Root HTC Desire under Debian

Two weeks ago I bought HTC Desire cell phone and I decided to get root on it. Rooting guide for this phone was published few days ago, but most of it it "windows only".

Here you can find the way how to get root on the HTC Desire using Debian.

• Download the zip file from http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/307365/04-may-r4-htc-desire-rooting-guide-now-for-windows-mac-linux/ and unzip it:
  

mkdir -v /var/tmp/android
cd /var/tmp/android
wget http://www.romraid.com/paul/bravo/r4-desire-root.zip
unzip r4-desire-root.zip

If you are using 64 bit version of Debian, please install ia32-libs first, because adb binary is 32 bit.

apt-get install ia32-libs

• Enable USB debug mode in your phone by pressing Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB debugging and get the CID number:

root@czbrn0208:/$ cd /var/tmp/android
root@czbrn0208:/var/tmp/android$ ./adb-linux shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
03534453553034478001bada0400a1f2

• Put the output string to the following page:
http://hexrev.soaa.me/
• You get another number (00a10004daba01804734305553445303) which you need to put to the following form together with your email address:
http://psas.revskills.de/?q=goldcard. Then you should receive email with your GoldCard image (goldcard.img).
• Connect your phone to the computer in "Disk drive" mode and put this image to your microSD card.
  (Backup your data from the card before running this command!)
  

root@czbrn0208:/var/tmp$ dd if=/var/tmp/goldcard.img of=/dev/mmcblk1
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
384 bytes (384 B) copied, 0.00537284 s, 71.5 kB/s

• Turn off your HTC Desire and turn it back on by holding the "back" button. You should see "FASTBOOT" written on the screen in a red box. Connect your phone to the PC and run:
  

root@czbrn0208:/$ cd /var/tmp/android
root@czbrn0208:/var/tmp/android$ ./step1-linux.sh                                                                                    
Desire Root Step 1                                                                                                                   

Erasing cache and rebooting in RUU mode...

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

About to start flash...
< waiting for device > 
sending 'zip' (137446 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] flushing...                                    
INFO[RUU]WP,hboot,0                                                   
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INFOstart image[radio] unzipping for pre-update...                    
INFOstart image[radio] flushing...                                    
INFO[RUU]WP,radio,0                                                   
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FAILED (remote: 90 hboot pre-update! please flush image again immediately)
< waiting for device >                                                    
sending 'zip' (137446 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[boot] unzipping & flushing...                             
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INFOstart image[rcdata] unzipping & flushing...                           
INFO[RUU]UZ,rcdata,0                                                      
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INFOstart image[recovery] unzipping & flushing...                         
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INFOstart image[sp1] unzipping & flushing...                              
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INFO[RUU]WP,sp1,0                                                         
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INFOstart image[system] unzipping & flushing...                           
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INFO[RUU]WP,system,98
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
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.

• Now navigate to "BOOTLOADER" using the volume keys and use power button to select. Then select "RECOVERY" and press power again.
  Wait 10 seconds till white HTC screen disappear and run:
  

root@czbrn0208:/var/tmp/android$ time ./step2-linux.sh 
Desire Root Step 2                                     

Pushing required files to device...

* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *        
push: files/sbin/sdparted -> /sbin/sdparted
push: files/sbin/mkyaffs2image -> /sbin/mkyaffs2image
push: files/sbin/toolbox -> /sbin/toolbox            
push: files/sbin/busybox -> /sbin/busybox            
push: files/sbin/adbd -> /sbin/adbd                  
push: files/sbin/flash_image -> /sbin/flash_image    
push: files/sbin/fix_permissions -> /sbin/fix_permissions
push: files/sbin/um -> /sbin/um                          
push: files/sbin/parted -> /sbin/parted                  
push: files/sbin/wipe -> /sbin/wipe                      
push: files/sbin/log2sd -> /sbin/log2sd                  
push: files/sbin/tune2fs -> /sbin/tune2fs                
push: files/sbin/mke2fs -> /sbin/mke2fs                  
push: files/sbin/reboot -> /sbin/reboot                  
push: files/sbin/unyaffs -> /sbin/unyaffs                
push: files/sbin/nandroid-mobile.sh -> /sbin/nandroid-mobile.sh
push: files/sbin/dump_image -> /sbin/dump_image
push: files/sbin/ums_toggle -> /sbin/ums_toggle
push: files/sbin/e2fsck -> /sbin/e2fsck
push: files/sbin/recovery -> /sbin/recovery
push: files/sbin/backuptool.sh -> /sbin/backuptool.sh
push: files/sbin/fs -> /sbin/fs
push: files/etc/mtab -> /etc/mtab
push: files/etc/fstab -> /etc/fstab
push: files/system/lib/libc.so -> /system/lib/libc.so
push: files/system/lib/libcutils.so -> /system/lib/libcutils.so
push: files/system/lib/libm.so -> /system/lib/libm.so
push: files/system/lib/liblog.so -> /system/lib/liblog.so
push: files/system/lib/libstdc++.so -> /system/lib/libstdc++.so
push: files/system/bin/sh -> /system/bin/sh
push: files/system/bin/linker -> /system/bin/linker
31 files pushed. 0 files skipped.
1944 KB/s (3709881 bytes in 1.863s)

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

1903 KB/s (126444599 bytes in 64.861s)

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


real    1m9.999s
user    0m0.012s
sys     0m0.088s

• Navigate to "Wipe" option using optical trackball and continue with "Wipe Data/Factory Reset" - this will erase all the data in the phone!
  Then go back to the main recovery menu by pressing volume (-) button and select "Flash zip from sdcard" and choose "rootedupdate.zip".

Then your phone will be flashed and you can select "Reboot system now" to get back to the !rooted! phone.

You can check your Software information to see the current version of the ROM (1.15.405.4) by selecting Settings -> About phone -> Software information -> Software number.

Good luck ;-)

Useful links:

http://www.dkszone.net/root-htc-desire
http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/307365/04-may-r4-htc-desire-rooting-guide-now-for-windows-mac-linux/