[GUIDE] How To Root HBOOT 1.01

wildanw2 · Mar 25, 2011 at 6:17 AM

When you already at the ! screen, after running the step2-windows.bat, push volume up and power ,choose apply update.zip and follow the guide from the post 1.

cobels · May 9, 2009 17 0 0

The phone is not yet rooted, so i have executes step1- windows. Then i execute step2-windows which exit very fast and leaves me in ! screen.

What to do. I can not do update.zip because the phone i not yet rooted i think.

wildanw2 · Mar 26, 2011 at 2:28 AM

cobels said:
The phone is not yet rooted, so i have executes step1- windows. Then i execute step2-windows which exit very fast and leaves me in ! screen.

What to do. I can not do update.zip because the phone i not yet rooted i think.

Did you follow the guide section 1 (gold card) and section 2 (downgrade)? If not, you MUST.

Moby2kBug · Jul 28, 2006 11 0 0

Worked like a charm, thx m8.

The only problem for me was that dreaded "SU" "permission denied" problem.
I solved it, via rebooting the phone and did a temproot with Visionary+ again.
So if U have the some problem, just reboot the phone and try it again. Maybe U will have to try it several times.

pileot · Apr 25, 2011 at 7:02 AM

when im trying to use my goldcard i have that LEGEIMG.zip file in the root of the SD card, when i reboot it doesnt detect it, when i manually try to use it it says its an invalid file. help?

NRGman · Apr 25, 2011 at 10:44 AM

works for me

colors · Apr 26, 2011 at 8:30 AM

plz help me, having problem with the downgrading and maby making a goldcard? I tried using this method
http://sites.google.com/site/roothtchero/goldcard-2

and this

http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how...te-a-goldcard/

the CID number is very different from the another. What´s the correct?

And i also having problem with adb. I get a # when i type adb shell su but then im stuck. It says adb not found :S why? tried googling the answer and got the tip to downloaded latest sdk, tried to kill adb.exe under taskmanager without luck.

Catnap · Apr 26, 2011 at 9:24 AM

colors said:
the CID number is very different from the another. What´s the correct?

Well of course it is. If they were all the same you wouldn't need the generator, would you?

colors · Apr 26, 2011

pjgodd said:
Well of course it is. If they were all the same you wouldn't need the generator, would you?

You missunderstod me, i ment the CID number before reversing is the same, when i reverse manually and take to 00 from the beginning its way different att then the reversed CID number from goldcard tool. Why? The CID number should be the same when im talking about one phone? And whats the correct? the one from goldcard tool or the one i manually reversed with two zeros?

Edit: about the adb shell, probably find the solution, i have tried to type the adb commands in adb shell, never accured to me i must have two cmd windows open

Catnap · Apr 26, 2011 at 10:45 AM

colors said:
You missunderstand me, i ment the CID number before reversing is the same, when i reverse manually and take to 00 from the beginning its way different att then the reversed CID number from goldcard tool. Why? The CID number should be the same when im talking about one phone? And whats the correct? the one from goldcard tool or the one i manually reversed with two zeros?

Just use this: http://android.modaco.com/content/software/308798/pc-application-goldcardtool/

Edit: about the adb shell, probably find the solution, i have tried to type the adb commands in adb shell, never accured to me i must have two cmd windows open

It clearly says "...2nd command window".

colors · Apr 26, 2011

pjgodd said:
Just use this: http://android.modaco.com/content/software/308798/pc-application-goldcardtool/

It clearly says "...2nd command window".

Ok, will do. Yes in this guide but i have looked at a Simplified version on my native language that didn´t have 2nd command windows info

Edit 2: Omfg so simple it was when i had the right info. Have now a rooted legend with cm7 =)

QkSi1ver · May 13, 2011

Help

I'm stuck at this stage at the end of step 2:

"Next step is upgrading of rooted FroYo ROM. Put FroYo update ROM zip to your sdcard and install it via ClockworkMod recovery. You may also flash backed up misc partition after that. Still in recovery mode and hooked with your PC switch to command prompt and restore it back:"

what is froyo update ROM zip.. is it the firmware.zip renamed to update.zip and the placed at the root of the SDCARD?

Is the "ClockworkMod" recovery the same as the "Recovery" found in the bootloader?

Thanks

BTW i was on BELL Froyo OTA updated at stock.

After several searches...i gave up on this method...at the end of step 2... I couldnt find anything about what the end of step 2 means ...

So i ended up doing paul's method...r4-legend-root ( step 1 and step 2) which failed on whatever sdcard i used as gold card... but when i tried on a winxp running on vmware, it went smooothly... got root after sometime...

installed ROM Manager after to get the CWM recovery and was able to flash Blayo's rom..

alfagama · May 12, 2011 at 1:22 PM

FeaRThiS said:
The 2nd guide you will need to use is also by BlaY0

ok, and now i dont know what have i done wrong....

i have made a goldcard and then i done what the 2nd guide says... at the end when i am in bootloader the phone finds the LEGEIMG.zip but i says that this is an older version... is this a goldcard problem or something else?

QkSi1ver · May 13, 2011

alfagama said:
ok, and now i dont know what have i done wrong....

i have made a goldcard and then i done what the 2nd guide says... at the end when i am in bootloader the phone finds the LEGEIMG.zip but i says that this is an older version... is this a goldcard problem or something else?

did you use other methods other than this guide?

In my situation, i used the goldcardtool to make my goldcard... ( so i skipped step 1) , then used step 2 up to flashing the LEGEIMG.zip... in bootloader it landed, it didnt recognize the zip right away, i recalled i had to choose back from the menu , to bring the screen to recognize the LEGEIMG.zip. Then i was in a different version of the ROM... at which point i hit a wall...

and improvised by using another guide ( which is basically step 3) skipping the flashing with VOdaphone froyo (end of step 2)... and then again hit another wall but this time it was related to win7 not picking up the goldcard so running the step1-windows.bat it hanged at writing zip....

my solution here was to run the step in a winxp environment... and it worked

To summarize (Condensed my experience of wasting 8 hrs over the downgrading and rooting):
1. I started out with this thread to root my Stock OTA BELL Froyo Legend with HBOOT 1.01 on my win7 32 bit pc
2. Instead of Guide 1, i used the goldcard tool from modaco to avoid typing errors in generating a goldcard... i used 3 different goldcards just in case prior to starting the process
3. Did Guide 2, until the flashing of LEGEIMG.zip, rebooted fine and i saw i has a different ROM with 2.1 installed and this is where i hit my first wall, where the end of Guide 2 wasnt clear enough for me . I didnt want to assume anything at this point and in the meantime i was stuck with a phone which didnt have service.
4. I wasted countless hours trying to figure out the end of Guide 2 but then decided to skip the end
5. Because Guide 3 mentioned i have to be on 1.31, i followed this wag3slav3 guide and this does the trick
6. Then I was ready to do Guide 3, but i hit another wall when running step1-windows.bat , it got stuck at writing zip. Tried different gold cards to no avail...then i found a blog about using a different pc or vmware with winxp.
7. Using the same gold cards i was able to complete the step 1, step 2 and YES... i rooted it!
8. INstalled Titanium back Up but it asked for root permission... which i granted but then told me im not rooted?!?! WTF but it turns out that i was missing a busybox... not sure what it was, but i was able to install it separately ... now it seems to be working fine... all the rooted apps like setcpu, rommanager works great although i'm not too sure how to use them yet...

Now the exploring part

hope this helps other ppl who wants to go through this ordeal... during my quest , i realize a lot of ppl like me who went through all the same process , depending on their pc, sd cards..etc has the same problem... some of them are great in posting feedback on the forum after getting help, but others who were in the same spot as me asking for help desperately never bothered post their feedback after a successful root although i see their post after asking about post-root questions... and another thing i learn is that google is indeed your friend... i did countless search to find ways of doing it differently after i got stuck and practically no live support

... good luck

alfagama · May 14, 2011 at 12:55 AM

QkSi1ver said:
did you use other methods other than this guide?

In my situation, i used the goldcardtool to make my goldcard... ( so i skipped step 1) , then used step 2 up to flashing the LEGEIMG.zip... in bootloader it landed, it didnt recognize the zip right away, i recalled i had to choose back from the menu , to bring the screen to recognize the LEGEIMG.zip. Then i was in a different version of the ROM... at which point i hit a wall...

and improvised by using another guide ( which is basically step 3) skipping the flashing with VOdaphone froyo (end of step 2)... and then again hit another wall but this time it was related to win7 not picking up the goldcard so running the step1-windows.bat it hanged at writing zip....

my solution here was to run the step in a winxp environment... and it worked

To summarize (Condensed my experience of wasting 8 hrs over the downgrading and rooting):
1. I started out with this thread to root my Stock OTA BELL Froyo Legend with HBOOT 1.01 on my win7 32 bit pc
2. Instead of Guide 1, i used the goldcard tool from modaco to avoid typing errors in generating a goldcard... i used 3 different goldcards just in case prior to starting the process
3. Did Guide 2, until the flashing of LEGEIMG.zip, rebooted fine and i saw i has a different ROM with 2.1 installed and this is where i hit my first wall, where the end of Guide 2 wasnt clear enough for me . I didnt want to assume anything at this point and in the meantime i was stuck with a phone which didnt have service.
4. I wasted countless hours trying to figure out the end of Guide 2 but then decided to skip the end
5. Because Guide 3 mentioned i have to be on 1.31, i followed this wag3slav3 guide and this does the trick
6. Then I was ready to do Guide 3, but i hit another wall when running step1-windows.bat , it got stuck at writing zip. Tried different gold cards to no avail...then i found a blog about using a different pc or vmware with winxp.
7. Using the same gold cards i was able to complete the step 1, step 2 and YES... i rooted it!
8. INstalled Titanium back Up but it asked for root permission... which i granted but then told me im not rooted?!?! WTF but it turns out that i was missing a busybox... not sure what it was, but i was able to install it separately ... now it seems to be working fine... all the rooted apps like setcpu, rommanager works great although i'm not too sure how to use them yet...

Now the exploring part

hope this helps other ppl who wants to go through this ordeal... during my quest , i realize a lot of ppl like me who went through all the same process , depending on their pc, sd cards..etc has the same problem... some of them are great in posting feedback on the forum after getting help, but others who were in the same spot as me asking for help desperately never bothered post their feedback after a successful root although i see their post after asking about post-root questions... and another thing i learn is that google is indeed your friend... i did countless search to find ways of doing it differently after i got stuck and practically no live support ... good luck

thanks for the answer, i will try again an hope that i will do it this time.
i will be back (i hope soon...)

BlaY0 · May 14, 2011 at 8:58 AM

You obviously missed/f***ed-up the misc partition owerwriting part. That's the part you actually fake the system version numer so fastboot thinks your phone is running some ancient one and doesn't complain.

Sent from my HTC Legend

alfagama · May 14, 2011 at 9:15 AM

BlaY0 said:
You obviously missed/f***ed-up the misc partition owerwriting part. That's the part you actually fake the system version numer so fastboot thinks your phone is running some ancient one and doesn't complain.

Sent from my HTC Legend

it could be but i have made every step, i just dont know if i receive a message when i try to overwrite the misc partition, because i make every step and my phone did not react...

BlaY0 · May 14, 2011 at 10:54 AM

Well, check misc partition again to see which version number does it hold. Temproot again, adb shell, su and at the end execute "busybox strings /dev/mtd/mtd0". The last line it shows is version which should be less than 1.31.405.4. If it isn't, you messed something with a step I mentioned.

Sent from my HTC Legend

alfagama · May 14, 2011 at 12:05 PM

BlaY0 said:
Well, check misc partition again to see which version number does it hold. Temproot again, adb shell, su and at the end execute "busybox strings /dev/mtd/mtd0". The last line it shows is version which should be less than 1.31.405.4. If it isn't, you messed something with a step I mentioned.

Sent from my HTC Legend

thanks i will try again.

alfagama · May 15, 2011 at 1:46 PM

FeaRThiS said:
That one is relatively easy. You could also follow Paul's guide but I like my approach better
Connect your phone to your PC. Second you have to install VISIONary r13 into your phone and do the "temproot" procedure. After a successful "temproot" you should be able to adb shell and then su. Fire up command prompt and issue:
Code:

adb shell
su

...you should have root privileges now (showing #). Next thing is backing up misc partition and replacing it with one from hack4legend-v5.zip. Extract this zip somewhere and fire another command promt there. Now you should upload flash_image binary and misc1-2.img:
Code:

adb push flash_image /data/local/
adb push misc1-2.img /data/local/

...switch back to 1st command prompt and change permission of flash_image_binary:
Code:

chmod 755 /data/local/flash_image

...and backup your current misc partition:
Code:

cat /dev/mtd/mtd0 > /sdcard/misc_backup.img

Now flash misc1-2.img:
Code:

/data/local/flash_image misc /data/local/misc1-2.img
exit

...and you are set to downgrade retaining HBOOT 1.00.
Unzip r4-legend-root.zip and find testimage.zip in it. Put it on your phone's sdcard renaming it to LEGEIMG.zip. You can then reboot into bootloader issuing:
Code:

adb reboot bootloader

after entering last command it says permission denied... where is the problem?

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