Generic ROM on a Virgin Desire - Desire General

Okay, so my friend decided to 'debrand' his desire. It was a Virgin branded phone with the 1.15.405.4 CL155070 firmware installed. First he followed the debranding instructions on modaco.com to install the Generic ROM yet for some reason the Virgin splash screen remained. So I gave him a link to the 1.15.405.3 ROM I used (before .4 had come out) and the same thing, the Virgin splash screen remained.
I'm confused since my own HTC had an Orange splash screen and when I debranded it that was replaced with the 'Quietly Brilliant' splash screen.
I can get my head round the fact that the Virgin ROM is pretty much the Generic ROM, but can someone explain the splash screen situation to me please?

I am the aforementioned friend. Everything went through as expected. Would love to shed some light on this.
Cheers!

Shameless bump as we've rolled down a few pages, anyone have any ideas?

I have a virgin branded desire and I was able to replace my virgin media boot logo, but I rooted my phone to be able to do it.
The process is pretty simple, you need to be in the "recovery menu" (if you read up on how to root your phone, you'll find out how to get into this menu, it's the same menu you go into to flash rooted roms) and just flash a new boot image.zip from the SD card.
Boot logo changing instructions here: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=672339

Not fussed about the actual branding of it, as their is very minimal branding from Virgin anyway. I'm more interested in being able to update with HTC's generic firmwares.

Richy Freeway said:
Not fussed about the actual branding of it, as their is very minimal branding from Virgin anyway. I'm more interested in being able to update with HTC's generic firmwares.
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Im on generic rom coming from Virgin, If their were any softwarte updates i would try but their is not, so can't. lol.
Everytime i check it says i already have the latest firmware.
im guessing it will be ok, but obviously you WILL lose root if ya update.

Yep my theory (by numbers) is that virgin use the generic firmware so it will update at the same time as HTC.. the virgin splash screen must be stored deeper in root.
Its just strange how my orange splash was replaced with the quietly brilliant one when I flashed it with the generic.

oursoul said:
Okay, so my friend decided to 'debrand' his desire. It was a Virgin branded phone with the 1.15.405.4 CL155070 firmware installed. First he followed the debranding instructions on modaco.com to install the Generic ROM yet for some reason the Virgin splash screen remained. So I gave him a link to the 1.15.405.3 ROM I used (before .4 had come out) and the same thing, the Virgin splash screen remained.
I'm confused since my own HTC had an Orange splash screen and when I debranded it that was replaced with the 'Quietly Brilliant' splash screen.
I can get my head round the fact that the Virgin ROM is pretty much the Generic ROM, but can someone explain the splash screen situation to me please?
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it's happened to me too
i think that all brand rom have virgin boot animation inside, and it depend on the device imei number.so at first boot (while showing htc logo on white background) it determine which boot animation to load.

The rooted updates just don't update the boot image. That's all. You can update it manually (see my post above), but it doesn't matter, the logo is separate from the firmware, so if you flash the "generic" firmware, even though you'll still have the VM logo, you'll get the "generic" updates.

So did anyone manage to get the OTA to 2.2 once they put generic 1.21 firmware onto their virgin desires?? It worked fine for my orange debranded desire using the same method but my mates Virgin branded will not see the 2.2 OTA update like mine did???

My phone was already rooted with clockworkmod so I flashed it by hand. I was being too nervous when this thread was started. Rooting was a good thing.

Any of the unbranded RUUs will get rid of the branding. Custom ROMs (that you apply as zip files) won't update certain parts of the phone.

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RUU update for T-Mobile UK -- no root!!!!

I performed the update on my brand new HTC Hero and I found out I am stuck in the middle of nowhere with no chance to root until somebody fixes the problem. During my reading, I tried almost everything, and the closest I got was to try and flash an update.zip with the original ROM back onto my device. Yet, at the moment of truth just a stupid white triangle with an exclamation mark appeared instead of the other icon meaning the thingh is working. I can't wait to root for a number of reasons, if I am getting this wrong and there actually IS another solution please help :-((
Ciao!
Vico
Same Boat
Hi mate,
I'm new to the Android OS and just got my hero as well. The first thing I did with it was to update the firmware (as recommended by Orange). Little did I know that this would prevent me from rooting.
I've tried several steps:
1. The One-Step Root Process
2. Flashing an image with the SDK
3. Rolling back to a previous version of the RUU
Nothing works, anyone have any ideas about how to get round this problem or if there's a way to 'un-update' the device, please help!
FYI: I have an HTC Hero on Orange UK running the latest HTC firmware, unrooted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VZHT389eR4
Thanks in advance.
if your phone is NOT CID locked (no clue about orange) you can go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=559622
and download an older RUU (1.76.405.1_R3) and downgrade, then root and upgrade.
problem obviously is that this only works if your phone is not cid locked, or somebody find away to bypass the cid check on the ruu process or finds a way to do this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=559806
on updated rom versions......
Thanks
Thanks for the link, I'll take a look into it.
closing this one as currently it can't be solved.
I've started a thread that looks into this here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4704200

htc desire on virgin. Confused !!!!!!!!!!!

hey, i got a desire on virgin network in the uk.
the bit i am confused with is that the phone seems to be unlocked and the software info leads me to think that this is an unbranded htc stock rom but there is the virgin logo whenever i turn the device on. i havent done anything to it. to scared lol.
here is my software info
baseband version: 32.30.00.28u_4.05.00.11
build number: 1.15.405.4
software number is the same.
i asked a person and checked on the xda forums under desire developments and posted roms and my rom seems to be similar to
RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.15.405.4_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4. 05.00.11_release_122704.exe
is this normal for a virgin branded mobile
They probably just changed the bootloader !
However, even if it is an official ROM, the phone may be locked.
mine is from virgin aswell has the same vigin loading screen on start up to cant be locked as its got a o2 sim in it .it was running the same version as yours and never propted for the last update so i downloaded the update zip shoved it on the sd card and done it manualy all good
think virgin juust changed the boot screen on the early ones
as for weather we will get the up date ota i dought it will just down load the update zip and do the same again

htc desire on virgin network. FROYO!!!!!!!

hey guys just wanted to start a thread for anyone whos got a virgin branded htc desire.
mine seems to be branded but the software version is that of wwe 1, its unlocked and got a virgin boot screen. thats how i got it. anyone got an update yet.
has anyone with virgin brand tried to debrand. if so share ur experiences and where wat guide u followed.
doesnt anyone have any suggestions at all or help full comments
vinee9 said:
doesnt anyone have any suggestions at all or help full comments
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I'll try.
I have a Virgin UK Desire that came with a 405 Rom. I updated it to a later WWE Rom. It worked fine but kept the Virgin boot screen.
I then tried to install Froyo from a signed zip. This almost bricked it but I managed to recover it by doing the same thing again but with a goldcard in that I'd made on another HTC phone.
So be careful!
I have a Virgin branded (just a spinning logo on startup) desire, and I used the instructions on this site. mikesouthby.co.uk/2010/08/htc-desire-updating-to-froyo-official-ota-for-network-branded-handsets/comment-page-1/#comment-5870 (just add the three w's)
i hope it helps as it worked for me, and i'm now on 2.2 on an unbranded Desire..
i couldnt wait and installed this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741775
have no problem.
so far you have a generic rom and virgin media logo you need a goldcard to flash to the new rom froyo 2.2 from sd card.
i was in the same situation but after making a goldcard and flashing through sdcard it update successfully and i don't see virgin media logo anymore.

[Q] VF 2.2 Update problem

This has been posted on the VF UK Eforum, (HTC desire stuck on splash screen thread) but no one's come up with an answer yet.
In a nutshell, downloaded the VF OTA update.
When I select "Install now", the phone reboots, I get the HTC splash screen and then the phone turns itself off - and stays turned off.
VF customer services told me to ring HTC. HTC told me to get an RUU executable for this update and reflash my phone, but one isn't available?
Anyone got any ideas?
P.S. As this is a work phone rooting and installing some other ROM isn't an option.
Resolved, but I had to root (although I didn't use another ROM, just successfully installed the VF OTA update). Will take myself to one side and give myself a good talking to for breaching the IT policy.

Debranding Help

I have got my new Desire and have been trying to remove the ugly T-Mobile branding from my phone. I have used Unrevoked and flashed a new ROM successfully. However, I still have the T-Mobile splash screen (not boot screen). I understand to modify this I have to be S-OFF, but my bootloader says I am S-ON. Can I still change the splash via the recovery menu? Or is more hacking required? Also, does anyone have the stock HTC boot screen (and sound) in a recovery-flashable zip format.
Thanks guys!
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