Root One Click Root For The Desire?

Good morning all;
I've been lurking a bit since I got my new phone a few weeks ago. Like most of you I became immediately frustrated with the lack of internal memory, so began exploring this root option. Therefore I have a few questions:

I have an HTC Desire from Telus Canada.

1. Is rooting possible?
2. Does rooting void the warranty?
3. Can you go back to original ROM?
4. Do any these ROMS function exactly as OEM or are there always differences? will I still have the widgets like Friendstream?
5. Which ROM is the best one to choose for someone who is entirely new to this?


Thanks in advance, you guys seem like a great, supportive group.

Rhonda

See FAQ for rooting in My sig. Answers most of your questions.

Be patient with it though

Long time listener, first time caller. Thanks all for a rollercoaster ride of a thread! I too am fed up with the internal storage low warnings and summoning the sack to take the plunge. I wish there was a Mac option as my PC randomly cuts power to itself with no warning and i can ill afford a brick.

Thanks to all who have contributed, i'm now filling my brain with reading the various links posted previously, in the hopes that on my day off on monday, i can stick the leedroid ROM on there and have enough space to swing a whole cat.

My main concern, as im sure everyone else's has been, is not necessarily losing my stuff and starting from scratch, it's bricking it beyond redemption.

Funny as i just bought, unlocked, rooted, and debranded an Orange San Francisco (ZTE blade) for the misses in about an hour and a half the other day without any panic at all! but when it comes to *my* phone...

That was one of my concerns before i rooted but after reading through this forum & xda i haven't noticed one instance of anyone bricking there phone from rooting.

Go for it, you wont regret it

It's been said before - the chances of bricking your phone by rooting and flashing a new ROM is very very small. More likely, if problems do happen, it's recoverable so you can figure out what you did wrong and try again.

Hmmm... Just tried the rooting guide unrevoked
One difference was that where it says:

1. Double-click the reflash-bundle.exe file you just downloaded
2. It will ask you where to install it, so just pick a location on your computer you can remember

This seemed to open the actual tool rather than install it anywhere. Anyway, it recognised the phone, gave a warning and I clicked OK.

Unrevoked has now been showing 'Pushing Recovery... (4317184 bytes)' for 10 mins or more.
The guide says 'wait a couple of minutes' - have I screwed up already?

The guide says 'At the end of this guide your phone should be rooted and you’ll be in recovery mode'. I'm still on the normal home screen.

Should I just leave it go? Reboot the phone? Help

I followed the flashing video guide but when I did the wipe as instructed, it cleared all the data from my sd card meaning I had no zip file to flash. Any idea where I went wrong?

bartlet said:

Hmmm... Just tried the rooting guide unrevoked
One difference was that where it says:

1. Double-click the reflash-bundle.exe file you just downloaded
2. It will ask you where to install it, so just pick a location on your computer you can remember

This seemed to open the actual tool rather than install it anywhere. Anyway, it recognised the phone, gave a warning and I clicked OK.

Unrevoked has now been showing 'Pushing Recovery... (4317184 bytes)' for 10 mins or more.
The guide says 'wait a couple of minutes' - have I screwed up already?

The guide says 'At the end of this guide your phone should be rooted and you’ll be in recovery mode'. I'm still on the normal home screen.

Should I just leave it go? Reboot the phone? Help

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Hmm2... The tool ended with 'Failed to push Recovery. Terminating'

Thought this was the easy bit!

edit: Unrevoked is now on v3.22. On the file menu it has an option 'Disable Security on Phone'. I'm guessing this is S-Off? Per XDA's rooting thread it appears this doesn't work on GSM phones which I think UK ones are? Should this option be unticked?

All phones that use sim cards are gsm. So yes, UK are all gsm.

Try unticking it...

Well I'm rooted

Damn, all those reboots etc are scary. Particularly the one where it briefly said not to touch the phone and it rebooted itself in the middle of the HTC music...

No idea what the problem was earlier.

I initially used my desktop XP machine which had HTC Sync installed so I uninstalled that then installed the HBoot drivers per the guide. Unrevoked just wouldn't work as described above. I tried unticking the Disable Security option but that made no difference.

Then I tried my laptop which has never had HTC Sync on it. Installed the Hboot drivers with no issues again but Unrevoked never started the process. I assume as without the HTC Sync drivers it didn't 'see' the Desire. Vista wanted to install drivers for ABD. I installed then immediately uninstalled HTC Sync and tried Unrevoked again. Disable Security was unticked again.

Many unrevoked controlled reboots later and I have a little Ninja in the app drawer

Time for a stiff drink while I consider ROMs...
Until I can afford to replace my phone without caring for the cost I'll be limiting my playing to getting a stable working ROM that allows a2sd+ - it's just not good for the stress levels!

Cheers all

Take a nandroid backup from recovery now

danfrance said:

Take a nandroid backup from recovery now

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I'm installing Titanium at the moment. Quick backup with that then the nandroid is my next stop! Once that's done I consider it a relatively safe place to be, i.e. restore a nandroid and you're back to a working phone!

HELP!

I followed the UNRevoked Youtube instructions and got through the part when the phone reboots - now I have an red exclamation point, and UNRevoked says: Waiting for the device. I have unplugged and replugged it in a couple of times. Originally it was looking for the USB Driver so I did that part - however the Youtube video references Other Devices - In my Device Drivers I don't have that - it is listed under Disk Drives - I have Windows 7.

Thanks in advance;
Rhonda

Theres a link to an unrevoked guide in my rooting faq. This should help you

Ok - fixed it, after I choose HBoot USB Plug - do I choose Fastboot or Recovery?

I have:
Fastboot
Recovery
Clear Storage
Simlock

Ok I chose Recovery. It just put me back to the red exclamation point/triangle.
Meanwhile unrEVOked is saying "waiting for bootloader;make sure driver is installed.
It is.

are there problems running unrEVOked on Windows 7?

TIA
Rhonda

I said I'm rooted, but I'm not 100% sure now! I've done the Nandroid backup OK, but Titanium complains of no root access. On opening Titanium the ninja popped up to ask for root privileges and I granted them but Titanium still says no. Any ideas?

Edit - I had a problem so I should have just click the 'Problems?' button... Sorted

rfairman said:

Ok I chose Recovery. It just put me back to the red exclamation point/triangle.
Meanwhile unrEVOked is saying "waiting for bootloader;make sure driver is installed.
It is.

are there problems running unrEVOked on Windows 7?

TIA
Rhonda

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No it works fine.

Try running from the start again

rfairman said:

Ok I chose Recovery. It just put me back to the red exclamation point/triangle.
Meanwhile unrEVOked is saying "waiting for bootloader;make sure driver is installed.

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I've only just done this myself so am by no means an expert (disclaimer!) but... Once Unrevoked started its process I didn't have to touch or select anything. I think it booted itself into recover a couple times but it just carried on once it got there. Once it's done it leaves the phone back at the home screen where it started.
Maybe check the HBoot drivers really are installed?

If the drivers aren't there at first, what Ronda described would happen but it should continue

OK.

Rooted with unrevoked.

Went great on my mac but somehow still made me more scared than i've been in a long time.

Installed titanium, which then told me i had to install clockwork recovery or it wasn't going to play - i was under the impression i had already done that, but just took a deep breath and let it 'install it again' anyway. which appears to have gone fine.

Backed up in recovery, and also in Titanium and rom manager.

Copied SD to computer. (inc those pesky hidden files)

On the verge of having the guts to do a partition on the 16Gb class 4 (512Mb) for the a2sd+ to chill out in, couple of quick questions.

1) As my phone is t-Mobile branded, do i have to do anything special with the SD card (gold card tutorials seem like a windows based nightmare) or the original SD card? I have so far just plopped them in the phone and used them.

B) i dont have enough internal space to move my currently SD card based apps (stock froyo) to my phone. after i partition, and then copy back all the SD card files to the now slightly smaller SD card, is this going to salt my game once leedroid is on there?

3) Those of you running leedroid, is the battery life any worse? i can deal with it being better or the same, but christ no worse!

D) Am i right in thinking that once partitioned and repolulated, i just transfer the leedroid zip to the SD card's root, and then select it to 'restore' in clockwork and that's actually all there is to it?

5) last one i promise. im so terrified of having a brick, does leedroid 2.2f replace the radio, because i have far too small testicles to mess with that.

THANK YOU

w0bbl3r said:

OK.

Rooted with unrevoked.

Went great on my mac but somehow still made me more scared than i've been in a long time.

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I can empathize - was the single scariest thing I did with my phone, especially as it failed and I had to do it again! Even my first boot loop was less worrying, as I knew I had a nandroid to go back to.

Installed titanium, which then told me i had to install clockwork recovery or it wasn't going to play - i was under the impression i had already done that, but just took a deep breath and let it 'install it again' anyway. which appears to have gone fine.

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You sure it wasn't ROM manager which asked you to install clockwork? ROM manager does that - I think it puts a second copy of clockwork on the SD card. Not an expert because I only had it on my phone for a few minutes (to format the SD card).

On the verge of having the guts to do a partition on the 16Gb class 4 (512Mb) for the a2sd+ to chill out in, couple of quick questions.

1) As my phone is t-Mobile branded, do i have to do anything special with the SD card (gold card tutorials seem like a windows based nightmare) or the original SD card? I have so far just plopped them in the phone and used them.

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Mine was unbranded, but people speak of gold cards as essentially obligatory for branded handsets, so it's probably a good idea.

B) i dont have enough internal space to move my currently SD card based apps (stock froyo) to my phone. after i partition, and then copy back all the SD card files to the now slightly smaller SD card, is this going to salt my game once leedroid is on there?

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I had exactly this situation a couple of days ago. What I did was:

• Moved the "most important" apps to the phone (particularly those where I cared about their data).
• Made a titanium backup (apps + data).
• Made a note of the remaining ones left on the SD card (in case I needed to reinstall from the market) and uninstalled them.
• Applied the A2SD+ update (in my case an addition to the ROM rather than a new ROM)
• Used titanium to restore the apps I'd uninstalled and their data.

Although I'd unchecked the option in titanium to restore apps to their original location, it put the deleted apps back on the SD card anyway. So I used "move to phone" to move them to the ext3 partition.

D) Am i right in thinking that once partitioned and repolulated, i just transfer the leedroid zip to the SD card's root, and then select it to 'restore' in clockwork and that's actually all there is to it?

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You select "install" rather than "restore" - restore is for reloading from a nandroid backup. But otherwise, yeah, I think that should be it. All I did was install the A2SD+ patch on my ROM and reboot.

Just have a nandroid available in case anything goes wrong.

w0bbl3r said:

gold card tutorials seem like a windows based nightmare

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I used this one. Didn't seem too bad at all.