How To Create a Goldcard
March 10, 2010 in Android General How To's, Android How To's, Featured, How To's, Video, Wireless General How To's
I. Before You Begin
1. Some memory cards simply will not let you edit them in the way we are about to, so you may need to do this procedure and if it doesn’t work, try a new memory card. 2GB Kingston SD card DOES work for sure so up to you if you want to just buy one of those before beginning.
2. YOU WILL NEED AN SD ADAPTER! This can be a MicroSD to USB that allows you to plug the SD card into your computer’s USB port OR a MicroSD to SD adapter if you have a SD port on your computer.
II. Setup ADB
1. Follow these instructions (with video) to setup ADB for your phone, then come back to this procedure to continue.
III. Create a Goldcard
1. Put the memory card you want to use for the GoldCard into your phone.
2. With the memory card in your phone, click on Settings, SD and Phone storage, then click Unmount SD card. Once it unmounts, click Format SD card. (Please keep in mind that some memory cards don’t work, and this will erase all data on your SD Card so back all the data up first to your computer)
3. On the Phone, goto Settings, Applications, Development and then make sure USB Debugging is checked.
4. *Make sure you have installed the SDK and Fastboot correctly from Section I!!!
Plug the phone into the computer and then open the Command Prompt (goto the start menu and type in cmd in the search box). Then type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line.
cd\
cd\AndroidSDK\tools\
adb devices
(wait for it to show a serial number underneath, if it doesn’t then reinstall the drivers from section I).
Then type:
adb shell
cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid (There is no spaces in this line EXCEPT right after the word cat in the beginning, make sure to put that space in)
5. A code will display, write the code down (MAKE SURE TO WRITE IT DOWN EXACTLY!)
6. Now with the code written down, simply write it backwards (it must be reversed, so if the code is 123456789, slowly write it backwards and make sure not to make a mistake so it becomes 987654321 then continue to the next step).
7. Now, on your computer, goto http://psas.revskills.de/?q=goldcard and enter your email in the appropriate field and for CID enter the reversed CID you just copied down BUT REPLACE THE FIRST 2 DIGITS WITH 2 ZEROS! (i.e. 12345678910 becomes 00345678910). *Thanks to Viper for providing these Goldcards for FREE!
8. Click continue and then you will receive your goldcard.img via email. Once it arrives save it to your computer.
9. Now, goto http://download.cnet.com/HxD-Hex-Editor/3000-2352-10891068.html?part=dl-HxDHexEdi&subj=uo&tag=button to download the HxD Hex Editor. Save it and install it to your computer.
10. Take your SD card out of your phone and put it into the SD adapter it came with. Then put that into your computer so it shows up on your computer as Removable Disk.
11. Open the Hex Editor (Run as Administrator if one Vista or Windows 7) and click on the Extra tab, then click on Open Disk. Under Physical Disk select Removable Disk (your SD card you just put into the computer). Make sure to UNcheck “Open as ReadOnlyâ€. Click OK.
12. Goto the Extra tab again and click Open Disk Image. Open up the goldcard.img that you saved from your email. You should now have two tabs, one is the SD card (Removable Disk) and the other is the goldcard.img
Press OK when prompted for Sector Size 512 (Hard Disks/Floppy Disks).
13. Click on the Goldcard.img tab and click on the Edit tab and click Select All. Then click on the Edit tab again and click Copy.
14. Click on the Removable Disk tab (Your SD Card) and select offset 00000000 to 00000170 then click on the Edit tab and click Paste Write.
15. Click on File then click Save.
16. Close the Hex Editor.
17. Test what we’ve done:
Take out the memory card from the computer, then put it back in.
Try to open the memory card on the computer (Removable Disk), if it lets you, you are all set. If it asks/tells you to reformat the card, then try steps 13 – 19 again. If it gives you the same error again, then try a different memory card (Erlern said it didn’t work for him until he finally went and bought a Kingston 2GB card, then it worked on that card).
18. You can now use this goldcard to root phones that were previously unrootable!
Reported Issues:
Issue: I get no such directory or file when I type:
cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
Solution: Try to type this instead (replace the 1′s after mmc with zeros):
cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:*/cid
Issue: Having difficulty with the cat command…
Solution:
“Plug your phone into your computer with the going to be gold card
Go to my computer
Make sure you mount your phone to your computer
Right click after mounted FORMAT on your drive NOT IN THE SETTINGS>FORMAT MODE (trust me)
dont do quick format let it run its course
After it has completed formatting come back to the steps starting at step number 4.”
Thanks to MBerue for this solution! Hope it helps people!
Guest said on July 1, 2011
Pro tip: go to android market, and DL “gold card helper” its free and pulls the CID, reverses it and has a link under menu button to enter it into the website that generates the goldcard.img file.
Also, I overlooked this. When opening the SD card in the Hex Editor, Notice this guide says open the PHYSICAL DISK in bold… repeatedly editing the LOGICAL drive was frustrating for me. :)
Buythismobile said on August 13, 2011
GOLD CARD HELPER is not available anymore on the market ?
Thanks for info about where I could find it.
Raoufrai said on July 4, 2011
$ cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
123456544620324700177074d300b6ea
$ 123456544620324700177074d300b6ea
123456544620324700177074d300b6ea
123456544620324700177074d300b6ea: permission denied
what is the solution for this “permission denied”
Ervinssteinbergs said on July 22, 2011
C:>cdandroidsdktools
The sistem cannot find the path specified. ??? What is that??
Evanetti said on July 26, 2011
After I’ve entered the command
cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
I get the response “No such file or directory”
All the previous steaps have been correct
Please help
Redbook55 said on August 1, 2011
hi peeps,
can i downgrade and root my dhd without gold card?
coz my dhd is unbranded
Kiv1013 said on August 10, 2011
Что за фигня в 6 пункте ? там написано что код надо записать наоборот , а по видео полный разброс цифр не по порядку , без прослеживания логической цепочки
Buythismobile said on August 12, 2011
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Hi
I am now installing SDK and it’s super slow, is it normal ? (downloading a lot).
After having made a Goldcard, do you know which ROM i could install on HTC WILDFIRE S (Marvel phone, NOT Buzz which is wildfire WITHOUT S).
Thank you for your help.
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Ratchaneehemphan said on August 14, 2011
Excellent tut. Must read “very carefully”. Hit a couple of hurdles but re-read and everything worked.
A couple of points that may help someone. I was using a HTC Wildfire and Windows 7 laptop
Tip1
No need to go and buy a USB sd card. It does work by leaving your memory card in the phone.
1. Have the cable connected to the phone
2. Unmount the memory card using the phone
3. Format the memory card using the phone.
4. re-mount the memory card using the phone
5. It will show up on the computer as a Removable drive. (if not unplug USB and plug in again”
6. I re-formatted the drive using the computer to do the format (Not sure this was needed)
Tip2
When trying to obtain the CID of the phone using the AndroidSDK. Have notepad open and cut and paste between the black “cmd” box and notepad. The “edit – mark – copy” facility is available by clicking on the the top left corner of the black “cmd” box.
Tip3
When using HexEdit.
1. Must open HexEdit as administrator (Easy to forget this)
2. Open the “disk” and not the “file” “Removable drive”. Once “Removable Drive” selected “un-click” the “read only” focus. Another one I kept forgetting to do.
Apart from that….Bob’s your uncle!
Edwinwillmore said on September 2, 2011
The faster way to get ur CID is coping ur sdk to ur sd card and download terminal from the market and use cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:*/cid and u will get ur sd card number. write it down! thats wat i did and it worked for me now i got my gold card very easy..
Hoon Jung said on September 13, 2011
you should clarify how to reverse the cid numbers cuz it was hard to figure out
A.T said on September 19, 2011
hey man what’s all of this i did my sd as a gold card in less than a minute just d/l the gold card program then use the button to create CID after that go to the site and enter your CID and they gonna send you your image by mail through the program locate the image and then press patch to patch your sd that’s all now u got a gold card cheers
Anonymous said on October 28, 2011
Goldcard generetor says “error: no MMC card found” …does this mean i can skip the goldcard step?
Anonymous said on November 2, 2011
Good tutorial so far for me, but is there any other way to get a goldcard than the psas.revskills.de site? It says “page not found.” Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Andrew Kumnick said on November 11, 2011
Having trouble, the PSAS site is reading with an error of the CID being to short ???
vic said on November 18, 2011
I think I’m doing something wrong? I can’t even get past adb devices. . . also on the sdk manager log it keeps saying access denied and skipping things I select to download?
Sidnoi said on November 20, 2011
Hi Dave, Thanks for the tutorial. I got this:
C:androidsdktools>crackin.bat
“Copying tools”
1616 KB/s (0 bytes in 698452.000s)
432 KB/s (0 bytes in 76044.000s)
1575 KB/s (0 bytes in 655360.000s)
“Freeing primary PERM linker”
rm failed for /data/DxDrm/fuse/*, No such file or directory
rm failed for /data/DxDrm/fuse, No such file or directory
rmdir failed for /data/DxDrm/fuse/, No such file or directory
cannot create /data/DxDrm/fuse: directory nonexistent
Unable to chmod /data/DxDrm/fuse: No such file or directory
“Freeing secondary PERM linker”
rmdir failed for /data/DxDrm/fuse/, No such file or directory
rmdir failed for /data/DxDrm, No such file or directory
link failed Permission denied
“Rebooting to normal mode to unlock CHMOD links”
rmdir failed for /data/dontpanic, Permission denied
rm failed for /data/DxDrm, No such file or directory
link failed File exists
link failed Permission denied
“Rebooting to normal mode to downgrade ROM”
/dev/mtd/mtd0: Permission denied
cr–rw—- 1 1001 2002 90, 0 Nov 20 11:34 /dev/mtd/mtd0
error writing misc: Permission denied
“Freeing links”
rm failed for /data/DxDrm, No such file or directory
rm failed for /data/dontpanic, Permission denied
C:androidsdktools>
Does this mean I have done something wrong?
Thanks in advance
Anonymous said on November 22, 2011
Another way of doing it in *nixes is using dd issuing the following command
dd if=goldcard.img of=/dev/sd· bs=1 count=368 conv=notrunc
Where · is your SD card.
·· Be careful to avoid wiping your hard drive
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Daithi Cork said on November 23, 2011
Use http://hexrev.soaa.me/ to properly reverse the CID!
John Jones said on November 28, 2011
Hi all, I hope someone can help as I have noticed that it’s been a while since someone wrote on here.
I’m trying to get my goldcard img, but it don’t ask for your email so where does it go? When I put my CID code in then the code as you see at the bottom click Download Goldcard it vanishes to “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage” but if I refresh the page it states “The goldcard image has been downloaded !” but to where? I even given some money (Donated) for the codes but still nothing! I even checked all my mail accounts and nothing so what is wrong? I can’t even find the join link so I can put my email in but still nothing. Have I done something wrong? I’m using W7 if that is any help.
John
John Jones said on November 28, 2011
Don’t Worry about it I did it on another W7 pc and it worked. so thanks for looking.
Tim42j said on January 15, 2012
hi, so i got this gold card and it will help me downgrade my wildfire 000 2……but how do i use it? what is next (unrevoked3 won’t help if you have the htc above)
Imánu'El Morales said on February 10, 2012
When I type adb devices in Candroid-sdktools, I get this message ‘adb’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. HELP!
PENG said on February 12, 2012
Use candroid-sdkplatform-tools
Remember to put the “fastboot.exe” in the platform-tools folder then.