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Rooting Rogers HTC Dream

Hello,
Is it possible to root the HTC Dream from rogers yet? I just purchased one yesterday and I am not sure if the procedure is the same as for the T-Mobile G1.
Thanks

I too would like more information on this. Thanks in advance.

Dream...
I believe the Dream and the G1 are actually the same devices. So what you can do to one, should also apply to the other.

I am curious to try the G1 procedure, but I am wondering a few things... Biggest thing is if rogers would be using the same key to sign the updates? and second is if downgrading to rc29 would brick my phone.

I wouldn't use the DREAIMG.NBH rooting procedure on the Rogers Dream. If I recall correctly, it includes a radio image (please correct me if I'm wrong). If that's the case, you wouldn't want to try to flash the radio from the G1 to your Rogers version that uses different frequencies.
I would venture a guess that the method Haykuro used to root the Sapphire would work, and should be safe to try even if it doesn't. Go here:
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magic_Rooting
I got that from a post in the Sapphire forum here on XDA Developers.
The key is to flash the recovery image with the rooted recovery image. I don't know what difference there may be between the magic and dream recovery images - you may want to grab the modified recovery image specifically for the dream and use it instead of the one on the wiki page.
Wish I had a Rogers Dream so I could try it. If any of you with this handset try it, post the result here!

silverchris said:
I am curious to try the G1 procedure, but I am wondering a few things... Biggest thing is if rogers would be using the same key to sign the updates? and second is if downgrading to rc29 would brick my phone.
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I'm wondering this too. I'm not new to flashing devices etc but THIS is all new to me lol ... I found more info on This page that also explains about the radio however, I'm not sure what all applies or how things change with the Rogers phone. The more I read the more confused I get. One site said follow the link above and you wont have any problems, another said dont follow the site in order but do the radio first then flash the SPL.
Can someone please confirm the steps required to root the Rogers phone and then flash haykuro's ROgers ROM please? I just dont want to brick my device if at all possible (not that anyone really wants to brick their phones).
THanks guys!!

I am going to see if I can boot any of the recovery images without flashing them. I read in a thread thats possible....

None of the recovery images I've tried will boot on my device, Haykuro told me he's working on a solution with dream_kill to root this device.

So it can't be rooted yet?

Awwww I was hoping to put hero on

evilpig said:
Awwww I was hoping to put hero on
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ya we must be patient.
i don't do that so well

the waiting game
I will be waiting as well. Though as soon as the US rooting procedure failed for me, I felt like Rogers had just bent me over and shoved a big rusty sand covered......you get the idea. Was it not enough to put Rogers logos all over the phone, but you had to take away our rooting ability's as well? How sad. But I like the phone too much to take it back Oh well, wait and hope for the best
All you guys (and girls) working on this, you totally rock!

Well, guess we're all in the same boat. I have been reading some of the other threads though, seems like maxawesome, has the Rogers Dream version, and had success rooting and flashing a few days ago, maybe he could share? Looks as though he is the first and possibly only to get root so far for rogers. I tried sending a pm to him, but not sure it went through. You should try, he has some posts in the "rogers rom" thread, just doesn't indicate which SPL version he ended up using.

I'm in the same boat as everyone else. Lets just hope we get to rooting our phones soon!

Just a suggestion: Perhaps you Canadians can try the goldcard method used for non-US/UK Dreams described in the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485364
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot that the updated SPL may cause bricking when the older radio is used. Please disregard this post!

Wasn't it just the haykuro modified spl that caused bricking? Of course, there is more to the radio on this device, even if it doesn't brick it, may result in a non-functional radio (until the correct radio is put back).

Work in progress
I see haykuro is working on it here
More waiting and searching.

Any other updates on where haykuro (or anyone else working on this) is at?

i think haykuro is looking for a device but its still hard to find in USA.

hrmmm ... wonder if we can put a call out and some extremely generous Canadian can send one to him ... seriously if I had a way to get my hand on another one without having to fork out $700 I'd totally contribute a phone

HTC Sense on T-Mobile G2

Hi all,
Can anyone try to install HTC Sense on T-Mobile G2, is it possible?
Pls tell me how can and how I get HTC Sense for G2.
Thanks

Look for a custom ROM with Sense built into it on the dev forum.

Root your G2 with the rooting procedure back in the Development Forum for the Vision/G2.
Go to this and find one that your comfortable with: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=758#

meltedmoops999 said:
Root your G2 with the rooting procedure back in the Development Forum for the Vision/G2.
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He'll need S-OFF as well, won't he, not just root ?

steviewevie said:
He'll need S-OFF as well, won't he, not just root ?
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I had to turned S-off when i did mine... I think I had to in order to get rom manager to back up the stock rom. I didn't have any prob though.

Stock RUUs/ROMs - warning needed ?

Since the merger we now have stock RUUs and ROM images in the same forum.
I don't know for sure what happens if you try and flash one on the "wrong" phone, e.g. the G2 RUU on a DZ, or a DZ ROM on a G2. Given they have different stock hboots and hence different stock partitioning, it's not a good idea. Anyone know what happens though (I'm not asking someone to try it for me right now, just wondering if anyone tried in the past) ?
I was just wondering if we should perhaps get some warnings put up in the posts on the stock ROMs to make it clear not to flash these on the "wrong" phone.
Any thoughts ?
P.S. Flashing custom ROMs on either phone is fine, just in case I've confused anyone here. It's just a complete stock image including hboot etc that I'm talking about.

I will be working on getting the forums back in order this weekend. I can add warnings to the OP's I just need to know which ones and what type of warning. Any helps on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
@Mikey & @TDC If you read this, I know you guys have the phones so if you want to help me out on this also I would love you forever!

TheRomMistress said:
I will be working on getting the forums back in order this weekend. I can add warnings to the OP's I just need to know which ones and what type of warning. Any helps on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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These are the stock ROMs/RUUs that are specifically for the G2 :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788489
These are the stock ROMs/RUUs that are specifically for the Desire Z :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=870369
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=815253
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=797793
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=822908
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858556
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=860430
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=820428
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=820410
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=815254
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=811213
Unless I've missed one, all other ROMs are custom ones which should be fine on either phone.

Ok all threads now contain a warning. I will post an announcement later in hopes that ppl will make this a standard. Thanks for your help!

Surely it shouldn't matter.
They are the same phone, and the ruu flashes everything, so surely it will just re-partition the phone to its own requirements??
Edit: only prob I foresee, would be flashing a sense ruu to a g2. Because if the ruu doesn't re-partition the phone, the sense ruu won't fit.
Correct me if I'm wrong?
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

philicibine said:
Surely it shouldn't matter.
They are the same phone, and the ruu flashes everything, so surely it will just re-partition the phone to its own requirements??
Edit: only prob I foresee, would be flashing a sense ruu to a g2. Because if the ruu doesn't re-partition the phone, the sense ruu won't fit.
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It would be good to know this for sure. There's an hboot in the ROM image and I'm not sure that anyone has tried flashing the "wrong" hboot to their phone. It might works as you say, but then again it might end up with a brick.
The hboot contains references to the partitioning but I'm not sure a ROM flash actually repartitions the storage. I would love to know for certain.
Right now, I think it's best to stay on the safe side

Im sure when i rooted my first dz .. i used visionary.. and then flashed a g2 engineering hboot.
Im sure at the time that was the only one available.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Froyo OTA for the 1.2 & Fender to start on 1/12/11

Looks like Froyo for 1.2 & Fender users is on it's way! As posted on the T-Mobile forums.
http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/myTouch-3G/Ladies-and-Gentlemen-Froyo/m-p/505229/highlight/true#M63410

budney said:
Looks like Froyo for 1.2 & Fender users is on it's way! As posted on the T-Mobile forums.
http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/myTouch-3G/Ladies-and-Gentlemen-Froyo/m-p/505229/highlight/true#M63410
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Nice find! I'll sticky this for a couple weeks and we'll see where it goes from here.

Yes, hopefully we will get a proper version of the 2708 Radio for the 1.2

Cool, I'll be unrooting the wife's phone for this.

O.T.A. for My Touch 3g Fender/1.2
Okay this thread is for the My Touch 1.2/Fender OTA to be released 1/12/11. If you have any insight as to what we need to do to "catch" this update please post here. I know a lot of people are going to say the Magic OTA has already been released but this is a different phone that was not included in the first update and I'm sure the Magic forum Moderator knows this better than most. Does anyone know for sure if we can just be on the stock Fender ROM with root and still receive the OTA? Any information regarding this topic is welcome please post for the rest of us!
JeffakaJeff and I have custom build of this update for people who want root and the update go here.

fender/1.2 i the same as 32A?

Fender 32a
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fender/1.2 i the same as 32A?
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They are not the same the Fender/1.2 is a 32a but they use the EBI0 kernel like the 32b Dream. From what I have seen the 32a Magic use the EBI1 kernel (correct?).

Edubyah said:
They are not the same the Fender/1.2 is a 32a but they use the EB0 kernel like the 32b Dream. From what I have seen the 32a Magic use the EB1 kernel (correct?).
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yes its eb1

Edubyah said:
Okay this thread is for the My Touch 1.2/Fender OTA to be released 1/12/11. If you have any insight as to what we need to do to "catch" this update please post here. I know a lot of people are going to say the Magic OTA has already been released but this is a different phone that was not included in the first update and I'm sure the Magic forum Moderator knows this better than most. Does anyone know for sure if we can just be on the stock Fender ROM with root and still receive the OTA? Any information regarding this topic is welcome please post for the rest of us!
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fender/1.2 i the same as 32A?
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Edubyah said:
They are not the same the Fender/1.2 is a 32a but they use the EB0 kernel like the 32b Dream. From what I have seen the 32a Magic use the EB1 kernel (correct?).
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yes its eb1
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You guys must have issues reading and searching. Not only has this been discussed... but I started an entire new thread just for this phone. And because I knew that would not be enough... I started a WHOLE new thread dedicated to the update just for this phone. Hell, I even made them stickies! Yet... here we are.
I merged your thread in with the appropriate topic already in discussion.

Un-rooting
DonJuan692006 said:
Cool, I'll be unrooting the wife's phone for this.
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Does anyone know for sure that's necessary? I've heard that being on Binary's deodexed fender with root would suffice to receive the update. Anybody know for sure?
I know nobody want's to talk about it but that damn keyboard is the only reason I'm doing this to begin with.
Something else look at the tags this thread won't show up in a search NO TAGS!!!

Logcat to get update links
Edubyah said:
If you have any insight as to what we need to do to "catch" this update please post here.
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Use logcat (search this forum) to capture the download link(s).
Expecting three separate zip files we collectively need links for. First should be new hboot/radio package. Second will be the ROM package for each device (one for for 1.2 and one for Fender.)
Edit: No more than two files, we already have hboot and a radio update (if any) would be packaged with the ROM itself. - K
Now what I want to know is will this keep my phone from rebooting when I get a Gmail or SMS notification while using Google Nav and Pandora radio at the same time?
Kind Regards,
Kevin

kpetrie77 said:
Use logcat (search this forum) to capture the download link(s).
Expecting three separate zip files we collectively need links for. First should be new hboot/radio package. Second will be the ROM package for each device (one for for 1.2 and one for Fender.)
Now what I want to know is will this keep my phone from rebooting when I get a Gmail or SMS notification while using Google Nav and Pandora radio at the same time?
Kind Regards,
Kevin
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So being hooked to ADB running DDMS will give you the links?

I unrooted the wifes phone to make sure it catches the update. I'll be sticking with CM 6.1. I'm going to have her not do the updates when she gets prompted so I can pull the links. I don't imagine we'll see an SPL update, but I'm thinking we might get the new radio. We'll see, unless its in that announcement from T-Mobile already.
Sent from my HTC Magic using Tapatalk

DonJuan692006 said:
I unrooted the wifes phone to make sure it catches the update. I'll be sticking with CM 6.1. I'm going to have her not do the updates when she gets prompted so I can pull the links. I don't imagine we'll see an SPL update, but I'm thinking we might get the new radio. We'll see, unless its in that announcement from T-Mobile already.
Sent from my HTC Magic using Tapatalk
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I'm going to try the stock Fender w/root. A while back I un-rooted and re-rooted but with the UniversalAndroot this time, so I should show up as stock if I am on 1.6 and my build.prop is right. Anybody know of an app that would store logcat on sdcard?

DonJuan692006 said:
I unrooted the wifes phone to make sure it catches the update. I'll be sticking with CM 6.1. I'm going to have her not do the updates when she gets prompted so I can pull the links. I don't imagine we'll see an SPL update, but I'm thinking we might get the new radio. We'll see, unless its in that announcement from T-Mobile already.
Sent from my HTC Magic using Tapatalk
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I'm going to try the stock Fender w/root. A while back I un-rooted and re-rooted but with the UniversalAndroot this time, so I should show up as stock if I am on 1.6 and my build.prop is right. Anybody know of an app that would store logcat on sdcard?
I found a nice one in the market and the best thing about is after testing the logcat won't start when I start the app it will have information from long before the app starting point so this should work nicely.- See the update message start the logcat and it should go back far enough to include when the message was sent and any temporary cache download links (lets hope) This should get me the first one till I get home and hook to my computer-will running the ddms during the update process get any subsequent links?

Edubyah said:
Does anyone know for sure that's necessary? I've heard that being on Binary's deodexed fender with root would suffice to receive the update. Anybody know for sure?
I know nobody want's to talk about it but that damn keyboard is the only reason I'm doing this to begin with.
Something else look at the tags this thread won't show up in a search NO TAGS!!!
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I'll add some tags in a few minutes.
If you are just using the stock just for the Swype keyboard you can look into SlideIT. Can't remember how much it costs but it's pretty much the same thing. Really. Some may even argue that it's better.
Regarding the update for the rooted stock roms... you should be able to get the update still. My theory is that the rom, spl and radio would be the only thing to get the update. Rom (stock), SPL, (1.33.0013), radio (2.22.23.02) possibly kernel. If any of these are different then you may not get the update. Another theory of mine is that it may require a certain build.prop file. It's been a while but I'm pretty sure that I used the same build.prop file in my rooted stock rom. So either way I don't see why you wouldn't still get the update.

Looks like I need to find a flashable 2.23.XX radio I switched to the 2708 radio when it came out.

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Looks like I need to find a flashable 2.23.XX radio I switched to the 2708 radio when it came out.
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And I bet that you didn't notice any difference, did you?

Anything to read a logcat will work. Download links should look something like below:
I/SystemUpdateService( 358): starting download of http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/tmobile_opal/package-name-here.zip
Just so I don't get a reply about this link not working... Again, just an example of what you are looking for.
Kind Regards,
Kevin

kpetrie77 said:
Anything to read a logcat will work. Download links should look something like below:
I/SystemUpdateService( 358): starting download of http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/tmobile_opal/package-name-here.zip
Just so I don't get a reply about this link not working... Again, just an example of what you are looking for.
Kind Regards,
Kevin
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Hey i dunno wat da problm is but dat link isnt workn 4 me!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Just kidding. Only giving you an example of what I have to go through on a daily basis.)

in need of a good htc evo 4g stock rom

ive been searching for a good htc evo 4g stock rom so i can root my phone. but guess im bad luck or something and everytime when i run a stock ruu exe it would give me an error stating that i need a complete ruu file. do anyone know where i can find this? ive downloaded at least 5 differernt stock rom exe files and none of them would work! thx

Do you mean stock as in not rooted or stock as rooted, but unchanged?
Edit: BTW, this should go in Q&A if not general.

This isn't the right thread...but try Tommy's classic rom...
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

What's wrong with your current stock ROM? It should be easy to root what ever stock ROM you currently have on your device with revolutionary S-OFF method.

Firstly you need to do some reading on how to root your phone using either the unrevoked or revolutionary method to then be able to use Custom ROMs. Also, keep in mind that the development thread is only for posting developed work; this thread belongs in the Q&A section instead.

well its my first post so give me a break ok? well i was trying to unroot it with unrevoked but i got a error telling me that my firmware was to up to date. so my plan was to download a older shipped rom so i can unroot it but i guess the file that i have was bad so now im stuck on the main screen with "triangles on all 4 corners and htc logo on the center. i cannot get the phone to bootloader as well.

Are you trying to root or unroot you have said both double check before you send your reply so we have accurate information to help you I don't know what you're trying to do from your posts