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This guide is for permanently rooting HTC Desire running stock Android Gingerbread 2.3.3 . If you want to temp root then you can follow this guide.

Before starting please be aware that problems while rooting can brick your phone. While the process in this guide is relatively simple and easy, I cant be held responsible for whatever happens.

Enable USB debugging in your phone by going to Settings -> Applications -> Development. Plug in your phone to the computer.

Go to Revolutionary website http://revolutionary.io/ . From there download revolutionary software. Leave this browser tab opened. We need to generate Serial key later.

Extract the downloaded software on your computer and run the software with root permission.

$sudo ./revolutionary

It will tell you your serial number and ask for the beta key. Copy the serial number and go to the browser tab we left open while downloading the software. Put the serial key there, select your phone, hboot version and generate the beta key.

Enter the beta key in the software. In few seconds the phone will reboot and your phone will have S-OFF.

The software will ask you if you want to install custom recovery software. Chose yes. We want to install custom recovery software to do full phone backup called nandroid backup.We can also install custom ROM and do some advance task from custom recovery image. After you chose Yes it will download the recovery software from Internet and install it in your phone. The program will exit. Restart the phone.

Now before we root the phone, lets make one full backup of the phone using nandroid.

Power on your phone by holding down the volume button. Use the Volume down button to choose recovery and press Power button to go inside it. Your phone will reboot in custom recovery. From there use volume button to go to backup and and press the trackball at backup & restore option. It will do the full phone backup i.e. nandroid backup and save it in your SD card. Now restart the phone.

Now to root the phone download this file and put it in your SD card.

Reboot into recovery again. From there chose install ZIP from SD card
Select su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip that you just kept in SD card and click trackpad to select Yes.
Once completed reboot your phone.

Your HTC Desire (bravo) running stock Android Gingerbread 2.3.3. is now permanently rooted.

What to do after root?

• Install BusyBox from market for advance control of the phone.
• Install Titanium Backup to backup apps and remove unwanted/stock/ROM/factory installed apps.
• Install Market Enabler to fake SIM provider to gain access to different apps not allowed for your country.
• Install ES File Explorer and enable root explorer option to read/write in root partition, install fonts.