So I recently acquired a Desire HD, and now i'm trying root it to install a custom ROM. I used to own a Desire so i'm not new to flashing ROMs and Android hacking in general.
I'm using AAHK, and after following all the instructions and opening the script it asks to downgrade the firmware to be able to root. I tell it to do so, and it continues. After a while it says that if succesful, the device should prompt me with something and that i should confirm by pressing volume up. However, it does not do so and i end up in HBOOT. After restarting the version is the same and AAHK asks me to downgrade again. I've tried it a couple of times but it doesn't seem to have an effect.
This leads us to my question, which is what is the minimum size requirement for the SD card inside? Also, i could not find a clear answer on if the downgrade process will format the SD card when making the goldcard. I'm using a 256 MB card but i do have a 16 GB one, i just don't want to lose the data in it.
Will the card i'm using do? Am i doing something wrong? Will the SD card's data be erased in the process?
Thanks in advance,
Coolnesss
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I have a Desire running froyo which has been debranded and i have also invoked apps to sd using adb method.
Hopefully, in the near future, we may get another firmware update so, in readyness for this i have a few questions that i need answering.
To upgrade firmware, i need to insert my goldcard which is a different card to the one i use reguarly in my phone. Is there any way i can maintain all of my applications after upgrade of firmware ie. Insert goldcard, upgrade return original goldcard containing app data and after having done this, maintain my adb push status and original applications.
I may be wrong (bit of a noob!) but i don't think this is straightforward as apps are split between sd and phone storage.
Please advise!
First thing to do is make your everyday card into your gold card as this sorts out having to faff about with changing cards...
OTA updates shouldn't remove apps/data so you should be fine
I have seen dozens of posters on different forums having this problem, and I think a common thread may be beneficial. If the mods disagree, or if you feel this is an inappropriate place for this thread, please let me know where I should move it to, because I really would like to help others learn from what I've discovered.
I have an HTC desire, and I recently started experimenting with rooting my phone, and installing custom ROMs. I quickly realized I wanted to use A2SD but my 8gig microSD card was only class 2, so I decided to upgrade before taking this step.
I was using AuraxTSense and I bought a 16gig patriot class 10 microSD card. Unfortunately, when I put the new card in, my phone would refuse to mount it. I knew the card was good as I could use it and format it in my card reader.
I would get the message it is now safe to remove SD card, and "Disk Drive" wouldn't show up as an option when I connected the phone to my computer.
I thought the problem was AuraxTSense, so I flashed LeeDroid on there. Same problem.
I reverted the phone to my provider's (Telus) RUU, and that seemed to allow my card to be recognized. This confirmed that the fix would be in the software.
I scoured dozens of forum threads, and tried everything people have suggested, using fastboot, using adb, nothing worked.
Finally one thing did, and I would like to share it.
1) I reverted my phone to the provider's RUU
2) I re-rooted my phone using unRevoked to flash clockwork
3) I used unRevoked AGAIN to flash AmonRa onto the phone
4) I booted into AmonRa recovery and made an ext2 partition on my SD card
5) I upgraded the ext2 partition to ext3 (not sure if this is important, but i did it)
6) I flashed LeeDroid ROM.
All problems solved. Custom ROM, shiny SD card, and A2SD.
I hope this can reach and help some other people that I see having this problem.
[Q] downgrading - either get CID incorrect or "no image or wrong image!" problem
OK. I have tried everything I can possibly find and I can't for the life of me get my new HTC Desire HD downgraded.
Yes, it is actually a Desire HD this time... (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=927338 for a few lolz)
I have an Orange HTC Desire HD with firmware version 1.84.61.2. My first attempts to downgrade failed after checking the PD98IMG.zip with the "CID incorrect!" error. I find out from the guide that this is a known problem and probably due to my phone being a branded model, and that I'll need to make a Goldcard. Fair enough.
I'm using this guide to help me (as I'm using Linux rather than Windows) - http://www.nazriawang.com/2010/04/how-to-create-goldcard-with-ubuntu.html
I've tried two different cards, tried both the mmc0 and mmc2 hex codes given by the Goldcard Helper, formatting as FAT32 using Gparted (as the phone seems to default to FAT16), and still I keep getting "CID incorrect" and a cheery message telling me my update failed.
Some information which may help others: I kept getting the "No image!" error when my SD card was formatted using FAT16. I think the Desire HD formats smaller SD cards to FAT16 by default. Formatting to FAT32 actually got the bootloader to find the PD98IMG.zip image, but still wouldn't get past the CID checks.
So, my questions are as follows:
1) Am I right in thinking that getting the "CID incorrect" means I'm making more progress than if I'm getting the "No image!" error?
2) Should I just plough ahead and try a few more SD cards?
3) Any more suggestions for avoiding this blasted "CID incorrect" error?
Thanks in advance!
another question on the same issue
Another thing:
4) If I get "CID incorrect" having gone through all the psneuter and misc_version shenanigans, do I need to factory reset and redo the psneuter and misc_version steps before I start again or can I just go straight into making the goldcard and flashing PD98IMG.zip?
ok, I've tried three microSD cards now - including a Kingston 2GB card, which loads of people here have said should work.
Still getting "CID incorrect".
This is so frustrating - the guide is so straightforward, and seems to work for so many people - why won't it work for me?
Most likely you did not reverse the CID properly. Give it to me, and I will reverse it for you.
You do not need to redo the misc_version and psneuter all the time. One time is enough.
Eureka!
Aha! I'm in!
jkoljo said:
Most likely you did not reverse the CID properly. Give it to me, and I will reverse it for you.
You do not need to redo the misc_version and psneuter all the time. One time is enough.
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Thanks, jkoljo, but it wasn't that.
It turns out that I wasn't writing the goldcard.img hex file to the right place. This was the piece of help I needed: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9975925&postcount=6
For what it's worth, here's what I did which helped:
Firstly, instead of using the phone to attach the SD card to the computer, I used an SD card adaptor (which came with the new - overpriced! - Kingston SD card I bought).
Then, using Gparted, I formatted the MicroSD card as FAT32.
Then I closed Gparted, made sure the card was unmounted, removed it from the computer, plugged it back in, and unmounted it again. This ceremony might have been completely unnecessary, but the important thing is to make sure the card is plugged in but not mounted.
The problem was that, following the original advice, I was writing to the partition and not the card itself. (I think this was the equivalent of getting the logical and physical disks mixed up in the Windows guide.)
So, in my case, instead of doing this:
Code:
sudo dd bs=512 if=~/Downloads/goldcard.img of=/dev/mmcblk0p1
I needed to do this:
Code:
sudo dd bs=512 if=~/Downloads/goldcard.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
Anyway, enough of that, my phone's finished downgrading - time to get on with the rest of the process!
I'm getting the same error.
My phone is not locked/branded.
PD98IMG.nbh
not found
PD98IMG.img
not found
PD98IMG.zip
Blue progress bar finishes
then it will validate the zip
Yellow/golden progress bar
The pops up the below error.
CID incorrect!
Update Fail!
Press power to reboot.
Phone is Desire HD after the recent OTA update
Firmware downgrading to 1.32.405.6 from 1.84.720.3
What needs to be done next ?
Help suggestions please...
Gold card ?
Is there a good chance of bricking the thing if its not done correctly ?
Do I need to put the same PD98IMG.zip in the gold card ?
Yeah, make a goldcard, and put the zip file there. The chance of bricking is basically zero.
Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk
I gad kind of the same problem. No CID problem, but the msg that there was no image/wrong image found. When i unplugged my USB cable which was still attached and rebooted my phone, problem was solved....
Try this also...
jkoljo
reverse it for me.please... 00b500b8422700102020434453000003
I had this issue...my problem I quick formatted on the pc instead of complete, so did complete it worked first time
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
redseventyseven said:
OK. I have tried everything I can possibly find and I can't for the life of me get my new HTC Desire HD downgraded.
Yes, it is actually a Desire HD this time... (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=927338 for a few lolz)
I have an Orange HTC Desire HD with firmware version 1.84.61.2. My first attempts to downgrade failed after checking the PD98IMG.zip with the "CID incorrect!" error. I find out from the guide that this is a known problem and probably due to my phone being a branded model, and that I'll need to make a Goldcard. Fair enough.
I'm using this guide to help me (as I'm using Linux rather than Windows) - http://www.nazriawang.com/2010/04/how-to-create-goldcard-with-ubuntu.html
I've tried two different cards, tried both the mmc0 and mmc2 hex codes given by the Goldcard Helper, formatting as FAT32 using Gparted (as the phone seems to default to FAT16), and still I keep getting "CID incorrect" and a cheery message telling me my update failed.
Some information which may help others: I kept getting the "No image!" error when my SD card was formatted using FAT16. I think the Desire HD formats smaller SD cards to FAT16 by default. Formatting to FAT32 actually got the bootloader to find the PD98IMG.zip image, but still wouldn't get past the CID checks.
So, my questions are as follows:
1) Am I right in thinking that getting the "CID incorrect" means I'm making more progress than if I'm getting the "No image!" error?
2) Should I just plough ahead and try a few more SD cards?
3) Any more suggestions for avoiding this blasted "CID incorrect" error?
Thanks in advance!
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Remove memory card from the device
format or use any utility or used that memory card
into another phone
and
remove android folder from that memory card
if u try to format that memory card it will display and error memory card or sd card is write protected
remove un necessary or recovery files from the root of memory card
put any back up image on ( i had already no. of back images of my phone [HTC INSPIRE 4G])
put memory card into the phone
restart phone power + vol down button
go to recovery
start cmw (my phone had) recovery
then go to restore or install or whatever u wanted to do there
i used restore option (bcoz i had some backup of my phone) by cmw recovery
say thanks
Hey, I want to install custom roms on my phone, therefore I need it to be rooted and S-offed, but to s-off it I need to downgrade it, but to downgrade it, I need to root it and what not.
So I decided "just" to root it via Gingerbreak.
It tells me to have a FAT32 formatted SD card. I have backuped all my relevant data, anything else can be deleted.
Can I just plug my DHD into my PC and format the SD Card with windows?
Will my phone work still?
Regards...
PS: My Android Version is 2.3.3, my HTC Sense version is 2.1, my kernel is 2.6.35.10, my software number is 2.50.405.2, if this is relevant (all stock)
I can't edit my post, that's why I'm double posting.
Hi,
my phone stuck on boot loop, as i mentioned at the title. I mean it comes to HTC screen and then black screen and then again HTC screen. It happened when i try to move com.htc package to sd-card, i was trying to open some more place for my internal storage ( i didn't know that can happen.)
how can i fix this ? can you please help me thanks !:crying:
Unfortunately you tried to move an important system component (didn't even know it would let you).
In future, if you don't know what it is, you should research it first. If you can't find anything, don't touch it
To get it back, you will likely have to run an RUU, but you will lose everything except stuff on your sd card.
Find bortak's troubleshooting guide at the top of Q&A, find the bit on RUU, find and flash the 2.3.3. GB RUU.
In future, if you really want to make more space on the Desire, the only proper way is to research how to S-OFF, root and partition your sd card.
Do you have a Nandroid? You must take nandroid backup using CWM before going fishy with /system
Else try factory reset using stock recovery
To free system space, instead of moving important files, use Link2SD for moving apps to SD partition
I'm here to Help
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thanks, i will try
I'm appreciated for your helps, i'm now at work, when i go home i 'll try your suggestion that installing RUU.
I don't have a nandroid and don't know what it is. And i tried all choices on HBOOT none of them worked !
And one more question my usb driver looks like broken when i connect computer my phone and go into HBOOT, it says "USB Device not recognized" but i can plug my sd card to my laptop, can i run RUU and flash proccess by my sd card and how ?
rsercano said:
And one more question my usb driver looks like broken when i connect computer my phone and go into HBOOT, it says "USB Device not recognized" but i can plug my sd card to my laptop, can i run RUU and flash proccess by my sd card and how ?
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In the same troubleshooting guide there should be a section on how to extract the ROM.zip from the RUU
Then you rename it to PB99IMG.zip exactly, put it on the root of the sd card (not in any folder), and run it from the sdcard without cable.
Alternatively, if you search directly for the 2.3.3. RUU as PB99IMG.zip is should be available.
eddiehk6 said:
In the same troubleshooting guide there should be a section on how to extract the ROM.zip from the RUU
Then you rename it to PB99IMG.zip exactly, put it on the root of the sd card (not in any folder), and run it from the sdcard without cable.
Alternatively, if you search directly for the 2.3.3. RUU as PB99IMG.zip is should be available.
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YOU ARE AWESOME ! BUT my phone now works i opened it, but can't use my Vodafone TR line, it says NO SIM CARD What should i do now ?
EDIT: I MADE IT WORK BY REBOOTING, Thanks a lot again !!!!