I might be able to get my hands on another Orange HTC Desire with the stock ROM and I want to dump that ROM for use on my HTC Desire if I ever have to return it. (I assumed that there would be an Orange RUU soon enough when I de-branded because of frustration at the bloatware. What a fool.)
So, How?
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Hi everyone,
as can be seen in the title I got a branded Desire although i bought it as unbranded.
Long story short: I am now undecided what to do and it depends on the following:
So after hours of reading I am still not sure if it is possible and safe to completely remove the branding and have a permanently unbranded desire with official european rom and radio with which I can receive further updates from google/htc OTA at no risk AS IF I HAD BOUGHT AN UNBRANDED ONE. (I am not interested in custom roms etc since I have that with an earlier htc winmo device and ended up with backupping, restoring, flashing every second day and it costs me a lot of time)
The warranty is not so much an issue. But as far as I know I can completely revert the debranding process through nandroid... (?)
I would really appreciate any answers to wether it is possible to turn my desire into a "official/original" unbranded one.
Thx
touchhdizzel
Yes. Root & apply a stock (rooted) ROM. Problem solved. But if you accept any OTA update, you lose root.
You don't have to root but then you'll not be able to go back unless you can find the ROM that's on your device. Just make a goldcard and flash with a WWE or Europe ROM.
Thx for the answers.
A few more questions came up for both methods though.
in general:
where can i find a pure stock rom? in the wiki there is only a link to a 1.15 one.
for johnstevedoe's method:
loosing root is no problem since i dont need it. as i said i want to use it like a stock one and be able to recieve updates without having to wipe the phone.
i cant remember where but i read that ppl who had branded desires (i think orange) and used the ota update got further problems with their wifi etc. so it seems that there is still provider specific software (or hardware??) in the phone and it is therefore not behaving like a unbranded one. i guess if i dont encounter problems with the 2.2 update i might get some with future updates.
for steve228uk method:
do ihave to leave the gold card in the phone?
do i have to put it in for the ota updates?
and lastly, is there any resource for the original shipped branded roms? the xda wiki only links to one unbranded stock rom.
Thx for ur help
Dizzel
There was shippedroms.com but HTC asked the guy not to release the ROMs. You only need the one update: WWE 1.21 or 1.15 and then OTA up to 2.2 Froyo. You don't have to leave the goldcard in there but it's definitely safer if you shove it in for OTA updates as some people have had issues when they hadn't used it.
steve228uk said:
There was shippedroms.com but HTC asked the guy not to release the ROMs. You only need the one update: WWE 1.21 or 1.15 and then OTA up to 2.2 Froyo. You don't have to leave the goldcard in there but it's definitely safer if you shove it in for OTA updates as some people have had issues when they hadn't used it.
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so that means that it is not possible to fully debrand with this method in some cases?
do you know anything about the method using unrevoked? is this capable of turning the desire into a unbranded one since it replaces the whole rom and parts of the boot etc. how can there still occur problems with ota when all branded software was replaced?
cheers
Okay so I know there's a plethora of stuff in forums about this but I have one quick question.
I had to swap my previous HTC DESIRE over because of a screen issue. My previous Desire had all the Telstra branding removed by my friend, however it was not 'rooted', I did not have that SuperUser app or anything, there was just no Bloatware from Telstra. I was still even able to update to Froyo wirelessly, through HTC updates.
All I want to know is how to do this because I'm pretty sure this isn't what you call rooting... I would go back to my friend to do it but he's currently in another country so I was hoping someone here could tell me exactly what it is he did/I have to do to get my phone back to that state.
It's like it was an outright HTC DESIRE with no branding, just as stock as they come. I'm not too interested in installing custom firmware or anything like that.
Hope this makes sense.
Paul.
well, theres this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696189
just chose the thing you want to do, and fallow the steps..
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 have a rooted HTC Desire on orange. When Orange finally release FroYo will I be able to update it on my saved orange backup or will I not be able to update as there is no way of returning to the stock orange ROM.
If it was an unrevoked3 root and you backed it up without changing anything you may be able to apply the update, but there's a good chance of it not working.
Aww typical will there ever be an RUU for Orange UK?
None so far... maybe the froyo one will get leaked.
I hope it does as I want froyo but I dont want to have to unbrand incase of warranty issues.
Ask Orange if they will honour a warranty if you flash the phone with unmodified official HTC software. They should, but check.
Why do you think it has been harder for the Orange RUU to be leaked but not the O2 or vodafone one?
Why not just debrand via goldcard and update to Froyo?
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If i needed to replace because of warranty and its on an unbranded rom i doubt they would accept it.
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If i needed to replace because of warranty and its on an unbranded rom i doubt they would accept it.
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You should check that with Orange... they may well do, as long as it's not rooted.
Yea I will check with them. I'd still rather have the phone unrooted and on orange but i guess I will need to wait.