Hi guys, selling my Desire. It's being sold rooted with 4EXT Touch Recovery. So that the phone can work when sold (isn't just recovery loaded), can anyone recommend me a Stock Sense rom?
Something with Sense and some minimal tweaks is okay, but not custom graphics/boot screens and heavy modification.
Thanks
The best you can use is Supernova by Droidzone. Its basically the official HTC Gingerbread + enough space for apps.
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Why not just flash official ruu from HTC? Cannot be simpler.
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Why not just flash official ruu from HTC? Cannot be simpler.
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Because he said he is selling it rooted. Besides, the one who is gonna buy it will root it eventually anyway if he flash the official RUU. He may have even spared the buyer all the trouble.
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He may have even spared the buyer all the trouble.
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I don't care for buyers trouble. If he wants root, let him done it by himself. Running a RUU is the most rational thing you could do when letting your device go.
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The best you can use is Supernova by Droidzone. Its basically the official HTC Gingerbread + enough space for apps.
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Thanks, this is what I was looking for. I'm selling it rooted.
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I've just installed Official_FroYo_2.10.405.2 on my rooted HTC Desire.
Checked for updates and was offered to install the system update mentioned above.
Is there any point for me to install it? anyone heard anything good/bad about this update?
Thanks
You shouldn't apply OTA updates to a rooted phone. There is a high probability that it will mess something up.
I would suggest you get the 2.29.405.5 RUU from shipped roms and run that.
However, this will wipe your phone and you'll need to root again.
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mikep99 said:
You shouldn't apply OTA updates to a rooted phone. There is a high probability that it will mess something up.
I would suggest you get the 2.29.405.5 RUU from shipped roms and run that.
However, this will wipe your phone and you'll need to root again.
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Thanks for the info.
Regarding installing a new RUU, as this is a pain in the ass, are there any substential changes from 2.1 to 2.29 that you are aware about, which are worth the trouble?
Not sure about the changes. Look for a changelog on HTCs website.
I would suggest running it though as your rom is a good few months out of date
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mikep99 said:
Not sure about the changes. Look for a changelog on HTCs website.
I would suggest running it though as your rom is a good few months out of date
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Cool cheers mate
Hello, I read 2.29.405.5 RUU brings nice camera updates... any chance I could apply that to the (custom) ROM AuraXTSense 8.2?
teorouge said:
Hello, I read 2.29.405.5 RUU brings nice camera updates... any chance I could apply that to the (custom) ROM AuraXTSense 8.2?
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No
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Hello!
When I bought my Desire, I asked the seller to root it and to flash it with another rom for me.
Then I read something about a goldcard. Since the original rom was from Orange (French provider) and the previous owner had it unlocked (officially or not I don't know ), will I ever have to use a goldcard? As I don't have a goldcard, what can go wrong?
Thanks!
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k-e-n-2 said:
Hello!
When I bought my Desire, I asked the seller to root it and to flash it with another rom for me.
Then I read something about a goldcard. Since the original rom was from Orange (French provider) and the previous owner had it unlocked (officially or not I don't know ), will I ever have to use a goldcard? As I don't have a goldcard, what can go wrong?
Thanks!
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Goldcard is a tool which is required when you try to flash stock ROM. There are a myriad of reasons why you might need to do that in the future.
Here is the method I used:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-easily-create-gold-card-for-htc-desire-without-hex-editing/
k-e-n-2 said:
Hello!
When I bought my Desire, I asked the seller to root it and to flash it with another rom for me.
Then I read something about a goldcard. Since the original rom was from Orange (French provider) and the previous owner had it unlocked (officially or not I don't know ), will I ever have to use a goldcard? As I don't have a goldcard, what can go wrong?
Thanks!
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If you do not have a goldcard you could be unable to flash an ruu. You need to do this, if you want to set your phone completely back to stock. You need to this, when you want to "delete signs" of root, s-off and installed custom roms. So that when you sent your phone back to your provider/seller, you can assert a warranty claim, although you lost it with rooting (and so on) your phone.
Ohhh shh**tt!!
@stringer7: thanks for the link.
I have a backup of the original ROM. Can't I just reflash it to restore the phone back @stock? Can I still make a goldcard?
Thanks for your help!
As far as i know, you can make a goldcard at any time. It's just important to have one.
You shouldn't need a Goldcard- but it's completely optional and beneficial in some ways
Well I plan to give my Desire to my Mom and buy another phone, I don't want her to experience any rom related bug so I'll turn it back to official rom...
Can I simply reflash the backed up official rom? Will I lose Root and/or S-Off?
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k-e-n-2 said:
Well I plan to give my Desire to my Mom and buy another phone, I don't want her to experience any rom related bug so I'll turn it back to official rom...
Can I simply reflash the backed up official rom? Will I lose Root and/or S-Off?
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Yes you would then lose root and s-off.
You could reflash your backup - but if it's a nandroid backup, that would have been done after you rooted wouldn't it, so you would get rooted official rom.
So best thing is find the ruu for your device and carrier, create goldcard and run the ruu? You will find tutorials on XDA for this!
Ok thank you very much for your answers
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Ok thank you very much for your answers
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Press the thanks button.
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If a phone got officialy unlocked (= desimlocked), is it still branded?
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k-e-n-2 said:
Back again...
If a phone got officialy unlocked (= desimlocked), is it still branded?
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Rooting a phone does not take the branding off it, flashing a Rom with no branding does that... For example, my phone provider is virgin mobile, when i rooted it I still had virgins logos and apps on my phone... When i flashed a custom Rom, I didn't
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Rooting a phone does not take the branding off it, flashing a Rom with no branding does that... For example, my phone provider is virgin mobile, when i rooted it I still had virgins logos and apps on my phone... When i flashed a custom Rom, I didn't
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Agree.
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Hi im somewhat of a newbie and ive been reading many guides on rooting the htc desire z but im wondering which way to root is the best for my phone which is the bell htc desire z running firmware version 1.84. Mainly i see 2 meathods, visionary and gfree. Also what is the chance that i will brick my phone?
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gfree http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928160
This question gets asked at least once a week if not more.
The consensus is that this is the safest, most consistent, and up-to-date method (gfree, NO visionary)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...sion#Rooting_the_Vision_.28G2.2FDZ.29_and_DHD
Plus you get all the support from #g2root @ freenode IRC
Thanks but have alot of people gotten bricks with this meathod
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Also one quick question. It says i need to downgrade to 1.34. I have 1.84 so what features will i lose when downgrading. And can i upgrade again after root?
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Thanks but have alot of people gotten bricks with this meathod
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no.. unless you're one of the unlucky ones with the bad batch of emmc chips that fails to initialize. that's more a hardware issue than a rooting issue, though, and not something to worry about. you might do well for yourself reading this thread in regards to /cache mounting errors.
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Also one quick question. It says i need to downgrade to 1.34. I have 1.84 so what features will i lose when downgrading. And can i upgrade again after root?
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the downgrade is only done temporarily for the rooting process. after you've rooted, you can upgrade to a custom rom built from 1.84 (or any other firmware version) and get all of the functionality back and then some. I'm not sure what fixes were addressed between 1.34 and 1.84 as I am a G2 owner, but regardless, once you're s-off, you can use any firmware version you'd like that is supported by the DZ.
Thanks!!!!!!
last quick questions. when im rooted. i want to install the sense 3.0 virtuous fusion rom on my phone. do i need any prerequisite items such as gingerbread rom installed on my phone or not?
Also finally, htc is releasing the gingerbread update for DZ/G2 in the next few days so if i upgrade to gingerbread, will the rooting process still work?
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Also finally, htc is releasing the gingerbread update for DZ/G2 in the next few days so if i upgrade to gingerbread, will the rooting process still work?
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At the moment, No!
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last quick questions. when im rooted. i want to install the sense 3.0 virtuous fusion rom on my phone. do i need any prerequisite items such as gingerbread rom installed on my phone or not?
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Nope, you can go from any ROM to Virtuous Fusion. Flashing a ROM wipes the old ROM, so it doesn't matter what was there before.
After trying several different ROMs (mainly Sense 1.9 up to 3.5) and 3 different memory cards I am still having reliability problems with my Desire. The main problem is now and again I press the wake button and nothing. The power button doesnt even work I have to take the battery out and reset.
I also get a fair bit of lag, especially with incoming calls, even after having a play with Daemon Controller settings.
I can just about live with it but as I am likely to want to sell the phone soon i was wondering if anyone could recommend the most solid ROM. Preferably one that doesn't use an EXT3/4 partition as it could possibly be running apps from this that's causing the problem. I'm not bothered about Sense either.
I am currently running AceSMod007 v42, Recovery 4EXT v2.2.7 RC6, Stock HBoot.
The easier it is to install the better and even if its vanilla android I'm not bothered. I just don't want any comebacks when I sell it as the phone has caused me enough headaches.
ps Is a new battery likely to help or is that clutching at straws?
Put it back to stock like it used to be. That will eliminate or at least lessen the possibility of buyer comebacks caused by buggy custom roms. If the buyer wants it rooted, he/she should do it themselves.
How do you do that exactly?
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Reflash the Froyo RUU which you can pick up at www.shippedroms.com, or the Gingerbread RUU which you can find at www.htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads.
Good luck!
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Reflash the Froyo RUU which you can pick up at www.shippedroms.com, or the Gingerbread RUU which you can find at www.htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads.
Good luck!
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Thanks! Can I flash that straight over any ROM? and does that mean it won't be rooted anymore either?
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Thanks! Can I flash that straight over any ROM? and does that mean it won't be rooted anymore either?
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I haven't done it personally but I believe you can flash it over as long as the phone is on stock hboot which I think it is. If you are s-off, you may need to flash a downgrader from alpharev. (Can anyone confirm this is required for stock hboot? I had the impression it's only for cm7r2 and oxygen hboots.)
You'll lose root and s-off (if you s-offed your device before). Make sure you chose the right RUU for your phone.
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Can anyone confirm this is required for stock hboot? I had the impression it's only for cm7r2 and oxygen hboots.
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Only r2 hboots.
I think I might have to give it a try as my phone is very unreliable now as it keeps just switching off and won't reset unless I pull the battery. Happens about once a day.
Do I flash it through recovery as usual?
Also, if you want a solid rom, you can't get much more solid than Cyanogenmod. It's actually more stable than the stock rom for my part. Another option is MIUI, but the iPhone-like interface might be a bother.
Thanks, do you mean CyanogenMod-7 for Desire GSM V7.0.3 rom as the download link was broken when I checked?
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Thanks, do you mean CyanogenMod-7 for Desire GSM V7.0.3 rom as the download link was broken when I checked?
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You're selling the phone. Stick to your original plan.
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Possibly not for another 6-8 weeks so I don't fancy returning to Stock and still having problems and having to mess about getting it S-Off and rooted again.
And to be fair if it wasn't randomly switching itself off I might consider hanging on to it longer as when it works properly its a pretty decent phone, I just cant live with the unreliablility.
So has anyone got a link for the CM Rom?
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I don't fancy returning to Stock and still having problems and having to mess about getting it S-Off and rooted again.
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If this is the way it turns out, I think you should start considering RMA.
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Look in desire android development it should be there
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Ok thanks, just a couple of things though, what is RMA and how do I flash the stock? can I do it through 4Ext recovery and do I need to wipe anything first?
http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&sourc...jLn2Aw&usg=AFQjCNH-nCOyaY1Gor2f_Iah8MF8Wxwjbg
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http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&sourc...jLn2Aw&usg=AFQjCNH-nCOyaY1Gor2f_Iah8MF8Wxwjbg
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Thats CM official page
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Ok thanks, just a couple of things though, what is RMA and how do I flash the stock? can I do it through 4Ext recovery and do I need to wipe anything first?
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Consult Bortak's guide on that, I'm not writing it over again here.
RMA is a warranty claim.
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Ok thanks, just a couple of things though, what is RMA and how do I flash the stock? can I do it through 4Ext recovery and do I need to wipe anything first?
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Go to desire android development then go into stickies everything u need to know will be there and thank OP if they helped
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Hey, if you've ever used SEUS you know what I'm looking for, is there and application to do the same stuff with HTC phones?
Also I would like to backup my whole phone, what software should I use? I don't care about what's on the sd card or in the phone nor apps/apk since I can just redownload them. I wanted to backup everything, current firmware, all default HTC stuff, how do I do that?
My phone is not rooted, branded etc. Desire Z, not Vision.
Thanks
Untill your rooted I don't know of a good way, don't think there is one. Once rooted a simple nandroid does that
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Doesn't HTC Sync do that?
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Doesn't HTC Sync do that?
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There's no option to simply recover the phone, basically I want an official software so when I just want to go back to my stock ROM I just one-click it and it restores it from their own databse online (the latest available build).
That's a great Sony Ericsson feature. Too bad HTC Sync doesn't have that, or maybe I just can't find it.
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Untill your rooted I don't know of a good way, don't think there is one. Once rooted a simple nandroid does that
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Problem is I can't be rooted until I downgrade which removes my stock rom forever, correct?
stranded.eu said:
Problem is I can't be rooted until I downgrade which removes my stock rom forever, correct?
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No. Rooting doesn't necessarily involve flashing a new ROM. You can keep it stock. After you downgrade/root, you can flash the official Gingerbread ROM, which is exactly the same as you have now, just rooted and with bloatware removed.
Can you please point me some directions to that official Gingerbread ROM then? It's really hard to find something legit.
stranded.eu said:
Can you please point me some directions to that official Gingerbread ROM then? It's really hard to find something legit.
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Of course. Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1169004&highlight=pc10img
This is the official, stock, untouched but rooted ROM for the Desire Z, World Wide Edition. You can find root tutorials in the Dev section. Good luck