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Hi Guys,
In rooting htc magic process, i exactly followed the steps laid by xda developers. After receiving gold card img and following further steps in HXD editor program, i could not find the gold card on my SD card(sandisk 2 GB). I could not see any gold card on my SD card in order to copy required sappimg.nbh/zip. I tried several times. but i could not suceed. Now if i try with new SD card , please tell me weather i should receive new gold card img by redoing all the process of creating gold card as the CID with other card will be different. If it is so weather i can reuse the QMAT.exe( QMAT ver5.06) (it works for 10 mts only) which i have already downloaded. Any neat instructions(Answers to my above querries) will help me a lot. Please guide me.
one click worked great on my touch
Hi i use the one click method on my t-mobile my touch it worked great very easy so i think it will work for you i think the my touch and htc magic are the same this way there is no gold card it was easy here the web page.
http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2009/08/16/android-rooting-in-1-click-in-progress/
Ok I really need help on creating a Goldcard. I read everywhere and I must be a morron. It Read that I need to get the CID of my memory card and that I can do it with another WMdevice. I can get another WMDevice but how do i use it to get the Cid. I believe i can figure out the rest. Its just the whole CID thing i cant figure out.I need a Goldcard for dummies guide. I do run WinXP if that makes anything easier or worst. Thanks the help is deeply appreciated thanks.
kgblabble said:
Ok I really need help on creating a Goldcard. I read everywhere and I must be a morron. It Read that I need to get the CID of my memory card and that I can do it with another WMdevice. I can get another WMDevice but how do i use it to get the Cid. I believe i can figure out the rest. Its just the whole CID thing i cant figure out.I need a Goldcard for dummies guide. I do run WinXP if that makes anything easier or worst. Thanks the help is deeply appreciated thanks.
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you also need a prog called qmat, though its not free for the hd2 enabled version, though the old version will be enough to get the cid, just not create the goldcard.
mind if i ask why you need g card? its not needed for flashing anymore, use HSPL
EDIT - oh, and if you are thinking of using it to change the language on your phone !!!STOP!!! there are NO non tmous official roms that will work on your phone, they will ALL contain a radio that WILL destroy your phone.
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you also need a prog called qmat, though its not free for the hd2 enabled version, though the old version will be enough to get the cid, just not create the goldcard.
mind if i ask why you need g card? its not needed for flashing anymore, use HSPL
EDIT - oh, and if you are thinking of using it to change the language on your phone !!!STOP!!! there are NO non tmous official roms that will work on your phone, they will ALL contain a radio that WILL destroy your phone.
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long story short installed a rom on hd2 tmobile phone and it froze up i tried reloading different roms and nothing it would always boot back up to the bootloader screen even if it said install successful. so ive tried everything to try to recover it except the gold card method. I started with spl 2.10.000 now its on 2.00.1 and i want to get it back to 2.10.000 or get it to start up again. Also I did get qmat the trial anyways but how do i get the cid with that?
oops, biiig mistake, well im not even sure a GC will help, but anyway
get the free version from HERE (EDIT - oh you already got it)
run it with your other phone connected and the card you intend to use insterted, go to hardware forensics, winCE sd card utils, click 'get sd serial and Disk ID'
long number at top is your cards ID.
Doesn't that happen if you don't have a radio installed?
samsamuel said:
oops, biiig mistake, well im not even sure a GC will help, but anyway
get the free version from HERE (EDIT - oh you already got it)
run it with your other phone connected and the card you intend to use insterted, go to hardware forensics, winCE sd card utils, click 'get sd serial and Disk ID'
long number at top is your cards ID.
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i tried that it says device not connected. So do i need a working hd2 or is there any other way to do this? my phone only boots up the to the bootloader screen and says usb at the bottom. qmat is not recognizing it. If i need a working hd2 phone i do work at a cell store i can **borrow** one for a bit.
doesn't have to be hd2, no, any "working" windows mobile, with the sd card you want to use in it. connect the phone, connect to active sync (doesn't need to sync, choose "connect without setting up") then run psas
so i have the Goldcard.img i loaded it with hex editor and tried copying it over to my sd card then loading leoimg. Once i edit it i need to reformat the card there for erasing everything. What am i doing wrong? Thanks.
when you write the goldcard image, you are writing it to the header, not the card, so formatting the card shouldnt touch the header.
Why do you need to format the card though? start with a blank, freshly formatted card, , load the goldcard image (you cant just copy it on, but i guess you know that) then copy on leoimg.nbh and put it in your phone. wheres the format part come in? (not being sarcastic, it was 18 mths ago i did it)
Hey guys,I am stuck for some time now with the 1.72 OTA and was unable to root.
Some time today I saw jkoljo's post with instructions to downgrade the 1.72 OTA for those who didn't s-off before they applied it.I asked there and I got a kind answer that I should use the PD98IMG.zip provided in jkoljo's first post from a member whose name is unfortunately escaping me right now.However,that didn't seem to be enough.I downloaded the PD98IMG.zip and copied it to my SD card's root folder(I use a 16GB Class 10 Kingston card),I rebooted into bootloader but when it checked for the image it found nothing.So what do I do?
I don't know if anyone has the same problem.Apparently the guide was written for those who hadn't s-off'ed,as jkoljo himself told me,but nothing was written for those of us who did get s-off.Probably it was considered that we knew all well how to downgrade,but that's something I don't do everyday.So if anyone can please guide me on how to do it I'd be very very grateful!
Many thanks guys!And sorry for being a nuisance to some!
as you seem like an experienced user i won't explain certain things i.e. what a gold card is LOL
but here goes,
try using a smaller SD CARD prefebly 4gb formated to fat32. transfer the file again, or redownload that file and transfer?
device branded?create a gold card?
if all fails, download the 1.34 RUU and find the rom.zip in the %temp% folder when you are running it (without the phone connected) not the whole process ofcourse just so it loads the rom.zip file in the temp folder that is done usually after it asks you to connect the phone.
if this is done copy this onto the sd card. re run the hack for the 1.72 and carry on with instructions, then carry on by following original root instructions.
hope to have helped.
peace
Yes try a smaller SD card. An SD card. Not a big ass SDHC.
Ok...I'll try a 4Gb one and see if it works!
And El_Nino9,I am a little experienced,but the fact that I might have a 0,0001% chance of bricking my phone makes me act frickin' stupid!
Anyway,can I do all that without also downgrading my radio?Or will I just have to reupgrade my radio afterwards?(God,I hate radio flashing! )
Thanks!
Well,I tried my freshly formatted 4Gb card(the one that came with my old Desire),I reboot with the PD98IMG.zip in my card's root folder,it goes into bootloader and when it starts searching for the image it says:
Code:
SD Checking. . .
Loading. . . [PD98DIAG.zip]
And stays there like...forever!What da f*ck do I do?I hate it when phones act weird!
Double check that the file name matches exactly what the bootloader is asking for. Linux is case sensitive.
Sent from my performance enhanced Desire HD.
Download the PD98IMG.zip file again, or exports from RUU ROM utility.
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Double check that the file name matches exactly what the bootloader is asking for. Linux is case sensitive.
Sent from my performance enhanced Desire HD.
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Well,everyone is using the PD98IMG.zip jkoljo provides in his first post along with the downgrading instructions,and I used it too.I didn't modify the name in any way.
Now,although I think that when using my 16Gb card it searches for a PD98IMG.zip,as I stated above,when using my 4gb card it says it searches for a PD98DIAG.zip and then freezes(yes,the bootloader) and I have to pull the battery.
I am redownloading the file now,but I don't think that's what's wrong...
Hi all, I have Magic 32B (vodafone) and am following this rooting guide.
I got the "Incorrect Model ID" error, so made a goldcard using this guide, the 1st two sd cards i tried were not kingston ones so i wasnt that surprised when the pc said they needed formatting. Earlier i bought a 2gb kingston one and went through the process again, but the same thing happened, i tried again just incase i made a silly mistake but no joy
I followed the guide to the letter im pretty sure, what can i be doing wrong?
Any help very much appreciated.
Are you getting the new CID for each card when your swapping them out? Your apparently messing something up or it would be working.
I am yeah, i just tried a 4th time, the numbers i get (the kingston cards cid, reverse cid are the same each time so it cant be a typo etc.
I replace the 1st 2 chars with 0's to get the goldcard.img, format the kingston (using win7 format, fat32) then rewrite the *000 to *170 on the formatted card, and it wont read it.
Am i formatting it wrong?
Has that program to get the reverse cid changed at all? its called psas now.
Has anything changed about the .img's they email for free? does something else need to be done to it?
Are all kingston cards compatible?
I used a SanDisk when I made mine. Are you sure that your overwritimg the correct lines in HexEditor for the SD card? I ran into that problem ehen I made mine.
Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk
Im overwriting this part: h ttp://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2353/20197600.jpg
(screenshot, im not a spammer management)
Is that correct?
If you are running ubuntu you can do this:
1) if you already have the CID, use these sites (h ttp://hexrev.soaa.me/ and h ttp://psas.revskills.de/?q=goldcard) to generate the goldcard image
2) insert the SD card into your ubuntu box and run "dmesg" to know were it is attached (something like /dev/sdb1)
3) unmount the SD card using "sudo umount /dev/sdb1" (replace sdb1 by the device you have identified in 2)). It is a good way to be sure that the device you have identified is the good one
4) send the goldcard.img to the SD card using "sudo dd bs=512 if=goldcard.img of=/dev/sdb" (launch it from the place were the goldcard.img is stored, no number here... just sdb)
That's it... you have your goldcard.
As you can see it is very easy... just 2 command line (no hex editor or so on)
To verify just unplug and replug it...
I hope it will help.
O-p
What if youre not running ubuntu?
I ended up rooting using the SuperOneClick method and im happily running ginger yoshi now
Slightly off-topic but 10 posts to be able to post in the forum of the rom you use seems a bit excessive,
Hello,
this morning I had a bad surprise. My HTC mini doesn't work anymore and now when I turn on, it get stucked on three color screen.
I use the HTC Sense 3.5 rom and, until today, all works great.
I try to hard reset the phone, to reinstall the original rom, but without any changes.
I would like to try some commands from adb or fastboot, but my phone cannot be recognized from this tools. I have try to change the USB driver, I installed the google driver, but without success. Only the htc ufficial rom is installed correctly but when I restart the phone, I have always the three color screen.
Anyone can help me?
Thanks, Alex
what is your os on your computer ?
if windows 7 64 bit install usb eugeniausb drivers and use mtty (you have to select the usb port there) console. phone has to be in tri color mode.
send "task 2a" to the phon, it should format nand and restore radio.
had this problem too, that was the solution
My OS is Windows 7 x64.
I have tried your drivers and now I can send commands with mtty.
I send the command that you told me and in the screenshot that I have attached you can find the results. Are errors normal??
My phone is always in three colors screen.
I must send other commands?
Thanks for the help.
yes, bad blocks are normal.
when you have finished restart the phone and flash official ROM for your device !
Thanks for your patience.
I have flashed the original rom, the whole process works fine, but when the phone is restarted (after completed the installation) the three color screen returns....
hmm, you could try task 28, task 29, then task 2a...
dont remember, i think i have used all of them
No success....:crying:
The three color screen is always there...
what does it show ? (best would be a picture of the screen)
In attachment a picture of the boot screen.
As I say in the first post I didn't do nothing for brick the phone. I only turn off the phone yesterday, and this morning I only turn on it.
Are there some commands that I can use in mtty to understand why the phone is bricked?
Thanks again.
hmm.. everything looks as it should..
i am out of ideas.. what about trying to flash a newer firmware ? (1.07.xxx is pretty old)
I have tried with a new version, 1.36 if i remember well (I don't have the phone here now), but the result is the same.
Anyway thanks for your support. I'll send it to the techinical support or I'll buy a new device.
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I have tried with a new version, 1.36 if i remember well (I don't have the phone here now), but the result is the same.
Anyway thanks for your support. I'll send it to the techinical support or I'll buy a new device.
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I can see your phone hang on spl 1.07 so mean your ruu not installed 1.33! I domnt think that your phone is bricked but I think you have not installed rom (fully) by RUU (mean all parts from ruu). I never success trought ruu (only if my s.n. match ruu! So you need to have gold card in order to install rom (nbh)! Your hboot is all time 1.07 so that mean you done installed only rom parts instead of whole RUU... so definitely you need gold card and you need to reinstall rom by sd card! Of course, always "task 29 than task 2a" before everything
How can I create the gold card?
Is there a tool that can I use?
Thanks!
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Now I've a GoldCard, but what file I must copy in the card and what name must have?
I have done several attempts, but I receive always the message "no image file"
asorcinelli said:
How can I create the gold card?
Is there a tool that can I use?
Thanks!
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You can not create gold card now without working windows phone, so you need to read cid from an working wince in order to generate gold card
munjeni said:
You can not create gold card now without working windows phone, so you need to read cid from an working wince in order to generate gold card
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I have created a Gold Card with another device and I follow one of the guide on Internet. I think to have done all correctly, and if I restard the bricked phone holding volume down I see for a very small time the message "no image file".
asorcinelli said:
I have created a Gold Card with another device and I follow one of the guide on Internet. I think to have done all correctly, and if I restard the bricked phone holding volume down I see for a very small time the message "no image file".
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You must to know:
- gold card created for android device will not work! You need gold card for wince!
- sd card can not be biger than 1gb (2gb not tested) !
munjeni said:
You must to know:
- gold card created for android device will not work! You need gold card for wince!
- sd card can not be biger than 1gb (2gb not tested) !
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Ok, I understand, and so I have a wrong gold card.
I have another WinCE Device and so I could build a correct gold card.
Can you provide me more information? How can I create a gold card for WinCE?
After creating the gold card, what can I copy in the SD? The .nbh of the official rom?
Thanks!
asorcinelli said:
Ok, I understand, and so I have a wrong gold card.
I have another WinCE Device and so I could build a correct gold card.
Can you provide me more information? How can I create a gold card for WinCE?
After creating the gold card, what can I copy in the SD? The .nbh of the official rom?
Thanks!
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You need revskills software for generating gold card for wince but free version only can read sd card cid, but if you no want to buy it I can generate one for you, just send me cid and I will generate! Chose photon in menu! Do not reverse cid! Search for right cid (you can see many cids but only one is right so see right disk size that match size of the your sd card and copy that cid!!!), than send me a cid by pm and I will send you back file!
About nbh, yes! You need to extract nbh file from ruu and rename it to PHOTIMG.nbh and copy it to sd card... reboot phone to spl and installation will update your photon (but only if gold card is right)!
munjeni said:
You need revskills software for generating gold card for wince but free version only can read sd card cid, but if you no want to buy it I can generate one for you, just send me cid and I will generate! Chose photon in menu! Do not reverse cid! Search for right cid (you can see many cids but only one is right so see right disk size that match size of the your sd card and copy that cid!!!), than send me a cid by pm and I will send you back file!
About nbh, yes! You need to extract nbh file from ruu and rename it to PHOTIMG.nbh and copy it to sd card... reboot phone to spl and installation will update your photon (but only if gold card is right)!
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Ok, Thanks for the info and for your help!
When I'll come to home, I'll send my CID to you!
I finally restore my phone!!!!!
The goldcard installation works fine!
I post a small resume for others people in case the problem come out to someone else.
After the first try with MTTY I try to follow the "Goldcard way". I try to use an old SD Card of 2GB.
First of all I use the guide for Android, but the gold card doesn't works. After I use the Windows CE way with the help of munjeni, but the result was the same.
In both cases the installation fail with the message "no image file".
Finally I change the SD Card and I use a new one (4 Gb size). I follow the Android guide and in theory I have generated a goldcard for Android.
I copy the PHOTIMG.nbh file in the SD Card and the installation works!
Thanks to schlund and munjeni for the help and for the patience!