[Q] Flashing HTC Bee (CDMA Wildfire) SPL

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I've been trying to flash the CDMA Wildfire's SPL (from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...73&postcount=1) onto my Alltel Wildfire. Since there's no custom recovery (yet), I traced the steps from here and modified my misc and cache partitions manually on my PC, then flashed them with flash_image. Unfortunately, it's not working.

I thought I might be doing something wrong, so I pulled out my old CDMA Hero and tried the exact same thing, but it worked on the Hero. What am I doing wrong? Is it because the rom is designed for Verizon, or did HTC just remove that update functionality? Any suggestions, hints, etc. are greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I just looked back at the post, and the rom isn't "designed" for Verizon, xHausx just said "Verizon's version of the Wildfire", referring to CDMA as opposed to GSM. My bad.

Wow. Nothing? I'm just looking for suggestions or opinions. I'm willing to try anything

Depending on how much spare time I get today, I might try reversing the stock recovery to see if there's anything in there related to flashing the bootloader. I'll post back if I find anything.

im going to try getting s off on this wildfire bee cdma. i will let you no what i find.

Originally Posted by oostah

im going to try getting s off on this wildfire bee cdma. i will let you no what i find.

Awesome! Just thought I'd share some of my failed attempts to speed things up:

I replaced the public key with the test key in the stock recovery's /res/keys file, then tried a write_firmware_image. Didn't work.

I replaced the kernel in the boot.img with the bootloader, and set the load address to 0 ("jumpspl style"). Didn't do anything noticable (stayed on Alltel logo).

Another thing I noticed is my Bee's model number is PD0610000, and the one in the rom above is PD0611000. I don't know if there's anything significant in that, but between that and the massive difference in hboot versions, I'm afraid to try and flash that rom. Luckily, I found the alltel one here: h**p://u.115.com/file/t5f03f513d (can't link, even though I did before. hmm...). Someone would need to make some S-OFF patches, though, since it's a SHIP SPL.

I also thought about a unrEVOked forever style "radio hack" (for lack of a better term), but I'm not sure how to proceed down that road.

Good luck to ya

Originally Posted by Isaac356

Awesome! Just thought I'd share some of my failed attempts to speed things up:

I replaced the public key with the test key in the stock recovery's /res/keys file, then tried a write_firmware_image. Didn't work.

I replaced the kernel in the boot.img with the bootloader, and set the load address to 0 ("jumpspl style"). Didn't do anything noticable (stayed on Alltel logo).

Another thing I noticed is my Bee's model number is PD0610000, and the one in the rom above is PD0611000. I don't know if there's anything significant in that, but between that and the massive difference in hboot versions, I'm afraid to try and flash that rom. Luckily, I found the alltel one here: h**p://u.115.com/file/t5f03f513d (can't link, even though I did before. hmm...). Someone would need to make some S-OFF patches, though, since it's a SHIP SPL.

I also thought about a unrEVOked forever style "radio hack" (for lack of a better term), but I'm not sure how to proceed down that road.

Good luck to ya

i have two of these bee's i have one rooted but no recovery. so i was looking to see if i can get s off. but i should be able to spend mo time on them now.

bump for this thread. Is there any S-off available now for HTC Bee? I need it so bad. Thanks

Sorry for the near-necropost

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Okay guys. It's not my main phone, so it's not a priority. But this is the only phone I have that I haven't been able to customize.

I'm very familiar with dirty root methods, I have a rooted/S-OFF'd Tb that I did by hand. If anyone knows/has the files I need to get a dirty S-off, I'd be more than happy to try and do this, and I'll post my results (best scenario, a guide) afterward.

Anyone? Please?

All the best,

-HG

Originally Posted by motoyola

bump for this thread. Is there any S-off available now for HTC Bee? I need it so bad. Thanks

Re: bump Im looking for the same thing.

still nothin?

Any progress in rooting this? Any available RUU? Thanks!