[HOWTO] DOWNGRADE to 1.31 which you can then root for Legend 2.1

[sadsac]

Thanks, i was using an 8gb sandisk sdhc card which didnt seem to work, switched to a 1gb generic card i had and it worked...

 

[iakovl]

trying to follow the guide and still have problems
getting error 131 : customer id error when i try to run RUU

 

[hong101]

Thanks a lot, it is working

 

[Kimmoth]

PITA every step of the way : (

I've modded a few phones before, but this one's making me feel like it's too hard. Yet I kind of need to get it done in order for the damn thing to accept my SIM and actually make calls...

Following this guide because my bootloader is 1.02.

Stuck at the point where I needed a goldcard, the Revskills page was returning errors, but after a couple of days it's come good, but of course I'm stuck on the very next step, dammit

When I'm in the terminal (does it need to be as admin?) and I run crackin.bat from the Android\android-sdk\tools directory with the hack4legend files in it, it returns "Copying tools", then 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. a bunch of times, but still runs through steps "Freeing primary PERM linker", "Freeing secondary PERM linker", "Rebooting to normal mode to unlock CHMOD links", "Rebooting to normal mode to downgrade ROM", and "Freeing links", all the while spitting out the error, although I didn't notice the phone rebooting.

Now, I was pretty sure I have a working ADB, cause that was one of the hassles I've struggled with; there was a flag in my Device Manager about it until I sorted it, and now HTC Sync appears to work and so on. But anyway, whatever, I install the Android SDK to get around it, but no dice, same error. So I figure I should just add ADB to the path, right? So I add C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools\adb.exe to my path, and I'm still getting the same error.

It's driving me nuts this time around, every little step is broken down into several painful hassles. Just for example, my login timed out before I tried to post this... this forum's missing a head/wall smiley.

 

[smithchipz]

I've modded a few phones before, but this one's making me feel like it's too hard. Yet I kind of need to get it done in order for the damn thing to accept my SIM and actually make calls...

Following this guide because my bootloader is 1.02.

Stuck at the point where I needed a goldcard, the Revskills page was returning errors, but after a couple of days it's come good, but of course I'm stuck on the very next step, dammit

When I'm in the terminal (does it need to be as admin?) and I run crackin.bat from the Android\android-sdk\tools directory with the hack4legend files in it, it returns "Copying tools", then 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. a bunch of times, but still runs through steps "Freeing primary PERM linker", "Freeing secondary PERM linker", "Rebooting to normal mode to unlock CHMOD links", "Rebooting to normal mode to downgrade ROM", and "Freeing links", all the while spitting out the error, although I didn't notice the phone rebooting.

Now, I was pretty sure I have a working ADB, cause that was one of the hassles I've struggled with; there was a flag in my Device Manager about it until I sorted it, and now HTC Sync appears to work and so on. But anyway, whatever, I install the Android SDK to get around it, but no dice, same error. So I figure I should just add ADB to the path, right? So I add C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools\adb.exe to my path, and I'm still getting the same error.

It's driving me nuts this time around, every little step is broken down into several painful hassles. Just for example, my login timed out before I tried to post this... this forum's missing a head/wall smiley.

Hey mate you don't need to do the gold card method anymore. You can unlock your bootloader via HTCdev, root with HTCSuperTools v3 and then apply CWM via the S-OFF method.

Sent from my Legend using xda app-developers app

 

[ranger4740]

Hey mate you don't need to do the gold card method anymore. You can unlock your bootloader via HTCdev, root with HTCSuperTools v3 and then apply CWM via the S-OFF method.

Sent from my Legend using xda app-developers app

Yes smithchipz is right you've already got hboot 1.02 so all you have to do is unlock the bootloader and flash the recovery Img, you don't even need HTC super root tools if your never going to use stock rom again just follow the normal rom flashing procedure.

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[Kimmoth]

I managed to get the bootloader unlocked after another try at HTCDev; for some reason I couldn't get the code the first time.

Is there a guide to HTCSuperTools for the Legend? I tried option 4, 'Attempt S-OFF, SIM unlock, and everything else (using gfree)', and it referred me to HTCDev, saying I needed to unlock the bootloader : /

Then I tried flashing the recovery image, but got this error:

E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted.

 

[ranger4740]

I managed to get the bootloader unlocked after another try at HTCDev; for some reason I couldn't get the code the first time.

Is there a guide to HTCSuperTools for the Legend? I tried option 4, 'Attempt S-OFF, SIM unlock, and everything else (using gfree)', and it referred me to HTCDev, saying I needed to unlock the bootloader : /

Then I tried flashing the recovery image, but got this error:

E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted.

For recovery use s-off method.

Sent from my Legend using xda app-developers app

 

[Kimmoth]

Even though my phone is S-ON?

I gave it a shot with the phone in fastboot mode (it says FASTBOOT USB when I plug in the cable), but when I typed adb reboot bootloader, it returned:
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found

And then when I tried again, it just said, error: device not found

 

[ranger4740]

I don't believe you need to do the reboot bootloader as your already in fastboot just do the fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

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[Kimmoth]

The error I got was from doing exactly what you said, ie attempting to fastboot flash the S-ON recovery image.

Is there a guide anyone can point me to? I've got google fatigue bad.