Root Easiest way to root?

[MatthewHinton]

I spent over an hour last night try to find out how to root the desire. I found several tuts on xda developers but they are quite complicated i dont mind the effort but i saw how the evo has an app which roots the phone just by pressing a button. What are the chances of this being developed for the desire?

 

[kilroy]

This is the one I followed to root my Desire.
How To Root Your HTC Desire & Add Apps2SD Nimbu
Took about an hour of mucking around but got it to work in the end.

 

[Deleted User]

Just hijacking this thread, sorry. I want to root my desire to get Froyo on it. I was wondering, how do I know if I need to use a gold card? I bought the phone from T-mobile, but it seems to have stuff to do with Virgin on it :S.

And can you unroot it/go back to HTC's official Froyo if or when it comes out. Or go back to 2.1 HTC Sense in the future to keep it in warranty.

Ta, Ed.

 

[jred7469]

Rooting wont give you froyo - froyo isnt out yet on the desire. it will give you apps2sd but as some of the posts around here suggest 2.2 is coming in Q3 anyway...

 

[Deleted User]

I found this guy who has made a froyo update for the desire. Thought I'd give it a whirl until htc release it officially.

So does anyone have answers to my previous questions?

 

[zamansimba]

i would like to know too about whether unlocked/sim free desire's still need gold cards

 

[Desire D]

I rooted my Virgin branded Desire earlier - although it would accept my 02 sim card fine I went the GoldCard route just to be safe. GoldCard bit only takes a few minutes so silly not to really.

Used the guide linked by kilroy above, so thanks for that

 

[Ceefax]

I found the guide by Lekky here was easy as pie to follow. Admittedly not as easy as just clicking a button....

If you want to use a different ROM (i.e a froyo one) simply change the final steps so you copy the ROM you want to sd card instead of ' r1-a2sd-desire-dalvik-fresh-signed.zip' and follow the steps exactly the same up to 16 and you're done.

There's a goldcard making guide here too. Again, so straight forward in the way it's described it's easy to do too.

 

[MatthewHinton]

Well i managed to do it. I followed the tut from XDA Developers here. It went smoothly. I used a custom rom after called shadowfrost, all was well until I encountered alot of lagg which i couldnt fin the cause of. So I then used ROM Manager and changed rom to DeFrost and it works perfectly Android 2.2 and rooted .