{"id":352,"date":"2011-07-18T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/stock-rom-htc-complete\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T14:56:00","slug":"stock-rom-htc-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/stock-rom-htc-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock ROM HTC Complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I managed it. \u00a0I got the gold card working by<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>making a new one (which did not work at first);<\/li>\n<li>formatting it using the phone itself (not the card reader);<\/li>\n<li>rebooting by taking out the battery for a few seconds;<\/li>\n<li>switching on USB debugging in Menu > Settings > Applications > Development. \u00a0I have no idea which of these was the critical one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I now have a working phone on the latest HTC build and am checking that everything is operating properly. \u00a0It is OK so far and google immediately reinstalled all the apps I had downloaded. \u00a0I have hooked up various accounts and it is now just a question of remembering which icons went where.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have managed this trick, I wonder about whether I will ever need the gold card again? \u00a0Has the phone now fully escaped from its orange branding or is the Carrier ID still an <a href=\"https:\/\/orange.co.uk\/\">Orange<\/a>\u00a0one? \u00a0There is so little information about gold cards on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Later: \u00a0Found out from <a href=\"http:\/\/androidforums.com\/desire-all-things-root\/372413-gold-card-question.html\">android forums<\/a> that the phone has not escaped from Orange at all, and I should make my standard sd card in to a gold card. \u00a0I will try that, but I won&#8217;t know if it is working until I try to do an Over The Air (OTA) update&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed it. \u00a0I got the gold card working by making a new one (which did not work at first); formatting it using the phone itself (not the card reader); rebooting by taking out the battery for a few seconds; switching on USB debugging in Menu > Settings > Applications > Development. \u00a0I have no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/stock-rom-htc-complete\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stock ROM HTC Complete!<\/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":[],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-htc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","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=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}