Non-US/UK G1 Owners, Your Day Is Here!

Posted on February 22nd, 2009 in Android Hacking, Android News by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , , ,

Its now possible to downgrade any G1 to a rootable version!  All you need is a micro-sd card (Sandisk may not work) and a windows mobile device (sorry).  From there, you can create a gold card and bam, downgrade goodness!

Easy way (with WM device):

  1. Format the card
  2. Download QMAT
  3. Start QMAT and select Hardware Forensics -> Generate HTC Goldcard
  4. Select Dream, Click “Get SD Card Serial…” and then “Save goldcard image to wince card“.
  5. Copy DREAIMG.NBH to the root of sd (UK – RC7 recommended for our DREA110)
  6. Put the card in G1, hold camera button and press power button
  7. Press power button to start flashing

Congratulations! You are now running a rootable UK G1! :)

[from xda-dev]




3 Responses to 'Non-US/UK G1 Owners, Your Day Is Here!'

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  1.    Unk said,

    on February 22nd, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    Does making a “goldcard” (whatever that is) make any difference for those of us running a rooted RC33 build?

    If not, I’m probably not going to care but it sounds cool though =D

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  2.    Kenny Lasse Hoff Levinsen said,

    on February 23rd, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    Heh… read the text once again, and you’ll notice that it’s a way to downgrade DE/AU/whatever other non-uk EU phones there are… Anyway, good news for the germans… and others…

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  3.    g1 said,

    on February 28th, 2009 at 4:50 am

    You should mention that gold card method is only possible with the old version 4.25 (wich is no longer available) or a registered version (20 USD). QMAT decided to “unfree” this method. :-(

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