Help Rooting a HTC Desire

[sekhu]

So I tried using unrEVOked to root my htc desire but I can't as it comes up with a validation error: backup cid missing - in order to resolve it I need to do the following

This is a quick 'n' dirty guide for ADVANCED USERS ONLY.

Proceed at entirely you're own risk.

How to fix the validation error for backup CID when running unrevoked3.21...

adb shell
$ /system/__unrevoked_su
# cat /dev/mtd/mtd0 > /sdcard/misc.img
# getprop ro.cid
HTC__001