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I have an HTC Desire HD on three in the UK and want to flash it to get rid of the crud they stick on there. I have rooted the phone and have busybox installed.
I want to know if Android Revolution HD 4G 3.2 or AR HD 2.0.9 will go on without any problems, and which radio to install if necessary?
I have downloaded radio 12.41.60.19_26.06.04.1 and 12.35d.60.140f.26.06.03.24.m2 in preparation.
I have radio s-off and eng hboot s-off ready to go.
Thanks for any feedback guys.
PS:- Really need to do this as I had a stock DHD originally, but shattered screen and liquid crystal got onto PCB and fried it and replacement is full of 3some crap including the stupid startup animation taking phone from 10 seconds to boot to now nearly 2 minutes.
:-(
I have got rid of the three crud from mine.
First install clockworkmod recovery then do a nandroid backup.
You can wipe most of it using broot explorer. System>apps and delete relevant apks. I suggest moving them, rebooting, checking all good and then deleting.
The ****ty start-up thing can be removed by flashing the splash screen. (mine now is my name and email address - done via PhotoShop). There are instructions on how to do this in the themes section.
The other startup anim is a zip file. I can't remember where it lives but I seem to think it is not in the standard place. I found it by doing a search on root explorer. By moving this to a directory on the SD card you can disable this.
Only thing left really is things like home pages on browsers.
All that being said. I am running Android revolution gingerbread beta with it's recommended radio and it works fine. Battery and sound seem better.
Although Three seem to be quite good these days, the branding of phones is obtrusive, chavvy and ****e.
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Just getting permission denied errors when trying to delete the .apk files from root/system/app folder.
:-(
Will this problem go away when new Rom flashed in?
Also will doing s-off change the CID (carrier ID) ?
Thanks
If you used jkoljo's easy radio s-off tool, the cid should be changed now.
You said you have eng hboot, right? Boot into bootloader and go to system info. If yours is. 11111111 (don't remember how much 1's there are, lol) you have superCID
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WooHoo!
I have sucessfully flashed AR 3.2 and newest recommended radio!
No more 3UK crud, its awesome quick and radio seems fine.
Will check wifi connectivity later but bluetooth seems a little quicker.
I will let my battery monitor calibrate for a couple of days and let you know whether battery life any better. If not will flash back original 26.03.02.26_M radio.
Just one more thing....
Changing boot animation on phone? Cant seem to find it anywhere on phone.
What format is the animation? width? height? fps? gif? mjpeg?
any suggestions, did a search of the forums but cant seems to find anything specific, so thought you might know as you had a phone that 3UK had previously wrecked
LOL
any help greatly appreciated
Hang on, Three UK are customizing the ROM's?!
Mine came as Stock ROM. :S
The first screen you see is called the splash screen. This can be flashed via fastboot. See the themes section
If you mean the tilt up the tree. Dodgy animation, like a student art project that is a zip file, sequential pngs if I remember. I think a search for .zip via root explorer would work.
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solved
Thanks for all the help. Fully flashed, new splashscreen, new boot and shutdown animations with sound!
Now just need to add a signature to my account on here...
Hmmm, now how do I do that...?
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HTC Desire HD
Rooted, Radio S-Off, Eng S-Off
ClockworkMod 3.0.0.6
Android Revolution 3.2
Custom Logos and Animations
Radio 12.35d.60.140f.26.06.03.24_M2
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aaargh bloody three
Update:
Smashed my screen, sent back to three for repair. All I can say about the repair guy is...
DUMBASS!
So everything was fine other than screen when it went to three (checked via pc usb cable and sync software) ... not any more.
Despite my splash screen listing all details of the OS and radio ROMs, they flashed back the stock ROM but not the radio and screwed the recovery.
Now I have no Bluetooth, no WiFi, power led permanently lit green, intermittent crashes, no SDcard access (therefore no camera, no video, no music player), only boots 1 time in 5 from powerdown, plugging in charger reboots phone every so often, battery lasts about 9hours on standby with all internet connectivity off.
All I can say is...
DUMBASSES!
Why couldn't they leave custom ROM well alone?
Phone goes back to them on Monday to sort out. I know from seeing what they have done that they won't be able to work out what they have done, so pretty sure that they'll send replacement.
I'm doing it this way to prove a point to them (and get an unscratched phone LOL)
Will report back when phone comes back from the puppets at 3
Jumvah said:
Update:
Smashed my screen, sent back to three for repair. All I can say about the repair guy is...
DUMBASS!
So everything was fine other than screen when it went to three (checked via pc usb cable and sync software) ... not any more.
Despite my splash screen listing all details of the OS and radio ROMs, they flashed back the stock ROM but not the radio and screwed the recovery.
Now I have no Bluetooth, no WiFi, power led permanently lit green, intermittent crashes, no SDcard access (therefore no camera, no video, no music player), only boots 1 time in 5 from powerdown, plugging in charger reboots phone every so often, battery lasts about 9hours on standby with all internet connectivity off.
All I can say is...
DUMBASSES!
Why couldn't they leave custom ROM well alone?
Phone goes back to them on Monday to sort out. I know from seeing what they have done that they won't be able to work out what they have done, so pretty sure that they'll send replacement.
I'm doing it this way to prove a point to them (and get an unscratched phone LOL)
Will report back when phone comes back from the puppets at 3
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I could be wrong here but I'm sure if you put custom roms, ENG and S -OFF etc it invalidates ya warranty, so if they wanted to they could tell ya they won't fix it.
If they check they phone and quote you a repair cost or send you the handset back as is and 3's repairs are manufacturers plus a markup
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Hi guys, I've had a Bell-branded Desire Z (on AT&T's network) for some time now, but I've never gotten around to rooting / flashing a different ROM on it. Since I have some free time this weekend, I figure I'll finally tackle it. Have a few general questions though:
1) Is the method listed in the guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928160 still the best method for rooting a desire Z? I've heard bad things about visionary, but every rooting method I've read seem to involve it in some way.
2) with S-OFF, am I free to flash any Desire Z / G2 ROM? or will only certain ROMs work with a Bell Desire Z? Any specific recommendation on ROMs? I'm planning on trying out CM7, then going from there
3) What is the best method for backing up my current image + a few other things (mostly contacts and SMS)? Titaniumbackup gets thrown around a lot, but I only have a handful of apps, and really would rather just redownload them then go through the trouble of backing them up
Thanks
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=TMobile_G2:_Rooting
that is going to be your safest way to root your vision. eventhough this is longer, there is a lot less chance of bricking your phone. the one you listed is very simple to do, but runs a high risk of turning your phone into a paper weight.
when you do have your phone completely s off, you now have every right to flash kernels, roms, and other things. you can find all of the things i just listed over in the development forum on the g2/desire z. download rom manager from the market. that allows you to back up your current rom, flash the latest recovery and so on. it just allows you to not have to manually install everything. it has the popular g2 roms under the "download rom section".
in terms of backing up everything, there are a few different options. every contact to save is linked to your gmail account, so whatever rom you flash and load youll always have those contacts coming with you. thats the beauty of google and gmail on a android device! but with rom manager, you can back up your current rom and image with that app and save it to your sd card. BEFORE YOU FLASH ANY ROM, OR BEGIN TO START TRYING OUT ROMS, BACK UP YOUR STOCK ROM. whenever i got my g2 when it first came out, i made a nandroid backup of my stock rom and i still have it. when i originally backed it up, i just named it "stock" and havent messed with it since. i just know that i have the stock image(it helps me sleep at night). jk, heh. for your text messages and stuff, download sms backup from the market and you can back everything up through that. all of the apps that you download, including the paid ones of course, travel with you between roms, etc.
i hope i helped ya out, and i wish you luck. if you have any other questions, just shoot me a private message!
Thanks for that;
I actually went ahead and used that method in the guide since upon further research, it seems that visonary was only causing issues when it was use for perm root; temp root, which is what that method uses visionary for seems to work fine.
So did that, reboot into the bootloader, confirmed that I had S-OFF on the first line.
Installed ROM manager from the market
Flashed Clockwork recovery
Booted into recovery and did a system backup to SD card
Rebooted and decided to download the Virtuous ROM from ROM manager
Told it to reboot into recovery and flash that image, wiping all data and settings
Got stuck on an bootup loop (HTC logo + start up sound -> black screen -> HTC logo + startup sound ad infinitum)
Rebooted into recovery, and did a restore from the backup (whew)
Phone seems to be working fine now
Now I'm trying to figure out what went wrong... any ideas?
K, I redownloaded virtuous from XDA, checked the MD5, and tried to flash it again.
Same problem, infinite loop on startup screen.
Do i need to flash the engineering hboot? I was under the impression that that wasn't necessary for using custom ROMs.
Still can't figure out what's wrong.
did you debrand? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=835777
Have you tried flashing through CWM directly? I really don't like ROM Manager for flashing new ROMs and seems to oversimplify the process to allow green users to get on the flashing wagon.
I would boot into CWM (camera + power i think) and do a complete wipe + flash from in there. I have never had an issue with doing things directly from recovery and I have a Bell DZ as well. It's long since lost it's blue and white colours, but that was it's origin
Have fun!
Im new to this stuff here, and i DO want to learn about it as this stuff is very interesting to me! Technology is something i learn very quickly if im directed in the correct direction
The question i have here is about my Desire Z ( Bell Cannada ).
A few months ago we received a OTA update. So its currently running on Android 2.2.1 : Build - 1.84.666.2 CL322105, and its SUPER slow! Is it still possible to root this version?
I want to install the Gingerbread version on my phone, but i cant find instructions to root this OS version to be able to do so.
Or should i wait till the Official gingerbread Os to come out for our phones?
Ive been searching every where's for this info and everything i find is all back dated to last yr and nothing up-to-date after the OTA.
I hope this question is not TOO n00bish as i tried to search every where for it, and ether i could not find it or i did not enter the correct word search to get a result i needed.
Thanks in advance!
Andrew
Edit: NVM my question here.... i have finally found an update post within the wiki ( April 1 2011 )
Sorry for a useless post!
Thank you all for your efforts in posting in this forum! Very informative!
Athrun88 said:
Have you tried flashing through CWM directly? I really don't like ROM Manager for flashing new ROMs and seems to oversimplify the process to allow green users to get on the flashing wagon.
I would boot into CWM (camera + power i think) and do a complete wipe + flash from in there. I have never had an issue with doing things directly from recovery and I have a Bell DZ as well. It's long since lost it's blue and white colours, but that was it's origin
Have fun!
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heh. that actually worked. Flashed directly from CWM recovery and it booted up with no issues.
Guess I know not to flash from ROM manager anymore
Thanks.
deaththeorist said:
did you debrand? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=835777
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You do not need to debrand to flash custom ROMs to the Bell Canada Desire Z.
makken85 said:
heh. that actually worked. Flashed directly from CWM recovery and it booted up with no issues.
Guess I know not to flash from ROM manager anymore
Thanks.
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Interesting, I've flashed many ROMs from ROM Manager on my Bell Canada DZ, and never had an issue. That said, flashing from recovery is really not any harder, so if it works, it works.
redpoint73 said:
Interesting, I've flashed many ROMs from ROM Manager on my Bell Canada DZ, and never had an issue. That said, flashing from recovery is really not any harder, so if it works, it works.
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Yeah, I assumed that flashing from ROM manager just meant that it rebooted to recovery and flashed it from there. I guess there is a difference.
Either way, been playing with Virtuous 1.0.2 for a few days now, really like this ROM, but I'm itching to try out something different now. Man, I can see this is going to develop into a time consuming hobby.
Plus, I'm going to need a bigger SD card to store all of these ROMs + backup =X
Oh, another noob question; I've come across a few zip files that included a system folder and an META-INF folder. How exactly do I install these?
G2 only works with at&t
alright here it is my t-mobile G2 won't connect to the t-mobile network at all, I've went through 3 SIM cards because this thing use to kill the SIM card from working on other t-mobile phones and it works perfectly fine on at&t network. so I've unlocked so it will work on at&t just to see if it would work. so i gave p and bought a MT 4G, but i still want to know if the G2 is fixable because I'm just about ready to throw in the towel this is what I've tried to resolve the problem called t-mobile they ended up saying just return the phone but i can't since i didn't buy it from them. Called them again got the unlock code. I've flashed the radio a few times. I've also just got the leaked 2.3.3 update and nothing has worked. It find t-mobile network but says your SIM card isn't allowed to connect to this network then after trying again it says unable to connect to network please try again later.
Just so frustrating i don't know what to do just about to say forget it. this thread is my last resort.
also i still have S-OFF
i used this method on my G2 just yesterday and put on CM7.0.3. the only issues i came across were because i restored everything (should have just done apps and app data) using Titanium, which put me in a boot loop. I'm dumb, so i did it twice before i figured out what was the problem. the thread has a comment about how Visionary is dangerous, but the OP responded that since it is only used to gain temp root, there should be no problems.
The problem I'm having is now that I have Leedroid 3.3.3 installed on my Desire HD my phones camera will no longer auto-focus.
Before you ask have you made sure the auot-focus is selected in the phones camera menu yes I have.
The things I have done to rectify this are:
I've made sure I have the right Radio & Kernal for the Rom I'm Using
I've downgraded my Leedroid Rom to previous versions but nothing works
I've asked for help and left bug reports on leedroids mini site and no help
I've tried to install the Madaco 17/Nov 1.32.405.6 r1 - HTC Desire HD Stock ROM with Online Kitchen but I can't boot past the HTC screen even performing a factory reset, battery stat rest, and a dalvik wipe still no luck.
I'm not sure if Leedroids new Roms uses a different EXT format like "EXT4" where stock Roms use "EXT2" and this is why I cant get MOdacos stock rom to boot and therefore I need to wipe a EXT2 to my phone? I wouldn't know how to do that anyway.
I've done google and xda searches for how to get the auto focus to work again and all I come up with is I should go back to stock and see if this helps. Unfortunately I can't get a stock Rom to boot properly so I'm left with asking for help here.
If I'm in the wrong forum or posted in the wrong place I do apologize I believed since I'm on a Desire HD this is the most appropriate place.
Hi!
Did you solve it?
I have the same problem, the camera don't make the focus, don't know why.
thanks!!
Any solution in sight?
I have similar problem on my classic Desire (Bravo).
Autofocus fails on far away objects, everything closer than ~1m is ok, anything else I recognize some focus action in the live image but it stops on the blurry side
Using InsertCoin 1.1.1 with the latest Radio.
Seitchin ROM to an older LeeDroid didn't help)
No luck yet I'm afraid I'm in the process of backing up my phone and trying different roms to see if that helps.
I'll post here if I come up with a solution.
Solution
So I called HTC here in the UK and was told the phone needs to go back which I sent to them but before you do there are two important things to remember.
1) s-off needs to be turned to s-on
2) you need to send the phone back with the latest os version
I got my phone back and the lovely guys at the service centre even replaced the entire shell, battery cover and sim cover for free how nice.
I'm going to guess it was a hardware issue rather than a software issue because the phones software came back exactly as I sent it with t-mobiles splash screen with no sound because the sound files were never on my phone to start with.
I tried everything before sending it back updating, different roms going back to stock rom etc etc but the only thing that worked in the end was HTC fixing it.
Luckily the phone was still under warranty and the shipping and repair was free phew!
Good Luck
Hi All,
I have a AMOLED Desire, S-Off with AlphaRev and running the latest LeeDroid ROM (including the latest radio etc)
The ROM had been fairly stable but I would get the occasional hot restart. I decided to reinstall the ROM and now have a major problem with the phone. Essentially it hot restarts within 30 seconds of the ROM installation completing (during the HTC setup). Sometimes the phone doesn't even get to the part where ROM loads (constantly reloads during just after the AlphaRev logo)
I have tried a different memory card but the result is the same (including full wipes) I have never overclocked the handset either.
Can anybody provide some other suggestions on what I can do to try and fix this!
Thanks,
Full wipe and try another rom, if that doesnt work try stock
Greetz
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Well yes u should try using the official RUU for desire if another Rom does not work but it is a different procedure for flashing it from your pc there are guides u should check them out
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Think I need to go down the RUU route, although I have no idea why a full wipe isn't fixing my issue. On the main page there is only a RUU link for up to HBOOT 0.80. I have 0.93 (via AlphaRev) Any pointers as to where this guide is please?
Thanks,
dr_sherman said:
Think I need to go down the RUU route, although I have no idea why a full wipe isn't fixing my issue. On the main page there is only a RUU link for up to HBOOT 0.80. I have 0.93 (via AlphaRev) Any pointers as to where this guide is please?
Thanks,
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Be veeeeeerrryyyyy careful when you're using the RUU and you have rebooting problems. This is most likely a mainboard issue (overheating) and I'm pretty sure HTC cover it under warranty.
Before you run the RUU stick your phone in a plastic bag and put it in a freezer for 5-10 minutes (I **** you not) and then use the RUU, you'll reduce the likelihood of killing your phone completely!
The phone did get very warm during a boot loop so you could be on to something
The phone is no longer under warranty. It doesn't matter what ROM I use it restarts as the ROM loads. So my question was how do I apply the RUU with my current setup (unable to launch a ROM and AlphaRev HBOOT 93) and what do I have to get it run safely?
Try to load some CPU tuner and adjust your clock, maybe its too high for your phone to handle ?
It has been running ok for well over a year (except the one or two hot restarts) this seems like a very different problem and I presume I can't lower the CPU speed without a ROM actually starting?
dr_sherman said:
(1) It has been running ok for well over a year (except the one or two hot restarts) this seems like a very different problem and I presume (2) I can't lower the CPU speed without a ROM actually starting?
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1) Then try a new ROM, i also got freequently reset with Oxygen before, when I switch to Ginger and Aurora, never happen
2) You should be able to, try to download the "CPU tunner for root"
why not look at the log to see why its happening and what temps its reaching before it fails flashing an RUU
All ROMS do the same thing, reboot occurs shortly after entering my PIN (at the HTC white background screen).
Where would I find those logs? Remember that the ROM never boots to a usable state.
So basically about a month ago i rooted and custom romed my One X from o2UK everything went fine and ive been using it stably for a month recently my reception has been terrible to the point it would cut out completely for 6 hours regardless where i was travelling around Birmingham so i decided to try another rom incase that was the problem (even though i remember something about certain one x's and sim card trays??) anyways this was the orginal guide i used to root and rom my one x http://www.c2s.co.nz/blog/guide-to-...n-the-htc-one-x/comment-page-1/#comment-15277
Now here is where the weird part comes in no matter what other roms i try (viperx, miui, cm10 etc) i cant get them too boot?? i flash the respective boot.imgs and they just either freeze or loop at the bootscreen but when i go back to the orginal custom rom i used "tg_endeavoru-ota-36" it boots up fine and is normal (BUT STILL NO RECEPTION??!!)
Now before i take it back to o2 (which i will probably need to put some stock rom on for) i want to make sure it isnt the rom but how the hell do i get another rom to work and why arent they working, im not a total noob ive been romming it since my dell streak so cant work out what im doing wrong any help please guys? cheers!
So has no one come across this problem seems random only one rom will boot on my phone?
Are you absolutelu sure you have the correct boot.img in fastboot folder?
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TToivanen said:
Are you absolutelu sure you have the correct boot.img in fastboot folder?
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yup im sure i extract what ever boot.img coms in the rom zip put it inside my fastboot folder and still nothing?? really infuriating now lol