14/Jun r6 riskfreeroot - HTC Desire rooting guide - now with HBOOT 0.80 and OS to 1.21 support

[Guest Xeronage]

That sounds great. Does the SD card needs to be empty / just FAT32 formatted in order to achieve that?

I just used the 4GB SDHC that came with my Desire, formatted FAT32 (Can I switch to EXT3 after rooting?). All the goldcard is, is that the first 180 bytes of your sdcard are filled in by the goldcard. It makes your SD unbootable (I think) but doesn't affect partitions.

Besides this a goldcard does not differ from a regular card. Feel free to use it for all your storage needs. You don't even have to format it to turn it into a goldcard either.

Edited April 29, 2010 by Xeronage

[Guest BeRtjh]

I've just had it set to 0 for swap, 768 for ext2 and the rest for fat32

You're all good, just reboot now.

[Guest kingoffail]

What systems are you using and have you tried disconnecting it, rebooting it, and then connecting it again?

Yes, I have tried rebooting the phone.

Paul's tinycore in VMWare and also Arch Linux x86_64 running natively.

I should note that this worked fine before I tried to install apps2sd, which totally broke everything. I was under the impression that reflashing would wipe everything, undoing whatever it was that apps2sd did. Is that not the case?

[Guest BeRtjh]

Yes, I have tried rebooting the phone.

Paul's tinycore in VMWare and also Arch Linux x86_64 running natively.

I should note that this worked fine before I tried to install apps2sd, which totally broke everything. I was under the impression that reflashing would wipe everything, undoing whatever it was that apps2sd did. Is that not the case?

Reflashing wipes app2sd.

What steps did you perform to install app2sd?

[Guest Elemetrix]

You're all good, just reboot now.

thanks, what is the difference between ext2,3,4? why are people asking to switch to ext3?

[Guest theboxman]

instead of calling qemu with: -cdrom current.iso

you could use: -cdrom *.iso

so the name is ininfluent...

the problem is, instead, that usb support on windows compiled binaries is not always present or functional... tried 3 different build of qemu...

for language, it was repeated 2 o 3 times: rom includes french, german and english, plus a language that is different from country to country, and linked to the sim card inserted... so, spanish for you, italian for me :-)

@MrShark: yeh I was being lazy as my original installation of QEMU had six or seven ISO's sitting around in the folder - complicated arrangement!

I've uploaded my version of QEMU here however, as I don't have the necessary files from Pauls end yet I can't test it over here to see if it works correctly yet. I'm fairly sure I've used USB devices with this version before. Anyway it's only 3Mb ish!

@MrShark: Yes I read that there was no spanish in the ROM and you'd get another one from your SIM and given your sim was italian you got italian.....My sim's from the UK hence I've no confidence whatsoever that I'll end up with spanish if it's not on the original ROM.....

Looks like I won't get to do this until a new ROM becomes available. :-{

Best of luck with this file all, I hope this file works! Let me know!

QEMU.zip

Edited April 29, 2010 by theboxman

[Guest BeRtjh]

thanks, what is the difference between ext2,3,4? why are people asking to switch to ext3?

Stability.

[Guest kingoffail]

Reflashing wipes app2sd.

What steps did you perform to install app2sd?

Copy zip onto goldcard, recovery-linux.sh, update.

I've just discovered that I can get the phone to appear as a usb device if I make sure it's unplugged from the computer UNTIL the screen with the red triangle appears. lsusb then has this to say:

Bus 002 Device 045: ID 05c6:9002 Qualcomm, Inc. 

Device Descriptor:

  bLength                18

  bDescriptorType         1

  bcdUSB               2.00

  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)

  bDeviceSubClass         0 

  bDeviceProtocol         0 

  bMaxPacketSize0        64

  idVendor           0x05c6 Qualcomm, Inc.

  idProduct          0x9002 

  bcdDevice            0.00

  iManufacturer           3 Qualcomm, Incorporated

  iProduct                2 Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM

  iSerial                 0 

  bNumConfigurations      1

  Configuration Descriptor:

    bLength                 9

    bDescriptorType         2

    wTotalLength           85

    bNumInterfaces          3

    bConfigurationValue     1

    iConfiguration          1 Qualcomm Configuration

    bmAttributes         0xe0

      Self Powered

      Remote Wakeup

    MaxPower              500mA

    Interface Descriptor:

      bLength                 9

      bDescriptorType         4

      bInterfaceNumber        0

      bAlternateSetting       0

      bNumEndpoints           2

      bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class

      bInterfaceSubClass    255 Vendor Specific Subclass

      bInterfaceProtocol    255 Vendor Specific Protocol

      iInterface              0 

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              32

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x01  EP 1 OUT

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              32

    Interface Descriptor:

      bLength                 9

      bDescriptorType         4

      bInterfaceNumber        1

      bAlternateSetting       0

      bNumEndpoints           2

      bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class

      bInterfaceSubClass    255 Vendor Specific Subclass

      bInterfaceProtocol    255 Vendor Specific Protocol

      iInterface              0 

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x82  EP 2 IN

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              32

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x02  EP 2 OUT

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              32

    Interface Descriptor:

      bLength                 9

      bDescriptorType         4

      bInterfaceNumber        2

      bAlternateSetting       0

      bNumEndpoints           3

      bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class

      bInterfaceSubClass    255 Vendor Specific Subclass

      bInterfaceProtocol    255 Vendor Specific Protocol

      iInterface              0 

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN

        bmAttributes            3

          Transfer Type            Interrupt

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes

        bInterval               5

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x84  EP 4 IN

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              32

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x03  EP 3 OUT

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              32

Device Qualifier (for other device speed):

  bLength                10

  bDescriptorType         6

  bcdUSB               2.00

  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)

  bDeviceSubClass         0 

  bDeviceProtocol         0 

  bMaxPacketSize0        64

  bNumConfigurations      1

Device Status:     0x0001

  Self Powered

[/codebox]

adb still doesn't work though.

Edited April 29, 2010 by kingoffail

[Guest spocky]

Hi everybody (and thanks paul for what you're doing for us).

I think I need you help. I followed the tutorial exactly but I had an error during flash :

Image has been uploaded to the phone, then a had a bunch of :

INFOzip header checking

INFOzip info parsing

INFOchecking model ID...

[....]

INFO[RUU@WP,radio,0

INFO[RUU@WP,radio,6

INFO[RUU@WP,radio,14

INFO[RUU@WP,radio,19

INFO[RUU@WP,radio,27

INFO[RUU@WP,radio,36

INFO[RUU@WP,radio,44

INFO[RUU@WP,radio,51

INFO[RUU@WP,radio,59

INFO[RUU@WP,radio,100

FAILED (remote:90 hboot pre-update! please flush image again immediately)

<waiting for device>

Does anybody here know what I should do (I'm afraid of bricking my device if I unplug / reset it)

Thanks for any information that could help me...

[Guest BeRtjh]

Copy zip onto goldcard, recovery-linux.sh, update.

I've just discovered that I can get the phone to appear as a usb device if I make sure it's unplugged from the computer UNTIL the screen with the red triangle appears. lsusb then has this to say:

Bus 002 Device 045: ID 05c6:9002 Qualcomm, Inc. 

Device Descriptor:

  bLength                18

  bDescriptorType         1

  bcdUSB               2.00

  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)

  bDeviceSubClass         0 

  bDeviceProtocol         0 

  bMaxPacketSize0        64

  idVendor           0x05c6 Qualcomm, Inc.

  idProduct          0x9002 

  bcdDevice            0.00

  iManufacturer           3 Qualcomm, Incorporated

  iProduct                2 Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM

  iSerial                 0 

  bNumConfigurations      1

  Configuration Descriptor:

    bLength                 9

    bDescriptorType         2

    wTotalLength           85

    bNumInterfaces          3

    bConfigurationValue     1

    iConfiguration          1 Qualcomm Configuration

    bmAttributes         0xe0

      Self Powered

      Remote Wakeup

    MaxPower              500mA

    Interface Descriptor:

      bLength                 9

      bDescriptorType         4

      bInterfaceNumber        0

      bAlternateSetting       0

      bNumEndpoints           2

      bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class

      bInterfaceSubClass    255 Vendor Specific Subclass

      bInterfaceProtocol    255 Vendor Specific Protocol

      iInterface              0 

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              32

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x01  EP 1 OUT

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              32

    Interface Descriptor:

      bLength                 9

      bDescriptorType         4

      bInterfaceNumber        1

      bAlternateSetting       0

      bNumEndpoints           2

      bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class

      bInterfaceSubClass    255 Vendor Specific Subclass

      bInterfaceProtocol    255 Vendor Specific Protocol

      iInterface              0 

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x82  EP 2 IN

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              32

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x02  EP 2 OUT

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              32

    Interface Descriptor:

      bLength                 9

      bDescriptorType         4

      bInterfaceNumber        2

      bAlternateSetting       0

      bNumEndpoints           3

      bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class

      bInterfaceSubClass    255 Vendor Specific Subclass

      bInterfaceProtocol    255 Vendor Specific Protocol

      iInterface              0 

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN

        bmAttributes            3

          Transfer Type            Interrupt

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes

        bInterval               5

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x84  EP 4 IN

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              32

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                 7

        bDescriptorType         5

        bEndpointAddress     0x03  EP 3 OUT

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type               None

          Usage Type               Data

        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              32

Device Qualifier (for other device speed):

  bLength                10

  bDescriptorType         6

  bcdUSB               2.00

  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)

  bDeviceSubClass         0 

  bDeviceProtocol         0 

  bMaxPacketSize0        64

  bNumConfigurations      1

Device Status:     0x0001

  Self Powered

[/codebox]

adb still doesn't work though.

Does ADB still give an error or did it change?

[Guest kingoffail]

Does ADB still give an error or did it change?

Still gives an error. adb devices shows no attached devices.

[Guest ascito]

Trying to root it with Sun VirtualBox, after first command line, it stucks in "waiting for Device"...how to get rid of it and go on?

[Guest BeRtjh]

Still gives an error. adb devices shows no attached devices.

Where did you run lsusb under? Your VM or your Arch Linux?

[Guest BeRtjh]

Trying to root it with Sun VirtualBox, after first command line, it stucks in "waiting for Device"...how to get rid of it and go on?

I saw people having problems with VirtualBox. Did you mount your phone to the VM?

[Guest kingoffail]

Where did you run lsusb under? Your VM or your Arch Linux?

My Arch Linux (same place I ran adb under).

Tried the same thing in the VM, same result.

[Guest Elemetrix]

Hmm.. why do I only have 80MB phone memory now?

Also since installing apps2SD 'SuperUser Permissions' doesn't show as an installed app.

[Guest BeRtjh]

My Arch Linux (same place I ran adb under).

Tried the same thing in the VM, same result.

What steps do you perform to get to the red triangle? (Volume Down + Power and then selecting recovery?)

[Guest kingoffail]

What steps do you perform to get to the red triangle? (Volume Down + Power and then selecting recovery?)

Yup - volume down, power, recovery.

[Guest d.code]

Does the ./recovery-linux.sh work with the image posted on post 1? After rooting, if I want to apply A2SD how can I do it via the TinyCore?

[Guest BeRtjh]

Yup - volume down, power, recovery.

Try disconnecting your phone, turning it off, rebooting in recovery mode and then connecting it again.. Make sure you mount your phone to the VM (Never used Arch Linux tho, can't tell you how hehe)

Also i used the traditional method of rooting, not the iso.

[Guest Xeronage]

Stability.

Ext2 does not have journalling

Ext3 has journalling

Ext4 is faster, has better journalling, but is new and *might* glitch.

And for those using VirtualBox. To use USB add yourself to the 'vboxusers' group and logout and back in. Now you can add the device ID to the list of USB hooks or re-add it everytime it reconnects itself. I've rooted mine using VirtualBox (Proprietary) with the TinyCore image under Ubuntu.

Edited April 29, 2010 by Xeronage

[Guest BeRtjh]

I was at 80MB before installing anything. That icon is not there.

It was there earlier after the first root flash but not since the apps2sd flash :-/

Did you flash app2sd with your GoldCard?

[Guest gregDT]

Sorry for the delay in posting a reply. If you install A2SD and partition an SD card you obviously have to stick with that card or you loose all your apps. However the first thing you should install after getting root and installing A2SD is Titanium Backup and pay for the full version. Now you can make a complete backup of your apps. Now copy the backup off the SD card to a PC. Partition the new SD card, copy the backup to the new SD card and finally re-install Titanium and restore all your apps. Sorted :huh:

[Guest afiorillo]

Ext2 does not have journalling

Ext3 has journalling

Ext4 is faster, has better journalling, but is new and *might* glitch.

And for those using VirtualBox. To use USB add yourself to the 'vboxusers' group and logout and back in. Now you can add the device ID to the list of USB hooks or re-add it everytime it reconnects itself. I've rooted mine using VirtualBox (Proprietary) with the TinyCore image under Ubuntu.

As far as you know, converting ext2 to ext3 will wipe the partition?

[Guest Elemetrix]

Did you flash app2sd with your GoldCard?

Yes. goldcard stayed in up until I needed to partition the bigger card.