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

[Guest GeoTrail]

Paul, can you send me the file on email or a different link so I can upload it to my three servers. VERY fast :huh:

[Guest Specialist79]

Sorry if this was already asked before in this thread, but I did not spot it at first sight: As I have to wipe my device during the rooting process, will I be able to restore my settings from the HTC backup created on the SD card? Which settings will be restored? Do I need to backup app settings separately?

[Guest Bol2riz]

Maybe already said but once you rocks Paul! I've read the tuto yesterday and it was like blackhole for several peoples I think and less than 24h later it's became that simple...WOW!

Thanks a lot dude!

[Guest mrshark]

Paul: Have you thought about bundling QEMU {www.qemu.org} in with the package? It ought to eliminate the need to burn anything or research virtual machines for those that don't know what they're doing? I've got an old version of QEMU and a .bat config file for launching it that I tweaked a little from another source {free to distribute} I'll try packing your custom ISO in with it and uploading it then post a link here. I'd test it on my own desire and create a youtube video for it but I'm still waiting for a few answers before I will do that.

not yet downloaded paul tcl iso (waiting for mirrors), but i did so, to test things in windows:

download qemu: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/QgOS.exe

launch it, will create a qgos folder

copy ANY bootable iso in that folder, and launch qgos.bat

install the requested driver, for hardware acceleration, if you want

TADA! nothing else! the bat looks for an .iso file, and launch it in qemu...

now, if anybody wants to test usb pass-through to emulated operating system, we have a very simple solution for windows users :-)

Edited April 29, 2010 by mrshark

[Guest]

could you pls upload the cyanogen port paul?

[Guest gregDT]

I can confirm that Titanium backup is working fine after the root.

A few extra points asked above.

You will loose all your apps and settings doing a root. But nothing critical. When it's done it will be like when you first took it out of the box and powered it on. All the stock Android and HTC stuff will be there.

When you make a goldcard it will need to be formatted. So anything on the goldcard is lost for ever. Therefore I suggest you use a second SD as a goldcard (I used a 2gig one) and keep your main one safe.

Once the process is complete you can remove the Goldcard and put your original card back in. All your music, pictures etc will be there. Also any Android backup you did will be recoverable from the original card.

If you also want apps2SD (a2SD) then the card you use will be formatted. If as, is likely this card is going to be your main card then copy all your important stuff off it and keep it safe. When you have completed the app2SD update you can put the main SD card back in repartition it and drag all your stuff back onto the card. When you mount the card in Windows you will still just see the SD card and not the new partitions they will be hidden from Windows. This isn't a problem.

[Guest jasup]

is there anyway to have wifi tethering yet? thx

[Guest akirita]

Hello, seems you can not download the live cd, no mirror any more to download?

Thanks

[Guest abdalah2004]

Great man got it sorted :huh: but arabic fonts not working i flashed the zip from recover but i cant see the arabic fonts on the phone any 1?

[Guest sparklehedgehog]

why does my #@$%*** cards (yes two different makes) refuse to become gold cards when ive tried every sodding way documented, whilst in my phone, in an sdcard adaptor, redone the cid and image creations and still keeps asking to format after clicking save!

is it ok to format after allegedly being turned into a Goldcard or does that wipe it's modification?

PLEASE HELP before i give up on this twat of a phone!

[Guest Elemetrix]

I can confirm that Titanium backup is working fine after the root.

A few extra points asked above.

You will loose all your apps and settings doing a root. But nothing critical. When it's done it will be like when you first took it out of the box and powered it on. All the stock Android and HTC stuff will be there.

When you make a goldcard it will need to be formatted. So anything on the goldcard is lost for ever. Therefore I suggest you use a second SD as a goldcard (I used a 2gig one) and keep your main one safe.

Once the process is complete you can remove the Goldcard and put your original card back in. All your music, pictures etc will be there. Also any Android backup you did will be recoverable from the original card.

If you also want apps2SD (a2SD) then the card you use will be formatted. If as, is likely this card is going to be your main card then copy all your important stuff off it and keep it safe. When you have completed the app2SD update you can put the main SD card back in repartition it and drag all your stuff back onto the card. When you mount the card in Windows you will still just see the SD card and not the new partitions they will be hidden from Windows. This isn't a problem.

Wow thanks that answers a bunch of questions I was going to ask!

So what is my best method to back up my phone right now (Don't want to lose all my contacts) Is the onboard 'People' backup adequate or is there a HTC Windows application that does a better job?

I've just cancelled the ISO download as it was barely moving any more :-(

Looking forward to the mirrors.

[Guest inkredi]

i used the older method, right now im at "Verifying update package" when choosing the flash desirerooted.zip ...im stuck at around 30% nothing happens? what shud i do?

[Guest h00pyfr00d]

i used the older method, right now im at "Verifying update package" when choosing the flash desirerooted.zip ...im stuck at around 30% nothing happens? what shud i do?

Mine was about 10 seconds at this stage. I'd pull the battery and go back to recovery.

[Guest pascanu]

why does my #@$%*** cards (yes two different makes) refuse to become gold cards when ive tried every sodding way documented, whilst in my phone, in an sdcard adaptor, redone the cid and image creations and still keeps asking to format after clicking save!

is it ok to format after allegedly being turned into a Goldcard or does that wipe it's modification?

PLEASE HELP before i give up on this twat of a phone!

Can't help you, just trying to vent my own frustrations: 4 (FOUR!) different cards (including the SanDisk 4 GB that came with the phone) from 3 manufacturers, 2 different computers, tried in phone, 2 different card readers and laptop's own card reader. No luck! Is it a sign that I must not root my Desire?!?

The thing is I remember doing a gold card to root a friend's Hero some time ago and it worked, I have not bought another card since, so why, WHY isn't it working now. I feel like an idiot, Paul managed to crack the damn thing all by himself and here I am not being able to follow some simple instructions.

Well, enough wining, I guess I'll call it a day and try again tomorrow.

[Guest jdouce]

btw as soon as i get tinycore ill host it on rapidshare and post link

[Guest inkredi]

done guys. thanks anyway

[Guest sparklehedgehog]

WHAT A DIMEBAR!

So sorry to have wasted your time mate, i have found how much of a chimp i was being. Watching that video showed me what i was doing wrong and i had read and read the instructions over and over yet i still was clicking logical disk instead of physical disk. I mustve done it 20 times today and couldve repeated off by heart that it was meant to be physical but i still kept clicking logical and realised as soon as i watched it!

People, a video is the answer to any problems as even if you read and read you can become blinded by the words....

[Guest madmossy]

Enable 'usb debugging' in Settings -> Applications -> Development.

P

Still wont work, ive enabled usb debugging, i have adb drivers installed (i think) when i enter command prompt i go to where ive installed the android sdk, type adb devices.

I then get it starting up the server thingy followed by it listing my devices serial but its shown as offline. I've tried re-installing, formatting the device everything but it wont work.

[Guest gregDT]

Wow thanks that answers a bunch of questions I was going to ask!

So what is my best method to back up my phone right now (Don't want to lose all my contacts) Is the onboard 'People' backup adequate or is there a HTC Windows application that does a better job?

I've just cancelled the ISO download as it was barely moving any more :-(

Looking forward to the mirrors.

I use Google mail, Google contacts and calendar for all that stuff, plus IMAP for regular mail. I don't keep messages either so it's a fairly painless process wiping my phone. There are probably apps on the market that can back up messages and bookmarks though?

[Guest Elemetrix]

I use Google mail, Google contacts and calendar for all that stuff, plus IMAP for regular mail. I don't keep messages either so it's a fairly painless process wiping my phone. There are probably apps on the market that can back up messages and bookmarks though?

My contacts weren't syncing up with Google as they were all 'Phone Contacts' just fixed that and both Contacts and Calender are now synced properly and I too use IMAP.

Just need the ISO now :-P

[Guest jonmall1441]

I'm guessing that loads of people have already asked this but how easy/difficult is it to brick a desire using the new root method and also how easy is it to unroot a desire? Thanks very much for the help. Also if there is a user guide of how to unroot the desire that would be awesome.

[Guest rederic]

PLEASE HELP

I am using OS X and trying to make a GoldCard. I have managed to get to adb but my phone is not seen.

How do I get it recognized by OS X to give me my serial? All I get is a blank line.

Thankyou so much in advance, I'm sure someone has the answer.

Steve

[Guest Paul]

A torrent for R3 is now available...

P

[Guest akirita]

thank you Paul you're a genius

[Guest GeoTrail]

Great Paul.

I have a fast Fiber optic line and I'm gonna seed this till a new version is released :huh: