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

[Guest Paul]

Have you 'connected' it in VirtualBox?

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[Guest alexdroid]

As has been said many times before in this thread, you need to burn the ISO and boot it up as in a Virtual Machine it causes problems.

Thanks a lot for answering so fast, I try this right now and let you know.

Thanks again and sorry for not having found this response in the topic...

[Guest Mklass]

in virtual box go to devices down to usb and tick HTC there we go

[Guest msdl28712]

Hi, I tried the root via TinyCoreLinux but get only the following error in Step1:

Any idea?

Desire Root Step 1

Erasing cache and rebooting in RUU mode ...

erasing 'cache' ... OKAY

... OKAY

error: cannot load 'testimage.zip'

error: cannot load 'testimage.zip'

Rebooting to bootloader ...

rebooting into bootloader ... OKAY

Step 1 complete - now use the bootloader menu to enterrecovery mode.

thats what i cant get past driving me nuts

Edited May 1, 2010 by msdl28712

[Guest alexdroid]

in virtual box go to devices down to usb and tick HTC there we go

It was that simple... I have to click on my device each time < waiting for device > is displayed to go to next step...

THANKS A LOT DUDE !!! You rule !!!

[Guest Mklass]

It was that simple... I have to click on my device each time < waiting for device > is displayed to go to next step...

THANKS A LOT DUDE !!! You rule !!!

No problem mate :huh:

Hopefully Ill get mine done soon

[Guest lesteryh]

Paul thank you so much for such a great work....

I successfully rooted my Desire and also Flashed the Chinese Input (HTC_CIME) , I can see the chinese input setting under Language & Keyboard but things is I don't see a way to actually switch the input language to Chinese when I'm typing, is that anything I miss?

[Guest Paul]

Press-hold on an input box.

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[Guest EernstJ]

After a day playing i have some problems:

I lost my normal screen with dig clock and wether. Also background was lost and could not connect to teh computer anymore, the USB logo in the top of the screen did not come up.

I did the whole thing (rooting) again and all is well again. Anyone?

I was hoping to use 'backup for root users' as i did in my Magic. The progran starts and let me make a choice what to backup. It is making a folder on SD card but... nothing there? So not realy root? Ore is there an other issue here?

Also i miss FLAC music suport. My magic did the trick after rooting but my Desire is not...

I am intrested to understand how to get it working or why it is not...?

Ernst-Jan

Edited May 1, 2010 by EernstJ

[Guest Deerhunter48]

Try re-burning the ISO maybe?

YES - that was the problem. With a re-burned ISO it worked well - my Desire now is rooted and debranded!

Thanx a lot!

[Guest lesteryh]

Press-hold on an input box.

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Thanks Paul, as this is my 1st android phone that's y.....sorry about that.

[Guest Myk202020]

Phew!.... Done it :huh:

Cheers Paul.

Had to use some extra info to make the gold card, and needed to use my little EEEPC as the Tiny distro wouldnt load on my main (old) laptop for some reason, plus Ive no finger nails left, but alls well that ends well.

Thanks to all for posting your problems / experiences, they do give much needed help.

[Guest aassra]

Every thing is good for me up to now except one problem

when i install arabic it working fine until i open the market or browser it gave me FC

thanks

[Guest Tuborgmann]

A kitchen that has the same options like the kitchen for the Desire rom for the Nexus One would be sweet.

Edited May 1, 2010 by Tuborgmann

[Guest afiorillo]

Every time I run recovery-windows.bat I get a "device not found" error. Any ideas?

More informations are needed in order to answer such a question. What operating system are you using? How the Desire il connected to the computer (which port, via HUB or directly, which cable, and so on)? Have you tried to manually issue some adb commands to your Desire?

Edited May 1, 2010 by afiorillo

[Guest Paul]

It's coming next week. :huh:

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[Guest msdl28712]

seriosly getting no further and could do with some help

cannot root my desire for love or money

INFOsignature checking...

INFOzip header checking...

INFOzip info parsing...

INFOchecking model ID...

INFOchecking custom ID...

INFOchecking main version...

FAILED (remote: 43 main version check fail)

sending 'zip' (137446 KB)... OKAY

writing 'zip'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this image...

INFOsignature checking...

INFOzip header checking...

INFOzip info parsing...

INFOchecking model ID...

INFOchecking custom ID...

INFOchecking main version...

FAILED (remote: 43 main version check fail)

Rebooting to bootloader...

step2.sh fails with 'error:device not found'

anyone gonna help a damsel in distress

[Guest afiorillo]

[...]

Copying files...

E: Can't symlink /system/xbin/[

E: Failure at line 5:

symlink busybox SYSTEM:xbin/[

Installation aborted

*************

for your information , i installed Paul App2sd before. and I just iwipe the data in recoverty mode and re-do the same steap..

Please help anyone!

I got the same error when installed A2SD for the very first time. Just re-flashed rootedupdate.zip and, with no reboot, flashed a2sd.

Try this and let me know if it works for you. :huh:

[Guest 42turkeys]

I tried doing the root but get some problems at stage 2.

Here is what I get:

tc@box:/mnt/cdrom/root$ sudo ./step2.sh

Desire Root Step 2


Pushing required files to the device...


error: device not found

error: device not found


Pushing update file to device sdcard - this may take a few minutes...


error: device not found

error: device not found


Now wipe and apply rootedupdate.zip from the recovery image menu.


error: device not found[/codebox]

Why is it saying device not found? I am not booting up through the CD [b]not[/b] through a Virtual Machine and step1 ran ok so I don't see why it says device not found when I am at the screen with the phone and the ! on.

Any help would be great! :huh:

Edited May 1, 2010 by 42turkeys

[Guest Mklass]

I tried doing the root but get some problems at stage 2.

Here is what I get:

tc@box:/mnt/cdrom/root$ sudo ./step2.sh

Desire Root Step 2


Pushing required files to the device...


error: device not found

error: device not found


Pushing update file to device sdcard - this may take a few minutes...


error: device not found

error: device not found


Now wipe and apply rootedupdate.zip from the recovery image menu.


error: device not found[/codebox]

Why is it saying device not found? I am not running TCL through a Virtual Machine and step1 ran ok so I don't see why it says device not found when I am at the screen with the phone and the ! on.

Any help would be great! :P

go to devices top left an scroll down to usb then click htc...done :huh:

[Guest 42turkeys]

go to devices top left an scroll down to usb then click htc...done :huh:

Is that on Tiny Core Linux or the phone?

I'm booting it up through the CD not in a Virtual Machine if that's what you're talking about.

Edited May 1, 2010 by 42turkeys

[Guest Mklass]

Is that on Tiny Core Linux or the phone?

on virtual box

edit...oh my bad thought you was booting from VB

Edited May 1, 2010 by Mklass

[Guest Berry White]

I've rooted my Desire smoothly, thank you very much Paul for your great work, I purchased the ad-free account. :huh:

[Guest msdl28712]

guess my problem cant be sorted :huh:

[Guest ascito]

I got the same error when installed A2SD for the very first time. Just re-flashed rootedupdate.zip and, with no reboot, flashed a2sd.

Try this and let me know if it works for you. :huh:

Hi Angelo,

I installed a2sd with your guide, everything went fine...but how can I verify that a2sd us correctly installed and working? I installed Google earth but not sure it is on my sd.

Thx!