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Debranding your Phone WILL Void Your Warranty
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Following these steps exactly will Debrand your desire and keep any downloaded apps from the market & all other settings !
STEP 0 : BACK UP ALL DATA ON SD CARD !
STEP 1 : How To Root - http://theunlockr.com/2010/09/20/how-to-root-the-htc-desire-unrevoked-method/
STEP 2 : How To Install Custom ROM - http://theunlockr.com/2010/09/21/how-to-load-a-custom-rom-on-the-htc-desire-2/
-NOTE- Ignore Step 5. on UNLOCKER PAGE 5. Scroll to Wipe Data, select wipe data/factory reset and then select wipe dalvik cache. <------ if you do this step you WILL to have to manually install the new Radio ! as mentioned in the ROM guide
Official 2.2 Rom download - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741775
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This method worked first time for me on a brand new Handset.
I am not responosible for any damage caused to your phone caused by the 3rd party software, nore are the developers .
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Thanks to :
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unrEVOoked Dev's
Thanksz dude! Will try this out tomoz
Did you have to update the radio?
Any problems with simlock?
shahriarahmed said:
Thanksz dude! Will try this out tomoz
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Did you succeed?
RahulRa said:
Did you succeed?
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I'd assume so as it was nearly 4 months ago
EddyOS said:
I'd assume so as it was nearly 4 months ago
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Okay thanks, im trying this out now
Just to let everyone know, this method worked great on my locked HTC desire branded phone. Thank you so much
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Can anyone say me if with this rom i can have the official updates of HTC ?
Regards
Once you download a ROM , you have a " new Operating system " ... EG: if you buy a cakes from Tescos then take it back to ASDA.. asda will tell you to bog off... same with the ROM's ...
Each ROM works with the updates from who ever created it ... (via rom manager is best )
if you try and update a " rom " that was not on your phone originally .. you could end in loop... HTC hell...
but once you do ... like a famous crisp manufacturer said .. you just cant stop !!!
dgattenb said:
Once you download a ROM , you have a " new Operating system " ... EG: if you buy a cakes from Tescos then take it back to ASDA.. asda will tell you to bog off... same with the ROM's ...
Each ROM works with the updates from who ever created it ... (via rom manager is best )
if you try and update a " rom " that was not on your phone originally .. you could end in loop... HTC hell...
but once you do ... like a famous crisp manufacturer said .. you just cant stop !!!
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Sorry but what a load of ****. If you root and end up in a boot loop, just bloody go back to the recovery, wipe and flash. If your phone really buggers up, you can use an ruu to get it back to stock and hopefully working again.
Also, rom manager is ****. It is buggy and doesn't work well with the desire. Your best off manually downloading the rom, putting it on your SD card and then flashing it in recovery.
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Hi. I've just managed to root and install oxygen on my orange 0.93 desire. Still simlocked though?
As far as I know, rooting had nothing to do with sim lock. Bit you can find a sim unlock utility for desire here.
Swyped from my HTC Desire using XDA App
MatDrOiD said:
As far as I know, rooting had nothing to do with sim lock. Bit you can find a dunnock utility for desire here.
Swyped from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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Okay. Stupid as I am. I thought that debranding and rooting automaticly removed the sim lock :-(
Sent from my ZuluZulu powered Nexus S
Sadly the unlock utillity does not unlock my phone. Says it does, but phone is still sim locked
Hi all,
I was hoping someone could help me out? I've just got myself a HTC Desire which I was lead to believe would be unbranded. Unfortunately I dealt with a liar and I've just discovered it's got a load of virgin crap on the boot up screen and what not. How do I remove it and is there a way to get rid of this without rooting my phone? I really don't want to root and mess with a custom rom or anything been as I know absolutely nothing about this kind of thing :S! I'd really appreciate any help you guys could give me!
You first need to create a gold card. Google it and you'll find plenty of guides on how to do this.
Secondly, you need the RUU for the unbranded Desire ROM, which you can find here:
http://www.multiupload.com/UOWLL86GVB
To install the ROM, have the gold card in your phone and make sure HTC Sync is installed on your PC. Connect your Desire to the PC and select 'HTC Sync' from the menu on the phone. Once Sync on the PC shows connected just run the RUU. If the gold card is working correctly it will install and voila - one unbranded Desire!!!
* Best to make your every day SD card into the gold card as you WILL need it for all future updates
Thanks for the speedy reply! I just have a few more questions (sorry ^^;!)
Would that get rid of every non-htc thing on my phone including start up rubbish? I also have one about gold cards, if I change my sd card will my phone not work if it's been unbranded on another? I'm unsure whether to give this a go on a tiny one or go for a bigger one that I'll probably use full time. I'm sorry for the silly questions :S!
If you have a working gold card then just use that, it will then be on the stock HTC ROM. If you're now using a larger SD card just make that into a gold card and leave it the phone
Oops, sorry if I confused you, I don't have one. I was just wondering if it mattered if I swapped the gold card-ed sd card for another.
On a side note, if I didn't use a gold card to debrand the phone, will the splash screen start up branding disappear if I change it to a custom one?
You can't debrand unless you use a gold card. After you have unbranded you can use your other SD card. But if there are any ota updates you will need the goldcard to update the phone.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
You CANNOT debrand without a gold card if you're just going for a stock ROM
You could, however, root the phone and use a custom ROM but that won't change the boot screen when you first turn it on - just the animated one. You'd need S-OFF to change the first one.
Easiest thing is to just make a gold card now and debrand using a stock WWE RUU
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You can't debrand unless you use a gold card. After you have unbranded you can use your other SD card. But if there are any ota updates you will need the goldcard to update the phone.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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Which is why you just make your usual SD card into a gold card and leave it in the phone
Hmm. Okay, let me get this right, debranding would get rid of any virgin app stuff on the phone but wouldn't get rid of the virgin start up image and using S-off *would* replace the virgin animation with a static custom image?
Neithie said:
Hmm. Okay, let me get this right, debranding would get rid of any virgin app stuff on the phone but wouldn't get rid of the virgin start up image and using S-off *would* replace the virgin animation with a static custom image?
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no what there saying is, if you want to debrand using a ruu, (that will remove everything vigin including the splash screen) you need a goldcard, but if you dont have a gold card, you can root using unrevoked and flash a custom rom, that will remove everything virgin except the splash screen, you can then s-off and manually flash a new splash
Oh wow, this is confusing :S I've now discovered a virgin media scene option as well as a random link to the virgin internet that doesn't show up in my apps along with the flashscreen.
Oh right So using a gold card will leave the htc/android innards alone but get rid of everything virgin? And will I need to do anything special if I upgrade my sd card to a larger one in the future (don't quite have the money for a big one at the moment ^^?
A gold card doesnt get rid of the Virgin branding ... A gold card only allows you to run an unbranded RUU for a branded phone ... which then gets rid of the branding (Virgin stuff)
Oh and if you purchase a larger sd card later you can turn that one into gold card too if you need to ...
Here's a few things about the RUU...
1. It's a COMPLETE ROM, flashing it will wipe the existing one in its entirety and replace it with the new one.
2. You will LOSE all data on the phone when flashing an RUU
3. You need a gold card to flash an RUU not suitable for your handset, e.g. if your phone is x.xx.405.x you can only use RUUs which are also x.xx.405.x - unless you use a gold card
I traded my rooted galaxy nexus for a rooted htc one x. Before I got his htc one x, he performed a factory reset on his phone.
After I got home I realized that his contacts, his accounts and all his apps were still there. I did a factory reset again but they are still there.
Is there a way to completely wipe everything off it? I do want to keep the root on though if possible (because I want to keep it unlocked).
When I go in the recovery mode this is what I see.
****Tampered***
****Unlocked***
Evita pvt ship s-on rl
HBOOT
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
CELAR STORAGE
SIMLOCK
IMAGE CRC
POWER DOWN
Will clearing the storage help?
@Op,
Some time ago somebody told me here on the board that if you factory reset your phone using recovery mode it
will wipe the storage as well, that it's different as factory reset in OS settings where the storage is kept.
I think you need to wipe storage indeed to remove the contacts.
Can you please let me know when you decide to factory reset the phone in recovery mode the storage get wiped too?
I didn't have time to test this and I'm very curious if it does.
Thanks a lot.
Laurentius26 said:
@Op,
Some time ago somebody told me here on the board that if you factory reset your phone using recovery mode it
will wipe the storage as well, that it's different as factory reset in OS settings where the storage is kept.
I think you need to wipe storage indeed to remove the contacts.
Can you please let me know when you decide to factory reset the phone in recovery mode the storage get wiped too?
I didn't have time to test this and I'm very curious if it does.
Thanks a lot.
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I tried to do that half an hour ago. It was stuck on htc logo with this paragraph underneath for almost 10 minutes until my patience ran out "This build is for development purpose only.......legal action."
I'm trying that again now and I'll let you know what happens.
Nope, don't do that please.
If you like to wipe the storage I think the best you can do is use settings/storage in OS to accomplish.
Before you do I would like to advise you to make a backup of Clockworkmod directory (copy it to your pc) on your storage if that exist.
So incase something happens you are still able to restore.
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I tried to do that half an hour ago. It was stuck on htc logo with this paragraph underneath for almost 10 minutes until my patience ran out "This build is for development purpose only.......legal action."
I'm trying that again now and I'll let you know what happens.
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Okay. So far that I'll have to download and install the htc one x kit first? Is there a thread you can direct me to please?
Sorry but I have no idea what you mean with the htc one x kit.
Info how to unlock and root your phone you can find >> HERE
If that's what you mean?
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Okay. So far that I'll have to download and install the htc one x kit first? Is there a thread you can direct me to please?
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Thanks but I have no idea which method the other guy used to root this phone. Stuff like rom Manager, super SU and Titanium backup are already installed in the phone. When I go to Rom manager and try to "Manage and Restore Backups" or "Backup current ROM" it asks me to install clockworkmod recovery first. However, when I try to do that it gives me a list of Phone models to choose from and HTC one X is not in that list.
When I went through the link you provided it says "Your bootloader must be unlocked via htcdev.com to use these solutions." Now how do I know if it's unlock via htcdev.com or not? How do I check?
It must be unlocked already otherwise there wasn't a custom rom on the phone.
But you can verify that by going into bootloader, it should say 'unlocked'
SuperSU is needed to root the phone so that's normal as well.
And about Clockworkmod, it must be there as well otherwise you couldn't get into recovery.
My advise, go into recovery and make a backup first.
If that's done you can copy the Clockworkmod dir from your storage to your pc to make sure you have a valid backup.
Then you can wipe the storage and after that is done you place back the Clockworkmod dir.
From there you can look further and flash another custom rom or what you want.
xtwo said:
Thanks but I have no idea which method the other guy used to root this phone. Stuff like rom Manager, super SU and Titanium backup are already installed in the phone. When I go to Rom manager and try to "Manage and Restore Backups" or "Backup current ROM" it asks me to install clockworkmod recovery first. However, when I try to do that it gives me a list of Phone models to choose from and HTC one X is not in that list.
When I went through the link you provided it says "Your bootloader must be unlocked via htcdev.com to use these solutions." Now how do I know if it's unlock via htcdev.com or not? How do I check?
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Wow, guys, he has a evita, as in a s4 one x, not the tegra 3.
Op, asking in the s4 forums would be much more suitable
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
Oh YES, didn't noticed that, but you can see in his first post indeed!
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Wow, guys, he has a evita, as in a s4 one x, not the tegra 3.
Op, asking in the s4 forums would be much more suitable
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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Kevin Ma said:
Wow, guys, he has a evita, as in a s4 one x, not the tegra 3.
Op, asking in the s4 forums would be much more suitable
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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What's evita? It's a ONE X from rogers originally. And where is the s4 forum? Thanks
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What's evita? It's a ONE X from rogers originally. And where is the s4 forum? Thanks
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just search...it should be titled att rogers one x
an evita is basically the dual core qualcomm s4 chipset one x, whereas u are in the international QUAD CORE tegra 3 one x forums
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Guys i recently acquired a second hand one x but I've been having trouble...i cannot see if it's rooted or was ever rooted and then restored back before the sale....
I need to know how i can check this as if it was ever rooted etc i need to restore back to factory settings like it was when brand new before sending off to HTC for a repair...
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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mchu6am4 said:
Guys i recently acquired a second hand one x but I've been having trouble...i cannot see if it's rooted or was ever rooted and then restored back before the sale....
I need to know how i can check this as if it was ever rooted etc i need to restore back to factory settings like it was when brand new before sending off to HTC for a repair...
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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keep holding down the volume down and power button until you get into bootloader. from there, u can tell whether it is unlocked or not, also, might as well check if it reads endeavor or evita, to make sure whether u have the dual core or quad core 1x, from there on, if unlocked check if u can go into recovery from the fastboot menu. if not then u know which step ull have to begin at, if yes, then u can start flashing right away. Btw, recovery as in a custom recovery such as clockworkmod or twrp.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
Hello hope u r fine… Can anyone plz tell me…
How to flash HTC Desire 816…?
Where I found stock rom, official rom or original firmware of HTC Desire 816…?
Is it possible with any desktop software or need any box/device…?
How can I backup my HTC Desire 816 recent rom...?
Waiting for your soon help…thnx…..
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Hello hope u r fine… Can anyone plz tell me…
How to flash HTC Desire 816…?
Where I found stock rom, official rom or original firmware of HTC Desire 816…?
Is it possible with any desktop software or need any box/device…?
How can I backup my HTC Desire 816 recent rom...?
Waiting for your soon help…thnx…..
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Its possible to flash but you will only get as far as ESN/MEID & obtain 3G on different carriers with no box/device. (CDMA Carriers)
If you have a box/device that does the IMEI then you could possibly get 4G on AT&T (and T-Mobile soon) as this device and AT&T use 1900MHz for 4G. (T-Mobile is still working on this frequency & of course you would have to unlock the GSM portion for these two carriers; which there is a command to do so in one shot on here).
If you would like, you can actually use ClockworkMod to backup your device in the advanced options.
This is called a nandroid backup and can be restored to bring your device back to the exact format and ROM settings / style that it was before you turned it off to go into recovery.
Basically a mirror image of what your using is made and yes this works for any ROM, even stock.
If your on pure stock WITH NO ROOT however you might just need to root your device to do this nandroid backup. If you want a guide on how to root here is a clear video tutorial on how to do this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NY..._comment_id=z12jdpu5nraatpj1a222dv4xeliqgjy02
If you want to keep the backup as close to stock as possible, I recommend rooting then backing up immediately so in the case you ever want to remove root, its as simple as installing the nandroid backup then uninstalling SuperSU and its binaries-(settings inside of SuperSU one click removes these) and your back on pure HTC stock.
Once you have it backed up they have apps on the PlayStore that manage these backups which can be found by typing in "nandroid manager" and with this you can move the backup from the hidden location on the internal storage to where you can get access to.
Basically from the deep hidden parts of the phone to the outside portion where you load your music, pictures, etc. when plugging it into the PC so you will be able to save your backup to the PC.
Hey thanks for the super detailed guide. Can you tell me how can I determine what device I use.. Like I see all these numbers in the forum a5dug and a5dwg etc. Thanks!
Edit: Got it. Boot into HBOOT using vol down and power and find out about the device
Hi. I have a problem with HTC M9 with stock rom. Phone without any modifications and software upgrade was made few weeks ago. Phone after start display HTC logo, few sec after I have black screen and restart. HTC support recommended me to do factory reset but I'm not sure if my lady have any data backup. So there is a question: it is possible to read any data like photos form this phone? I would be grateful for any help.
Phone details:
S-ON
Locked
Software status official
you've solved it?... without going to htc for support
TwinPipe said:
Hi. I have a problem with HTC M9 with stock rom. Phone without any modifications and software upgrade was made few weeks ago. Phone after start display HTC logo, few sec after I have black screen and restart. HTC support recommended me to do factory reset but I'm not sure if my lady have any data backup. So there is a question: it is possible to read any data like photos form this phone? I would be grateful for any help.
Phone details:
S-ON
Locked
Software status official
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you,ve solved it?
Nope. Adb is the only way if you can't access the rom. Not sure if htc allow adb in their own software but if you don't have adb debugging enabled your goosed for a backup.
You're just gonna have to bite the bullet!.
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TwinPipe said:
Hi. I have a problem with HTC M9 with stock rom. Phone without any modifications and software upgrade was made few weeks ago. Phone after start display HTC logo, few sec after I have black screen and restart. HTC support recommended me to do factory reset but I'm not sure if my lady have any data backup. So there is a question: it is possible to read any data like photos form this phone? I would be grateful for any help.
Phone details:
S-ON
Locked
Software status official
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Hi , I am facing the same issue.. HTC one m9 is stuck in the boot screen, when tried to do a factory reset had an error of failed to mount cache. HTC asked me to do a RUU, but my phone is from UAE and htc.com has ruu only for US phones. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.