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I. Before You Begin
1. This is how to root the HTC Legend, do NOT use this on any other phone!
2. This will erase all the data on your phone so please at least sync your contacts with Google before continuing.
II. Create a Goldcard
1. Do our How To Create a Goldcard procedure and create a goldcard for your phone. Once you have it created, put the goldcard into the phone and come back to this procedure and continue.
III. Flash the Rooted ROM
1. Download the Rooting Tools
2. Unzip them to the C: drive on your computer (so the file path is C:\r4-legend-root\)
3. Turn off your phone and turn it back on by holding down Back and Power until you see Fastboot come up on the screen. Push the Power button while highlighting Fastboot on the phone and Fastboot should show up in red now on the phone (if it doesn’t push Power again until it does).
4. Plug the phone in via USB cable to the computer.
5. Open the folder you extracted to the C drive and double click “step1-windows.bat” and wait for it to finish.
6. Once you see the menu on the phone come back up, navigate to BOOTLOADER and push power, then navigate to RECOVERY using the volume buttons to navigate and the power button to select and the phone should boot to the ! screen.
7. Now on the computer double click the “step2-windows.bat” file and wait for it to finish.
8. Now you should see a custom recovery screen, using the optical trackpad navigate to Wipe and push on the trackpad to select it. Then navigate to Wipe data/factory reset and select that.
9. Once that is done, push volume down to go back to the main menu and select Flash zip from sdcard and select the rootedupdate.zip file and wait for it to flash. All done, you have root access and can use any root required app! Enjoy!
IV. Load a Custom ROM etc (Optional)
1. Head over to our How To Load a Custom ROM on the HTC Legend procedure and continue with that to load custom ROMs and other fun stuff!
Thanks to Paul at Modaco for his awesome scripts!
After step 6, I double click the “step2-windows.bat†file and it finishes within a couple of seconds, however my phone is still on the ! screen and doesn’t show me step 8. It just sticks on the ! screen. What did I do wrong?
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Drewl,
Either it can’t see your phone or you didn’t right click it and run as administrator.
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So is there a fix for that? It’s not working for me either, running as admin or otherwise.
How can I make my computer see the phone, when it’s stuck on the ! screen?
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Hi, thank you for this great guide. I rooted my Legend and than i have to unroot for the new upgrade 1.31.405.5. So After the upgrade i made a new root but after that my Legend back to 1.31.405.4. Can you explain why please? i’d like have root with 1.31.405.5 firmware.
thank you
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hey i have a problem whit step7 then i start the bat fil “step2-windows.bat” say the command
error: device not found
error: device not found
pushing update file to device sdcard – this may take a few minutes…
error: device not found
error: device not found
and after that it close and there doing nothing. please help me =).
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i got the same problem
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Same problem as above! How did you guys fix it?
Email me at merlocked90@hotmail.com..
Any help is appreciated!!
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Helo unlockr just wanna ask if i can root my phone even after i update the official firmware? is there other boot image?
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my phone is still on the ! screen and doesn’t show me step 8. It just sticks on the ! screen. Help! seans_sanctum@hitmail.com
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im getting the same problem as you guys stuck at step 6 with the ! screen did anyone get it fixed ?
hemelbear@gmail.com
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Hello,
on step 5 my computer says after checking the data “FAILED” the second time every thing seems to work great but after step 8 i am not coming to the menu, i can just see the recovery screen eaven if i press step 2!
please help me .
ps : i tried out a sandisk 1 and 2 gb
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did you use a gold card?
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Yes i did but i dont know if you can use a sandisk 1 gb
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No problems for me, worked great!
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also getting “device not found” for step 2.
I’ve tried about 10 times now, the whole procedure. Even uninstalled adb and all htc drivers a few times.
step 1 always works
step 2 never works.
after it boots into the “!” screen, adb devices never returns the phone.
anyone have a solution?
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ok dude im stuck on the same step as the rest of us, please give me a hand here im going to throw this f**king phone….it keeps saying device not found…and yes i have ran it as administrator….it brings up the same message…ive made a kingston 2gb goldcard so its not that
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thing is, that this guide only works with 1.31.xxxx i think ….
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Hey, my HTC Legend is Unlocked, do i still need a goldcard? Also should the gold card be the sd card that im going to be using in my phone or a spare one?
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Has anyone managed to successfully root a Vodafone branded handset with a software number of 1.32.161.4?
I don’t want to risk bricking my 2 month old phone!
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i am stuck on the bit where you click step 2 it appears for a few seconds and then goes
i have run it as administrator and the phone just stays on that one screen
i print screened the command prompt just before it closed and it says device not found
i am running software number 1.32.161.4
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hi, i have a 16gb sdcard that can’t be turned into a goldcard or it doesnt work. if i buy a 2bg kingston sdcard and turn it into a goldcard, can i use my other sdcard after i root it?
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Hi Guys ,
I have same problem whit step7 . I start the bat file “step2-windows.bat” and it say this command
error: device not found
error: device not found
pushing update file to device sdcard – this may take a few minutes…
error: device not found
error: device not found
and after that it close and nothing happened . please help me and let me know what shall I do ?
Thanks
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same issue here!!
error: device not found
error: device not found
pushing update file to device sdcard – this may take a few minutes…
error: device not found
error: device not found
Help please!!
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Hi guys,
I wouldn’t normally write on things like this but I have spent enough time dicking around trying to get my phone rooted as well and I have found the solution as to why the steps above keep failing… I had the exact same problem – I THINK it is because we are all on software version 1.32xxx and this tutorial is on 1.31xxx.
I found a way to solve it:
follow the steps exactly on the first post of the page at this address…
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725430
to ‘downgrade’ your phone to 1.31xxx and then do everything as per the video above.
It also can’t hurt to run those .bat files as administrator in the old right click menu if your on win7.
I just downgraded my UK Vodafone Legend that was fully software’d up to date as of today (27/06/10) so I’m assuming that its on software 1.32xxx etc and using the instructions in that link downgraded it then followed the American chap’s instructions to the letter and all worked.
Good luck!
p.s. I’m afraid I can’t help with any other tech questions relating to this – this is just how I fixed my Legend problem and I thought I’d share the info in case it helps any one else!
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Will i get to keep the default rom when i root my legend or once rooted i must install a custom rom ? thanks
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All those stuck on step 6th start up your phone with the power and volume down button Instead work for me!
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Melts you get to keep your current rom
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
You need to create a new goldcard (from the new CID) if you try a different SDCard.
In otherwords, the goldcard is specific to the SDCARD, not the phone!!! (or perhaps the phone too…)
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Mark G,
That is correct! It is specific to the sdcard not the phone, so if you use a different SD card you need to create a new goldcard with the new cid of the sd card. Also that means that if you make one goldcard, you can keep using it on different devices in the future if you need to.
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theunlockr,
i’m still didn’t root my HTC Legend, but when try to open Recovery its open by going to recovery from Fastboot screen, qst thing its not working direct, its show screen with forbidden logo, but when holding volume up key with power its open recovery!!
does the new Legend coming with Recovery version?? i’ve HTC Magic before and it dosen’t?
anyway will do the above steps to root my Legend,
but pls advice once i root it can i return it again to the curent recovery? and can i backup the curent room from HTC?
thanks in advanced
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Hi, I already updated my legend firmware to 2.1-update 1, software number 2.05.707.1 which i downloaded from HTC support. does r4-legend-root.zip work on my phone?
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Hi, thanks for the guide.
Just finished and it worked, but it took som time and a think i had every single issue that people talked about. This is how i fixed them on win7 32bit. First of all people should know that USB drivers in windows work very strange somethimes, it does help to change usb port or dissconnect everything “extra” from the PC for me that meant external harddrive and external writer and the i-pod. But sometimes not even this help, for flashing SE phones or x-box i HAVE to use a fresh xp install or they will hangup. So XP does help sometimes.
For goldcard i hade to use 0 instead of 1, and its very important to choose Removable Disk and not logical took me sometime to understand this after a couple of tries=) For root i had to disconnect everything and choose another usb port and delete some old USB drivers. Other then that i used my htc legends sd card and used the phone as an drive.
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Thank you so much.It was as smooth as was shown in the video tutorial.
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Guys if you have some problems with “device not found” or “failed to connect daemon” just reboot your PC then instal the latest Droid explorer with your Legend pluged in an go ahead from the start of rooting legend.
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