Help with Goldcard Creation

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Ok, I have a T-Mobile locked and branded Desire and so trying to create a Goldcard but it just gives me Permission Denied when trying to get the CID, what am I doing wrong? I have followed the steps to the T

try the goldcard program?

YES!! Please seriously need help aswell with this. Have a sim free desire and I get to the line of code in the command prompt with
"ADB shell cat/sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/CID" and it just says device not found.
I am new to android so i'm pretty clueless with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Originally Posted by Kleptomaniac

... and it just says device not found.
I am new to android so i'm pretty clueless with this.

So about 'device not found'. I had this 'issue' when rooting mine a few weeks ago, so here's what I had to do.

When rooting, you're gonna be using the ADB tools to interface with your phone through USB. This would mean that the computer needs specific drivers for ADB to work properly, which for some reason, did not install well. I'm running Win7 x64 and had a hard time setting it up initially.

SO what you want to do is to first go to Device Manager on the PC and uninstall the drivers for anything related to the phone - it'd probably show up under 'Other devices' with a driver issue. Do that and unplug the phone.

Next, go to install PdaNet. Just run the exe and it will install the drivers you need for ADB to work! Once this is all done you can uninstall the PdaNet program if you don't use it - the drivers will still remain.

When you plug in your phone (it might prompt during the installation, I don't remember) and head to device manager now, you'll see a new entry at the top called Android Phone, with a device called Android ADB Interface. Once you see this, then you're good to go with the rest of the goldcard instructions you were following.

Just to be sure, reboot the PC and go to the Android SDK\Tools in a cmd prompt and type in adb devices. It should return with the serial number of your phone.


That's it, hope it helps!

Thanks alot man its nice to know people here are willing to help. I didn get the drivers but I used HTC sync instead to get them up and running, then after awhile of it still not working I found the goldcard program and it worked! Now all I have to do is wait for this root download to finish...