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Default Debrand htc wildfire - please help

hey

my dad wants me to debrand his wildfire

is this possible at all?

and is there a stock android/htc rom?


as it came from the factory so to speak

really need help with this
 
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Here is what i did to debrand mine. As the rom my phone came did not have the android market for some stupid reason. These are the steps I followed. But i guess you dont really need the 1st step.

1-) Root the phone by unrevoked. Just go to their site, http://unrevoked.com. Just do a search on the forums for more info.

2-) create a goldcard. There is a simple program to do this. You can get the program here, http://www.klutsh.com/ Or you can do it manually. Search for the manual way as there are many posts on that.

3-) Download a wwe rom for your wildfire. I installed 1.25. It seems to work great on my wildfire.

4-) Turn off your phone. Power your phone while holding volume down and power button. This will get you to the bootloader. Pick fast usb and start the RUU on your computer and let it install the new rom on your phone.

Hope this works for you.

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the link to the wwe file is here http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Buzz...189_signed.exe
 
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I have successfully created my gold card, but when trying to apply the .exe from windows, I got : Error 131 - Error ID Client .

My wildfire is from a french operator depending on Vodafone. Am I doing something wrong ?
 
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Default Error 131

I am not exactly sure what error 131 is. But did you start your phone in the bootloader mode? Did you select fast usb? You should start the RUU.exe when you are in this mode.
Mine worked flawlessly.

Also apparently, some sd cards do not work with the goldcard stuff. If it still does not work, try it with a different sd card.
 
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What I did is :
- create a Goldcard with the goldcardtool from here
- then download the file .exe from the link above
- the reboot my wildfire into the bootloader
- then enter the fastboot and launch the .exe file from my computer.

When trying to install the new rom, the program boot another time the device onto a particular boot with big HTC letters on the screen then it tries to modify the signature and give me this error : 131.
 
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Default Other Problem after debranding

Hi @all,

i have done the following things :
1. Root Wildfire with Unrevoked 3
2. Made NADROID Full Backup
3. Update my Vodafone ROM 1.14 to Branding Free Version 1.25 via EXE
4. Restore Data from NADROID Backup

All Settings and APPS (except Vodafone Branding Apps) are back again.


All went fine, except a few problems with some deleted apps. The Vodafone Apps + Zumas Revenge + UNO and Monopoly are all away. Thats ok. But in Menu -> Settings -> Applications , they are still there -> com.xxxxxxx with a Size of 0 kb.
If i want do delete them, i got an error (task closed).
I searched the hole phone for the vodafone files, but they are not there.

Tried Titanium Backup and some other Uninstallers to get rid of the disappeard vodafone apps in the application list.
Any ideas ? Or can someone send me the "Titanium" Backup APKs of the Vodafone Apps to install them again and afterthat to uninstall the hopefully not locked apps again.

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You could try creating the goldcard this way http://android.modaco.com/content/ge...ng-a-goldcard/
Just in case its this software playing up.

EDIT: Sorry for the wrong link.
 
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I do not think it is the goldcard softwarw issue. I can think of only two reasons why it did not work for you.

1- As I said before, some brands of the sd cards do not like to be played with their CID. I read about it Xda forums. You can try another brand sd card.

2- Did you root your phone? Maybe that was the thing that made it work for me.

Or as someone pointed out, you can try other. Ways of creating a goldcard. But if you ask me, i really think that your sd card did not take the goldcard.
Good luck
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Elibongo View Post
You could try creating a goldcard this way:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/3...-htc-wildfire/
Just in case its this software playing up.
There's nothing behind this link.

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I do not think it is the goldcard softwarw issue. I can think of only two reasons why it did not work for you.

1- As I said before, some brands of the sd cards do not like to be played with their CID. I read about it Xda forums. You can try another brand sd card.

2- Did you root your phone? Maybe that was the thing that made it work for me.

Or as someone pointed out, you can try other. Ways of creating a goldcard. But if you ask me, i really think that your sd card did not take the goldcard.
Good luck
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I change my sdcard from scandisk 4gb class 6 to transcend then toshiba (all 4gb class 6), nothing more happen than the error 131.

My phone has the root access. I used unrevoked3.

Don't know what to do now...

EDIT: my band version is 13.45.55.24H_3.35.15.31
build : 1.14.163.1 CL 183733 release-keys

EDIT 2: last try for today, again the same error with CID Signature failed marked on the device screen. Will try tomorow with another sd card. Just to know, what's the brand of yours? And what type are they (gb and class)?

 
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