.zip. What you're supposed to do is push ota.zip to your phone as update.zip, and leave it there. Don't touch anything else. What you will do after that is type 'adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip' in the command prompt (WITHOUT hitting enter yet, just get ready to). You will then select 'sdcard:update.zip' and press power and IMMEDIATELY AFTER pressing power, you will press enter on the command prompt to execute your adb push command. What this does is causes recovery to read the ota.zip file you uploaded and recognize it as a legit update, but you replace it with update.zip before it actually gets extracted (if your timing is good). So recovery reads the signature of ota.zip, but actually extracts the stuff in update.zip and runs that instead.
Hope that helps with some common problems I observed. Good luck, dudes.

okay so I think I the only one using a Mac in this rooting process. A few things I have learned and may already be known but I thought I would clarify.
1.) to get a loop to run on the mac i had to re-write the file loop.bat
this is the code that works for me and how to do it.
a.) rename the file to end in .sh not .bat the way it came
b.) open the file with TextEdit
c.) delete all of the text in it and write this in there
Code:
while [ "0" ]
do
{
./adb devices
}
done
d.) save the file back in the sdk/tools folder
e.) in terminal the command once you cd to the folder is ./loop.sh
2.) i have yet to be successful in the attempt to root so anyone knowing anything to help would be appreciated! But i am still cracking i think i am going to wear out the plug before i am done though.

it should be pointed out that the loop does nothing except tell you if you have a connection or not. When you plug in the usb port, it will respond after a few seconds, or it won't. Try again.

gtg465x said:
Credit goes to eugene373 and attn1. These are mostly their instructions, but I did change, clarify, and add a few steps. If you can't get any of the other methods working, try this one.
Prerequisites...
Step 0.
Download and install HTC Sync: http://www.htc.com/us/support/aria-att/downloads/
Step 1.
Download and unzip the Android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Step 2.
Go into the folder where you unzipped the Android SDK and open "SDK Setup.exe"
When the "Choose Packages to Install" window pops up, make sure the package "Usb Driver package, revision x" is checked. You can uncheck everything else. Click Install. After it downloads and installs, close "Android SDK and AVD Manager".
Step 3.
With your device unplugged from your computer, go to Settings > Application > Development on your device and turn on USB Debugging.
Step 4.
Now plug your device in to your computer. This is just to make sure the USB drivers are installed.
Once they are installed, unplug your device and turn it off.
Step 5.
Download Root.zip from eugene373's guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6820344&postcount=1
Now let's get into it...
Step 0.
Unzip Root.zip
Step 1.
Place the contents ("update.zip", "ota.zip", and "loop") into the Android SDK tools folder.
Step 2.
Open Command Prompt or Terminal and CD to the SDK tools directory.
Step 3.
Power on your device into the bootloader by holding down the "Volume Down" key and simultaneously pressing Power.
Once you're in the bootloader, wait about 30 seconds, until some diagnostic checking is done.
Press "Volume Down" to highlight Recovery, but do not push Power to execute just yet.
Step 4.
Now run your loop file from the prompt (either type "loop" in Windows or "./loop.sh" in a *nix like) ( ./ Is used For OSX )
Step 5.
Once the loop is running in your prompt, get ready to connect the phone to the computer with the USB cable, but don't connect one end quite yet. With Recovery still highlighted on your phone, you will need to push the Power button and then immediately plug in the other end of the USB cord.
Step 6.
After a few seconds, you should see your device listed in the loop.
Step 7.
Unplug your USB cable from the bottom of your phone and plug it back in. You probably don't need to do this, but let's be safe. Wait for your device to show up in the loop again. Hit CTRL-C to terminate the loop.
Step 8.
You should see a triangle/exclaimation over a phone graphic.
Hold down the "Volume Up" key (note it's Volume UP this time) and simultaneously press Power.
After the menu comes up, use the volume and power buttons to select and run update.zip. (This will fail, but we already know that! Select it anyway.)
Step 9.
Paste the following command into your prompt and press Enter.
adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip (*OSX users add a ./ in front of all terminal commands please.)
Step 11.
This is very important!! Have this next command ready in your prompt before running update.zip again!!
This is the command. Paste it into your prompt, but DO NOT press Enter yet.
adb push update.zip /sdcard
step 12.
Run update.zip and as soon as you see a faint progress bar appear behind the text at the bottom of the screen, push Enter to execute the command in your prompt.
Step 13.
If successful, you should see Clockwork Recovery and you now have Su & Superuser.apk installed! You can now reboot your phone into the OS to verify.
If unsuccessful, repeat steps 11 & 12.
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This isn't complete - this just gets you to clockwork and you haven't installed anything yet. You need to add steps to add root acces or flash a rom that is rooted. Also, make sure to reference the unrevoked tool to install Clockwork after root so this whole ordeal can be avoided next time.

Yes! The secret was formatting the sd card outside of the phone. I am now rooted and liberated! Thanks for plugging along with all the advice guys!

modest_mandroid said:
I think some trouble shooting comments should be mentioned, so I'll just write a few things I noticed while rooting my device (for 7 frustration filled hours).
If you cannot see your device show up in 'adb devices' in recovery, boot into the OS normally and see if it shows up. If it does not, then it's a safe bet that you have one of two problems - you do not have all the drivers installed, or you do not have 'usb debugging' enabled. This can be enabled in 'settings->applications->development->usb debugging'. To avoid driver issues, it's highly recommended that you do this process in linux or osx.
If, on the other hand, your phone DOES show up in Android but not in recovery, or if it just blips on the screen for a second (when running the loop) as an offline device, then it might be the formatting of your sd card. Do NOT format your sd card from your phone or within Android. The ONLY time I managed to get the phone to show up in recovery without disappearing immediately was by removing the sd card, formatting it in windows or osx with an external card reader, copying the files over (new rom or rooting files), and then replacing it in the phone while the phone is off. After putting the card back in your phone, try the procedure again - go to the bootloader->hboot->recovery (while the cable is unplugged), then press the power button and immediately after plug the cable in (usually works when you plug the cable in about .2-.5 seconds later). If it does not show up at all, reboot the phone and try again, but do NOT let it boot back to Android. You can get back in to the bootloader by waiting until the 'HTC quietly brilliant' screen shows up and typing 'adb reboot bootloader' with the usb cable attached.
It took me a really long time to figure that out. I don't think the type of sd card matters so much as the formatting of it. I actually used the 2gb card that came with the phone, and it worked almost every single time after I reformatted the card.
Also, if you manage to get it working and root the phone, do yourself a huge favor and install the custom Unrevoked recovery image mentioned in the original rooting thread, so you never have to deal with this nonsense ever again.
Also also, if you get to the step where you do 'adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip' and you get an error:0, installation aborted message, you did something wrong. The problem is that you aren't actually supposed to flash ota.zip. What you're supposed to do is push ota.zip to your phone as update.zip, and leave it there. Don't touch anything else. What you will do after that is type 'adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip' in the command prompt (WITHOUT hitting enter yet, just get ready to). You will then select 'sdcard:update.zip' and press power and IMMEDIATELY AFTER pressing power, you will press enter on the command prompt to execute your adb push command. What this does is causes recovery to read the ota.zip file you uploaded and recognize it as a legit update, but you replace it with update.zip before it actually gets extracted (if your timing is good). So recovery reads the signature of ota.zip, but actually extracts the stuff in update.zip and runs that instead.
Hope that helps with some common problems I observed. Good luck, dudes.
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Really good tips. I hope you don't mind - I am going to link to this to my original thread.

Troubleshooting Tip on Prerequisite Step 2: If you're working behind a firewall, router, or proxy server, you're going to have to configure SDK Setup to use an open port on that device, in order to download updates.
I won't go through the exact steps here, but if SDK setup is hanging, this is the most likely culprit.
Regards,
Corporate Dog

Corporate Dog said:
Troubleshooting Tip on Prerequisite Step 2: If you're working behind a firewall, router, or proxy server, you're going to have to configure SDK Setup to use an open port on that device, in order to download updates.
I won't go through the exact steps here, but if SDK setup is hanging, this is the most likely culprit.
Regards,
Corporate Dog
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get a copy of linux livecd and then you don't have to actually set up the SDK or worry about any drivers.

attn1 said:
This isn't complete - this just gets you to clockwork and you having installed anything yet. You need to add steps to root or flash a rom that is rooted. Also, make sure to reference the unrevoked tool to install Clockwork after root so this whole ordeal can be avoided next time.
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If you made it to clockwork using this method then you're rooted. Check eugene's updated instructions. Look at the 6/29/2010 update on his original post... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6820344&postcount=1
I will add a reference to the unrevoked tool.

modest_mandroid said:
If, on the other hand, your phone DOES show up in Android but not in recovery, or if it just blips on the screen for a second (when running the loop) as an offline device, then it might be the formatting of your sd card. Do NOT format your sd card from your phone or within Android. The ONLY time I managed to get the phone to show up in recovery without disappearing immediately was by removing the sd card, formatting it in windows or osx with an external card reader, copying the files over (new rom or rooting files), and then replacing it in the phone while the phone is off. After putting the card back in your phone, try the procedure again - go to the bootloader->hboot->recovery (while the cable is unplugged), then press the power button and immediately after plug the cable in (usually works when you plug the cable in about .2-.5 seconds later). If it does not show up at all, reboot the phone and try again, but do NOT let it boot back to Android. You can get back in to the bootloader by waiting until the 'HTC quietly brilliant' screen shows up and typing 'adb reboot bootloader' with the usb cable attached.
It took me a really long time to figure that out. I don't think the type of sd card matters so much as the formatting of it. I actually used the 2gb card that came with the phone, and it worked almost every single time after I reformatted the card.
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Excellent troubleshooting tips. I added a note about formatting your SD card to the prerequisites.
ice3186 said:
okay so I think I the only one using a Mac in this rooting process. A few things I have learned and may already be known but I thought I would clarify.
1.) to get a loop to run on the mac i had to re-write the file loop.bat
this is the code that works for me and how to do it.
a.) rename the file to end in .sh not .bat the way it came
b.) open the file with TextEdit
c.) delete all of the text in it and write this in there
Code:
while [ "0" ]
do
{
./adb devices
}
done
d.) save the file back in the sdk/tools folder
e.) in terminal the command once you cd to the folder is ./loop.sh
2.) i have yet to be successful in the attempt to root so anyone knowing anything to help would be appreciated! But i am still cracking i think i am going to wear out the plug before i am done though.
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Thanks. Added a reference to your post.
attn1 said:
it should be pointed out that the loop does nothing except tell you if you have a connection or not. When you plug in the usb port, it will respond after a few seconds, or it won't. Try again.
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Noted in the original post.
Corporate Dog said:
Troubleshooting Tip on Prerequisite Step 2: If you're working behind a firewall, router, or proxy server, you're going to have to configure SDK Setup to use an open port on that device, in order to download updates.
I won't go through the exact steps here, but if SDK setup is hanging, this is the most likely culprit.
Regards,
Corporate Dog
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Thanks. Added the workaround.
attn1 said:
get a copy of linux livecd and then you don't have to actually set up the SDK or worry about any drivers.
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Thanks. Added a note to the top of the prerequisites.

gtg465x said:
Step 12.
If successful, you should see Clockwork Recovery and you now have Su and Superuser.apk installed! You can now reboot your phone into the OS to verify. If unsuccessful, repeat steps 11 and 12.
Step 13.
This step is optional, but it will save you the pain of going through all of these steps again in the future.
Unrevoked team: Recovery reflash tool (updated - Now for Aria/Liberty!)
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In no way, shape or form are you done after set 12.
You need to do more than just get into Clockwork. That alone doesn't root the phone.

gtg465x said:
If you made it to clockwork using this method then you're rooted. Check eugene's updated instructions. Look at the 6/29/2010 update on his original post... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6820344&postcount=1
I will add a reference to the unrevoked tool.
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My mistake. He not only updated his instructions, he updated his update.zip. That should do it.
Good job!

I was just wondering If I have device issues after it is rooted, is it possible to remove the root and flash everything back to factory defaults for warranty purposes like the windows phones or is it once the warranty is gone it is gone?

steezee said:
I was just wondering If I have device issues after it is rooted, is it possible to remove the root and flash everything back to factory defaults for warranty purposes like the windows phones or is it once the warranty is gone it is gone?
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Dunno if you can reflash the stock recovery again if you replaced it with clockwork, but you can definitely flash the stock ATT rom again. You can download it from HTC's site: http://member.america.htc.com/download/Web_materials/Manual/HTC_Aria_ATT/HTCAriaOriginalShipROM.exe

Banging my head on the wall. Got it to detect device once on loop. Never again after that. Phone shows up in device manager. Formatted 8gb and 2 gb cards several times.
urge growing. ... want to . . break.. . . .. . .random objects. . .

attn1 said:
My mistake. He not only updated his instructions, he updated his update.zip. That should do it.
Good job!
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Sorry, I should have mentioned that he updated his update.zip.

You guys are right , there are missing step in the tutorial to fully root Aria.
after i get in to the clockwork from the step above. i have to install the custom rom that can be found in the forum.
when i try to install "Unrevoked team: Recovery reflash tool (updated - Now for Aria/Liberty!) " . the process goes throught but the recovery is still the same HTC blue color recovery screen.
so before you insert your sd card into the phone after you format the sd card. remember to copy the rooted rom into the sd card so when you successfully get into the clockwork. you want to install the rom then your aria is rooted with superuser icon on the application.
after then you do the "Unrevoked team: Recovery reflash tool (updated - Now for Aria/Liberty!) step .

There are no steps missing from the first post. I rooted my Aria using that method. Just make sure you have the latest Root.zip from eugene's thread. He updated it the other day and if you try to use the older version of Root.zip with this method it will not work.
What you are doing is installing a custom rom, which is fine, but it's not required to root the Aria.

i was trying to get the clockwork to install and it only work after i load the liberated_aria_b003_signed.zip
before i load liberated_aria_b003_signed.zip , it still give me the default HTC recovery screen.
after i load liberated_aria_b003_signed.zip and install "Unrevoked team: Recovery reflash tool (updated - Now for Aria/Liberty!) " . i get the clockwork screen as the recovery screen .
i still can't get the side loading to show after i follow the step from here
•COMMON:
•Enable USB debugging (settings > applications > development > USB Debugging)
•adb remount
•adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db settings.db
Linux/OS X:
•echo "update secure set value = 1 where name = 'install_non_market_apps';"|sqlite3 settings.db
WINDOWS:
•echo update secure set value = 1 where name = 'install_non_market_apps';|sqlite3 settings.db
COMMON:
•adb push settings.db /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
•Reboot phone and sideloading works. (thanks to fluffyarmada)
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[ROOT][GUIDE] HBoot 2.02/2.10 SOFF - Goodbye Stranger - Upd. 02.25.11

I am sad to say the time has come to retire this post....Now before you get all panicky and ****, just sit your **** down, take your adderall and relax, damn antsy ass people. Anywho, with people our there like xHausx and others that have automated all of this there really isnt a need for me to keep this updated. I will keep the post here for archival purposes but, I will not be updating it, any further. I may pop into the thread here and there but probably not. I would like to thank all those that helped and supported me during this threads run. With out you we would still be stuck.
In the mean time if your looking to root your phone, check out xHausx's thread
here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
And no I still dont recommend Clockwork or Unrevoked.
Till next time...Super Tramp - Goodbye Stranger
Archive of the guide as of 2/14/11
READ THIS GUIDE CAREFULLY SEE POST TWO FOR FAQ OR SEARCH THE THREAD.
Presenting the ONE AND ONLY surefire root method that backs up your RSA KEYS prior to rooting !!!!
Also I am aware that unrevoked has out their new tool. However while I was sitting in IRC, I saw many that it wasnt working for. So Until there is a surefire, easy method, I will keep this thread updated.
Credit goes to:
amoamare (Initial method)
toast (fake recovery and script)
unrevoked (thanks for your app)
amon_ra (fixed custom recovery)
chris1683 (thanks for the rom) (sprintlovers)
ryanza (z4root)
illogos, epicroot, xHausx, TrevE, Chubbzlou (Testing)
BooDaddy (RSA Backup Info)
and who ever else I missed
Help me finance my Vette!
zikronix
Disclaimer and well a little fun:
This has been tested on many phones and it worked fine...but if it breaks your **** dont come cry to me about it...you knew the risks! No one here is responsible if you break, brick, set fire, punch, smash, stab, destroy, your self, computer or your phone. The only person responsible is you! Just because it worked for me and others does not mean it will for you. Anytime you flash something its a risk.
Ladies and gentlemen... I've traveled over half our forum to be here tonight. I couldn't get away sooner because I had a POST coming in and I had to see about it. That phone is now rooted at and running well. I have two others comming in and this method has rooted many on the board. So, ladies and gentlemen... if I say my guide works you will agree. You have a great chance here, but bear in mind, you can lose it all if you're not careful.
Out of all methods that beg for a chance to root your phone, maybe one in twenty will work; the rest will be trolls-that's posters trying to get between you and the guide-to get some of the root action that ought by rights come to you. Even if you find one that has a simpler guide, and means to root, he'll maybe know nothing about helping. This is... the way that this works. This method is reliable like no other in this field and that's because its been tested and tested time and time again. I assure you, whatever the others promise to do, when it comes to the showdown, they won't be there...
Downloads
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STOP HERE READ THIS
This Method soley uses Amon_RA Recoveries....Period. A poor soul that lost his RSA keys (broken 4g forever) by recent clock work shenanaigans here
VX - Updated Amon Ra Recovery. Download Here: hboot_2.xx_soff-VX.zip
MD5: 27eb4a36ba01078193975fc93723dd60 <---VERIFY YOUR MD5, IF ITS NOT THIS REDOWNLOAD
Lets Get Rooted!
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Prerequsites:
Extract only the main zip file to a folder of your choice. I recommend the root of C:\ into a folder of your choice or on the desktop. Make sure you have the drivers installed for your phone (recommended: SDK Drivers or unrevoked hboot drivers) and USB debugging is on. This was setup for people running windows, if you have access to it do it on a 32bit version. I can't stress this enough you must use the adb.exe included with the package This is command line based do NOT double click the exe. Assume nothing, and cut and paste or type the commands EXACTLY as listed, they are case sensitive and each line is a seperate command. Oh and Read the FAQ and Warnings for f-sakes
1) Connect your phone to the computer (Rear USB Port Perferred) make sure the computer detects the phone (DO NOT MOUNT USB) If it doesnt install the drivers. Now master Reset your Phone (Menu>settings>Sd & Phone Storage>Factory Data Reset). Your phone will reboot. While your phone is rebooting it ctrl+alt+delete on your computer and open up task manager and click the processes tab look for anything that says adb.exe click it and hit end process.
2) Your phone should be booted and in the rom. You can skip the setup. On your phone enable install applications from unknown sources.(menu>settings>applications>unknown sources) and turn on usb debugging.
3) Open a command prompt (do NOT click adb.exe) and change to where ever you extracted the files to.
4)Type the following (this must be excuted from the folder you extracted to)
adb push root/unrevoked-forever.zip /sdcard/
adb push root/mtd-eng.img /sdcard/
adb push pc36img/PC36IMG-ENG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip
adb push pc36img/PC36IMG-MR.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG-MR.zip
adb push root/flash_image /data/local/
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5) Now were gonna install z4root. When its done look at your phone z4root should be running. Select temporary root... It will go thru the process will eventually come to a white screen *Wait* after a sec or so screen will come up saying temp root was a success. Ok so now type the following
adb -d install -r root/z4root.apk
adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.z4mod.z4root/com.z4mod.z4root.z4root
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6) Your command should still be open and you should be in the directory where you extracted the files. Once you have typed "su" command below look at your phone and click allow for SuperUser...Ok so now type the following from the command prompt
adb shell
su
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6A) REQUIRED RSA BACKUP This will back up your RSA keys just in case something goes wrong in that department. You should still be in your command window inside the shell with a #. (The following came from this thread)
mkdir -p /sdcard/nandroid/RSA-PR-BACKUP
cat /dev/mtd/mtd0 > /sdcard/nandroid/RSA-PR-BACKUP/wimax.img
This saves it in a file that can actually be restored. This next step is another type of backup just for good measure
busybox sed -n '/BEGIN CERTIFICATE/,$p' /dev/mtd/mtd0 > /sdcard/rsa_OEM.key
This will dump the RSA keys to a text file on your SD Card named rsa_OEM.key
Mine was about 4575 KB in size, but the size could vary. Go ahead and switch the phone's USB connection over to "Disk Drive" and then browse to your SD Card and verify that the file rsa_OEM.key is indeed on the card.
Proceed to Step 7
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7) You Should still be at a "#". This means you have root if you see a "$" or some other error message. Reboot your phone, check your drivers, usb debugging and cable and start over. If you got a "#" You can Proceed. You should still be in the shell at a "#" If not start over...Otherwise
chmod 0755 /data/local/flash_image
./data/local/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.img
sync
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8) Now we are going to reboot your phone into the boot loader to flash the first PC36IMG.zip. You should still be in the shell So Type:
reboot bootloader
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9) Once your phone is in the boot loader highlight bootloader, and press the power button. It will load the PC36IMG File...When it ask you to flash press VOL-UP. You will notice that it says bootloader bypassed and maybe some other errors. Dont worry this is normal. Once the flash of the file is done it will ask to reboot, Select NO by Pressing VOL-DOWN. Now some people have gotten some errors here and there during the flashing just continue as normal.
10) You should still be in the boot loader at this point. Scroll down to recovery and press the power button. It Should take you to a red triangle. If not and you get stuck at a white htc screen pull the battery and then repower the phone with power + vol down and select recovery. When you see the red triangle. Type the following (IF YOU GET STUCK HERE CHECK THE FAQ):
adb push recovery /
adb shell busybox --install /sbin
adb shell nohup /sbin/recovery &
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With any luck you should be at a recovery (green screen with text)
11) Select enable USB-MS. This will mount your sdcard. Look in the root of your sdcard and you should have two files. One named PC36IMG.zip and one named PC36IMG-MR.zip. Rename the file named PC36IMG.zip to PC36IMG-ENG.zip and then rename PC36IMG-MR.zip to PC36IMG.zip when your done follow the instructions on your phone to disable usb (press power) then proceed to step 12
12) Now Select flash zip from the menu and choose unrevoked-forever.zip. Wait for it to complete. Select Reboot from the menu.
Now pay attention. It might kick you back into:
BOOT LOADER: See 12A
ROM: See 12B
WHITE HTC SCREEN: See 12C
12A) Ok so you got kicked to the boot loader. It should scan your card and find the PC36IMG.zip chose yes to flash this file and when it ask you to reboot....reboot by pressing vol-up....Proceed to step 13
12B) Ok so the phone booted into a rom. Power the phone off. Then repower the phone on pressing power and vol-down at the same time. It should take you into the bootloader and scan your card and find the PC36IMG.zip chose yes to flash this file and when it ask you to reboot....reboot by pressing vol-up....Proceed to step 13
12C) Ok so the phone is stuck at a white htc screen. Power the phone off by pulling the battery. Then repower the phone on pressing power and vol-down at the same time. It should take you into the bootloader and scan your card and find the PC36IMG.zip chose yes to flash this file and when it ask you to reboot....reboot by pressing vol-up....Proceed to step 13
13) Ok your phone is rooted now, and you should be inside the rom. The rom you just flashed is Sprint Lovers rom with the modified recovery. Download a rom of your choice copy it to the root of your sd card and flash it. But type the following first
adb shell mv /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG-MR.zip
adb reboot recovery
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14) You Should be in the recovery menu now (green text screen). Do a backup by navigating to backup/restore press power to select then do a Nand backup in the next menu. Once thats done, select return, then reboot or flash a rom of your choice. If you flashed a different custom rom than the one thats included in the package cool. If not no big deal eitherway. Do a PRL/Profile update while in the rom after the phone is done rebooting. Your Done.
15) Read the FAQ for questions
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FIX BROKEN RECOVERY
This is really only needed if you rooted with one of the previos guides version 6 or lower or if you installed a different recovery like I told you not to. It installs amon_ra 2.2.1
1) Download File PC36IMG_Recovery.zip and Rename to PC36IMG.zip.
copy to the root of your SDCard and power off phone
2) Power your phone back on into the boot loader by holding power and vol-down until your presented with a white screen. It will read the pc36img.zip and as you if you want to flash. Say yes. Then it will ask if you want to reboot, VOL+UP for yes.
3) If your rom gets tossed in the process. Reboot your phone into bootloader select recovery, and reflash your rom....DONE
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UNROOT GUIDE
NOTE: This will erase all data on the phone. (Will not erase data on the SDCard)
1) If your on Hboot 2.10 Download the PC36IMG.zip Here. If your on Hboot 2.02 Download the PC36IMG.zip here then Unrevoked s-on here rename the pc36img file to pc36img.zip copy that and the unrevoked s-on tool to the root of your sd
2) Power your off. Power the Phone back on into the boot loader by holding power and vol-down until your presented with a white screen.
3) It will scan for the pc36img.zip. Select no to flash. Select recovery from the menu. Once in recovery choose flash zip from the menu, and select unrevoked forever s-on.
4) When its done flashing select reboot from the menu.
5) From here either run the official ruu or boot back into the boot loader (see step 2). When it scans and ask you to flash the pc36img.zip select yes then yes to reboot.
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FAQ
FAQ:
Your here cause something went wrong right? Ok thats fine. This list isnt extensive but its here to provide quick answers to some weird or common questions. New questions and problems are added to the bottom.
Q: Will this downgrade my hboot
A: No. I used to have an hboot downgrade but it was bricking peoples phones. However is you want to risk bricking your device, visit this thread here. I I advise against this. This bricked alot of phones which is why I pulled it.
Q: How do I install the Hboot Drivers
A: Check this here
Q: I get "error: more than one device and emulator"
A: kill the adb.exe tasks in task manager or reboot your computer
Q: Step #9 my phone does read the PC36IMg.zip
A: If you renamed the zip file make sure it doesn't say PC36IMG.zip in the name remember that xp and up on windows doesn't show the file ext by default so if you see PC36IMG.zip chances are its named PC36IMG.zip.zip
Q: Why cant I use Clockwork Recovery
A: At the moment its not coded for the new partitions. Just read the first few pages of this thread or check this here
Q: What Hardware does this work for
A: All currently known hardware 0001-0004
Q: What Hboot's does this work for
A: It was built for 2.02 and 2.10 however it will work for all version its just there are easier ways for those
Q: I think I messed up can I just start over.
A: Yes. Its recommended if you want to start over run the official ruu.
Q: This is very complicated
A: It is...thats why there is instructions
Q: Will this erase my data
A: Yes but not from the SDCARD
Q: Can I deleted the files off my SDCARD when done
A: Yes, except for RSA_OEM.KEY and WIMAX.IMG
Q: I get permission denied or device offline when trying to step 10
A: Check here or here or here this might work for you
Q: I used clockwork it seems to work fine.
A: It might but considering the partition information is not correct. You may have just over wrote your wimax keys and broke 4G. Have fun with that like this poor guy here
Q: This uses unrevoked in one of its steps? Explain?
A: There have been some concerns that this uses unrevoked-forever in one of its steps. As far as we know that Unrevoked 3 (not to be conufused with unrevoked-forever) is causing some radio issues with hardware in general and new hardware. Unrevoked-forever does not appear to bork the radio like unrevoked 3 does. This is apparent by the many success stories. However Unrevoked3 could very well possibly destroy your radio/wimax/brick if used.
Q: I get device not found
A: Install the drivers for your phone, (Unrevoked, ADB)
Q: Camera doesnt work after doing this
A: Flash a new rom thats current. Like SteelRom, Fresh, Stock Rooted. The issue here is the Hardware is different. NO CUSTOM KERNELS
A2: Reports say they changed the camera provider/hardware. And the drivers are different! Using a rom based off the latest release and kernel should fix it As Discussed here and here and here
Q: When I go to recovery. I get a red triangle.
A: See Step 10
Q: This doesnt work!
A: Yes it does if you follow the directions, Unless some other bull**** decided to popup!
Q: CM6.x doesnt work
A: See Question 7....Nothing I can do about that if the kernel doesnt support your camera/device.
Q: My phone boot loops now...You broke my ****!
A: I didnt break your ****. You broke your own ****! Its not broken so chill out (well it might be but probably not). What rom did you flash? Did you flash a custom kernel? Did your rom come with a custom kernel? I bet your using a custom kernel. Try a rom like Steel Rom, Sprint Lovers
Q: How do I back up my RSA Keys
A: Check here for the latest up to date information. Or run this command from the shell
cat /dev/mtd/mtd0 > /sdcard/wimax.img
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Q: My 4g Doesnt work
A: Was it broken prior to the s-off, what steps did you take. Are you running AOSP ROM or Another kernel?, Did you try a different rom? What version is your phone? Do you have SwitchPro Widget installed? (uninstall it), Did you try to run unrevoked3 prior to this? After flashing the radios and stock kernel based rom did you do a data and prl update? Does the mac behind your battery match whats in about phone (4g has to be on to see mac) Also try the tree.xml fix posted
adb shell
ls /data/misc/wimax/
look for a file with your macaddress ending in .tree.xml. you want to move that to another location so it gets regenerated. (the following command basically renames it.)
mv /data/misc/wimax/(Your-mac-address).tree.xml /data/misc/wimax/(Your-mac-address).tree.xml.old
4. Start 4G may not connect
5. Do a prl/profile update
6. Power off the phone and power it back on. Try it
7. PRL/Profile. Try it
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Q: 4G is still broke.
A: Check your RSA keys
adb shell
cat /dev/mtd/mtd0 | grep RSA
returned output show appear as this:
# cat /dev/mtd/mtd0 | busybox grep RSA
cat mtd0 | busybox grep RSA
RSA-REQUEST
RSA-REPLY
RSA-REJECT
RSA-ACK
RSA-1024
RSA-REQUEST
RSA-REPLY
RSA-REJECT
RSA-ACK
RSA-1024
RSA
ReRSA
RSA requests
RSA replies
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
#
It should look just like the above
the important lines are BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY and END RSA PRIVATE KEY.
If you have those two lines, your keys are still likely to be intact.
If those two lines are missing, your keys are likely missing.
/dev/mtd/mtd0 is where the wimax image is stored.
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Q: OK I think My Keys are tossed. We made a backup right? So how do I restore it?
A: This post or post should do it for you
Q: My Phone says its not rooted.
A: If you have s-off your rooted. Simple as that. Try a different rom if you want. The second pc36img.zip file you flashed is Sprint Lovers and is a very nice rooted rom.
Q: When I try to get into Fastboot by pressing VOLUME UP and booting the phone, my phone instead buzzes three times and acts dead. What happened?
A: The S-OFF update also enables Qualcomm Diagnostics mode on your phone, which is entered by doing what you just did. You can exit this mode (and boot normally) by removing the battery and USB cable.
Q: Can you tell me what this does?
A: Read the guide? Basically your downgrading the phone, so you can flash unrevoked because htc "comically fixed" the phone. Then your re upgrading the phone back to shipping radios, system, pri, nv, kernel...all the while with keeping s-off
Q: How did you get to be so cool
A: If you have it, you don’t need it. If you need it, you don’t have it. If you have it, you need more of it. If you have more of it, you don’t need less of it. You need it to get it. And you certainly need it to get more of it. But if you already don’t have any of it to begin with, you can’t get any of it to get started. Which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place, do you? You can share it, sure. You can even stockpile it if you like. But you can’t fake it. Wanting it, needing it, wishing for it. The point is, if you’ve never had any of it, ever, people just seem to know.
Q: Do you really own a vette?
A: Yes, and a backpack with jets!
Q: Whats with you and the dots ...
A: ...
Q: Your Kind of an Cocky Asshole
A: Yea...I Get that. Oh well. I cant fix stupid or ignorant.

What is the point of getting the new HBoot?

sorry, wrong question

abiezer said:
What is the point of getting the new HBoot?
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there is no point in getting a new hboot....this tool is for those that have phones with the new hboot....that unrevoked wont work on.
this is not the new hboot

Oh I see so this is basically for people who couldn't root to be able to root. Got it. Thanks.

Dumb question, sorry trying to keep up with this while at work. Once I do this, then I still need to run Unrevoked, correct?

shepkc said:
Dumb question, sorry trying to keep up with this while at work. Once I do this, then I still need to run Unrevoked, correct?
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its included in the script it tells you how to do it.

update failed, said main version is older...

its working for some but not others...i dont know why the main version is older thing...

i think we have ironed out the mainversion deal...
looking into it now.

Should be fixed now...so try it I guess.

v2
Looks like your V2 is working, I didn't run into the main version failure. Flashing as I type, I hope slyder got this to work.

Confirmed, V2 works
alright brotha your v2 of the batch file works like a charm. S-OFF confirmed on HBOOT 2.02. Thanks to everyone involved in making this happen.

Outstanding
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

On a brand new fresh 2.2 out of the box running HBOOT 2.02 I got "Main version is older". Are there any prerequisites i have to run to get this to work? I just reinstalled 2.2 and ran the script and got main version is older.

did you download version 2
do you have gtalk

I did download v2, and I do have gtalk.

b0r0b said:
I did download v2, and I do have gtalk.
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you got PM....i want to know exactly whats happening.

Main version is older
I have also tried with V2 and get the "Main version is older".
Baseband
2.15.00.09.01
Software
3.30.651.2
PRL
60671