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Recycling my Desire

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Kibbster

Android Expert
Ok new phone almost purchased (will be getting it tomorrow)
Kid in a sweetie shop at Christmas but that's beside the point ;)

What do I have to do to send the Desire off?
I'm guessing put an SD card in it if I'm not going to flash the phone back to stock because I've tried booting it with MIUI without an SD and it doesn't work (no surprise there as it's a rooted phone that relies on the EX on the SD.)
Will the phone work with a standard firmware and no SD (enough to recycle it anyway?)
I've only got one 16GB SD and I'm loathe to send that off in a phone I am recycling.

Obviously if I'm keeping the SD for the new phone that isn't rooted I'll have to repartition the SD unless I want to lose a GB of space.
And then flash the Desire with a stock ROM so it's unrooted.

No quite sure what I'm asking here but what would everyone else do?
 
Kibbster said:
Ok new phone almost purchased (will be getting it tomorrow)
Kid in a sweetie shop at Christmas but that's beside the point ;)

What do I have to do to send the Desire off?
I'm guessing put an SD card in it if I'm not going to flash the phone back to stock because I've tried booting it with MIUI without an SD and it doesn't work (no surprise there as it's a rooted phone that relies on the EX on the SD.)
Will the phone work with a standard firmware and no SD (enough to recycle it anyway?)
I've only got one 16GB SD and I'm loathe to send that off in a phone I am recycling.

Obviously if I'm keeping the SD for the new phone that isn't rooted I'll have to repartition the SD unless I want to lose a GB of space.
And then flash the Desire with a stock ROM so it's unrooted.

No quite sure what I'm asking here but what would everyone else do?
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I think just flash any stock rom (rooted/unrooted) ..or for the safer side flash RUU
:)
 
OK it's been a long time since I rooted so I'm pretty rusty.
But am I right that the order should be as follows?

1. Boot up GParted.
2. Repartition SD card to allow the full card as FAT32.
3. Format SD card or wipe I guess but might as well format.
4. Flash phone with RUU.
5. Stick it in a jiffy bag and send it off to some poor orphan in Somalia (or whatever it is the recycling people do with old phones.)
6. Stick virgin empty SD card in new phone.
7. Boot new phone and allow it to rebuild android file structures etc.

Is that about it?
Don't care about backups, all my stuff is easily copied back and don't want to risk using any old data from a rooted phone in a new phone.
 
If you are S-Off, flash alpharev's "downgrader" hboot first.

Then flash your favourite RUU. That will wipe the phone as well. No need for partition after that, and phone will boot sans card.
 
Hadron said:
If you are S-Off, flash alpharev's "downgrader" hboot first.

Then flash your favourite RUU. That will wipe the phone as well. No need for partition after that, and phone will boot sans card.
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I'm S-on.

But if I flash the phone and lose root/ access to bootloader then I can't partition the SD card anymore, is that right?
I wanted to reclaim the EXT space and make the whole card FAT32 again because the new phone won't be rooted.

As long as the phone boots then I think the recycling palces will accept it.
 
SUroot said:
You can partition via any card reader. Also formatting sd card in the phone via the,settings menu should remove the ext partition
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Ah excellent thanks.
I guessed that it had to be in the phone because if I tried from within Windows it wouldn't see the EXT partition and ignore it.

I'll format it from the phone then flash the RUU.
 
Just to check is this the ROM I need to put it back to factory default?

Shipped ROMs

Hmmm... USB connection error.
Can this be flashed when I'm in recovery?
I have the Android USB drivers installed (from rooting)
Going to try when the phone is in the bootloader because I formatted the SD card not sure that MIUI will boot.
 
Kibbster said:
I might be being dumb but all I see on there is the update, Android drivers and Kernel source code (loads of them.)
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Seems to have worked, still going through it's booting process but that was pretty painless to be honest.

God I forgot how loud the quietly brilliant noise was lol

Ahhh Sense, how I missed you.... NOT!
 
I had forgotten how fast the old green market was compared to the newer black/ Google play one.

And the screen looks so much smaller with it's chunky fonts and stupid launcher.
 
Thanks for the help last night :)
Desire is now wiped and minus a SD card and ready to recycle.

It was a good phone but tbh is was an older generation phone, so far behind newer multi core phones.
It was a great introduction to Android though :)

I'll still be on this forum because my replacement is a Android as well.
I've got a Galaxy S2 now and the difference in speed is shocking, big screen is lovely too.
Will take a while to get used to the touch sensitive buttons, I tend to keep accidentally brushing them and closing down what ever app I've got open hehe.

Anyway, keep the faith - Android forever :)
 
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