{"id":346,"date":"2011-12-28T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/more-rumination-about-rooting-my-desire-hd\/"},"modified":"2011-12-28T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:17:00","slug":"more-rumination-about-rooting-my-desire-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/more-rumination-about-rooting-my-desire-hd\/","title":{"rendered":"More rumination about rooting my Desire HD"},"content":{"rendered":"

I still hum and hah about rooting my Desire HD.\u00a0 I used a Gold Card to take it off Orange UK and install the generic HTC ROM, but wonder whether rooting would make the Gold Card unnecessary.\u00a0 I have not really got a handle on what a Gold Card actually is yet, so am pasting my research here:<\/p>\n

androidtipsnapps.com<\/a> tells me what a Gold Card is:<\/p>\n

A GoldCard is a special SD card<\/b> which, when inserted into your device, allows you to flash RUU files<\/b> with a different CID<\/b> to your own device. For example, if you own a T-Mobile branded device, this will allow you to flash a generic ROM.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A bit of googling of CID<\/a> tells me it is Carrier ID, and xda-developers has two useful entries<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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CID<\/span><\/h4>\n

The CID (Carrier ID) of the device is a setting which determines which carrier ROMs should be allowed to run on the device, a table of valid CIDs can be found in the wiki pages. All bootloaders (apart from HardSPL and SSPL) will only allow a ROM with the correct CID to be flashed onto the device. A device which has been CID unlocked will have SuperCID which allows ANY ROM to be loaded onto the device, SuperCID also unlocks the Ext_ROM and allows it to be mounted. <\/p>\n

CID Unlock<\/span><\/h4>\n

Load any carrier ROM (in any language) on the device. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which leads me to suspect that I should be looking for CID Unlocking.\u00a0 Is that different from SIM locking?\u00a0 xda came to my aid again<\/a> but this does not tell me whether I need a gold card once I have rooted the phone.\u00a0 I then finally did the obvious<\/a>:<\/p>\n

androidcentral.com<\/a> suggested that you don’t need a gold card after rooting as did addictivetips.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I’m still left with the dilemma of whether to root it or not though. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I still hum and hah about rooting my Desire HD.\u00a0 I used a Gold Card to take it off Orange UK and install the generic HTC ROM, but wonder whether rooting would make the Gold Card unnecessary.\u00a0 I have not really got a handle on what a Gold Card actually is yet, so am pasting … Continue reading More rumination about rooting my Desire HD<\/span> →<\/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-346","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\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}