HI
I will be unlocking my HTC Wildfire, I have HTC Clip.
When I make gold card it says: All data will be removed?
It true? I have more then 5GB my data on SD card, programs, maps (CoPilot all europe) if I copy all data to my PC and XTC Clip make my SD Card clear - can I will be just copy all this card from PC to SD Card and all this software will be working?
goralpm said:
HI
I will be unlocking my HTC Wildfire, I have HTC Clip.
When I make gold card it says: All data will be removed?
It true? I have more then 5GB my data on SD card, programs, maps (CoPilot all europe) if I copy all data to my PC and XTC Clip make my SD Card clear - can I will be just copy all this card from PC to SD Card and all this software will be working?
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Why do you want to use XTC clip for unlocking ... ??
use this guide .. you'll find everything you need ...i did it few months a go .. and i don't think i wiped my card .. i dont remember ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1029318
to downgrade htc bootloader( for soff or unlocking) you will have to make a gold card. a goldcard is a patched sd card by some kind of image/ file in it. ( dnt know much abot it). to do so it has to be formatted. which erase all data in it.
so you have 2 options. use another sdcard or just backup your data. in either way you should go through a formatting process of sd card to prepare it for patching.
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Thanks for reply.
I have another SD Card and I make goldcard.
Now, if I will unlock my HTC Wildfire - it means all installed software, settings, phone book, sms and ect... Will gone?
After unlocking my phone will be just unlocked and all old stuff will be in place or will be completely clean and fresh~?
nop not necessarily . it wont be resetted. by the way you dont feel some thing had happened. unless you formatt/ flash your phone.
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So i I will be just unlock, all thing in phone will stay?
I will not write new ROM. I just need rooted phone because now I can't use same software.
But if unlocking reset my phone I prefer to not touch, too many my data is on this phone.
to be sure, get a backup of your data using htc sync. then do what ever you want.
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I used the 2gb sd card come with the HTC Desire to make the gold card. Follow all the procedure properly, just that, after using HxD to change the hex value and save, take out the card, put in again, windows require to format it (means card cannot be used). Try many times, still the same.
Some body says that we can create gold card using the sd card come with Desire.
Is there any work around (using other hex editor to change, or different procedure to do) ? I dare not buy another card since I will not know whether it works or not, no point buying a lot of card just to find the one that can be goldcard, am I right?
So really need your help to fix this, bro.
Only some cards work. U need to try another card.
I had an old 256mb card that worked.... them were the days huh!
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gnolihp said:
I used the 2gb sd card come with the HTC Desire to make the gold card. Follow all the procedure properly, just that, after using HxD to change the hex value and save, take out the card, put in again, windows require to format it (means card cannot be used). Try many times, still the same.
Some body says that we can create gold card using the sd card come with Desire.
Is there any work around (using other hex editor to change, or different procedure to do) ? I dare not buy another card since I will not know whether it works or not, no point buying a lot of card just to find the one that can be goldcard, am I right?
So really need your help to fix this, bro.
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Try this http://www.roothtchero.co.uk/goldcard-2 I used the gold card tool and it was so easy and I got to flash a stock ROM until I upgraded to Froyo. Now I can root my phone.
shadowboy23 said:
Try this http://www.roothtchero.co.uk/goldcard-2 I used the gold card tool and it was so easy and I got to flash a stock ROM until I upgraded to Froyo. Now I can root my phone.
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Bro, you saved my life. Thx a million. It works well. I have my gold card now. I wish this forum got thx button so that I can press it to thank you
basically i took my stanadrd desires sd card and created a gold card for my desire hd. now that my desire hd is done, can i reuse my gold card as my standard desires sd card?
Yes, but you'll need to reformat the sd card.
dnlgee said:
Yes, but you'll need to reformat the sd card.
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will my card still b able to be used as a gold card incase i need to ruu flash in the future?
You'll have to go through the whole process again to make it into a goldcard if you wish to use it as a standard SD card unfortunately.
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You'll have to go through the whole process again to make it into a goldcard if you wish to use it as a standard SD card unfortunately.
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lmao ok nvm. im going to steal my gf's sd card 4 her digital picture framer after she leaves 4 work, flash a rom, make my vid tut, then reflash to stock. thx 4 yer help. def saved me alotta time
LINKSLOVESANDROID said:
lmao ok nvm. im going to steal my gf's sd card 4 her digital picture framer after she leaves 4 work, flash a rom, make my vid tut, then reflash to stock. thx 4 yer help. def saved me alotta time
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Buy yourself a cheap 1GB or 512mb sdcard off eBay for the goldcard purpose and then have it locked away somewhere
So, if I have a gold card, and i want to use it as normal SD card, i need to format it via computer ? And everything will be as default ?
I have the SD card that came with phone, which is locked to t-mob. I got a 2nd 2 gig card and formatted that and did the gold card thing, now I have the orig SD card in. Is phone still carrier unlocked? If I downgrade and install Rom from the 2 gig card and then put the 8 gig card in will it still work?
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I take it , the t-mobile is the 8GB card ??, You should be able to format that anyway - if it is 'locked ' there will be a work around.
- (can you explain sd card locked to me ??- or are you saying that this 8gb sd card has the tmobile rom on - but is editible (ie - you cant take and add stuff to it freely)
( if your saying your PHONE IS LOCKED TO T-MOBILE - then its not to hard to sim -unlock and flash roms too, )
!!! TOP TIP - DONT UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE VERSION AS PAST A CERTAIN SW VERSION A DOWNGRADE WILL BE REQUIRED TO S- off, Sim unlock ect - YET !!!
Ok - your trying to do similar to I have done. Once you have downgraded and installed/flashed a new rom of your choice from your new 2gb card then I cant see a reason why you cant remove your 2gb card and insert the 8gb Tmobile sd.
This should have no massive effect other than your loss of the original tmobile rom and settings.
Be advised though once you start messing with your phone - you'll invalidate you warranty.
Is this phone on contract or from an ended contract ...are you free to do with it what u want ??, ie unlock and use on any network ??
Ive just got an ORANGE BRANDED HTC Desire HD- which was an unwanted upgrade. This was obviously locked to Orange( with orange rom on sd ), I got another sd card, gold carded it, downloaded a rom - placed on this sd and flashed, then put back in my orange sd and it hasnt effected the phone at all..... (you can just wipe you t-mobile sd once youve installed a new rom, Normal format - not fast - use again - then back up you new installed rom to that 8gb card - then you back to using your 8gb card)
If you have an unwanted upgrade or an out of contract phone I d highly recommend flashing a new rom to it, these branded roms(orange rom, tmobile rom ect ect) are full of bloatware and often limited and slow compared to the DEV Roms, even a move to a stock HTC rom will show a great improvement.
Here's a bunch of guide links I used Goldcard, downgrade, s-off , upgrade ect
Gold Card http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how-to-create-a-goldcard/
Downgrade: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905003
Downgrade guides/ rooting ect for HTC Desire HD: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Desire_HD:_Rooting
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thank you for the info,
the 8gig card that came with phone has all my camera images of my boy, and apps i have downloaded from market, and any other stuff that is saved to the sd card, so i didnt want to format it to make a goldcard, that i why i used the 2 gig card as goldcard, and lan to use that same 2 gig card to flash roms from, then just re-insert the 8 gig card to have all my apps and images (will apps work after a new rom flashed? or will i need to re download them?)
Plug your 8gb sd into a sd card holder and plug into your pc, explore the sd card, you should find your photo's in gallery, there should also be a folder called apps backup - all your apps should be in there, also check the download folder - you may find some are in there also. just check that youve found every thing you want to save, copy it to a pc - and then you can overwrite that card
ps. the apps in the apps backup folder on your 8gb, can be saved to your pc, you can then wipe the card, goldcard it, downgrade , route install rom ect and then simply put the apps backup folder back onto the 8gb card, then download astro or another android file explorer , look at your sd card when in your Desire - locate the apps backup folder and then just re-install them - no probs - THATS what Ive been doing - today - all works fine
Dear all,
I have lost my goldcard that I create when my HTC desire GSM phone was brand new, and untouched.
Is it still possible to get my correct CID, my phone has been rooted, and S-off with alpharev 1.8.
I have also flashed a custom rom loaded, but still have a backup of my old virginmobile rom.
Basically I'm trying to create a goldcard, incase I need to go back to stock.
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
I don't have first hand experience of this so you should wait for confirmation from someone with experience but I'm sure I read recently that a goldcard image is specific to an sdcard but not tied to a particular phone.
If this is correct you should be able to create a new goldcard image for your current sdcard and use that.
Steve
Yes You are correct.. Goldcard has nothing to do with the phone.. but it is a sd card.... so goto this link and create a goldcard anytime..http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how-to-create-a-goldcard/
If you have any problem with adb thing.. then .. search for an app in market called goldcard helper... its free.. and it will give you reverse CID of ur sd card.. which you can use to create .img file.. hope you got it.. reply if its not clear.
Thanks guys, appreciate your help.
New goldcard successfully created. ;-)
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TIP: I always make my current in use sdcard in to a gold card.never had any issues with this approach and you always know where it is!
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The only issue while using a partitioned card as gold card is that the pb99img on it might not be recognized by the update process. The partitions would usually have to be deleted to leave a single fat 32 partition
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I have not experienced that issue. I have now a32GB card with 28gb fast 32 followed by 1gb Ext4 partition.
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Heya,
I just received my repaired HTC Desire Z and seems they reset it and removed (and stole -.-) my SD card.
Now until I have a new SD card, I already wanted to try and root it again. But is that possible without one? Guides say that I need one with enough capacity but can't I use my internal space with 1GB?
Som3guy said:
Heya,
I just received my repaired HTC Desire Z and seems they reset it and removed (and stole -.-) my SD card.
Now until I have a new SD card, I already wanted to try and root it again. But is that possible without one? Guides say that I need one with enough capacity but can't I use my internal space with 1GB?
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(Evil people.) No u can't, u don't have access to this memory, even when u connect the phone to ur computer, u will not get any popup. When u will try to push something into the phone though ADB, it will say something about sdcard not mounted.
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Yes You need an SD card, it's the only area of memory that you can store files to be flashed/restored/backedup/etc as rooting/flashing etc is going to wipe that internal memory anyways depending on which action.
Did you least notify them that they did not provide back an SD card?
But yea you'll need to get a new SD card for you to do anything recovery/rooting/etc wise.
Well I'm quite sure that I won't get my SD card back since it was the HTC repair center and I guess it is a standard procedure to remove SIM card and sd card before resetting anything. I was warned by the shop with the sim card but guess he forgot to tell me about the sd card. Gonna try it but well...
Anyways, can I borrow an sd card from a friend, root my smartphone and give it back afterwards? Or are the files on the card required?
Nope you can use the borrowed sdcard and then not use an sd until you get one. Any files put on that sd are not of use for the most part after root. You can save them to your pc and download them to your sd when you get it if you'd like but you'll be fine with out them as well
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Great thanks for the quick reply