The Official HTC Desire Thread

[Mblaster]

Good news, thanks, good to know. Vodafone royally screwed all the winmo ROMs I've had from them, so much so that I stopped getting my handsets from them!

Yeah, I recently flashed my Dads HD2 from Vodaphone back to the standard ROM to get rid of thier 'additions'.

[marshalex]

for those interested in rooting their desire a guide should be released tomorrow
http://android.modaco.com/content-pa...pdate/page/60/

[Guppy]

for those interested in rooting their desire a guide should be released tomorrow
http://android.modaco.com/content-pa...pdate/page/60/

What is "rooting" and why would I want to do it?

[Rob_B]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+root+android

Then again if you're Australian I believe it has a slightly different meaning...

[Chris P]

Mblaster

Try the new Energy ROM for the HD2, it's lightning fast, integrates a lot of features and releases the extra phone RAM to 576 MB.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591784



* Use at your own risk

[Stringent]

Well mines been ordered. Stop gap phone.

[Rob_B]

Well mines been ordered. Stop gap phone.

Seems a pretty high end 'stop-gap' phone! What are you waiting for?

Oh and I'll have it off you for a fiver when you're finished with it

[Stringent]

Dell Lightning I think.

Add a few more digits onto that £5 with no decimal place and you might have a deal.

[Shooty*]

Thought mine had bricked this morning. Got some weird BIOS type screen, then a picture of the phone with a red triangle beside it.

Ashamed to say I actually got cold sweats.

Then took battery out and rebooted, and (touch wood), all OK.

[Rob_B]

Dell Lightning I think.

Add a few more digits onto that £5 with no decimal place and you might have a deal.

£005? Deal! The new Dells are very appealing, too far away for me though (2011?) I'll be deciding around July I reckon.

[AndyCr15]

What is "rooting" and why would I want to do it?

Rooting allows you (or apps) access to some base level settings/config of the phone.

For example, I've rooted mine, now I can use SetCPU. This lowers the clock speed of the CPU when the screen goes off (from 1ghz down to 300mhz for me) to save on battery. Why would I want the CPU going full throttle when I'm not even using it?

Thought mine had bricked this morning. Got some weird BIOS type screen, then a picture of the phone with a red triangle beside it.

Ashamed to say I actually got cold sweats.

Then took battery out and rebooted, and (touch wood), all OK.

That's the recovery screen is all. Did you have any other key pressed when you turned it on?

[Shooty*]

Possibly.

I'd put it under my pillow so that the (ironic, I presume) earsplitting noise which accompanies the "quietly brilliant" screen wouldn't wake the missus.

[AndyCr15]

I'd put it under my pillow so that the (ironic, I presume) earsplitting noise which accompanies the "quietly brilliant" screen wouldn't wake the missus.

Ha ha, yeah, my brother was pointing out that was kinda ironic... not so quiet. In custom ROM's they turn that off. Another reason to root

[Stringent]

£005? Deal! The new Dells are very appealing, too far away for me though (2011?) I'll be deciding around July I reckon.

Try some greater than 0 digits!

Doubt too far away, December in time for the launch of Windows Phone 7.

Got my Desire today. Its good, however a few odd niggling things, but it maybe because its new and totally different to what I am used to in a phone (old die hard Symbian).

But its slick. N97 already in recycling pouch.

[AndyCr15]

Its good, however a few odd niggling things, but it maybe because its new and totally different to what I am used to in a phone (old die hard Symbian).

Anything we can help with?

[Stringent]

Anything we can help with?

Just the way it wants things done, which aren't the way I would have done it. Same with any new UI, you have to get used to it. I did blog about my first impressions, and why I don't write for columns is because I go off on tangents!