I have a US Cellular Desire that has been updated to 2.2. This phone has never been rooted. I would like to root it now but I guess there is no way to root a 2.2 that wasn't rooted with 2.1... yet anyways. Can someone help?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788044
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Thanks... I have seen that. Unfortunately that doesn't work for the US Cellular Desire that wasn't rooted when it was running 2.1. There are many of us that are in this situation... we updated to 2.2 and now want to root but are unable to.
thijsken said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788044
Thats the way to go
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Well, I guess I should ask because someone may know something I dont... is there anyone with a US Cellular Desire who has successfully rooted, using the above method, a 2.2 that did NOT have root with 2.1?
I am in the same boat. It would be awesome to have S-ON also when S-OFF is available. S-ON was never available on the CDMA version of the Desire.
Anyone?? Can anyone help??
I am having the same problem, have looked everywhere and can't find anything.
PLEASE HELP!!!
Same situation here. Need to root my Lady's phone But I upgraded to 2.2 for her before rooting. Tried UnrevoKed to no Avail.. Gold card crap seems like a lot of work and may not work for this. Anyone that could throw us A bone would be GOD!!
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Anyone that could do a Desire HD Rom Port to Desire CDMA would be Titts!! Thanx in advance!
I am in the same boat as everyone else, can anybody help? When we updated to 2.2 it gave us hboot 1.06 and nothing seems to root that. I'd even be willing to do a gold card to downgrade, but I don't know if that works on CDMA phones. Can't find anything that says one way or the other, does anyone know for sure? Thanks in advance!
Ditto here too. I just want to uninstall all the bloat ware and permanently fix the audio issue with Rhapsody. I could care less about doing the s-off fix, and I would unroot it as soon as I uninstalled all the crap on it. I was going to do the gold card downgrade but it says it won't work on CDMA phones. Ugghhh...
Yeah me to PLEASE!!. THX _Tom
Anyone!????????
Really? 320 views so far and there isn't one person on this forum that is capable of helping us with this?
I am not sure there is much love for cdma phones on only the us cellular network. I hope someone can help us out. I am willing to help anyway I can.
Couldn't you just find a stock img and flash that from fastboot?
Or a stock nbh?
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Not with S-ON
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I wish I knew how to do this myself. Does anyone know how I can contact the people at Unrevoked?
trmason said:
I wish I knew how to do this myself. Does anyone know how I can contact the people at Unrevoked?
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The only luck I have ever had was on the unrevokedtest channel via http://webchat.freenode.net/ Maybe if a bunch of us start asking about it we can get somewhere.
Unrevoked has been pretty unhelpful on this. It says on the IRC chat not to ask about anything with hboot 1.xx I don't know if maybe their particular hack doesn't work on these newer versions or what.
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Hi guys,
Anyone out there know a reliable place/site to get my HTC Desire unlocked??
Anyone with with personal experiences with unlocking an Orange UK branded Desire??
Pls help, I'm dying to use this phone...
You could always make a goldcard and root/unlock it yourself
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You could always make a goldcard and root/unlock it yourself
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would I still have the Android 2.1 with HTC sense, if I root with a goldcard? Also will I be able to update it to 2.2 (whenever it is available) Over The Air??
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would I still have the Android 2.1 with HTC sense, if I root with a goldcard? Also will I be able to update it to 2.2 (whenever it is available) Over The Air??
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You would still have 2.1 this is how i started;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696189
and then i just jumped to a cooked ROM
as for over the air im not actually too sure about that might be a matter of jkust flashing to the 2.2 when it eventually drops in like 2weeks - 2months
Thanks, DanTehManUK.
That was is a very useful link, thanks for being so helpful...
Its what we do
could you help me pleez! i am on a branded htc desire 2.2 with hboot 0.93.
i need to know how to create a goldcard for it. i also need to know how to root it to add custom roms. i have searched the forums but some say i cant create a goldcard for it and such so i am confused. all help would be appreciated as i am abit ov a noob, but understand some aspects.
Thanks in advance
theres no need to use the gold card method,.... try the unrevoked method its much easier and you will be rooted in ten minutes max
Could u kindly send me a link on what to do pleez? And how come it doesnt need a goldcard? :/ can u still add custom theme/rom if u dont? Thanks
shanofran said:
Thanks, DanTehManUK.
That was is a very useful link, thanks for being so helpful...
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have you been able to unlock your phone by rooting it?
Rooting doesn't SIM unlock the phone, you still need to get a code for that
I unlocked my phone in five minutes by ringing the phone company the phone was locked to.
You can use the app in the general forum to sim unlock the phone - no codes, no cost.
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Use the desire sim unlock utility in the development thread. I've used it numerous times and it always works and it's free.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943726
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Alright guys,
I tried the Universal AndRoot with no luck.
This is a CDMA phone, so it looks like the GSM fixes are not working.
Post fixes here and I will try them. I am idling #droideris as well.
Lets do this!
Did you try unrevoked already? I think a few have and said it wouldn't work. Mr. X on PPCGeeks made a modified RUU but I'm not sure if it will work. You'd have to PM him to try it.
Thread Moved in Desire General.
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Did you try unrevoked already? I think a few have and said it wouldn't work.
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Yes, I tried Unrevoked this morning and it said it was unsupported. Not sure where to go from here. I am going to mess with androot some more.
Anyone have suggestions?
EDIT: I tried running androot again, but when it got to "rooting" the phone restarted and went back to normal.
Someone has made some progress in rooting. Not sure if he needs some help but here is the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=769312
the cdma desire has been rooted, custom recovery and soff Unrevoked will be supporting it in their next release
Thanks for the update blitz, I have been working on it for a week now and haven't gotten very far - my exploit (similar to the EPIC) would return to # instead of $
Glad someone got it though!
This is exciting to hear someone is working on it. I just switched Sunday to USC from tmobile using a N1 that was rooted. Couldn't handle their crappy network any longer.
ok i was able to root a htc desire running froyo with s off. here is how i did it. i went to revolutionary.io its super complicated! but it works. i now have a htc desire cdma running hboot 1.06 that was said to be unrootable. if you have questions i am willing to help but i dont know how to get notifications of when people post on here. you have to email me at [email protected] that comes straight to my phone so i will get back to you as soon as i can. i tried for months to root. then pinpoint from unrevoked helped me so to pay back for all i have gotten from others i am willing to try to help you get rooted.... happy rooting
Hi there.
I'm new toe the.forum but got referred.of Android forums.
I've searched and tried.a few unrest.guides.to.restore.my HTC to its default state. It was purchased.from 3 so I'm guessing I need a 3 ruu?
The guides I've tried just tell me the ruu is incompatible withbthe phone? I'm on 2.2 and 0.8 bootloader .
Can any one help?
Thanks
Moved to Q&A as not development.
Can anyone help? Would really appreciate getting my desire back to stock.....
murgy91 said:
Can anyone help? Would really appreciate getting my desire back to stock.....
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Ive not tried to unroot, but the guides i used to get mine rooted also have guides for unrooting so i figure they should work. I dont know if these are the ones you have used or not but here they are:
XDA guide.
The unlockr.
Also id ask in them threads if you have not already done so.
Also, did you use a goldcard to root, as i believe you need this to unroot and that it needs to be the same sd card that the gold card was made with?
Trying to find a stock, unrooted 2.1 or 2.2 image for a US Cellular CDMA Desire, for warranty. I have been lookin for a couple days and have yet to find. Found several links on the xda forums but they were for rooted or nonstock images.
Didn't find one other than verizon's on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667
Search function on the forums has not been workin for me as well, always get a temp. unavailable error, so please no search flames..
Thanks for any help here
You can get the stock 2.2 ruu off the USCC web site
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Yep sure is, installed and works great (for stock). No issues no glitches, thanks for getting me in the right direction.
I would like to find a stock 2.1 to downgrade my Desire with to get it rooted. Anyone got one of those? I have found stuff, but none of it will work with the CDMA version.
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I would like to find a stock 2.1 to downgrade my Desire with to get it rooted. Anyone got one of those? I have found stuff, but none of it will work with the CDMA version.
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you don't need to downgrade to root. Use unrevoked.
Unrevoked will not work on 2.2 CDMA Desire unless it was already rooted on 2.1 before 2.2 was installed
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Unrevoked will not work on 2.2 CDMA Desire unless it was already rooted on 2.1 before 2.2 was installed
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Yep, that's why I am looking for a way to get back to 2.1. I would do it the gold card way, but it seems to only work on non-cdma phones for the desire.
fish2222 said:
Yep, that's why I am looking for a way to get back to 2.1. I would do it the gold card way, but it seems to only work on non-cdma phones for the desire.
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Ya I was telling lennyz1988 and no gold card won't work on cdma... Damnitt
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Anyone find a stock USCC 2.1 ruu yet?
I upgraded to 2.2 and would like to go back to 2.1 but can't find anyway to do so yet.
Alltel has 2.1 RUU, you could try it )
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Alltel has 2.1 RUU, you could try it )
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Yeah I saw that but haven't heard about anyone actually trying it on a USCC phone and what the effects are.
Thanks though
I picked up a Desire yesterday to try to start work on it also. I've been doing dev work on the Mesmerize since it came out and also for the Showcase (Cellular South).
Not that you guys probably care, but I'm a USCC Engineer and have access that has helped me out a lot to get the Mesmerize to where it's at today (of course with lots of help from other devs on the Fascinate side as well as the new guys with me). Unfortunately, things aren't as plentiful in the HTC firmware bin or I would have brought a 2.1 RUU over here a long time ago. On the Samsung side, if a customer brought a phone in to the store and had jacked it up, the in store tech had a stock image of the 2.1 firmware that he/she could flash back on the phone and it would be restored to it's factory state and the customer would be sent on their way. With the Desire, this doesn't seem to be the case. There was no factory image to flash to, so phones were swapped and sent in for repair.
I'm sure that the guys from unrevoked will probably figure this out before I even come close, but I just wanted to pop in and say hey and let you know that you have a friend on the inside (probably not the only one) that's working on things also. Feel free to hit me up. I'm always available for questions, comments, and suggestions.
Can someone please tell me how to root a Metro PCS Wildfire S (CDMA). My phone is completely stock just the way it came out of the box. I haven't been able to find a way to root it, that works for me. Please help me. Thank you to anyone that can help me out with this.
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Can someone please tell me how to root a Metro PCS Wildfire S (CDMA). My phone is completely stock just the way it came out of the box. I haven't been able to find a way to root it, that works for me. Please help me. Thank you to anyone that can help me out with this.
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I tried rooting a metro WFS for a coworker of mine, and I almost got the bootloader unlocked but it decides to fail right after you load the unlock key... I rooted my VM WFS really easy. I think it might have something to do with the hboot version. Her version was either 1.9 or 1.10 and my hboot was 1.8 or 1.9. I don't remember because it's been a while and I know hers was one version higher than mine. I couldnt find anything about downgrading the hboot, but my guess is that's where you should start.
Alright thanks. I appreciate it
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xVesica said:
I tried rooting a metro WFS for a coworker of mine, and I almost got the bootloader unlocked but it decides to fail right after you load the unlock key... I rooted my VM WFS really easy. I think it might have something to do with the hboot version. Her version was either 1.9 or 1.10 and my hboot was 1.8 or 1.9. I don't remember because it's been a while and I know hers was one version higher than mine. I couldnt find anything about downgrading the hboot, but my guess is that's where you should start.
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HTCdev.com will give you the version of hboot needed to unlock the bootloader using the key they provide. Just run the RUU then follow the next steps to use the .bin file they email you.