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

[Guest albertz141]

omg finally...all worked great as i did the r3 process on another computer.

flawlessly, paul you rock!

[Guest afiorillo]

Wonderfull, it's working, i've checked by this : http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/Operating-Sy...2AA552D883F9018

thank you so much

You're welcome. :P

[Guest jujutoulouse]

Yes just disconnect, remove battery and restart.

The phone is exactly the same before the root process.

The root process under windows is bugged.

edit: german boy will be happy :P

Hello Paul, i confirm it seems that the windows process is bugged !

[Guest nbedford]

I've tried on a Windows 7 x64 machine (my laptop) and an old XP 32bit machine and they both give me 90 error

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

:P

[Guest yazooo]

I've tried on a Windows 7 x64 machine (my laptop) and an old XP 32bit machine and they both give me 90 error

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

:P

same for me

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

sending 'zip' (137446 KB)... FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

Rebooting to bootloader...

rebooting into bootloader... FAILED (command write failed (No such file or direc

tory))

"

Win 7 64 bit - any fix for this issue yet?

[Guest _Dejan_]

Im use windows root option on my Win7 Ultimate x64 without problems... Im using original HTC Sync x.28 from SD card... Im try R3 before windows methode but it doesn't work for me. It has stop on step1 with known 90 ... error...

Im forget Im NOT use Pauls r4 windows root guide but Im root it with pushfiles_windows.zip with only one BAT file...

[Guest Paul]

No, I'd recommend not using x64 for now. I've also added this to the first post.

P

[Guest cschmitz]

rebooting into bootloader... FAILED (command write failed (No such file or direc

tory))

"

Win 7 64 bit - any fix for this issue yet?

As i posted on the previous page, just use a Live CD such as Ubuntu and root from there. I suspect its a driver issue in Win7, had it happen both in 32+64bit.

Rooting will not work under Windows with that error, just use a 32bit Ubuntu LIVE CD (has alot nicer GUI than TinyLinux) and have the unzipped pushfiles.zip on a USB Stick, then go to the USB Stick and run the steps.

You will save yourself 100x the trouble.

[Guest yazooo]

As i posted on the previous page, just use a Live CD such as Ubuntu and root from there. I suspect its a driver issue in Win7, had it happen both in 32+64bit.

Rooting will not work under Windows with that error, just use a 32bit Ubuntu LIVE CD (has alot nicer GUI than TinyLinux) and have the unzipped pushfiles.zip on a USB Stick, then go to the USB Stick and run the steps.

You will save yourself 100x the trouble.

cheers, downloading live cd now

[Guest jullejul]

After i install this mod. Then my mobile get slow and lagg a lot. And i lost alot of memory

[Guest abc27]

Successfully rooted using R3.

Gonna try and get Apps2SD working now :P

[Guest kenji_dk]

This i get to this part.... Select the 'wipe' option ) But this one i dont get then select the option to apply an update zip from sdcard, and select 'rootedupdate.zip'. ( i have downloaded all the stuff to my pc .. do i have to put something on the SDCARD

sorry 4 asking i am very new to this .......

[Guest moran679]

Either this guide is totally vague about the goldcard issue or i'm just very tired.

I bought mine from a normal store, so I don't need a goldcard. But the first step of the guide says "make your microsd card into a goldcard", so do I just need to format it to fat32 and that's it?

If so, will I be able to do this using the phone to format the card or an external card reader is needed?

And - after I format the microSD card to fat32 (not a goldcard), can I format it back later to NTFS and use it normally (I probably can, but is it recommended)?

ahm..

[Guest yazooo]

cheers, downloading live cd now

Worked.

- Used Ubuntu netbook edition, created bootable usb drive. Copied over extracted r4-desire-root.zip to root of usb drive.

- Booted as live cd, opened terminal, changed to r4-desire-root folder, run instructions but used my cooked custom. Looks good so far.

Cheers

[Guest rvjacobs]

Please help,

I have installed market enabler to make the copy protected apps visible again in the market. But, as I thought, this is not the solution. Is there please someone on this forum who can confirm that the copy protected apps (such as bluppr) are gone after rooting your desire with paul's rom. And is there someone who can think of a solution to make the copy protected apps visible again? It would be a great help, because rooting the desire was great and app2sd works great too, but not being able to download copy protected apps from the market is a real downside.

[Guest cschmitz]

Please help,

I have installed market enabler to make the copy protected apps visible again in the market. But, as I thought, this is not the solution. Is there please someone on this forum who can confirm that the copy protected apps (such as bluppr) are gone after rooting your desire with paul's rom. And is there someone who can think of a solution to make the copy protected apps visible again? It would be a great help, because rooting the desire was great and app2sd works great too, but not being able to download copy protected apps from the market is a real downside.

Odd, i would suggest to reflash the device again, maybe use the generic "unroot" and start the process from scratch to really start off with a clean device. Indeed it appears that not the Market Locale is a problem but your bought content association. I have no clue why that should be affected though, assuming you didnt do monumental customization i would really redo the whole process with a clean new install+root.

Edited May 5, 2010 by cschmitz

[Guest jasup]

i think i managed to root but do i have to do the STEP 2 everytime i want to go in recovery? otherwise i have the red triangle

thx

[Guest jdouce]

id like to know too

i boot

got to recovery

press power button

red triangle shows

i run ./recover-linux.sh

joe@JoeUnbuntu:~/Android/Root$ ./recovery-linux.sh

Desire Recovery Mode

Pushing required files to device...

sudo: ./adb: command not found

sudo: ./adb: command not found

[Guest cschmitz]

id like to know too

i boot

got to recovery

press power button

red triangle shows

i run ./recover-linux.sh

joe@JoeUnbuntu:~/Android/Root$ ./recovery-linux.sh

Desire Recovery Mode

Pushing required files to device...

sudo: ./adb: command not found

sudo: ./adb: command not found

rename a copy of adb-linux to adb, the .sh is having a typo :P

[Guest ketanitem]

@Paul: tried to download the r4-desire-root.zip from the mirror (since the primary site was down), but it's so very slow. Any other mirrors?

Thanks.

[Guest Bakk15]

Since the root i have one error that come a lot.

a close for " htc message update" ( upload maybe ).

does anyone have this ?

[Guest Paul]

Working on speed / mirrors...

P

[Guest ketanitem]

Working on speed / mirrors...

P

Thanks, can't wait :P

[Guest 42turkeys]

Paul's just mentioned in the 0.80 bootloader topic that it's coming very soon! :P

Paul - Will the 0.80 root fix the 'Main version check' error some people are getting?

[Guest marvi0]

ok am not that good at computers at all and have been searching for the whole day, before finally being forced to ask because am having trouble following this part of the instructions, and i am aware this might be simpl for othersd, but i just cant seem to get this please help me out as to hoe to follow this <Unzip the file you downloaded to a directory, then open a command prompt / terminal window at that directory.>, many thanks.