Hi everyone, I made a goldcard when I first had my desire to see how easy it was to do but I didn't flash my rom because there was no t-mobile rom availble. now I just replaced my desire for a new one due to screen issue (no it wasn't because of pink tint) can I use the goldcard I made b4 for this handset or any desire handset if I wish to flash the rom in the future? cheers in advance
I'm pretty sure you should be able to use it not only with another Desire device, but with any device really.
I used the one I had for my Hero, works no problem. A goldcard is a goldcard, basically.
thanks for the info
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I know that i sound like a broken record but bare with me for a bit.
to get froyo up and running on my device do i first root my device using that one click website(cant find the link anymore, does anyone know the link?) and then download whatever rom and compatible radio and just install it on my desire?
do i need to first make my htc desire unlocked/sim free? my htc desire is sim locked to t mobile.
thanks in advance
any suggestions? thanks
IF you want to go to the official FroYo 2.2 ROM you just need to make a goldcard and flash the official RUU file
IF, however, you wanna go down the custom route then you'd be best using unrEVOked as it roots your phone in one go (was extremely easy actually)
ok nice one. i dont need a unlocked desire thoughh innit?
Hello All,
I would like to put a signed nexus one ROM on my Desire.
The Desire is a new SLCD one with the most recent stock HTC rom on it.
Just want to cut HTC out of the loop, so any eventual updates would be coming straight from Google.
Could you give me some advice on this?
The pfone was a branded one and an goldcard and RUU.exe was used to put the HTC rom on it.
Thanks in advance,
I received my replacement HTC Desire about 10 days ago,
it was an SLCD T-Mobile HTC Desire.
HBOOT 0.75,
I quickly rooted it using unrevoked and loaded open desire on to it (*I didnt make a gold card *)
Now i discovered an issue with the Headset, which doesnt allow the microphone on the handsfree to work, called t-mobile who wanted me return this handset.
i downgraded using the tool and quickly ran the T-mobile uk RUU for AMoled
and here i am stuck with Screen Dead desire
no goldcard, no usb debugging enabled.
can someone please help i have tried running all the ruu's with no luck,
have also tried putting the update.zip in my sd card root and trying to update(all while being blind)
still no luck.
Can anyone suggest me what to do.
can anyone on T-Mobile UK using SLCD (if it matters) upload a goldcard i could use to update to froyo, and get some screen atleast
Do you know anyone else with an HTC Android phone?
If so ask them if you can get use their phone to get the CID of your SD card and make then make a gold card out of it.
I used a Wildfire to make one for my Desire.
You just need to find the RUU which works for desires with an sLCD screen im sure they will be posted somewhere.
There are no RUUs you can install without a goldcard that will fix your screen.
I had an iphone 3gs and decided after months of frustration with apple software that i wanted an android phone so i decided to swap my iphone for an HTC Desire....
Now, bearing in mind that i have never used android before and have no idea what I'm doing please can someone help me with reverting back to sense ui??
I have no idea if the desire was branded and so i cannot use the instructions i have seen posted here.
It is currently running OpenDesire and i really want to get it back to factory sense UI as i have no idea what i'm doing!
Thanks in advance!
Make a gold card and flash the RUU file which matches your phone (it's important to know is it AMOLED or SLCD screen, drivers are different), you could choose 2.1 or 2.2, branded or unbranded as far as I know, there is a leaked o2 branded 2.2 available.
I recently reflashed mine to unbranded 2.2, it was branded o2 before that. Really I am thinking myself of binning it and going to opendesire myself.
It is really easy to make a gold card and reflash. My only problem was I didn't have a windows PC for the actual flashing the rom part. The gold card is easy to make in linux but the flashing part won't work even running windows in a virtual machine. Lucky for me I got an old laptop to fix for someone that had XP on so I just used that.
It only takes a few minutes, my only gripe is I lost all my contacts and texts, despite 2.1 having a backup option and the backup files are there, I can't restore them.
You can use the existing microSD for the gold card, I didn't even erase it, just write the code to boot sector of the card, everything else stays the same so you don't lose anything from the card.
HTH
can anyone help me out? i rooted my desire with unrEVOked 3 (no goldcard needed) would i still need a goldcard to unroot my Desire with the RUU?
also, which RUU should i use to get back to Froyo T Mobile official?
i've looked all last night and tonight for answers for these questions,
any help would be great, thanks
If you look in the development forums there is a list of RUUs. Insert your goldcard and run the ruu relevant to your phone. Op does your desire have an Orange logo on the back?
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
OK, I've had my Desire HD for 18 months and have not had a single problem with it with lots of flashing which I learned a lot through you guys - thank!!! Just got a second-hand Desire for the Mrs as her Wildfire was a sack of s**t and I felt guilty as I recommended it
Desire was branded Orange (not a problem as we're on Orange). Came with MUI ROM (which I hate) so I stuck a Sense ROM on it (as she likes it) and it seemed to be working OK except it starting playing up with the mic in calls recently so went back to stock (although I pretty much bricked it using the wrong RUU getting a black screen!) but got that all sorted with the correct RUU and a gold card and now back on a European 2.2 ROM with S-OFF and root thanks to revolutionary and su binary.
What I can't do now is do is apply the OTA ZIP's which seem to check the CID which is set as ORANG001 I think and just fails. I have used the SIMUnlock Tool which reported to work OK although we have no other SIMs in the household other than Orange to check.
So after all that the question I want to ask really is... Is there a way to actually SuperCID the Desire (I sure can't see on)? If not is there a way to get the OTA ZIPs to install from recovery without error'ing? I'm sure I did it with the gold card in there.
Hope you can assist.
Mike
no supercid for desire as on newer phones, no ota