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Froyo RUU update available

lost desire said:
This has been strange for me
I created a gold card which i tried in my Desire & all worked but when i tried to update using the RUU file it showed the "Error Customer ID" :(
The card i used was a Sandisk 2GB - and made the card using the Gold Card Creator Tool v.0.0.5 mentioned in previous post
Any ideas please ??????
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I had that problem and found that i'd copied the number in that said cid next to it and that was wrong. It wants the reverse CID number to enter into the website. Hope you understand that.
 
micool11 said:
I had that problem and found that i'd copied the number in that said cid next to it and that was wrong. It wants the reverse CID number to enter into the website. Hope you understand that.
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Thanks for your reply
Im quiet sure i copied the reverse number but might try again

When i finished making the Gold Card the Phone excepted it & i could
go into the bootable settings,
so thats what baffles me that the phone excepted the Gold Card but the RUU didn't :confused:
 
Please see opening post:

The RUU process fails.
It should only fail if you don't have a working goldcard. If you get an error about a 'customer ID', this is because you don't have one.
 
lost desire said:
Thanks for your reply
Im quiet sure i copied the reverse number but might try again

When i finished making the Gold Card the Phone excepted it & i could
go into the bootable settings,
so thats what baffles me that the phone excepted the Gold Card but the RUU didn't :confused:
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Yeah thats the exact same problem that i had. Just try it again with the reverse Cid and it'll work.
 
R8sm8 said:
In a word, Yes! A "Gold Card" is a SD Memory Card that is specially modified specifically for, and unique to your particular phone.
YOU do the creating YOURSELF!
The "gold card", when placed in the phone causes the install process to by-pass the CID check stage during upgrades (etc) installations. It fools your phone to accept certain credentials of the ROM you are flashing/installing.
Simply put and relevant to you, your phone will think it is unbranded and will accept a RUU (Rom Update Utility) file meant for an un-branded phone. Once the RUU is installled your phone gets all the "soft" characteristics of an un-branded phone, i.e de-branded!
Like mentioned earlier, you have to (modify the sd card) create the gold card yourself and it is very easy to do.
A 1GB Crucial card worked fine for me, so you need to get a spare card, or simply use the one already in the phone. If you use your existing card, back up its entire contents to your PC/Laptop prior to commencing the creation process which involves re-formatting the card to Fat 32.
Some cards tend not to accept the mod, in which case, simply try another card. The simplest method I know of is with the use of a goldcard creator. See below.
I'm sure that by the time you've checked out various posts here and on other sites such as xda-Developers etc, you will be enlightened.

Checkout GoldCard Tool v0.0.5 @ www.klutsh.com . Instructions to create card are included in the zipped file.

Hope this helps.
Happy creating!!:D
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Will I need to create the goldcard on my pc? And therefore need a card reader? I've just tried to download the goldcard tool onto my desire but it said it wasn't supported....
 
Just updated my branded UK Orange Desire using this.
It was a bit nerve wracking, but it seems to have worked ok. The phone is now booting just fine.

I created a goldcard using the goldcard helper app from the market - using my 16Gb card that I normally use.

I did create a copy goldcard too "just in case".

But so far, it all went really well! My phone is now debranded, no more Orange Clart and I have Froyo!
 
Ok so i have the telus(canada) HTC Desire and it is rooted, do i still need gold card to apply this update?
 
teppic74 said:
This site is useful for getting the right cid, it will reverse it for you:

Soaa.me - (write down, copy, paste, and then) One-click hex reverse for GoldCard creation
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Teppic74, can I just check my understanding of the goldcard? I made the assumption that the goldcard tool effectively replaced the steps in this post [TUT]Complete upgrading guide(root, unroot, flashing ROM & updates) - xda-developers (Before you start to root your branded(locked) Desire you need to know how to make GoldCard) including having to reverse the CID. Is that correct?

Also, before I take the plunge, is it correct to say that if the SIM is network-locked then this ROM will still work (and the sim will still be locked to network after this ROM is flashed)? [I'm just double-checking]
 
Im very tempted to do this tonight, but just wondered, Im on O2 uk.

Are google likely to release a 2.21 or 2.3 for example or is the next update definately 3.0?

If I use this method I will need the goldcard again to update as I wont be able to update OTA, is it therefore just a case of waiting for another RUU file from the developers once they make one?
 
CarsnGadgets said:
Im very tempted to do this tonight, but just wondered, Im on O2 uk.

Are google likely to release a 2.21 or 2.3 for example or is the next update definately 3.0?

If I use this method I will need the goldcard again to update as I wont be able to update OTA, is it therefore just a case of waiting for another RUU file from the developers once they make one?
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As far as I am aware (but I could be wrong)....if you want the OTA updates to work properly you need to leave the goldcard in. This isn't a problem for me, as it worked with the 16Gb one that I use all the time anyway.

It was remarkably simple to apply - I did it because I got fed up of waiting for Orange to bring theirs out - and I wanted to remove all the Orange stuff that they fill it up with.
 
doogle said:
Also, before I take the plunge, is it correct to say that if the SIM is network-locked then this ROM will still work (and the sim will still be locked to network after this ROM is flashed)? [I'm just double-checking]
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My orange uk Desire was network locked, and I assume it still is - I haven't tried it with any other SIM card.
 
manicguitarist said:
As far as I am aware (but I could be wrong)....if you want the OTA updates to work properly you need to leave the goldcard in. This isn't a problem for me, as it worked with the 16Gb one that I use all the time anyway.

It was remarkably simple to apply - I did it because I got fed up of waiting for Orange to bring theirs out - and I wanted to remove all the Orange stuff that they fill it up with.
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ah, so if I use this method to get 2.2, I can still get OTA updates, but need the gold card in the phone when I go to install them OTA?
 
This doesn't involve or require rooting your phone. If your phone is rooted, it will no longer be so after the update.

HTC is almost certain to release further updates - this is only the first release of Froyo for the Desire. These should be made available OTA, and as above, you do need the goldcard inserted before you accept them.
 
teppic74 said:
This doesn't involve or require rooting your phone. If your phone is rooted, it will no longer be so after the update.

HTC is almost certain to release further updates - this is only the first release of Froyo for the Desire. These should be made available OTA, and as above, you do need the goldcard inserted before you accept them.
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To re-iterate what I said above - I created my goldcard using a 16Gb datacard, and I will just leave that it. The fact that it is now full of mp3s etc shouldn't, I think, affect it, as the "gold carding" only affected the first few hundred bytes of the disk - not sure what is kept here (been a long time since I looked at the MBR of FAT32 disks), but it should all just work fine now.
 
The goldcard 'part' of the sdcard is the bootloader code, which won't be touched under normal circumstances.
 
teppic74 said:
The goldcard 'part' of the sdcard is the bootloader code, which won't be touched under normal circumstances.
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Cheers. It has been, oooh, 15yrs at least since I looked at the boot sectors of FAT disks...and then they were floppy disks, and I was scrubbing viruses off of them!

Ah...happy daze.
 
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