[Q] Gold Card Simplified?

[SyntheticDistortion]

Is there a better tutorial for making a gold card, I have read it over a dozen times and i still don't get it, I don't know what to do with the command prompt, so I am stuck at that and I want to know it all for sure before I go and brick my phone?

Does anyone know how to do this, or explain it clearer than the original tutorial?

 

[c_man]

Sure. use this tool and you can't really go wrong:

[PC Application] GoldCardTool, Windows Tool for helping make GoldCards @ MoDaCo

 

[SyntheticDistortion]

And I don't understand the whole command line part

Unzip the file you downloaded to a directory, then open a command prompt / terminal window at that directory.
Turn off your HTC Legend, then turn it back on with the 'back' button held down. You'll see 'FASTBOOT' written on the screen in a red box. Connect the phone to the computer.
In the terminal window, enter either 'step1-windows.bat', './step1-mac.sh' or './step1-linux.sh' as appropriate.
When this step has completed, REMOVE THE GOLDCARD and either format it and replace, or replace with a different (non goldcard) microSD.
Navigate to the 'BOOTLOADER' and then 'RECOVERY' option on the menu, using the volume buttons to move and the power button to select.
In the terminal window, enter either 'step2-windows.bat', './step2-mac.sh' or './step2-linux.sh' as appropriate.


Help?

 

[TheLegendaryJay]

If you don't know what that means, maybe you shouldn't be doing it?

Reluctantly this is what it means in terms of the commands on your PC.
So unzip to your Desktop and call the folder Goldcard, open it and make sure the files are located directly in that folder and not another subfolder above that.
Open command line / Terminal and type this...
on a Windows machine:
cd %userprofile%\Desktop\Goldcard

on a Linux machine it's:
cd ~/Desktop/Goldcard


That gets you into the unzipped folder it talks about, where you enter step1-windows.bat and step2-windows.bat or the Linux version of the commands when required.

If you muck it up, you knew the risks when taking this on

 

[Bricolo_fr]

Maybe this is a stupid question, but: how do we REMOVE THE GOLDCARD

It isn't mentionned anywhere tu turn off the device, and removing a micro sd involves to turn it off since it removes the battery too

 

[TheGrammarFreak]

I never did remove it personally.

 

[nemphis]

Is it possible to use the goldcard in more than one phone?? so i created it with my legend, can I use it to update a legend of someone else??

Thanx in advance!!

 

[pe3ksve3k2]

Is it possible to use the goldcard in more than one phone?? so i created it with my legend, can I use it to update a legend of someone else??

Thanx in advance!!

YES! I've just rooted my friend's legend with my goldcard.

 

[cebu]

YES! I've just rooted my friend's legend with my goldcard.

I found the reason why I think on this forum,

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753374

There are two kinds of CID. There is the CID on your phone, which determines which brand of phone you have - this is irrelevant here. Then there is the CID on your sdcard, this is the card's serial number, and this is what you use to create a goldcard.
So therefor you can use your goldcard with an other telephone, but you can not copy the image of your goldcard to an other sd card.