How To: Load a Custom ROM on the HTC Legend
June 7, 2010 in Android How To's, Featured, How To's, HTC Legend How To's, Video
I. Before You Begin
1. You MUST have done our How To Root the HTC Legend. If you haven’t, go do it and then come back here to continue.
II. Download the ROM You Want
1. Goto our HTC Legend ROMs section on our site and choose from the ROMs there. Download the one you want and save it to your computer (do NOT extract it, leave it as a .zip).
2. Plug your phone in via USB cable and mount the sd card so we can transfer files to it.
3. Copy the ROM .zip file to the root of your sdcard (NOT in any folders just on the sd card itself).
4. Now, turn the phone off and turn it back on by holding down Volume Down and Power until the Bootloader mode comes up.
5. Using the volume buttons and power to select, navigate and choose Recovery. The phone should reboot to a ! screen. (The phone should still be plugged in to the computer right now).
6. Now, on the computer open the Legend Root folder you extracted in the How To Root the Legend procedure and double click the “‘recovery-windows.bat” file and wait for your phone to boot into a recovery menu.
7. In the recovery menu on your phone, navigate using the trackpad to Wipe and click it. Then click Wipe data/factory reset.
8. Once it is done wiping, click Volume Down to go back to the main menu and now select Flash zip from sdcard and choose the .zip file you downloaded and saved to your sd card just now.
9. Once it is done flashing, select Reboot and your all set! You are now running your custom ROM. Enjoy!
jaxxed said on June 30, 2010
anyway to do it without windows?
I guess I should check the batch file to see what it does.
They call me Douche? said on August 20, 2010
Hey
Yes you can do this on a linux or mac too, just run the recovery-linux.sh or recovery-mac.sh
Juha said on July 8, 2010
Thanks man! Worked great!
Hi said on August 12, 2010
Hi unlocIr
What do you do if you want to go back to the original software/rom?
If i dont like the rom can i go back?
How?
Thanks!
Ski Step said on December 3, 2010
Hi unlockr,
My phone wont boot into Recovery mode after double clicking “recovery-windows.bat” file
It stays on the black screen with the and then theres nothing i can do
any suggestions?
Marco Koser said on December 4, 2010
when i flash my costum rom from sdcard the screen shows that:
install from sdcard…
finding update package…
opening update package…
verifiying update package…
E:Missing file:
system/customize/MNS/425.xml
E: Verification failed.
what can i do that it works?
thanks
TheUnlockr said on December 18, 2010
Unplug anything plugged in via USB, restart your computer and try again (it thinks there is more than one phone connected)
Jordan said on February 18, 2011
Hey Dave, I have an issue, I just rooted and every time I go into recovery it just shows the phone an exclamation point. Also I cant connect to my Data network, I can only make calls and text. Any help?
Robmoore808 said on July 16, 2011
You have to run the windowsrecovery.bat file(something like that) from the rooting guide when the exclamation mark come sup. I dont know why but that what I have to do then it loads the recovery menu.
Fradette20 said on February 27, 2011
HYi. if i’m rooted and i has load an custom rom already what should i do if i want to load another custom rom ??
Paul said on March 10, 2011
Hi Unlockr,
i folowed all the procedures to root the legend and i loaded a custom rom on it. but for some reason i picked the wrong ROM because it is the standard froyo sense rom. when i tried to flash another rom, i noticed that my legend doesnt see my sd card anymore (so I cant flash another rom) my sd card works fine on my pc and any other sd card doesnt work either. can you help?
Paul said on March 10, 2011
Hi Unlockr,
i folowed all the procedures to root the legend and i loaded a custom rom on it. but for some reason i picked the wrong ROM because it is the standard froyo sense rom. when i tried to flash another rom, i noticed that my legend doesnt see my sd card anymore (so I cant flash another rom) my sd card works fine on my pc and any other sd card doesnt work either. can you help?
Eugeene said on May 15, 2011
Same issue as Jordan! after I hit recovery it reboots and stucks on the exclamation sign!Please help !!!
Damian Raspachini said on July 8, 2011
Sorry, I have a question.. This procedure apply to HBOOT 1.0?
Thanks in advance.
Gaem said on July 15, 2011
Great how to’s all of them!!!
Worked for me after i disconnect my pc from internet, was using Win 7:
all in all it taks me one afternoon, including to figure out what i did wrong
Robmoore808 said on July 16, 2011
Hi dave thankyou for all the guides i successfully rooted my HTC Legend and flashed the cyanogenmod. But my favorite tool (wardrive) no longer works and it did before. (I do have google maps it needs it to work) So now I want to get rid of cyanogen and put on the stock rock that came with the phone. But of course I dont want to lose root! Help me out and give me a link to a trusted stock HTC legend rom 2.2 android please.
Robmoore808 said on July 16, 2011
stock rom*
Thomas said on July 17, 2011
Hey Dave, I have a question. How do I load the google apps from CM7 on my legend?
Naren parashar said on January 5, 2012
Hi Unlockr,
i followed all the procedures to root the legend and i
loaded a custom rom on it. but for some reason i picked the wrong ROM
because it is the standard froyo sense rom. when i tried to flash
another rom, i noticed that my legend doesnt see my sd card anymore (so I
cant flash another rom) my sd card works fine on my pc and any other sd
card doesnt work either. can you help?