r4 HTC Desire Easy Rooting Guide with Tiny Core Linux

[Guest craigcrawford1988]

Nice one my friend! Have been using r3 TinyCore method but there's no recovery command included so been having to use the recovery-windows.bat which just gets annoying!!

Managed to get it uploaded before I left http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1PTWN20K

[Guest EddyOS]

Top man!! On it :)

[Guest angamb]

Managed to get it uploaded before I left http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1PTWN20K

My "Catchya" code on Megaupload was BR1K lol I hope that's not an omen!!

[Guest afiorillo]

My "Catchya" code on Megaupload was BR1K lol I hope that's not an omen!!

AHAHAHAHAHAH LOL

[Guest z0nic]

thank you craigcrawford,

your method worked great after my win7 x64 attempt failed. I have created the tinycorelinux on a usb-stick with unetbootin. Because of the USB connection I had to modify step 6. to

sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom

sudo mount /dev/sd1 /mnt/cdrom

cd /mnt/cdrom/desire

I have also used a goldcard because of my branded t-mobile DE device and it's working without removing the goldcard or formating it. Thank you very much

Hi all, I tried both the "original" guide, and this (/dev/sd1). However, It doesn't work.

All I get is:

mount: mounting /dev/whatever on /mnt/cdrom failed: No such file or directory

I used the netbootin' utility to transfer files from .iso to usb stick...

Any ideas?

[Guest ernajj]

Hi,

Downloaded the ISO file, burned as image, but it won't boot.

tried several times, from both links.

anyone else had problems with booting the cd at computer startup?

[Guest afiorillo]

Hi,

Downloaded the ISO file, burned as image, but it won't boot.

tried several times, from both links.

anyone else had problems with booting the cd at computer startup?

If your computer boots up from its hard disk, then you'll have to double-check your BIOS: the optical drive must have precedence over the hard disk in the boot sequence.

[Guest craigcrawford1988]

My "Catchya" code on Megaupload was BR1K lol I hope that's not an omen!!

I LOL'D :).

Hi all, I tried both the "original" guide, and this (/dev/sd1). However, It doesn't work.

All I get is:

mount: mounting /dev/whatever on /mnt/cdrom failed: No such file or directory

I used the netbootin' utility to transfer files from .iso to usb stick...

Any ideas?

Try sdb1. If that doesn't work try going into /dev/ and see what's available.

cd /dev/

ls -d */

Edited May 18, 2010 by craigcrawford1988

[Guest z0nic]

Try sdb1. If that doesn't work try going into /dev/ and see what's available.

cd /dev/

ls -d */

Ok, I get the following:

block/ bus/ char/ fd/ input/ net/ pts/ shm/ usb/

None of wich contains the files/folders I'm looking for... :/

Another thing, when I browse the usb drive in Windows, is it supposed to be FAT32?

That bit strikes me as strange.

Might just be me... :)

[Guest craigcrawford1988]

Ok, I get the following:

block/ bus/ char/ fd/ input/ net/ pts/ shm/ usb/

None of wich contains the files/folders I'm looking for... :/

Another thing, when I browse the usb drive in Windows, is it supposed to be FAT32?

That bit strikes me as strange.

Might just be me... :)

FAT32 is not a problem. It's pretty strange that you don't have the device in there... I would advise using a CD and see if you can do it that way.

Perhaps your BIOS isn't configuring the USB drive as a HDD. Does your BIOS have USB emulation?

Edited May 19, 2010 by craigcrawford1988

[Guest craigcrawford1988]

Ok, I get the following:

block/ bus/ char/ fd/ input/ net/ pts/ shm/ usb/

None of wich contains the files/folders I'm looking for... :/

Another thing, when I browse the usb drive in Windows, is it supposed to be FAT32?

That bit strikes me as strange.

Might just be me... :)

I just realised I said the wrong command. Try this instead:

cd /dev/

ls -d ./*

That should bring up the right directories.

[Guest EddyOS]

CD won't boot :) Written it wrong?

Edited May 19, 2010 by EddyOS

[Guest craigcrawford1988]

CD won't boot :) Written it wrong?

Try it on a different computer.

[Guest EddyOS]

Will do if need be, finally got a ROM/radio flashed how I want it using r3 TinyCore and recovery in Windows...

[Guest potter97]

CD won't boot :) Written it wrong?

If not check the Burn speed, Linux should always be burnt the slowest speed you have, to stop any errors in copying.

[Guest EddyOS]

I had no issues with burning the original r3 TinyCore live CD - might take a look, though...thanks for the advice

[Guest craigcrawford1988]

I had no issues with burning the original r3 TinyCore live CD - might take a look, though...thanks for the advice

Also, when burning anything important (BIOS images, OS images, etc) make sure you enable the data verification option - the slightest error can cause all sorts of mayhem.

Edited May 19, 2010 by craigcrawford1988

[Guest EddyOS]

Funny how this is the 1 and only time I've had a bootable CD fail to boot in over 10yrs of burning CDs...

[Guest GanjBass]

Hello.

I have a problem with rooting on step 2...and i want to try your methot...

Yeasterday i try to flash but my dvd rom proked

I have to use usb...how dificult is to make a USB flash device with UNetbootin ?

[Guest craigcrawford1988]

Hello.

I have a problem with rooting on step 2...and i want to try your methot...

Yeasterday i try to flash but my dvd rom proked

I have to use usb...how dificult is to make a USB flash device with UNetbootin ?

It's just as easy as a CD.

[Guest perrytcolts]

Hi Guys,

Just got my Desire from Telstra and im real keen on rooting it and flashing it with a generic rom. Problem is, I am a noob with Android so thats why I've found and decided to use the TinyCore method. I've downloaded and burned the r3 tinycore iso then i saw this guide for r4. Is there much difference between r3 and r4?

And has anyone successfully rooted their phone using this guide? Even better, has anyone with a Telstra-branded Desire rooted with this guide?

I have bootloader 0.75 and rom 1.16. Not sure if i can root this version with the file you've linked.

Any input will be greatly appreciated. =)

[Guest ernajj]

Hi Guys,

Just got my Desire from Telstra and im real keen on rooting it and flashing it with a generic rom. Problem is, I am a noob with Android so thats why I've found and decided to use the TinyCore method. I've downloaded and burned the r3 tinycore iso then i saw this guide for r4. Is there much difference between r3 and r4?

And has anyone successfully rooted their phone using this guide? Even better, has anyone with a Telstra-branded Desire rooted with this guide?

I have bootloader 0.75 and rom 1.16. Not sure if i can root this version with the file you've linked.

Any input will be greatly appreciated. =)

Hi,

I have used r3 with the guide in this post.

In step 8, replace "desire" with "root" in the last command "cd ... "

all other steps were the same.

Recovery mode as mention in the guide is not avaiable in the r3, so i used the recovery-windows.bat from r4 (windows), and it worked well.

My desire was of vodafone brand, and had no problems.

[Guest iserlohn]

Good News: I used this method with a Goldcard and everything went well and no brick... :rolleyes:

Bad News: It also upgraded my HBOOT to 0.80, so now I cannot unroot to the original image... :D

Can the author edit the top post to make it clear that the HBOOT 0.80 version of testimage.zip is being used? It would be good to create one version with 0.75 and one with 0.80.

[Guest bas-r]

I'm a novice on the Desire front, owned a T-Mobile Pulse previously.

Now I'm reading these things about killing some USB functionality from the Desire when rooting it.

In what sense does this hold for this method? Is there a chance of killing USB functions with this routine?

[Guest craigcrawford1988]

Good News: I used this method with a Goldcard and everything went well and no brick... :rolleyes:

Bad News: It also upgraded my HBOOT to 0.80, so now I cannot unroot to the original image... :D

Can the author edit the top post to make it clear that the HBOOT 0.80 version of testimage.zip is being used? It would be good to create one version with 0.75 and one with 0.80.

Hey, I was just providing the guide and source to Paul's info...

Edited May 21, 2010 by craigcrawford1988