The Official HTC Desire Thread

[j.o.s.h.1408]

So after unlocking my phone (for free!) I finally decided to flash a custom ROM since I got my replacement handset months ago. Now a proud member of Oxygen crew (running Android 2.3). Tis brilliant.

gingerbread roms stable now on desire?

[Singh400]

No stability issues at all with Oxygen no.

[SiM]

I've been using Oxygen since day one and I would say you're better off waiting for the nexus ota before moving from froyo

[Stringent]

I use Ginger Villain. Brill ROM.

[Rob_B]

Can you Join HTCSENSE.COM on this ROM?

Not tried properly yet, on signup it asks you to choose the phone model, only the known supported ones show up.

[Rob_B]

Anyone having trouble with Swype on Gingerbread (Gingervillain ROM) ?

It works when tapping letter by letter but doing it the 'swype' way just makes the keyboard flash but nothing appears in the text field? A reboot sorts it but it soon starts doing it again

[Singh400]

Anyone having trouble with Swype on Gingerbread (Gingervillain ROM) ?

It works when tapping letter by letter but doing it the 'swype' way just makes the keyboard flash but nothing appears in the text field? A reboot sorts it but it soon starts doing it again

Is it a legit copy of Swype mate? If it is, try a complete clear out of Swype and do a fresh re-install of it.

Edit* And the Desire line has been "refreshed" and it is hugely disappointing

[Bunjiweb]

Anyone else having the restart issue when browsing 3G and loading intensive sites? Seems a lot of people are experiencing it and mine seems to have gotten a lot worse this week, with restarts and three vibrations which supposidly means its overheating!

Have done a factory reset, and gunna leave off the Task Killer and see how it goes, if it still has issues, mine's gunna have to go to be repaired :'(

Real Shame as I love the phone and haven't had any other faults with it until the last couple of weeks.

Ben

[Rob_B]

Yep, I wondered if I was the only one. Random restarts usually when in the browser or when leaving it downloading now you mention it.

Not overheating though I don't think... ?

Gingervillain 1.0, happened with 0.9 too.

[SiM]

If you are using a custom rom then restarts are most likely caused by a bug in the rom. (there is even a bug in official android 2.3 that causes random restarts/bootloops... think it might be fixed in 2.3.3 though)

[Stringent]

Anyone having trouble with Swype on Gingerbread (Gingervillain ROM) ?

It works when tapping letter by letter but doing it the 'swype' way just makes the keyboard flash but nothing appears in the text field? A reboot sorts it but it soon starts doing it again

I had this on stock Froyo. If you change the keyboard input to the default, then back to swipe, it makes it work. Its a known issue. I don't know if that would work for a GB ROM though.

[Singh400]

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[Pyr0]

That looks pretty good, is it the Oxygen ROM by AdamG?
Have you customized it, or does it just look like that after flashing

[cigbunt]

can any 1 help i jsut got a htc desire.. and im already trying to load custom roms

now i thought it would be easy as i have done simular things on other handset/consoles etc... but ive hit a brick all (ive searched all over the net spent hours trying to find the answers)

i followed a guide that used unrevoked3 which installed went through no problem.. i have superuser on my apps list.

by using unrevoked3 it installed 2.5.0.7, which is the recovery (please correct me if im wrong tyring to get the terminologies)

i can access clockwork by powering down my handset - power on then go to recovery it then loads up clockwork - so far so good i think?

now when i load clockwork i get this msg at the bottom of screen

ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.7
E:Can't find MISC:
E:Can't find CACHE:recovery/command
E:Can't find MISC:
E:Can't find CACHE:recovery/log
E:Can't find MISC:

is this normal??? i dont think it is,

now from here ive tired putting a rom (zip) on going to install from sd. no joy!
ive tired going back in to normal os and downloading - rom manager - to install but all it does is bring me back to the clockworkmod screen as above...

this is a brand new htc running the newest stock version of froyo.. 2.29.405.2

can any 1 help what have i done wrong - everyone says it easy.. lol

[cigbunt]

minor update but i managed to simunlock, root and load my gf wildfire all within 30mins using the methood above.

i did notice 1 difference when when running unrevloked, on hers it said had an extra step right at the end (somthing to do with the sd card?) so i dont think mine rooted properly..

could some 1 with a rooted desire link/email me the actual files they used?

[Singh400]

That looks pretty good, is it the Oxygen ROM by AdamG?
Have you customized it, or does it just look like that after flashing

Yeah Oxygen RC7.
Customized by myself.