Root Can't find Misc and recovery errors

[poddy666]

Hi all,

Firstly let me start by letting you all know myself and a mate have spent the last twelve hours searching forum and thread after forum and thread to try and resolve this. And although we have some success stories non of them are on our level, we just simply do not understand them.

So back to the beginning, I too like most Desire owners was sick of the Low Space message when I only had around 17 Apps downloaded so I looked into this Rooting and Rom malarky, my mate did his desire with ease and no problems, but mine is a different story.

I started with the root which worked fine I did the USB Drivers and then flashed with unrevoked3, I backed up my phone with Titanium Backup.

My mate then using the exact same ROM Cyanogen*Mod that he used on his phone tried to add it to mine but the installation kept abort with -


ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.07
E:Can't find MISC:
E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/command
E:Can't find MISC:
E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log
E:Can't find MISC:

Errors, now our research has found that this is due to my phone being newer and having erase size 40000 device.

We have also read that using amonRA 2.0.0 or 2.0.1 or AlphaRev 1.8 can bypass this but we do not understand how to do it.

So could I pleeeeeease ask one of you to try and explain or talk me through it step by step from the very start in the most simplest of idiot talk known to man !!!

Many many many thanks in advance

 

[SUroot]

All you need to do is use alpharev to get s-off. It's easy. You burn it to cd, boot your pc from cd and follow the instructions.

Alternatively you can create a virtual machine instead of burning to cd. Longer but more worth it as you will need it again for partitioning your sd card. There is a VMWare guide in my signature. It's step by step.

Do this first. Then you need to flash your recovery. This is done using fastboot - faq also in my Sig (but one thing at a time)

 

[poddy666]

All you need to do is use alpharev to get s-off. It's easy. You burn it to cd, boot your pc from cd and follow the instructions.

Alternatively you can create a virtual machine instead of burning to cd. Longer but more worth it as you will need it again for partitioning your sd card. There is a VMWare guide in my signature. It's step by step.

Do this first. Then you need to flash your recovery. This is done using fastboot - faq also in my Sig (but one thing at a time)

Thanks for this, I have the VMware guide and am halfway through that, but I cannot find a ISO file to download, I have tried one from Google, I unzip it to the folder I created but when I browse for it in VM it doesn't detect a ISO file. DO you have a link to one please.

Also on your toolbox link it says i need a password and user name for downloads???

Many thanks again, much appreciated

 

[SUroot]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/0.9.1-1/gparted-live-0.9.1-1.iso/download?_test=goal

Passwords towards end of thread

 

[poddy666]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/0.9.1-1/gparted-live-0.9.1-1.iso/download?_test=goal

Passwords towards end of thread

Cheers this will come in handy !

As for the S-On to Off, I found another link which led to an exe. file, I just ran that plugged in my device, placed my Beta number I had generated from the keygen and hey presto, S-Off.

Now its just working out the best Rom for me ! I have used CM7 but my phone keeps crashing/locking up only way out of it is to remove battery, then it doesn't boot just sticks on the skateboard kid. I have to remove battery again then recover, delete everything and reinstall !!!
The Leedriod rom works fine but again you have the low space issue !!! Any ideas ?