Hi All,
Just a quick question - appologies if this is in the wrong section
I've made a goldcard for my desire - how many times can I use it? Does it have some kind of counter that 'kills' it after a certian number of uses? I kind of recall reading somewhere that it was 2 but can't find it on xda, modaco and giyf
Much thanks
Mr K
Erm
No?!
It's just a modified boot sector with some "magic numbers" that tells your phone to play nice.
Use it as many times as you want.
Dude - thanks for that! Not sure where I got that from but wanted to be sure Guess I'll keep this 4gb GoldCard to one side
Thanks for the reply
MadMic said:
Dude - thanks for that! Not sure where I got that from but wanted to be sure Guess I'll keep this 4gb GoldCard to one side
Thanks for the reply
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Good plan.
The mistake I made last night was to put it back down on my desk amongst 6 other 2GB cards once I finished rooting with it.
Now I have no idea which one the goldcard image belongs to and will have to do it again.
btw guys, does it matter on what card class it is made? because the original one is class 2 4gb sandisk and i recently bought a 8gb class 4 kingston and would prefer to use the kingston one and make the goldcard on the sandisk one
cez10 said:
btw guys, does it matter on what card class it is made? because the original one is class 2 4gb sandisk and i recently bought a 8gb class 4 kingston and would prefer to use the kingston one and make the goldcard on the sandisk one
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Doesn't make any difference, BUT you will have to do the WHOLE procedure again for the new card.
Obtain new ID, make a new image online and then hex edit it.
Because the image (goldcard.img) is unique to the card it was created for.
nooooo! Instead cant you load each one into your pc and a hex editor and have a look at the first 170b?? Playing the odds you should hit it soon
MadMic said:
nooooo! Instead cant you load each one into your pc and a hex editor and have a look at the first 170b?? Playing the odds you should hit it soon
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Yeh, quite easily, I just like to make it sound like it's gonna bea pain in the arse cause i'm so damn lazy.
alias_neo said:
Yeh, quite easily, I just like to make it sound like it's gonna bea pain in the arse cause i'm so damn lazy.
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If you've already used the Goldcard once to root the phone, I don't think you'll need it again. A couple of days ago I went into Recovery mode and successfully installed a Radio update from my usual non-Goldcarded SD card.
The only time I used my Goldcard was when I went from an unrooted T-Mobile branded ROM to a rooted HTC generic.
not needing it again eh?? That's excellent to know - that and I'm hoping for HSPL soon, man I'd donate to the person who makes that bad boy
MadMic said:
not needing it again eh?? That's excellent to know - that and I'm hoping for HSPL soon, man I'd donate to the person who makes that bad boy
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Well, I wouldn't say you'll never need it again. Who knows, you might have to unroot your device for repair or something and will have to use it again afterwards.
I'll be keeping hold of mine for now.
Guys, is it true that you don't need a Goldcard to root an unbranded Desire? (I think I read it somewhere but can't find it right now).
I believe so, yes, it should be true.
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Alias::NeO on HTC Desire
Phone says mine is borked, but I think it works?
is this normal?
Can you be more specific?
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Alias::NeO on HTC Desire
Well I rooted my unbranded desire last night (now I know the USB issue is resolved!) I had originally used a goldcard to flash an unbranded RRU rom to the phone using the windows software.
I tried to use another 4gb sd card to run the rooting procedure and it failed at step 2 with the red triangle in that adb wouldn't connect so I did the most important thing when doing stuff like this and stopped where I was and gave it some thought - it was then I realised I wasn't using the previous goldcarded sd card, so battery out and other card in, start from step 1 of the rooting process and now I'm all good as they say... which leaves me believing you need a goldcard still to root, I might be wrong but that was the only thing I changed during my rooting path... anyways, all I wanted was apps2sd which I now have so no more flashy flashy for me... well until froyo comes along
Hope that helps
Hi All,
2 quick questions. thanks in advance for any help
1) let's say i wanted to upgrade to a bigger sd card for more storage, could i just copy over everything to the new sd card and reboot the phone and all is well and good, even with android 2.2's built in apps2sd? or would any of my apps that are installed to sd get messed up?
2) i haven't yet rooted my g2 but i'm going to soon. i rooted my g1 in the past. i've been reading some of the guides and whatnot to get ready, but one thing i was concerned about is being able to un-root completely to stock in case i ever need to do a warranty thing. do i actually have to back up anything, or can i just download the stock image like alot of tutorials seem to say? will it all be exactly the same after going thru the process of unrooting?
thanks!
Dave
I have the same question with the SD card.
As far as the second question goes I don't think you have to worry about it to much. Most t mobile staff are not anal about it. Just don't have it booting up to cm lol
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I have used the latest method to root my phone, and just flashed Senceginger 3.0
I heard back on the Hero if you formatted or changed your SD card you'd loose root or other issues.
Does anyone fore see any issues if I were to format and/or change my sd card ?
I swapped my 8gb card with a 16gb card after rooting and didn't notice anything unusual... so I don't think so. Used the Rage method to root.
Root isn't an installation on your sd card..its the built in ****..as in you can root without an sd card
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You can do whatever you want with the SD card after rooting/flashing. Could also do that with the Hero (I had a Hero and never heard anything issues with replacing the SD card after rooting) Not sure where you heard those stories..
Have fun!
Athrun88 said:
You can do whatever you want with the SD card after rooting/flashing. Could also do that with the Hero (I had a Hero and never heard anything issues with replacing the SD card after rooting) Not sure where you heard those stories..
Have fun!
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Thanks, It was something I heard long ago which I thought was weird and then my buddy who still has a Hero had mentioned the same which I again I thought was strange.
Anyway thanks for the info
Some older methods were actually running off the sd card and back then no you couldnt take out your card. But now we have real root so no worries.
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Hi all,
My girlfriend has the unlocked stock Wildlife S and she loves it! But, she is having trouble updating and installing apps on the phone, it keeps on saying 'insufficient memory'. She has a 2gb sd card and doesn't have a lot of apps on the phone or sd card, she has transferred as many apps as she can to the card.
Anyone able help me?
Regards,
David
because the apps to sdcard，but the data and cache still in internal
memory.you can flash recovery，and then flash custom rom，partion your sd
card and then flash data2sd.you can change the memory to 512M or 1G.
Or, if she doesn't want to change anything (mine didn't wanted too, i know the drill...), since you are already unlocked you could just root your phone with unlock root http://www.unlockroot.com/, supertool... or something similar, install link2sd and she can transfer all apps (system too) that she wants to the second partition you created for her before all steps mentioned above... (you have nice tut here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432459&highlight=link2sd)
if you don't want to change anything how you fix the problem？
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and then flash custom rom...
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Stock rom man, she didn't wanted to change stock rom... and since david said up there that he's gf loves it already i guess it's a same situation
Jesus lads it sounds too much for me to do! Thanks.
I've rooted once or twice back in the day and enjoyed it. I got an unlocked HTC one m8 and I love everything about it. I don't want to root really but now I have this KitKat problem where you can't move things to your sdcard. I like to download torrents and stuff and then move them to my 64gb SD card. Is there a way to do this without rooting? If yes, does it void the warranty or make it "not stock"?. If no, is there a way to root but keep the phone exactly the way it is but be able to move things to my SD card? Any help is appreciated.
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