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[FULL GUIDE] Rooting HTC Wildfire

(BUZZ) 2.2.1 with HBOOT 1.01.0002 !!
(5/8/2011)
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Wildfire (buzz) SOFF, ROOTING,

& Flashing CM7
Full Guide
Disclaimer

I am not responsible if your phone

gets bricked, by following the
process you are voiding your

warranty and significant damage

may be caused to your device.

If you are naive enough to screw

somewhere, then it is your

responsibility.

Software are unpredictable in

nature, one may/may not act as

predicted especially in case of
rooting (personal experience).

Hence my friend, treat with ULTRA

care.

In short,

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR ANY DAMAGE TO
YOUR PHONE

All procedures were done under

WINDOWS 7, 32-bit

(Please Read Through Before Starting Any

Process)

With reference to member "euqiddis",

regarding "backup". He's absolutely right !!

So here we go,
- Before doing anything, make sure you have the
latest HTC SYNC on your PC (get it from here).

- Connect your phone to PC and sync all your data

(contacts, media, docs...etc.)
- Disconnect your phone, then uninstall HTC SYNC,
but you must leave the drivers on your PC.

(i.e. Uninstall the htc sync program only, not the

drivers)

S-OFFing the Device

Downgrade to HTC Froyo WWE for AlphaRevX "now
named: Revolutionary" (HBOOT 1.01.0001)

It has been confirmed that AlphaRevX "Revolutionary" tool is

not S-OFFing wildfire (buzz) 2.2.1, with HBOOT 1.01.0002!

Therefore, downgrading the HBOOT to 1.01.0001 is must for the

meantime, to get an efficient S-OFF.

Lots of people seem to be having issues when trying to

downgrade their Wildfire from a carrier-branded version

(HBOOT 1.01.0002) to unbranded WWE (HBOOT 1.01.0001).

So, heres a small package to help you do this.
click here.
Extract this package somewhere you can find it, like your
Desktop for example.

Step 1: run step1.bat from the package. This will downgrade

your MISC partition to allow for the RUU downgrade.

At the end, GoldCardTool will start up, to allow you to create

a goldcard which you will need before starting Step 2.

How to deal with Gold-Card Tool:

1. Switch off your phone, remove your microSD card.
2. Insert the microSD card into your card reader, connect it to
your computer and format the card to FAT32 file system.
3. Insert the card into your HTC Wildfire and power it on.
4. Make sure USB Debugging is enabled on your phone in
Menu > Settings > Applications > Development.
5. Connect the phone to your computer via USB and set the
mode to charge only.
6. Launch Gold-Card Tool on your computer and click GetCID.
7. Copy the CID code from the text box and click the link
shown below that text box to open it in your browser
window.
8. In the browser window, enter all the details required and
submit that form.
9. You should now get an email from PSAS. Open it and
download the GoldCard.img attachment.

10. Now set your phones USB mode to Mass Storage.

11. In Gold-Card Tool, click Refresh.

12. Select your mounted SD card from the drop-down menu

saying HTC MMC:

13. Click Load Goldcard.img and select the file downloaded in

Step 11.

14. Click Patch MMC and your Gold Card will be created. You
may exit Gold Card Tool once done.

After you've made the goldcard, and patched it, continue

with step 2.

Step 2: run step2.bat from the package. This will downgrade

your ROM version to HTC WWE Froyo for Wildfire
(unbranded).

If you get a Customer ID error while doing this, your goldcard

is not working!

Create a new goldcard and re-run step2.

Revolutionary
* Steps:

1st You need to get to: http://revolutionary.io/ to download

the tool, and to get your beta key which youll get in a popup window in the same download page after you click the
download link for (windows version).

The beta key is a must; the tool wont work without it!

Youll be asked to provide your phone serial no., typically it

should be something like HTXXETDXXXXX, and you can get it

from:

Settings --> about phone --> phone identity.

Now, do the following:

1. Run latest version of HTC Sync on your PC and connect

phone in HTC Sync mode and sync all your files. Remove HTC
Sync and not the drivers.
2. Reboot phone.

3. Settings->Applications->Development->Check USB
Debugging.

4. Run Revolutionary and connect phone to PC in Charge

Only mode.

5. Revolutionary should recognize your phone and show your

Device Serial number.

7. Type out the key in the Revolutionary tool software,

keeping in mind the upper and lower case letters and press
enter (you can copy / paste the key).

8. Revolutionary should start doing its job and youll get S-OFF

in less than 90 seconds.

9. If it takes longer, just wait for the 15 minutes mark, if

nothing, then reboot phone and retry.

(Some members got S-OFF after multiple tries)

Rooting the device:

Step 1 - Installing the USB drivers

Download USB drivers (here) and extract them on desktop.

Turn off your wildfire and boot into HBOOT by holding the
VOLUME DOWN + POWER button. Connect your phone to

your PC and it will show "drivers installing" or similar there for

Android device. When prompted, install the drivers by going
to device manager and browsing to the folder where you

extracted the drivers. Once installed, disconnect and reboot

your phone normally.

Now you need to install the Android bootloader interface.

Connect your HTC wildfire to the PC and it will ask for drivers
again, now go to device manager, click on unknown device
other devices.

Click on update driver -> install from specific location -> No i

will choose to install -> choose Android phone and click on

adb interface -> click next -> when asked to install click on
continue anyway, just install them.

Once done you will see your phone recognized as "Android

bootloader interface".

Now disconnect your phone and go into:

Settings -> applications - > development - > enable USB

Debugging.

Congratulations, the first step is complete.

N.B:

At that point, I got a real headache trying to fix that driver

thing! What happened with me was totally different, the

windows (7, 32-bit) didnt seem to recognize any of these

drivers and I was really so desperate, was about to give up

the whole thing!

But, Ive tried something that perfectly worked, and the driver
was fixed!

How? Here we go:

If the drivers didnt work, proceed with Step 2.

While the RUU installation is proceeding it will fix the driver

itself, the installation will stop giving you a connection error,

dont panic, just exit, restart your computer (keep your phone

connected, DO NOT unplug it), then start the RUU again, it will

proceed normally till the end.

MENU

Register Login

Step 2 - Downgrading from Android 2.2.1 Froyo to Android 2.1

clair

Download the RUU rom (here) which is an original stock rom.

Plug your phone into the PC and set it to "Charge through
USB". Double click RUU rom .exe

Follow the on screen instructions and then let it install. Your

phone will reboot into stock HTC 2.1

This will be the last time you will be seeing it though.

Step 3 - Gaining root using Unrevoked, get ClockworkMod

and set your phone free

Download the test version of unrevoked (here). Let me

repeat, DO NOT USE UNREVOKED 3.32 as it will lead to CID

errors or to be precise this error
"Validation error, backup CID is missing"
This may be caused as the 3.32 does not support the HBOOT.
Hence you need specific test version of Unrevoked 3.2 to do
the job. Download it, save it on desktop, and run it. Now

connect your phone and the rooting will start. Once done, you
will have ClockworkMod recovery installed on your phone.

Reboot your phone now (using the VOLUME UP/DOWN key

for navigation and clicking using TRACKBALL, the POWER

button takes you back in menus). Once rebooted, you will see
the Superuser app in your phone and....

congratulations, your phone is successfully

rooted.

Flashing CM-7 ROM (or any other

ROM)

Installing CyanogenMod 7 (Android Gingerbread

2.3.3)

Download the CyanogenMod 7 (here) (choose stable mod)

for best results and download the latest version.

You will also need Google apps (here) or here (for latest
version).

Place both files on desktop, connect your phone as USB disk-

drive and transfer both zip files on SD card. Once done, reboot
your phone into ClockworkMod Recovery (booting by holding
the VOLUME DOWN + POWER button and clicking on
recovery)

Once the device boots into the ClockworkMod Recovery, use

the side VOLUME buttons to move around, and either the
POWER button or the TRACKBALL to select.

Select the option to Wipe data/factory reset.

Then select the option to Wipe cache partition.

Select Install zip from SDcard.

Select Choose zip from SDcard.

Choose update-cm-7.0.3-buzz-signed.zip & Let it install.

Once done, Select Install zip from SDcard.

Select Choose zip from SDcard, choose gapps-gb-20110307signed.zip

Once the installation has finished, get back to the main

menu by clicking the POWER button and select the Reboot

system now option.

Congratulations

The HTC Wildfire should now boot into CyanogenMod

Now all what you need to do is to download and install some
essential applications which will make your wildfire much
more stylish and amazing.

It's my own collection, but these apps have fixed most of my

problems with cm7.

Download apps here.

Now, at this point..

I have to thank everyone and all the threads' owners

that I've collected and rearranged their work.

Hope it was useful..

ENJOY.
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F-Fect

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28th June 2011, 04:14 PM |#2

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I'm going to try it out. I'll post my progress.

euqiddis

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28th June 2011, 09:10 PM |#3

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backing up the phone's data should be mentioned

somewhere.

mhacleth

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29th June 2011, 11:29 AM |#4

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I got stuck after running the stock eclair RUU I downloaded

using the link in this guide.

My phone would boot into Eclair, but my touch screen

stopped working. I could not unlock the lock screen.

Therefore, I could not set the USB debugging in Settings,

which is required by Unrevoked in the Rooting stage.

Is there a way out of here?

I'm thinking of Downloading an Eclair RUU for my region (SEA)
--> but I don't know which one to click from shipped-roms

Thanks.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by mhacleth

I got stuck after running the stock eclair RUU I

downloaded using the link in this guide.
My phone would boot into Eclair, but my touch screen
stopped working. I could not unlock the lock screen.
Therefore, I could not set the USB debugging in
Settings, which is required by Unrevoked in the
Rooting stage.
Is there a way out of here?
I'm thinking of Downloading an Eclair RUU for my
region (SEA) --> but I don't know which one to click
from shipped-roms

Thanks.
Are you having alpharevx s-off now. And hboot version.
Confirm it by seeing hboot menu. It can be fixed.

Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

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29th June 2011, 03:34 PM |#6

I've succeeded, but you should skip the installing of clair.

After you've successfully turned your device S-OFF, follow this

guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?
p=14693680.

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successfully rooted the phone.but i'm having trouble flashing

cm 7.1 ROM

when i go the clock work recovery mod using HBOOT

recovery,i'm not able to select any options using the power

key.volume down is navigating through the options,but the

option highlighted is not being selected when pressing the
power key(even reboot now).restarted the phone by
removing the battery,but the issue is same.

3xeno

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29th June 2011, 06:27 PM |#8

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Quote:
Originally Posted by harz789

successfully rooted the phone.but i'm having trouble

flashing cm 7.1 ROM
when i go the clock work recovery mod using HBOOT
recovery,i'm not able to select any options using the
power key.volume down is navigating through the
options,but the option highlighted is not being
selected when pressing the power key(even reboot
now).restarted the phone by removing the battery,but
the issue is same.
Use Trackpad to select in Clockworkmod Recovery. Power Key
is used as a Back Button there.

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the track pad is working.succesfully wiped factory data and

cache.but its not recognizing the zip files(cynogen and google

apps) in sd card.guess i'll have to re copy the zip files to sd
card

can i actually copy these zip files using a card reader and then
insert the MMC into the phone and boot it to recovery and
try or does these zip files have to be copied to MMC by
connecting the phone?

3xeno

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29th June 2011, 07:28 PM |#10

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Quote:
Originally Posted by harz789

the track pad is working.succesfully wiped factory data

and cache.but its not recognizing the zip files(cynogen
and google apps) in sd card.guess i'll have to re copy
the zip files to sd card
can i actually copy these zip files using a card reader
and then insert the MMC into the phone and boot it to
recovery and try or does these zip files have to be
copied to MMC by connecting the phone?
Either of the methods to copy the file will do. What error does
it give when you try to flash the CM7 Zip file?

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