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[Q] LeeDroid won't install... other ROMs will!

bit of a noob, have a modicum of technical knowledge but it's all Windows based, so andrioid is proving to be a bit of a puzzle at times!
So I've had my phone rooted for a while but stock Voda UK rom rooted with Unrevoked 3.21... which means you can't really do that much 'rooty' stuff.
I wanted LeeDroid, so i chucked it on my SD, booted to recovery, deleted everything there was an option to delete and then ran the .zip through clockwork.
It gets to the second stage of copying files, hangs, and then doesn't complete. I got the message 'E: failure at line 336: symlink toolbox'.
At a guess, i'm thinking it has something to do with Busybox, as i know Unrevoked doesn't push that... but i tried Cyro and Modaco and both install 1st time.
Is this odd?!
I've now got S-off too, so i might try it again, but i'm expecting similar to happen.
Any ideas as to what went wrong?!

Can no one help?!

[Q] System UIDs inconsistent after 'root'

Ok so i couldn't find this mentioned in the DZ forum, apologies if it has already been.
Basically i have been tring to root my DZ using the rage method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=843014
I got all the way to the end, flashed hboot etc, all good, then ran /data/local/tmp/root and recieved the 'mkdir: /system/xbin already exists' error, which i know is usual. So i assumed i'd done things right, waited a minute, then restarted phone.
When i started the phone up it came up with an error saying System UIDs inconsistent. You need to wipe your data partition or you device will be unstable.
I thought this was strange as i hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere. I then went into terminal emulator to see if superuser permissions where on, i typed su, and got permission denied. the $ sign was back in terminal too. I take it my root didn't work? Any suggestions?
And what does this error mean, can i ignore it?
in hboot i get:
Vision PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-0.84.200 (PC1011000)
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Sep 8 2010, 15:56:38

Can anyone offer a solution, or advice on where to look?
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Ok guys, more information
I have downgraded to firmware version 1.34.405.5
My S/N starts HT0B1RT***** if this helps anyone.
Eng Hboot flashed also.
I have looked through heaps of guides, tried cyanogen's wiki, gfree and rage methods. Only thing i haven't resorted to is visionary because i'm hesitant.
I am still worried about this system UID error that appears every time i start up, i am thinking that if i can solve this i may have more luck.
So basically can anyone help me work my way through this? I feel like i have exhausted my searching options, and now am not getting any luck here on xda either.
Thanks in advance for all your help guys.

DID IT!
For fear the mods might have a go at me for constantly posting i will only briefly explain what i did.
I simply formatted sd card, factory reset phone. This removed my UID error.
Then followed this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=843014&page=11
And for the first time it worked.
Thats it for me. mods delete this thread if necessary.

You could have fixed the problem without starting from scratch. I just ran into the problem myself and was able to fix it by going into cwm and restoring permissions under the advanced tab. hope this helps anyone who has this same issue, it took me a while to find a solution

lordscipio said:
You could have fixed the problem without starting from scratch. I just ran into the problem myself and was able to fix it by going into cwm and restoring permissions under the advanced tab. hope this helps anyone who has this same issue, it took me a while to find a solution
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Worked for me.
The question is: who or what changed the permissions?

Probably the cleanest solution HERE

[Q] clockwork problems

I've just got my first Android phone (an HTC Desire from Telstra - quite a good phone from all reports but hobbled almost to the point of unusability by Telstra). My Android guru (also a member of this forum) has had little success rooting it so it can be made more useful because, although most of the process works, it seems that Clockwork is not going in successfully and doesn't seem to be able to recognise the SD card (8GB, partitoned at 7GB (FAT32) and 1 GB (EXT3)). It claims that it can't find several of the files it needs to work.
The upshot is that, although the screen comes up with the options of things to do (restore etc.), when selected it just hangs with a black screen.
I checked some other similar threads but couldn't come up with anything.
Please pardon any inanity - I'm very new to this.
Any help most gratefully accepted. Thanks

when selected it just hangs with a black screen.
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When selecting the option use the centre trackpad to select not the power button...
However i'm also new to a Desire (i have a desire hd) and have exactly the same on the Desire i rooted with Unrevoked last night, for example if i try to wipe system or data it just comes up with an error message...
Any ideas thanks...

Just tried to run unrevoked again to see if recovery would install properly this time.
Yesterday it said it was a triumph this time it says failed to get root is the software to new...
Is that because its already rooted or it didn't actually work properly yesterday ?
Thanks

After reading a bit on google and on this forum seems that Unrevoked may be the issue someone else with the same problem got it sorted by using Unrevoked 3.21 rather than the 3.32 that the unrevoked website installs...
Next question anyone know where i can get 3.21 been googling and can't find anything that will actually download..
Again many thanks

wakers said:
After reading a bit on google and on this forum seems that Unrevoked may be the issue someone else with the same problem got it sorted by using Unrevoked 3.21 rather than the 3.32 that the unrevoked website installs...
Next question anyone know where i can get 3.21 been googling and can't find anything that will actually download..
Again many thanks
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How about PMing the person who sorted the problem out to see if they still have 3.2.1 on their machine? I thought I did but on checking I've got 3.3.2 - sorry!

Hi
I had to use AlphaRev to be able to flash custom firmware. Unrevoked did root the phone but didn't s-off. If you plan to use Unrevoked VirtualBox method get VBox v3.xx, v4.xx has something messed with usb passthrough
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk

I managed to find a version of the unrevoked that was suggested but it hasn't made any difference...
I've been ages reading and going around in circles
The Hboot is 0.93.0001
The phone appears to be rooted as superuser is on it and appears to be working.
THe phone will boot into recovery but recovery doesn't work
I've tried using a different recovery with rom manager but it makes no difference when i boot into recovery its the same Clockworkmod recovery 2.5.0.7 even though in Rom manager it says its changed...
As it boots into recovery there are a few messages underneath
e:cant find misc:
e:cant mount cache : recovery/command
and a few other lines which i can't remember but similiar
I've tried removing and flashing a different recovery via adb and i get a message saying "remote not allowed"
I've tried flashing recovery with a terminal emulator but can't get it to work either.
Do i need to do the alpharev to get S-Off first before i can sort out recovery ? and if so any info on how to do this, again many thanks and sorry for so many questions.
I've rooted Magic's, Legends, HD2's and my Desire HD but this desire for my missus does have me a bit stumped...

I wonder if fake flash would help in this situation?
Might be a viable way to get recovery functioning...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=698403

As it boots into recovery there are a few messages underneath
e:cant find misc:
e:cant mount cache : recovery/command
and a few other lines which i can't remember but similiar
These look like about the same as the ones I get

OK... I don't know why, but this worked for me (and my guru). Instead of pressing the power button as the enter button during the rooting and restore process, we pressed the mouse button and it all worked fine. The errors still showed up but they didn't cause any problems. I think this might have been one of the first suggestions but I seem to have missed it (this is what you get when you stay up 'til stupid-o'clock trying to sort stuff out).
I'm up & running now and I hope this helps some others having the same issues.
Thanks to all those who provided suggestions.

gen_scheisskopf said:
Hi
I had to use AlphaRev to be able to flash custom firmware. Unrevoked did root the phone but didn't s-off. If you plan to use Unrevoked VirtualBox method get VBox v3.xx, v4.xx has something messed with usb passthrough
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
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Just to clarify this point, Rooting and S-OFF are 2 totally different things.
Root access is to the loaded ROM on the phone. It allows you to gain access to places you normally can't go inside android like \system and \recovery
S-OFF is turning signature verification off in the Bootloader. the bootloader is the lowest system level you can go and as such can do some pretty serious things there.

jimmytheflea said:
Just to clarify this point, Rooting and S-OFF are 2 totally different things.
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Yes, I know this. S-Off option was selected in Unrevoked menu (and didn't work). AlphaRev 1.8 (LiveCD) didn't work on unrooted phone but after rooting did it's job

Finally success i think sometimes you can read so much info you get confused.
Did alpharev via CD and installed alpharev-cwm recovery option and its all working as it should be, can't believe how simple it turned out to be in the end...
Thanks to all who replied much appreciated...

Hello, i am using oxygen 2.0.3 ROM now. I had been flashing roms with recovery for a few times. But now, it seems like recovery is unable to detect changes to my sdcard.
Whenever i boot into recovery to install zip from sdcard, it will show me the folders and zip files that i had before. Any changes i made to the sdcard was not reflected.
I search through the web and this forum and you seems to have the closest issue that i am experiencing. It would be great if you can advice if your method can solve my problem as well and what are the detail steps you took to solve it. Thanks alot man.

Hi mate the issue i had was that recovery didn't seem to install properly at all and i could see the rom etc on the sdcard and any changes i made but it wouldn't work, i also had issue's with not being able to push commands through adb.
What worked for me was creating the Alpharev ISO image on a CD and running it following the instructions, it was incredibly simple but i had a stock rooted rom on my desire.
The alpharev instructions are here
http://alpharev.nl/
Downloadf the Flash utility then burn the flash utility (still zipped) to a CD shut down your laptop press F12 as it boots choose boot from CD once the laptop screen goes black plug your phone in (i had mine on charge only) you also need to make sure USB debugging is checked...
And follow the instructions for me it S-Off'd the phone and installed the Alpharev-CWM recovery which is working as it should...
Not sure thats going to cure your issue though as it seems you have an issue with your recovery reading the SDcard this wasn't an issue for me...

cheongster said:
Hello, i am using oxygen 2.0.3 ROM now. I had been flashing roms with recovery for a few times. But now, it seems like recovery is unable to detect changes to my sdcard.
Whenever i boot into recovery to install zip from sdcard, it will show me the folders and zip files that i had before. Any changes i made to the sdcard was not reflected.
I search through the web and this forum and you seems to have the closest issue that i am experiencing. It would be great if you can advice if your method can solve my problem as well and what are the detail steps you took to solve it. Thanks alot man.
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Do you see changes made to sd card when booted rather than in recovery i.e. if you add a zip to SD and reboot to your rom, do you see the SD, then you don't see it if you reboot again to recovery?

stringer7 said:
Do you see changes made to sd card when booted rather than in recovery i.e. if you add a zip to SD and reboot to your rom, do you see the SD, then you don't see it if you reboot again to recovery?
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Yes. I see the changes made to the SD card in my ROM. But the changes don't get reflected when i am in recovery.

Is your issue occurring after you mount the card in usb mode in recovery and then adding file and then trying to flash that zip? if so, then you can see that file by choosing reboot recovery option
Swyped with my Starburst Classic based Desire with Intelligent Data2sd

I transfer the files while i turn on the usb for data transfer in the rom. Do i have to do the file transfer while i'm in recovery?
I used to be able to do it previously. I am not sure what happened along the way and it stopped working now. I did delete all the files on my SD card before having this issue. Not sure if thats the course and if there is a fix for that.
Thanks!

Well if you were doing it while booted up, sorry I have no idea why it doesn't work then.
Solution is to reflash your recovery
Swyped with my Starburst Classic based Desire with Intelligent Data2sd

[Q] Updating Android Revolution HD

Hi,
I am currently running Android Revolution HD 5.1.7 on my DHD
I was just wondering with the new 6.1.1 version out, to upgrade to it,
do I simply download the file and just flash that to the device or must I first wipe my device? Or some other way?
Thanks for any help!
P.s Really sorry if this has already been asked but I had a quick search and couldn't see anything to this specific situation!

Back up all your data then flash the superwipe script, then flash the ROM, restore data
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using Tapatalk

Thanks alot,
Also once I have flashed the rom to the phone,
Can I remove the file from my SD Card to free up some space?
Its something I have been unsure about from the first time I flashed my phone,
But I should imagine you can??
**UPDATE**
I have succesfully installed Android Revolution HD 6.1.1
But I am getting an awful lot of Force Closes now,
1 in particularly when i try to go on "People" (contacts) it instantly force closes!
Another is SuperUser, and there are a few more than insantly FC as soon as I try to Open them!

Razza12003 said:
Can I remove the file from my SD Card to free up some space?
**UPDATE**
I have succesfully installed Android Revolution HD 6.1.1
But I am getting an awful lot of Force Closes now,
1 in particularly when i try to go on "People" (contacts) it instantly force closes!
Another is SuperUser, and there are a few more than insantly FC as soon as I try to Open them!
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1. You can but I would recommend that you keep a copy of a stable ROM on your sd card just in case you have to reinstall for some reason.
2. It seems like the ROM is corrupted.
Did you superwipe before you installed the ROM?
If you have:Check the md5 checksum of the rom you downloaded. It should be the same as the one posted under the ROM download link in the ARHD thread. If its the same you can try superwiping and reinstalling the rom.
If you havent: Download the superwipe script from the first page in the ARHD thread, superwipe and reinstall the ROM.
Also make sure to backup your phone data before superwiping because everything will be lost. Also don't install any mods untill your device has completed the first boot after installing the ROM.

to be honest i had issues with arhd 6.1.1 when i flashed it too. not the same as yours but constant. not everybody seems to have them though and others say it has something to do with the overclock daemon. i believe there´s a patch for it though on the 6.1.1 developers thread.
i didnt bother though i just moved on to virtuous unity 2.39 and have had no problems, really smooth sense 3.0 rom. i´ve been planning to try out a non sense rom next but i really like this rom so i´ve been putting it off for a while now. i even put the beats audio patch on it a few days ago and i gotta say its pretty good even on stock htc headphones

planing to update to arhd6.1.1 too, but have ardh3.3 and clockwork 3.0.0.6. which clockwork is ok (mean which of the newest)?

I did use superwipe and i checked the md5 and it was all good!
I re-flashed the rom and now its ok
I have found out what was causing it!
It starts happening again every time I install google+ 2.0
The new version of the app that has recently been leaked on androidpolice
(Would include a link but im not allowed yet)
And the reason it did it straight from the start the first time is because, before
doing anything else, I restored all my app via Titanium Backup!
If anyone else has this issue or could try to install the app and see if it happens
to them or could figure out how to fix it, it would be great!
(Don't worry about installing it, uninstalling it stop the force closes straight away)

did you try just restoring just the app, but clean without the user data. i did that first time i flashed a rom and it caused all sorts of problems. so i reflashed and restored the apps one by one but just the app, no user data, and stopped having problems

Lewelynn said:
Also make sure to backup your phone data before superwiping because everything will be lost.
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Hi,
My first post
Any idea does this superwiper clean the radio as well? Does the order matter - first wipe, then rom and finally radio?

ponk2k said:
did you try just restoring just the app, but clean without the user data. i did that first time i flashed a rom and it caused all sorts of problems. so i reflashed and restored the apps one by one but just the app, no user data, and stopped having problems
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Yes i tried restoring just the app, that caused fc's too!
As did re-downloading the app!
jms-xda said:
Hi,
My first post
Any idea does this superwiper clean the radio as well? Does the order matter - first wipe, then rom and finally radio?
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Superwipe doesn't effect the radio, and yeah that order you said is the way I went about it, but I also think you can do radio before rom too!

Update from 5.1 to 6.1
Maybe I haven't looked hard enough or maybe I am simply too tired...
Are there any specific steps from updating ARHD from 5.1 to 6.1? I can't seem to find any info about it.
Also, flashing the 6.1 over the 5.1 will it reset the way my screens/widgets are set while on 5.1?
Thanks.

S-ON can't flash to my Desire S

Hi I'm new to this, and yes maybe I shouldn't have started messing in the first place, but that's just me I can't help myself.
I was fed up with bloatware and Google so I decided to Root my Desire S using the super one click method.I have Hboot 2.00.0002 so the revolutionary method would n't work, so it worked but I still have S-ON. Everything worked great and I was able to use TiBU to clean my phone of all the junk apps. Unfortunalely I went a bit far, but that wasn't a problem because I'd backed it all up. Not the case when I tried to reinstall apps like HTCcontacts.apk, system apps TiBU just hangs and nothing happens. At a guess Im thinking having S-ON is stopping me from writing to the system folders, although it allows me to uninstal those apps. Hmm I thought OK my phone is wiped anyway I might aswell just flash a new OTA from the HTC website, an official ROM not a custom one, that surely should work. Well to cut a long story short it didn't. It got about a third the way through then failed due to security signatures or something (it flashed up quick so I couldn't read exactly what it said).
Now my phone will only boot to HTC screen and goes no further, I've tried everything but nothings working. I can enter my Bootloader and have managed to flash the ClockworkMod Recovery and have tried to install many different official ROMS from the SD card using the ClockworkMod but it always gets a third through and stops. I've also tried installing from my PC using cmd, which was doing the same but now doesn't even recognise the device.
ITS OK ALL SORTED I WAS JUST DOING THINGS IN THE WRONG ORDER
BIG THANKS TO THIS POST --------> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275632
So having S-ON doesn't seem to matter for flashing new ROMS as there has been some confusion over that in other forums,

Wrong forum mate this is Desire not Desire S
been reported to move to Desire S forum