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Recently upgraded my contract with Orange and picked the HTC Desire previously having Hero and enjoyed it.
Having previously owned the Hero i had some knowledge on the Android system, so began to root, flash custom recovery and rom.
After rooting using unrevoked and flashing amon ra recovery.
I selected Cyanogen 6.0 desire rom, all flashed well, also flashed the latest radio which is where i think the probelm persists.
After reading that flashing the latest radio onto branded orange desire locks the sim, i purchased an unlock code htccode.com to see if that solved my problem, didn't help one bit, i don't even think the code will work unless im running the stock orange rom, but tried anyway with tmobile sim card, network unlock successful but phone says emergency calls only, so obviously didnt!
Can anyone help me get my htc desire back to orange stock rom? so i can then unlock the phone properly and flash a generic rom.
Hope all that make sense.
Andy.
Hi, im a bit stuck here, I have a telstra desire with their 2.1 rom, and a hboot of 0.83.0001 it seems to be able to install clockworkmod ok, and I can get into it but when I install a custom rom, after the reboot, it sticks on the telstra splash screen and vibrates 7 times. at this point if I try to boot into recovery it also does the same thing, the only way to recover is to go into fastboot and update the official telstra RUU again.
I have tried the latest Modaco rom and the latest Leedriod rom, both same effect.
this is exactly what I did to install Leedriod:
install clockworkmod from unrevoked3
copied these 2 files to SD:
32.46.00.32U_5.10.05.17_2.zip
LeeDrOiD_V2.1a_NoA2SD.zip
boot into clockworkmod, Erased Data, into advanced, erased davlik cache
install from zip > choose zip to install > chose LeeDriod > installing......
once that finished, I installed the radio, then chose reboot from the clockworkmod menu.
it rebooted and got a little picture of a box and an arrow coming out of it for a few seconds, then I got the telstra spash screen and 7 vibrates.
has anyone got any idea where im going wrong? I cant seem to find any information and im a bit of a noob to android, just defected from the world of WM (Tytn2)
ok so I have done a little bit of trial and error, turns out my problem is the radio.
Tried 2 different radio roms, both end up stopping the phone from booting at all. must be something different to the hardware in this new desire that needs a special radio rom maybe?
jayme,
You've likely hit the nail on the head with your issue. Telstra models of the Desire (8183) use a different set of radio hardware. Telstra runs their own 'Next G' network, which is a different frequency network to the rest of the world.
This frequency (850Mhz) requires different hardware to be installed on the phone, which is why the Telstra version of the phone will only ever work on the Telstra network.
My suggestion would be to find a rom that supports the 850Mhz network, using a compatible radio module. Failing that you may have to learn how to build your own.
Good luck.
I actually installed the leedriod froyo rom fine and it works as long as I leave the original radio module untouched, but then I get the stability issues associated with running earlier radios on froyo. what im wondering is what are all these other telstra users running custom froyo roms using for their radio. ive read guides taht say which radio to install on a telstra desire and mine just doesnt work with those versions.
I may have to wait for the official telstra 2.2. update and the compatible radio rom that comes with it
Waiting sounds like your only option. I bought an unbranded phone to use on the Optus network. Thankfully Froyo 2.2 came out a few weeks back, and I'm quite happy with it.
Waiting can be a pain in the arse and considering how long this country has to wait for things from Telstra, getting 2.2 might be a belated Christmas present next year...
Good luck with whatever you chose.
Try teppic74's Rom here <forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773997>.
I had full success and converted my Telstra branded Desire into generic HTC Desire.
NextG functionality was not affected by flashing teppic74's Rom with the Radio.
Cheers
Wow... so many people commenting that the Telstra (A8183) requires different radios etc...
Wrong.
I bought a Telstra A8183 and rooted it, installed clockworkMod, then have installed several versions of Leedroid through 2.1a, and have recently also applied the S-OFF hack and changed the splashscreen.
I've also flashed about 4 different radios up to the latest as of today without any problems.
My particular phone is an AMOLED model and came with HBOOT 0.75 - however many people with different versions of the HBOOT (anbd including SLCD) with the Tesltra hardware have successfully upgraded.
Sorry I don't know what your particular problem could be - but it's not something specific to all Tesltra A8183 Desires.
Cheers - N
Hi there. Another telstra desire user here. I've had mine since July, amoled and hboot 0.83. I rooted soon after getting it and have run roms from t-mod and cyanogen from whirlpool.net.au. it's. A great place to start and lots of awesome advice too. I wouldn't be here if not for muskier, Bog, and s-murphy. They have links to radio and roms there. Good luck.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Sorry I meant to spell muskie and Bof.
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well turns out the 2 radios I flashed happen to be the 2 radios my phoen wont boot with. both of them have _2 at the end. all the rest seem to work fine, I have since updated to the latest radio and im a happy froyo user. as for t-mod, wtf is the point of it lol, my UAstring is not the special telstra one and everything works fine, even data usage
talkiet said:
Wow... so many people commenting that the Telstra (A8183) requires different radios etc...
Wrong.
I bought a Telstra A8183 and rooted it, installed clockworkMod, then have installed several versions of Leedroid through 2.1a, and have recently also applied the S-OFF hack and changed the splashscreen.
I've also flashed about 4 different radios up to the latest as of today without any problems.
My particular phone is an AMOLED model and came with HBOOT 0.75 - however many people with different versions of the HBOOT (anbd including SLCD) with the Tesltra hardware have successfully upgraded.
Sorry I don't know what your particular problem could be - but it's not something specific to all Tesltra A8183 Desires.
Cheers - N
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What radio are you running?
How did you do the S-OFF hack? I really want to get rid of the splashscreen...
talkiet said:
Wow... so many people commenting that the Telstra (A8183) requires different radios etc...
Wrong.
I bought a Telstra A8183 and rooted it, installed clockworkMod, then have installed several versions of Leedroid through 2.1a, and have recently also applied the S-OFF hack and changed the splashscreen.
I've also flashed about 4 different radios up to the latest as of today without any problems.
My particular phone is an AMOLED model and came with HBOOT 0.75 - however many people with different versions of the HBOOT (anbd including SLCD) with the Tesltra hardware have successfully upgraded.
Sorry I don't know what your particular problem could be - but it's not something specific to all Tesltra A8183 Desires.
Cheers - N
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+1 to talkiet...
I've had about 15 different ROMS and maybe 8 radios on my telstra desire, never had a problem. (mine is the AMOLED version originally HBOOT .75 now .93 version). The only thing that sometimes goes wrong is the APN settings and thats easy to fix.
I'm not sure how all those UA strings work, but to be honest i've not bothered checking my data usage or so on for a fair while, and the Bigpond unmetered sites are pretty worthless anyway. I never go over and I play around with the phone a lot. So, you can put pretty much any ROM on and just tweak the APNs a bit and no worries!
concerning S_OFF,
its not hard to do at all. just follow the instructions on the alpharev site to the letter, I was worried about bricking my phone, same as the first time I put a custom ROM on there, but if you do your homework, you'll be sweet. When you think about it, the S-OFF process is pretty safe as so many people do it and have a look about, there's not many saying they have ruined their phone using the S-OFF program.
The only thing i've actually broken on my phone over the last year is the sd card (very recently), trying to reformat it for data to ext ROM. Of course it was a cheap one and the card that came with the phone (samsung brand i think) worked fine when i formatted it and stuck it in.
Phone: Desire A8183 AMOLED S-OFF
HBOOT .93 and CWM 3.x
ROM: Crystal Kingdom v0.2 D2EXT+ (damo is a legend!!)
htc a8183 show welcom and vibrating
how to s-off this phone
hboot-0.75.0000
radio-4.50.00.11
any one help me
For all of you having branded phones, go to htc dev site and download 2.3 RUU and flash it. You will get 0.93 hboot and newer radio plus the phone will be debranded, because 2.3 upgrade is made for all versions: amoled, slcd...
After that s-off and root is very easy, use revolutionary and you will have everything...
Sent from my HTC Desire via flashes and thunders
nlooooo said:
For all of you having branded phones, go to htc dev site and download 2.3 RUU and flash it. You will get 0.93 hboot and newer radio plus the phone will be debranded, because 2.3 upgrade is made for all versions: amoled, slcd...
After that s-off and root is very easy, use revolutionary and you will have everything...
Sent from my HTC Desire via flashes and thunders
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lol u should just make ur own post about this coz this is about the 5th time uv told some1 bout the 2.3 ruu
Sent from my HTC Desire
jmcclue said:
lol u should just make ur own post about this coz this is about the 5th time uv told some1 bout the 2.3 ruu
Sent from my HTC Desire
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For me it's the easiest way to upload radio and hboot, get s-off with revolutionary then root and you're open to all possibilities...
That RUU is simply made for all Desires, no brick issues, no radio compatibility issues...
Hello everyone, a new HTC Desire HD user here.
Right now I am very glad that I just succeeded in flashing my first rom. I chose Android Revolution 2.0.7 after very close looks at relevant posts and instructions. Well, it worked. But now that I am ready to flash the radio, some new questions arise.
Before I flashed this ROM I downloaded VISIONary+ and Terminal Emulator to root the device and install h-boot as instructed. I also followed this post in order to S-Off Radio as suggested by the author of the ROM.
My question is, now that I've installed Android Revolution HD 2.0.7, the VISIONary+ program and also the SuperUser app icon which appeared in the old ROM after I used the rooting tool have all gone. Is the new system still guaranteed with ROOT and HBOOT? If not, the new system is based on official HTC update 1.72.405.3, therefore VISIONary+ does not work on it right?
Do I continue on to radio flashing without hassel, or do I have to find some way to redo ROOT, HBOOT and Radio S-Off?
(Sorry for the long essay, I tried to explain the question as clearly as possible. Any help much appreciated!)
I flashed my standard Desire and one of the first instructions was to enter Hboot by holding down "volume down and the power button". I would then attach the phone to my PC and install the custom drivers.
However, I am now attempting to do the same on my brothers HTC Desire HD, but nothing seems to happen when holding down volume down and power. It just boots normally. We are attempting to install the Unrevoked stuff.
Any idea how one gets into hboot on an HTC Desire HD?
Perhaps post in the DHD forum??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=754
EddyOS said:
Perhaps post in the DHD forum??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=754
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Touché. My apologies.
Pull the battery, reinsert, then hold volume down and power. It's got quick start up which I'm guessing doesn't actually turn the phone off. It's a pain in the ass.
Kalavere said:
Pull the battery, reinsert, then hold volume down and power. It's got quick start up which I'm guessing doesn't actually turn the phone off. It's a pain in the ass.
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Ah, it was under application options, "fast boot". Disabling that got it working. Only thing now is that Unrevoked sits there on "waiting for phone to respond"... or some message like that.
From what I understand the phone should be on "charge mode" not "storage mode".
Use VISIONary+ to permaroot your DHD. You can download it from the app market. Then use unrEVOked to flash a custom recovery. It's the way I did it.
Kalavere said:
Use VISIONary+ to permaroot your DHD. You can download it from the app market. Then use unrEVOked to flash a custom recovery. It's the way I did it.
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Yea, we're attempting to use Visionary now. However, he set it to temproot now and then after, permroot now. But, it said the phone needed to be temprooted!
So, he set temproot on boot and has rebooted, so we'll see what comes of it. Seems a lot more complicated than rooting and flashing ROMs on my standard Desire
EDIT: Worked this time. To get Clockwork Recovery Mod installed, do I use "reflash_package.exe"?
unrEVOked doesn't work on the DHD, all the rooting options you want are on the DHD forum
From the unrEVOked site:
Supported Devices
unrevoked3 currently supports the following Android phones:
*Sprint EVO 4G (HTC Supersonic)
*Droid Incredible (HTC Incredible)
*HTC Desire GSM
*HTC Desire CDMA (HTC BravoC)
*HTC Aria
*Droid Eris (HTC DesireC)
*HTC Wildfire (HTC Buzz)
unrevoked3 will permanently unlock NAND write protection by default on the following phones:
*Sprint EVO 4G
*Droid Incredible (HTC Incredible)
*HTC Desire CDMA (HTC BravoC)
OK, so what is the best way to install the Clockwork Recovery Mod so we may flash his phone with a new ROM? We chose Ginger Redux.
It is permarooted now and SuperUser is there.
Hmmm, maybe I didn't use unrEVOked, so many phones so many ways! Have a look here.
Please the desire and desire hd is 2 different phones... This forum is for desire the earlier linked one is for desire hd. We can tell you how to root your desire, but we don't want to find a way to root your desire hd, when it's all there for you in the desire hd forum.
Also why would you think redux will work on a desire hd, when it is a desire rom(as far as i can see there is no version on the desire hd forum). So please realise that those a two different phones. They need to be rooted in two different ways and they need different roms... So please go to the desire hd forum.
mortenmhp said:
Please the desire and desire hd is 2 different phones... This forum is for desire the earlier linked one is for desire hd. We can tell you how to root your desire, but we don't want to find a way to root your desire hd, when it's all there for you in the desire hd forum.
Also why would you think redux will work on a desire hd, when it is a desire rom(as far as i can see there is no version on the desire hd forum). So please realise that those a two different phones. They need to be rooted in two different ways and they need different roms... So please go to the desire hd forum.
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I did, it's just that this helpful guy was being helpful
I'll be honest in that i'm still learning, so yea I do know they are separate phones but I was under the assumption that they were actually the same under the hood, just the HD slightly bigger etc...
I was told by the guy who develops ginger redux that it should work fine on a Desire HD... but if not i'll keep looking then.
okay so i've been given a used g2/desire z but the problem is i cannot figure out if it's a g2 or a desire z because no where on the phone it says t mobile but the back plate has a g2 carved on it (the back could have been replaced). Now i looked at some pics of the G2 it clearly says t-mobile on top It's running froyo 2.2 with the build number of 0.90.xxx.x. This stopped me from rooting the phone since i didn't have a way of finding out what this damned thing is. Secondly i tried checking for updates it keeps searching for updates and nothing happens and thirdly if it's a g2 it must be unlocked cause i'm using an other carriers sim. There is no HTC Sense on the phone no shining suns no flip clock or is it just that the version is so old that sense wasn't invented yet ?plus if i went ahead with the desire z method of rooting if what i have is a g2 would i brick my phone ?
I had the same question they are the same the DZ is the international version of the G2 it has a little more memory I believe. And all roms are safe to flash on either device. Some roms like sense need to have the DZ hboot. Simple to install and it gives you a little more ram which is needed for certain roms
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the only real difference is the stock rom and the hboot/spl
boot on your phone and see what hboot you have (hold volume down while powering on) and you will know if its considered a g2 or dz
there isnt more ram in the dz just a larger partition for the system which is needed to flash certain roms (sense) it truley wont matter which one you have now and you will only need to change the hboot from g2 to dz if you want these roms. there would be no reason to change from dz hboot to g2.
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okay so i've been given a used g2/desire z but the problem is i cannot figure out if it's a g2 or a desire z because no where on the phone it says t mobile but the back plate has a g2 carved on it (the back could have been replaced). Now i looked at some pics of the G2 it clearly says t-mobile on top It's running froyo 2.2 with the build number of 0.90.xxx.x. This stopped me from rooting the phone since i didn't have a way of finding out what this damned thing is. Secondly i tried checking for updates it keeps searching for updates and nothing happens and thirdly if it's a g2 it must be unlocked cause i'm using an other carriers sim. There is no HTC Sense on the phone no shining suns no flip clock or is it just that the version is so old that sense wasn't invented yet ?plus if i went ahead with the desire z method of rooting if what i have is a g2 would i brick my phone ?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26990743&postcount=2
(QUOTE) there isnt more ram in the dz just a larger partition for the system which is needed to flash certain roms (sense)
Thanks my bad that's what I meant to say.
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so i checked my bootloader and the hboot version is 0.78.1000 now as Pnut pointed me to this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26990743&postcount=2 where the say this 0.76.2000>G2 so am i right in assuming that what i have is the G2 and it is safe to go ahead with this method of rooting http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/TMobile_G2:_Rooting ?
it would be safe even if you had the dz. if you want to understand the phones a bit more look @ the xda wiki on the vision, just go to wiki tab on the top of the screen, the htc phones on the right find the g2/dz aka vision. you ll understand more, same guide for rooting as cyanogens but more of an explanation
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so i read the wiki as you said demkantor and i came to the hboot part so here's what it is
1.1. engineering hboot
Download the appropriate HBOOT for your phone:
T-Mobile G2: vision.hboot-0.76.2000.zip (md5sum 7669AE12DC2FAA10AE555A164980EFD0)
HTC Desire Z: vision.hboot-0.84.2000.zip (md5sum 2CE1BDD5E4C1119CCFCECB938710D742)
Note that the md5sums are for the actual hboot img contained within the zip file, not the for the zip file itself. Note also that the dz, g2, and dhd each use their own version of the engineering boot, as the phones are partitioned differently. (If you have previously installed the wrong HBOOT for your phone, you may need to reflash everything after partition 18 .
According to this it's my choice on which hboot version i want to flash ?
well if you like sense roms id go dz as you have the larger system partition otherwise go with g2, its not a big deal so long as you flash a rom afterwards. this will not cause a brick but if you change your emmc partition the current rom will not be able to boot after you are rooted. thats ok you want to flash a new rom anyhow.
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