How To: Downgrade the HTC Legend to 1.31 So It Can Be Rooted
December 13, 2010 in Android How To's, Featured, How To's, HTC Legend How To's
I. Before You Begin
1. This procedure will downgrade your phone from Android 2.2 Build 2.0.XXXX to Android 2.1 Build 1.31.XXXX. This is necessary if you are to root the phone. Once rooted, you can then flash a custom ROM to get back to Android 2.2 without losing root access.
II. Make a Goldcard
1. Head to our How To Make a Goldcard procedure, make a goldcard and come back to this procedure to continue.
III. Make Phone Downgrade-able
1. On your phone, make sure that USB Debugging is checked ON in Settings > Applications > Development.
2. Plug in your phone and make sure it is connected as Charge Only NOT Disk Drive or something else.
3. Download the Downgrading Tools and extract them to your AndroidSDK\tools\ folder (all of the files need to be in the tools folder with adb).
4. Open a command prompt on your computer by clicking on the Start button and typing cmd and hitting enter in the search box.
5. In the command prompt, type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line:
cd c:\AndroidSDK\tools\
crackin.bat
6. The phone will reboot 5 times, be patient.
7. After it is done, you will see a bunch of error messages, that is normal.
8. Look for the following line, if you see it (the date and time can be different) you are ready to continue, if not then reboot your phone, factory reset it, and try again:
crwxrwxrwx 1 1001 2002 90, 0 Jul 19 16:19 /dev/mtd/mtd0
IV. Downgrade Using the RUU
1. Download the Legend 1.13 RUU
2. With your phone plugged in still, right click the RUU and run as administrator (if you don’t have that option just double click it).
3. Follow the prompts to downgrade your phone. All done!
V. Root the Phone
1. Head to our How To Root the HTC Legend procedure immediately after finishing this procedure to continue.
Mike said on January 11, 2011
Pleas Help!!
i alos have this prob:
Can someone help with this? Is isnt working for me either! And i also get the cr–rw— like everyone else, it says: Permission denied… I also get the boatloader fail!
i testet with this: with Visionary+
C:AndroidSDKtools>adb shell
$ su
su
# /data/local/flash_image misc /data/local/misc1-2.img
/data/local/flash_image misc /data/local/misc1-2.img
/data/local/flash_image: not found
# su
su
# su
su
# su
su
#
C:AndroidSDKtools>
why is “not found”???
maik said on January 17, 2011
when i opened ruu, there is a error: ruu.. is not a valid win 32 version?!
guest said on February 25, 2011
I had that problem. The download just didn’ twork. Make sure your file size is 128mb
Nils Toudal said on April 25, 2011
i got that problem too!
I have tried several times but it just won’t work!
Simon said on January 18, 2011
Downgraded successsfully, no major problems (except replacing the 1′s with 0′s in one step with the adb tools, but the solution was just further down the page). Thanks! Hope the rooting and upgrade go just as smoothly!
Simon said on January 18, 2011
Downgraded successsfully, no major problems (except replacing the 1′s with 0′s in one step with the adb tools, but the solution was just further down the page). Thanks! Hope the rooting and upgrade go just as smoothly!
polin42 said on January 23, 2011
Hi, sorry for my bad english.
I tryed do this post but i have a problem when I want to execute crackin.bat.
An error :
is updated.
/dev/mtd/mtd0: Permission denied
cr–rw—- 1 1001 2002 90, 0 Jan 22 19:12 /dev/mtd/mtd0
error writing misc: Permission denied
“Freeing links”
rm failed for /data/DxDrm, Permission denied
rm failed for /data/dontpanic, Permission denied
Please help me thanks
Polin42
Silly3648 said on January 30, 2011
I got the same error
polin42 said on January 23, 2011
Hi, sorry for my bad english.
I tryed do this post but i have a problem when I want to execute crackin.bat.
An error :
is updated.
/dev/mtd/mtd0: Permission denied
cr–rw—- 1 1001 2002 90, 0 Jan 22 19:12 /dev/mtd/mtd0
error writing misc: Permission denied
“Freeing links”
rm failed for /data/DxDrm, Permission denied
rm failed for /data/dontpanic, Permission denied
Please help me thanks
Polin42
Silly3648 said on January 30, 2011
Ruu thinks my phone is not connected? I got the right code after I used crackin.bat and I have a made a goldcard?
Silly3648 said on January 30, 2011
error 140? Is their a fix?
Premprempradeep said on February 6, 2011
/dev/mtd/mtd0: Permission denied
cr–rw—- 1 1001 2002 90, 0 Feb 6 00:18 /dev/mtd/mtd0
error writing misc: Permission denied
i am getting this error repeatedly even i reset my phone to factory settings..tell me what should i do ..i have made gold card properly
Eric said on February 10, 2011
I got the right message after doing crackin.bat however when I open RUU it comes up with this error saying that an error occured while running the startup. Says to end all other applications… I have created the goldcard. I tried to downgrade with goldcard in phone and out of phone…. both dont work… please help.
Taffy In Wales said on February 11, 2011
I get the following error message ‘adb’ is not recognised as an internal or external command operable program or batch file, it repeats this message aabout 12 times?????.
Michael Yav said on February 18, 2011
EROR 131: CUSTOMER ID ERROR
THE ROM UPDATE UTILITY CANNOT UPDATE YOUR ANDROID PHONE.
PLEASE GET THE CORRECT ROM UPDATE UTILITY
What is wrong and how I solve it?
dunedude said on March 5, 2011
Got the same error. Using HTC Sync 2.0.33 and RUU_Legend_HTC_WWE_1.31.405.5_R_Radio_47.26.35.04_7.05.35.26L_release_126592_signed.exe on a Bell brand HTC Legend.
No solution as of yet.
Anyone else have suggestions?
mgu said on February 25, 2011
I get Error [130]: Model ID Error. Any suggestions?
mgu said on February 26, 2011
I’m going to _try_ to answer my own question. I was having trouble and kept getting the USB connection error. If while it was waiting for the update I ran the RUU again, then I would get the 130 error. Here are the things I changed to get it working:
- Insert the gold card (IDK if that actually did anything, but it finally worked)
- Upgrade the USB drivers for the phone (in windows 7)
- Run the RUU, which failed on the USB error
- Run RUU again after the usb error and it finally works (normally it would give the 130 error)
Frank Mosta said on March 2, 2011
I got the Error 130 Model Id as well. I think it’s the goldcard — I repeated the goldcard steps and the image I got back was different from the first time I tried it. This time it worked — successful downgrade!
Frank Mosta said on March 2, 2011
I got the Error 130 Model Id as well. I think it’s the goldcard — I repeated the goldcard steps and the image I got back was different from the first time I tried it. This time it worked — successful downgrade!
Pfitzy said on March 4, 2011
My phone doesn’t reboot 5 times unless by saying “be patient” you mean “wait more than 10 minutes”. Also why are you telling me to make a gold card and then not explaining when I need to use it?
Pfitzy said on March 4, 2011
To explain further – I ran it and it ripped through all the commands in the batch file then rebooted once, and returned to my home screen (locked as usual). Then it did nothing. This time around, I’ve factory reset and now it is stuck on the third error line after “Freeing primary PERM linker”… I’m being patient…
Pfitzy said on March 4, 2011
OK, so after another factory reset and re-run, this is the output:
C:AndroidSDKtools>crackin.bat
“Copying tools”
1897 KB/s (698452 bytes in 0.359s)
1188 KB/s (76044 bytes in 0.062s)
1780 KB/s (655360 bytes in 0.359s)
“Freeing primary PERM linker”
error: more than one device and emulator
rm failed for /data/DxDrm/fuse/*, No such file or directory
rm failed for /data/DxDrm/fuse, Is a directory
“Freeing secondary PERM linker”
rmdir failed for /data/DxDrm/fuse/, Not a directory
rmdir failed for /data/DxDrm, Directory not empty
link failed File exists
error: more than one device and emulator
“Rebooting to normal mode to unlock CHMOD links”
error: more than one device and emulator x 8
“Rebooting to normal mode to downgrade ROM”
error: more than one device and emulator x 6
“Freeing links”
error: more than one device and emulator x 3
C:AndroidSDKtools>
Phone is booted. Nothing about permissions to /dev/mtd/mtd0
Pfitzy said on March 4, 2011
OK – finally got there – if you have issues, open the crackin.bat file in an editor and run each command from the cmd line individually. This will show where the errors are. Also, my phone reported “error: more than one device and emulator” because it had an OFFLINE version of my phone cached up. To fix this I had to adb kill-server multiple times and reconnect.
Pfitzy said on March 4, 2011
OK – finally got there – if you have issues, open the crackin.bat file in an editor and run each command from the cmd line individually. This will show where the errors are. Also, my phone reported “error: more than one device and emulator” because it had an OFFLINE version of my phone cached up. To fix this I had to adb kill-server multiple times and reconnect.
Craze said on March 11, 2011
The RUU at shipped-roms didnt work for me. kept returning an error everytime i tired to execute it. however, if you search “RUU_Legend_HTC_WWE_1.31.405.5_R_Radio_47.26.35.04_7.05.35.26L_release_126592_signed” in google, hotfile has one hosted that worked just fine.
Anonymous said on March 15, 2011
im so confused, i think i have managed to connect my phone to my computer because when I type adb devices, it is connected, but then when i run the RUU, it says Error 170, connection error.
i already spent 10 hours + creating the goldcard and now i am stuck on this
xhenon16 said on March 26, 2011
Question: Can i Downgrade my HTC Legend 2.2 (the software updated) build 3.20.xxxxx so i can root it?
Anonymous said on July 6, 2011
i would like to know that too – did you get an answer yet?
Anonymous said on March 26, 2011
Reseting to factory settings doesn’t work for me, still get cr–rw—- 1 1001 2002 90, 0 Feb 6 00:18 /dev/mtd/mtd0
any ideas?
Torsten said on April 3, 2011
Had the same problem, the reason being that crackin.bat had not completed succesfully due to lack of access rights. I solved that by using Visionary+, and then grant su rights before doing all the steps in the script by hand.
The steps were
a) find the apk file for visionary+ and install that on the phone (using HTC Sync).
b) open visionary+ on the phone, and select “temp root and boot” and select “temp root now”.
c) open the crackin.bat in a text editor (or similar, where you can see the steps. Do not use notepad, it might not be able to show linebreaks, making it a mess to read).
d) open a command prompt in the folder with the tools.
e) execute the three first commands (the ones without adb shell) by typing them in the command prompt.
f) when I got to the first adb shell command I typed
– adb shell
result: a $
– su
result: a #, and now I had root access as su (super user)
g) then I typed the adb shell commands (without the “adb shell”) one by one. When I got to reboot I typed that, ignored the wait-for-device, and the repeated step f) to get sufficient rights again. Note that the “cat … ” command should be typed without the ” “.
h) my result was not the full “crwxrwxrwx”, but I got “crwx…… ” which was sufficient for RUU to run afterwards.
Steven said on April 27, 2011
I’ve tried that, I get to the su part and it tells me “permission denied” I’ve tried to just install the downgrade, I get an error (Error [131]: Customer ID Error), I’ve tried rebooting, resetting to factory settings and still nothing. My Gold card was made using the Gold Card Tools. I’m almost at the stage where I’ll get rid of the phone and get an iphone because I’m so sick of running out of space after a day or 2.
Riekelt said on April 27, 2011
Did you let visionary finish temp rooting? (You know it is finished when it returns to your homescreen)
Kayce said on May 2, 2011
I could not access as SU after my reboot, i nid to re-do the “temp root”
What is my mistake?
Steven said on May 8, 2011
I’ve been trying this all day, AGAIN.
When I type in “su” tells me still “permission denied” I have installed visionary, I let it temp root and yes I wait for it to return to the home screen.
The last one I tried, I just kept going after su “permission denied” and got to reboot, but it wouldn’t allow me to go further.
m waris said on May 14, 2011
Thanx korstom i followed your steps and now i am success to downgrade my legend
Markus said on May 14, 2011
I’ve tried it several times, but it still doesn’t work…
I am always getting the error: Permission denied at f)
I’ve been using VISIONary+, but it still doesn’t work!
Please help me !
Thanks and sorry for the bad English (Austrian
)
Markus said on May 16, 2011
Hey again
I got it
After a long long time, I recognized that I probably should have inserted the ‘Goldcard’…
Thanks a lot to all and have fun with your devices
Jam said on May 21, 2011
Thanks to you, I sailed past the cr—- problem… I also got stuck at step f) but doing temp root once again got me through… Thanks again
Jahad Majeed said on May 21, 2011
Thanks to you, I sailed past the cr—- problem… I also got stuck at step f) but doing temp root once again got me through… Thanks again
Holeinthewallsepp said on August 21, 2011
wow !!
this one is really help full tutorial..
with a little bit more learn on google about the fungtion of comands..
downgrade is done !! very cool …thnks before..nice share
Fraseryan said on September 7, 2011
what is step f
Fraseryan said on September 7, 2011
sorry i understand what step f is now
but do you type only the commands with adb shell but take out the adb shell part adb shell
Ryan Bolton said on September 17, 2011
Hi, I can do this up to the
adb shell “cat /data/local/busybox > /data/DxDrm/fuse”
command.
I type in
cat /data/local/busybox > /data/DxDrm/fuse
but then nothing happens, and as I type the next lines rm, ln, etc, there is no # symbol in front, and nothing happens when I type them, it just types it and then goes to the next line and this carries on as I type on.
PLEASE HELP I DONT GET THIS CAT BIT!?!
Bunnie Rabbit said on November 27, 2011
Thank you Torsten! I’d tried every other method available to downgrade my Legend, but this was the only thing that worked. I’m using a Legend through Vodafone Australia, if that helps anyone.
Be sure after every reboot to open Visionary+ and temp root, or adb won’t allow you to “su”. I still got a lot of errors with the data fusey stuff thingies, but I believe the command for them was all “rm” which my small amount of research says is “remove”, so that’s fine.
Torsten’s little guide really should be appended to the end of the main guide. Like I said, I’ve tried everything I could find here, on Chirag’s guide, and on xda developers, and nothing else helped.
Aamer_shahzad said on April 8, 2011
i dont get this line “crwxrwxrwx” insted i get this one “cr- – rw – - -” and then in RUU i get the error that my phone isn’t connected ? Help please !
Densun said on April 12, 2011
I always get the “cr- – rw – - -” no mater what I do. I fix a new goldcard , factory reset the phone etc etc.
I cant get it to work. Can anyone please help me?
FAIL Site said on April 19, 2011
Error 170… Fail Tutorial….
The RUU unable to connect my device…
FAIL!
FAIL Site said on April 19, 2011
error 170 at RUU. fail tutorial cant works…
You are just playing prank on us? I Did it for 5 hours for nothing?
ROFC
Meackparsons said on May 8, 2011
I have tried every single step repeatedly… for the last 24 hours and have yet to get nothing out of it… when i use ruu… all i get is the 130 error… help please!!!!
John Dsouza said on May 14, 2011
Ok Guys, for all of you facing the CR– RW — Error, its really simple to fix it. I will be posting a full guide on how to fix it…
Steven said on May 15, 2011
hopefully in the next few hours
John Dsouza said on May 15, 2011
this is the link to the complete guide for downgrading. hope it helpshttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13813982#post13813982
Hyperwei said on May 17, 2011
you mind reposting the link? i can’t click it. Thanks!
John Dsouza said on May 17, 2011
Now, this site aint allowing me to post a link for some reason; you will need to search this exact title on Google: [GUIDE] HOW to downgrade HTC Legend 2.2 to 2.1 to enable root…Click the link then! : )
Hyperwei said on May 19, 2011
Thanks dude. Found it. Try it. but still doesn’t work. I got the customer id error after i ran the RUU. Any ideas why?
Christian SolvoZurk Dyssengard said on May 28, 2011
i has the same problem…
Dez said on June 8, 2011
Make sure your goldcard has been made correctly! I had this, but after a bit of research, found that when generating the goldcard, you should reverse the number in pairs, not overall… eg from 0123456789 to 8967452301 instead of 9876543210.
Hyperwei said on June 14, 2011
Hi Dez, did you manage to downgrade after discovering the error in the goldcard number?
AnyKey said on August 7, 2011
Thank you! Reverse in pairs worked on my phone too.
Steven said on May 15, 2011
hopefully in the next few hours
JusTox said on May 18, 2011
I’ve come across so many errors while doing trying to root my HTC Legend.
In this downgrade after installing VISIONary r13 or r14 I dont think it matters, but I used r13.
After doing steps similar to this
“3. even if you end up with the cr–rw—- download and install modaco visionairy apk
4. temproot phone.
5. in cmd, type adb shell, then ”su” and accept super user permissions on phone
You should see a # <this means you have the permissions.
6. in cmd, type: /data/local/flash_image misc /data/local/misc1-2.img"
and getting permission denied on number 4 the su (super user), MAKE SURE to check your PHONE and ACCEPT.
I also recieved the error 170 after opening the RUU program, (I found out this is to do with USB driver problems) download HTC SYNC install it and uninstall HTC Sync but leave the drivers installed, and that should be all good.
Marko Bano said on May 28, 2011
ITS KEEPS SAYING 170 ERROR USB CONNECTION ERROR ?? NEED HELP!
Marko Bano said on May 28, 2011
I UPDATED DRIVERS NOW RUU SAY ERROR 140 HELP!!!
Sebastianluediger said on May 31, 2011
I got a problem! I bought the 2gb Kingston Micro Sd made it a gold card! Just works fine! But when i am trying to get tht number of step 8 it just say me : cr–rw—— etc! And no matter what i try it wont let me Downgrade i got Version 2.2! Hboot 1.01! Plz help anyone!
Greets Sebastian
Findabetterlife said on June 7, 2011
I’ve been trying to downgrade my legend for a couple of hours now, but every time i ran the RUU i got a message saying there’s problem with the usb connection even though it’s connected. What should i do now?!
Emil Kristiansen said on June 17, 2011
Does anyone have a solution to the 140 error?