[HOWTO] Rooting your Legend! Guide from MoDaCo!

[dgupta]

Hi,
Great thanks for info.
I tried to root my legend and below are the steps i have gone through:
1. I have downgraded software to 1.31 as it was higher earlier.
2. I hv successfuly created a gold card.
3. While rooting my legend, step1 was completed correctly. In step 2, i reached till recovery screen but couldn't select wipe option as volume butten did not moving to other selections. And so i couldn't flashed rootupdate.zip
Now the worst thing is, after all that i got some bugs on my phone such as: traceball not working. G-sensor calibration auto sense is also not working.
Even i tried to reset factory settings.
Now the baseband verson become 47.26

Plz help. Thanks.

Sent from my HTC Legend using XDA App

 

[c_man]

do i HAVE to have a goldcard to root my phone?

According to the info in the thread (have a read of it?), specifically, just 6 posts before yours, if your phone is branded/locked, you need a Goldcard.
If your phone is unbranded/unlocked, a GOldcard is not required.

I cannot personally confirm whether this is correct or not.

 

[dgupta]

My phone is unbraded and unlocked.
Here i am not really concerned about rooting my device now. But i need to fix issues of traceball and auto g-sensor calibration.
I would really appreciate your help.
Thanks.

Sent from my HTC Legend using XDA App

 

[c_man]

Try again? Maybe with a different computer or OS?
Maybe the volume buttons will work this time?

 

[dgupta]

Can i get my phone's original settings back as what it was when i bought that??
Is there any hard reset method Jss like factory reset is a soft reset function.
Sorry for this noob question but i really do not want to give my phone to htc care for what i did.

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[c_man]

Hopefully you can get your phone back to how it was when you bought it.
I'm afraid I cannot help you on that one but I too would be interested to know if it's possible.

It would be useful to know for those who are a little cautious when it comes to rooting .

I'm sure someone will come along and help you...

 

[dgupta]

Sombody plz help if u know how to hard reset the htc device.

I will b greatful to you.

Thanks.

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[Learners Lisence]

edit - post edited due to irrelevance of content. PS - guptaji, why dont you try the urooting legend proceedure given at the unlocker site? It may reset your phone. Then u can root again. -again a wild guess

 

[c_man]

I think he's tried the factory reset as per post#21

 

[dgupta]

Great thanks for info mr learner but i hv finished with factory reset as i have mentioned in my earlier post.
It doesnt work.
The Traceball has completly died on my phone..:'( and auto rotate screen doesnt work anymore.

Mr dead cpu.. plz jump in for the help. Thanking you in advance!!!

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[nuclearxin]

I got trouble while rooting

Legend Root Step 1

Erasing cache and rebooting in RUU mode...

erasing 'cache'... OKAY
... OKAY

About to start flash...
< waiting for device >
sending 'zip' (121756 KB)... OKAY
writing 'zip'...



15mins and increasing.

anyone know about this ?




wait for a very log time.

why this happen?

 

[Jstyants]

How long is very long? I had to wait a good few minutes

 

[nuclearxin]

workaround by using ubuntu os......

 

[c_man]

1] Was your Legend branded? or unbranded?

2] Goldcard was created successfully?

workaround by using ubuntu os......

3] What OS did you try first?

4] Are you saying you solved the problem now, using uBuntu?


You probably need to give the guys more info in order for them to help...

 

[dgupta]

Hi,
I tried to root my legend a lot of times. step1 is completed smoothly.
while step2 i reach till android recovery screen everytime; but then volume and power button don't work for the wipe selection. So couldn't apply rootedupdate.zip

I cant figure it out where i am going wrong.

has anyone rooted successfully???

 

[dgupta]

edit - post edited due to irrelevance of content. PS - guptaji, why dont you try the urooting legend proceedure given at the unlocker site? It may reset your phone. Then u can root again. -again a wild guess

My device is not even rooted dude.. i could apply unroot method once it's rooted.

 

[Learners Lisence]

just try na, see what happens. The experts are busy cooking new stuff for us. I even read in one post u r rooted if u have completed step 1.

 

[dgupta]

I hv only 2 questions and i am really seeking for some expert answer.

1. Why the volume and power button doesn't work in android recovery mode at step2 ?
2. Has anyone got success? If yes then whats wrong with my device??

Plzz help. Thanks.

Sent from my HTC Legend using XDA Apps

 

[Learners Lisence]

I suggest you read the instructions again and try the whole proceedure again from the beginning.
The trackball is the most sensitive part of the Legend build. use it to scroll up and down and press it to select an item, or use the volume up and down button and power to select alternatively.
Format your sd card and make a gold card again.
Let us know how it went.

 

[Zionator]

Other solution to rooting

I had a legend that was defect but rooted it any way and it rooted like butter no problems. I played with all roms and unrooted it and got a new legend 2 day and started to root it but this time i ran to issues

[email protected]****-desktop:/home/****/r4-legend-root# ./step1-linux.sh
Legend Root Step 1

Erasing cache and rebooting in RUU mode...

erasing 'cache'... OKAY
... OKAY

About to start flash...
sending 'zip' (121756 KB)... OKAY
writing 'zip'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this image...
INFOsignature checking...
INFOzip header checking...
INFOzip info parsing...
INFOchecking model ID...
INFOchecking custom ID...
INFOchecking main version...
INFOstart image[hboot] unzipping for pre-update check...
INFOstart image[hboot] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,hboot,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,hboot,100
INFO[RUU]WP,hboot,0
INFO[RUU]WP,hboot,100
INFOstart image[radio] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,5
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,12
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,17
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,26
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,34
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,43
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,51
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,60
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,68
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,73
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,81
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,86
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,94
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,99
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,100
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,0
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,6
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,11
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,20
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,28
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,33
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,42
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,53
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,100
INFOstart image[rcdata] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,rcdata,0
INFO[RUU]WP,rcdata,0
INFO[RUU]WP,rcdata,100
INFOstart image[boot] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,boot,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,boot,43
INFO[RUU]UZ,boot,84
INFO[RUU]UZ,boot,100
INFO[RUU]WP,boot,0
INFO[RUU]WP,boot,44
INFO[RUU]WP,boot,89
INFO[RUU]WP,boot,100
INFOstart image[recovery] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,recovery,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,recovery,20
INFO[RUU]UZ,recovery,47
INFO[RUU]UZ,recovery,99
INFO[RUU]UZ,recovery,100
INFO[RUU]WP,recovery,0
INFO[RUU]WP,recovery,22
INFO[RUU]WP,recovery,44
INFO[RUU]WP,recovery,66
INFO[RUU]WP,recovery,89
INFO[RUU]WP,recovery,100
INFOstart image[system] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,9
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,14
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,23
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,28
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,37
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,46
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,51
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,60
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,65
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,70
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,79
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,84
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,93
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,100
INFO[RUU]WP,system,0
INFO[RUU]WP,system,100
INFOstart image[userdata] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,userdata,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,userdata,100
INFO[RUU]WP,userdata,0
INFO[RUU]WP,userdata,100
INFOstart image[sp1] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,sp1,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,sp1,100
INFO[RUU]WP,sp1,0
INFO[RUU]WP,sp1,100
OKAY
sending 'zip' (121756 KB)... OKAY
writing 'zip'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this image...
INFOsignature checking...
INFOzip header checking...
INFOzip info parsing...
INFOchecking model ID...
INFOchecking custom ID...
INFOchecking main version...
INFOstart image[hboot] unzipping for pre-update check...
INFOstart image[hboot] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,hboot,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,hboot,100
INFO[RUU]WP,hboot,0
INFO[RUU]WP,hboot,100
INFOstart image[radio] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,5
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,12
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,17
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,26
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,34
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,43
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,51
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,60
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,68
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,73
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,81
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,86
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,94
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,99
INFO[RUU]UZ,radio,100
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,0
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,6
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,11
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,20
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,28
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,33
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,42
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,53
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,100
INFOstart image[rcdata] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,rcdata,0
INFO[RUU]WP,rcdata,0
INFO[RUU]WP,rcdata,100
INFOstart image[boot] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,boot,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,boot,43
INFO[RUU]UZ,boot,84
INFO[RUU]UZ,boot,100
INFO[RUU]WP,boot,0
INFO[RUU]WP,boot,44
INFO[RUU]WP,boot,89
INFO[RUU]WP,boot,100
INFOstart image[recovery] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,recovery,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,recovery,20
INFO[RUU]UZ,recovery,47
INFO[RUU]UZ,recovery,99
INFO[RUU]UZ,recovery,100
INFO[RUU]WP,recovery,0
INFO[RUU]WP,recovery,22
INFO[RUU]WP,recovery,44
INFO[RUU]WP,recovery,66
INFO[RUU]WP,recovery,89
INFO[RUU]WP,recovery,100
INFOstart image[system] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,9
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,14
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,23
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,28
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,37
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,46
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,51
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,60
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,65
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,70
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,79
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,84
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,93
INFO[RUU]UZ,system,100
INFO[RUU]WP,system,0
INFO[RUU]WP,system,100
INFOstart image[userdata] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,userdata,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,userdata,100
INFO[RUU]WP,userdata,0
INFO[RUU]WP,userdata,100
INFOstart image[sp1] unzipping & flushing...
INFO[RUU]UZ,sp1,0
INFO[RUU]UZ,sp1,100
INFO[RUU]WP,sp1,0
INFO[RUU]WP,sp1,100
OKAY

Rebooting to bootloader...

rebooting into bootloader... OKAY

Step 1 complete - now use the bootloader menu to enter recovery mode.

To do this, press the power button, wait a few seconds, then use the volume keys and power button to select the RECOVERY option.
[email protected]****-desktop:/home/****/r4-legend-root# ./step2-linux.sh
Legend Root Step 2

Pushing required files to device...

* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found
error: device not found

Pushing update file to device sdcard - this may take a few minutes...

error: device not found
error: device not found

Now wipe and apply rootedupdate.zip from the recovery image menu.

[email protected]****-desktop:/home/****/r4-legend-root# error: device not found

I did this twice and i got another error first time i ran step 2 the above output is from last attempt.

I got sick of the errors so i just did as terminal said : Now wipe and apply rootedupdate.zip from the recovery image menu.
And the Fake Flash method worked right after step 1 so we dont really need step 2 for anything it's only to install the simple rooted rom from the rooting package.
And now i am running Azure 0.2 THANKS FOR THAT "ALI" strait after step 1

I hope this is helpful to all whom cant get step 2 to work