How To: Load a Custom ROM on the HTC Legend
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!
anyway to do it without windows?
I guess I should check the batch file to see what it does.
Hey
Yes you can do this on a linux or mac too, just run the recovery-linux.sh or recovery-mac.sh 😉
Thanks man! Worked great!
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!
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?
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
Hi Unlockr,
Great guide you have here. I’ve been having problems with running recovery-windows.bat from the r4-legend-root utility.
I get an error message saying “error: more than one device and emulator”. The program then closes, and the Legend is left on the ‘!’ screen.
Any suggested fixes? Thanks for all your help so far!
Unplug anything plugged in via USB, restart your computer and try again (it thinks there is more than one phone connected)
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?
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.
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 ??
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?
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?
Same issue as Jordan! after I hit recovery it reboots and stucks on the exclamation sign!Please help !!!
Sorry, I have a question.. This procedure apply to HBOOT 1.0?
Thanks in advance.
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
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.
stock rom*
Hey Dave, I have a question. How do I load the google apps from CM7 on my legend?
Thank you so much for these great tutorials!
Though some minor adjustment should be made 🙂
When making the phone downgrade-able the app visionary+ should be downloaded here:
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1974858134/com.modaco.visionaryplus.r14.apk
Throughout this everything is perfectly detailed! 🙂
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?