Procedure to Update HTC Desire HD with Cyanogen Mod 7.1 Custom ROM:
- First up you will need to Root and Install Custom Recovery Image in HTC Desire HD which you can do by following the instructions from the corresponding link.
- Once you are done with the rooting and installing the Custom Recovery image, you now need to download Cyanogen Mod 7.1 for HTC Desire HD Zip Package along with the Google Apps Zip Package in your computer.
- Connect the phone to the computer using the USB cable which you got at the time of purchase and then you need to copy these two files to your phone and ensure that not to any sub folders.
- Now, disconnect the connected phone from the computer and turn Off the same so that you can then enter into the recovery mode. Now, there are two ways with which you can apply this Cyanogen Mod update which are the Recovery method and the ROM Manager Method.
Recovery Method:
- The recovery mode in the HTC Desire HD can be entered by pressing the Volume down button and then pressing the Power button after which the recovery screen will be shown.
- In the recovery mode, select the option of “Clear Storage” which will clear off all the cache data which is there in your phone right from the junk files to the files which are created by the current firmware. After this you need to select the option of “install zip from SD Card” and select “Choose zip from SD Card” after which you will see many files which are there in your phone. Select the file which is named as “update-cm-7.1.0-DesireHD-signed.zip” and after that “gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip”.
- As soon as you select the files, you will see that the process of updation will commence and then the device will either be restarted or will again land up in the recovery mode. Just in case if you get the error of “E: Signature Failed” then that means that the phone is not rooted and you need to root the phone once again.
- Now if you land back to the recovery mode, you need to select the option of ”++++ Go back++++” option and choose the option of “Reboot System Now” to reboot the phone.
- So, in this way you have successfully learnt on how to update the HTC Desire HD with Cyanogen Mod update. Just in case if you were unable to update the device, you need to follow the below mentioned instructions to get THE Cyanogen Mod updated.
ROM Manager Method:
- Download the ROM Manager application from the Android market Place. As soon as the ROM Manager application is downloaded and installed in your phone, open the same.
- In the ROM Manager application, you need to select the option of “install zip from SD Card” > “Choose zip from SD Card” and then select the Zip file which is named as “update-cm-7.1.0-DesireHD-signed.zip” and also “gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip”.
- After this select the option of ”++++ Go back++++” option and choose the option of “Reboot System Now” to reboot the phone. After this the Cyanogen Mod ROM will be successfully installed.
- That’s it you have now successfully updated your HTC Desire HD phone with the latest version of Cyanogen Mod 7.1. Do let us know just in case if you face any issues in the comments section as we will try our level best to sort out the same.
