{"id":345,"date":"2011-12-29T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/taking-the-plunge-rooting-the-desire-hd\/"},"modified":"2011-12-29T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T09:19:00","slug":"taking-the-plunge-rooting-the-desire-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/taking-the-plunge-rooting-the-desire-hd\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the plunge: rooting the Desire HD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have finally made the change and have rooted my phone using the excellent and stupidly easy to use <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=1259821\" target=\"_blank\">Ace Hack Kit<\/a>.\u00a0 Having done this, I also found a hint that I can <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=857537\">return it to stock if I really need to<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/androidforums.com\/members\/el-presidente.html\">El Presidente<\/a> at androidforums.com has been <a href=\"http:\/\/androidforums.com\/htc-desire-hd\/460740-unbranded-dhd-not-recieved-update-new-post.html\">very<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/androidforums.com\/desire-hd-all-things-root\/473294-cid-cm7.html\">helpful<\/a>.\u00a0 Some pages of use for future reference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/androidforums.com\/desire-hd-all-things-root\/431483-guide-dhd-all-things-root-roundup-sticky.html\">[GUIDE] DHD All things root roundup sticky<\/a> at androidforums<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/androidforums.com\/desire-hd-all-things-root\/420774-has-anybody-rooted-using-tool-2.html#post3304206\">Specific CyanogenMOD steps<\/a> for installing that ROM<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=857537\">Changing the CID<\/a> (not sure I will need this, also it is used for possibly reverting to stock)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am currently working through the steps making backups and backing up my backups.I am probably confusing myself, but I will soon be moving to CyanogenMod 7.1.\u00a0 I used it on my HTC Hero whilst my phone was being repaired and really liked it.\u00a0 It should fly on the beefier Desire HD.\u00a0 I am hoping for better battery life with the new setup.\u00a0 I still sometimes have days where I am dead before 5pm, particularly if I am not at home for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Now I understand a little more (oops) I realise that I should have rooted my phone when it was in its pure Orange state, since that would give me a stock ROM to return too (not sure how you put back the old recovery mode but I think that link above answers that question.\u00a0 I&#8217;d have backed up the stock Orange ROM, now I will be backing up the old HTC ROM that I am using that does not match my phone&#8217;s CID (Carrier ID, which in my case is ORANG001).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just hit reboot to recovery.\u00a0 More to follow.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have finally made the change and have rooted my phone using the excellent and stupidly easy to use Ace Hack Kit.\u00a0 Having done this, I also found a hint that I can return it to stock if I really need to.\u00a0\u00a0El Presidente at androidforums.com has been very helpful.\u00a0 Some pages of use for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/taking-the-plunge-rooting-the-desire-hd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taking the plunge: rooting the Desire HD<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}