Thanks for the help. Just changed my windows settings regarding hiding file extensions and I can now use the recovery image.

 

Shouldn't this have been made into a Sticky by now?

 

I rooted my Desire a year or so ago and now a friend has asked me to do his. I am confortable with the risks and so forth, I just want to confirm something because it has been such a long time since I did mine.

If I just root his phone, it will apply root to the existing ROM, correct? I am not required to apply a custom ROM at the same time.

He has a lot of stuff that he doesn't want to lose so my plan was to root first, then install Titanium, backup apps, flash ROM, and then restore (user) apps. I have used this process a lot when switching ROMs but without the rooting part. From what I remember that should work fine, can someone confirm?

 

You are correct. Rooting the phone will simply grant SuperUser permissions and install a custom Recovery to the phone. The ROM stays the same with all User Apps e.t.c still there.

 

Just check the rooting guide again to make sure you are familiar.

If his phone is more recent than yours you should check PVT version, and if PVT4 check the erase size: erase size = 40,000 means you should flash AmonRA recovery rather than unrevoked's default (ClockworkMod 2.5.0.7). Instructions are all in the guide.

 

Great, thanks.

It's not particularly new, it's an early SLCD, around August 2010 (mine was a June 2010 AMOLED). I believe that was before before the new PVT appeared, but I will check it first, of course Thanks.

 

So I have Hboot version 1.06. What can i do then to still be able to use unrevoked??

 

Hi,
I'm new here and I'm posting, firstly, to ask how long unrevoked takes to root the Desire?

I'm sat here looking at the application and it still says "Pushing Recovery" - I've been waiting over 10 mins now and nothing indicates any progress, so I was wandering whether something was wrong.

One thing I've considered is that when I plugged in my phone, i didn't know what USB setting it should be on - USB charge only, Sync, Drive, etc. does it make a difference? I couldn't see anything in the guide that said which setting it should be on.

Secondly, I'm posting to say 'Hi", as i was too impatient to use the introduction forum... with my phone rooting and all

 

Hi,

New here but was hoping for a little bit of help with rooting my Desire if it's at all possible

So I read through your (SUroot's) FAQ and Guide on rooting and decided to do it myself - checked to make sure my Desire was compatible and it was. Couldn't manage to unzip the goldcard.rar file so went straight ahead to the rooting. Had Sync uninstalled (with the driver left in place), installed the HBoot drivers, and finished all the 'prerequisite steps'. Updated the driver software, all the rest. Moved onto actually rooting with unrEVOked buuut it won't do anything at all. The phone's switched on, debugging's on, yet unrEVOked won't recognize it so after that I crumbled and went back to trying to get the goldcard to work - downloaded winzip free trial, unzipped the .rar file, got the tool to work, but now it won't find the MMC0 or MMC1.

Anyways, sorry for the miniature essay and thanks for any help you can offer!

 

You dont need to worry too much about goldcard. You can make it at any point of time. You dont even require the phone to read the cid. All you need is a laptop with cardreader (not usb adapter) and gparted live cd. After gparted boots, in the terminal just type the command given in the 'How to debrand the phone' in the sticky. Except type mmc0 instead of mmc1. It will print the cid. Reverse it in pairs and just follow the rest of the steps. The post in the ulockr has a bug and doesnt correctly describe the cid reversing procedure. It is brought out in one of the comments of the post.

 

I've never had a problem with the USB ports before (it's a laptop) so I doubt that's the problem - but I'll try and remove my mouse USB receiver and connect the phone through that one instead.
The only HTC software I have installed is the BMP USB Driver and nothing Android whatsoever (unless it's being obscure and doesn't have Android or HTC in the name of the program).
My AV is McAfee, and I also have Windows Defender (comes with Windows OS) but I disabled my McAfee FireWall so I'm assuming that worked?
I'll try reinstalling the drivers again though. I've got work in an hour, so might not have a result until later tonight.


Also, Handy, thanks for the advice. I think I'll skip the goldcard section for now, I only went back and tried it so hard last night was because I failed at rooting and was bored if I can do it post-rooting then it's something I'll look into when I've got more time.

Cheers guys!

 

Ok, I think I've identified the problem with the rooting. I extract the HBOOT driver files and check that they're installed in device manager, and they are every time. I then disconnect the phone, boot it up and enable USB debugging. I start unrEVOked and connect the phone via the USB cable. However, I checked again about the third time that I did this step that the HBOOT driver files were still installed on the phone, and they're not!
So for some reason they're installing fine whilst in HBOOT then completely disappearing when I reboot the phone and plug it in to root.

Sound like there's anything to be done about this?

 

I get you, thought that might've been the case

so what's going wrong then? can't get unrEVOked to work, like it won't recognize the phone when it's plugged in even though the computer does. tried it when it's been plugged in, and on a couple of different USB settings (charge only and connected it as an external hard drive or whatever)

 

I think maybe you should suspect the computer. Try a different computer preferably with minimum software installations.

 

I finally decided to root after running out of space for apps. Thanks for the guide, made the whole process easy peasy lemon squeezy

Off to read the guide for a2sd+ now...

 

Many thanks SUroot, just rooted my phone and it was completely painless thanks to your guide, great job!

 

Hi looking into rooting. Have PTV4 but get a permission denied instead of the expected 20000/40000 when using the emulator. Anyone else seen this?