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Can you make calls with it off?

If so, leave it off. I'm not sure whether it will let you send MMS though.

Yea I can make calls with Mobile Internet off, but I'm pretty positive MMS requires internet. I'm just afraid it'll rack up some nasty prices for unintended data usage. Any help?

So after countless freezing/crashing/locking up and formatting/reinstalling all day yesterday I seem to have the phone OS behaving itself laugh.gif Thought I'd bricked it countless times.

However booting into recovery mode is extremely temperamental. Screen locks up most of the time :/ Usually needs 1~2 battery pull outs then it'll boot into it. To be honest but I can live with that if everything else is behaving.

By the way now that I've seen how good launcherpro actually is compared to the SenseUI (you all knew it would happen :p), is it safe to flash over my current custom rom with another or is a wipe needed?

By the way now that I've seen how good launcherpro actually is compared to the SenseUI (you all knew it would happen tongue.gif), is it safe to flash over my current custom rom with another or is a wipe needed?

I would give a total wipe, this shouldn't be too bad though if you have saved as google contacts etc as they will restore themselves without even asking. Things like your apps if you use Titanium Backup it will also save your apps settings as well which is handy on some.

You moving to a vanilla 2.2 then? OD is pretty great, constantly updated and small patches that can be flashed over each other.

I would give a total wipe, this shouldn't be too bad though if you have saved as google contacts etc as they will restore themselves without even asking. Things like your apps if you use Titanium Backup it will also save your apps settings as well which is handy on some.

You moving to a vanilla 2.2 then? OD is pretty great, constantly updated and small patches that can be flashed over each other.

Hell no, OpenDesire! I tried it last night whilst getting frustrated at my phone constantly messing up but obviously it lacked Desire UI which I wanted at the time.

A wee quick guide for me to back everything up and what options to choose to wipe please? wub.gif Thanks

Hell no, OpenDesire! I tried it last night whilst getting frustrated at my phone constantly messing up but obviously it lacked Desire UI which I wanted at the time.

A wee quick guide for me to back everything up and what options to choose to wipe please? wub.gif Thanks

Thats what he meant :p OD - OpenDesire :shiftyninja:

Well backing up contacts is easy, just go to contacts -> menu -> import/export -> export to SD card (then when restoring import from SD card)

Backing up messages can be done with SMSBackup I think its called, from the Market.

Apps sometimes restore by their selves, but to be sure you can use Titanium Backup from the market.

To wipe, go to your recovery, press volume up & power & install zip from SD (should bring up the Clockwork Recovery (on mine it does anyway)) then the one that says factory reset (I can't remember the exact wording :laugh:)

Then flash the ROM by choosing the zip file from SD :)

Usually just updating a ROM (say OD 3.5.1 to 3.5.2 or whatever wont need a wipe, OD to CyanogenMod or any other ROM usually does)

Hell no, OpenDesire! I tried it last night whilst getting frustrated at my phone constantly messing up but obviously it lacked Desire UI which I wanted at the time.

A wee quick guide for me to back everything up and what options to choose to wipe please? wub.gif Thanks

Yeah OpenDesire is 2.2 it's pretty awesome, Launcher Pro is great and if you want some of the sense widgets just pay for the plus, think it cost me about ?1.70 to give People/Tabs/Calendar and Messaging widgets.

Get Titanium Backup from Market and then press Menu Button and choose backup all user apps. I've never backed up system data as never sure that restoring it might overwrite some important system files.

Boot into recovery (Turn on while holding the back key)

Then do a Factory Reset, Wipe Caches and in Advanced too.

Install zip from SD card.

If you are going with OD then you can install 3.6.0 and then 3.6.1 over each other without needing to reboot between them.

That's the process I do, Singh might pick up that i'm doing something wrong though.

Do you use the volume keys or the back key on the bottom of the phone?

Nah it's not that it freezes on the O2 welcome screen when I hit recovery. Now I have to go the process of constantly running unrevoked with the custom rom for SLCD till it finally lets me use the recovery option.

I can't unroot either back to 2.1 and do it all again because I'm on boot loader 0.83, and I have an SLCD screen.

I must've buggered something up when I first ran unrevoked without the custom ROM.

It's like a permanent semi brick that randomly fixes itself from time to time.

Okay bit more of a permanent brick :p Phone gets stuck in boot loop, and recovery isn't working.

I'll keep flashing unrevoked from a cold phone start to see if I can get it working. Most of the time though the application get's stuck on the "waiting 5 seconds for windows" at the end of the flashing as my O2 welcome screen locks up.

AmonRA also has an SLCD version I'm trying.

Is it really that easy to render these phones useless? I mean if the iPhone looses its firmware you just plug it into iTunes and do a restore. I know other devices also have basic boot facilities to at least allow the end user to install firmware. Bit like a BIOS on your PC I guess.

What do HTC do differently that end users don't when it comes to installing new firmware on a brand new device?

Followed the guide here with a goldcard and managed to unbrick it, take it back to 2.1 and debrand it laugh.gif

Thank the heavens, could not be bothered dealing with Phones4u in case they knew I'd been tampering devil.gif

Now do you guys recommend I flash AmonRA instead now that it has SLCD support?

Done a recovery from the menu (Clear storage) and it's still stuck in a boot loop with flashing android text.

Think I'm best to just take this into a phones4u shop and try get a return.

Yeah if it's that new just take it in and say it sticks in boot, chances are they won't be able to tell you've tried rooting it. I tend to find they don't know their arse from their elbow.

Followed the guide here with a goldcard and managed to unbrick it, take it back to 2.1 and debrand it laugh.gif

Thank the heavens, could not be bothered dealing with Phones4u in case they knew I'd been tampering devil.gif

Now do you guys recommend I flash AmonRA instead now that it has SLCD support?

I really don't have any knowledge on the SLCD side of rooting them so can't comment and wouldn't want to be the one that did :p

Up and running on OpenDesire now without any hitches. Recovery menu working fine as well.

I think one of my issues was updating clockwork in romanager. The newer builds still don't support SLCD, the current at 2.5.0.1 is user patched.

edit: Okay spoke to soon trying to get back into recovery to patch OpenDesire and it's locking on the HTC screen. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

edit2: Reflashed to Armon, it worked, probably just stick with it.

edit3: And now it's freezing on the HTC logo again for both normal boot and recovery.

Haha I give up...

Went back to MoDaCo, OpenDesire is too distanced from HTC/Sense.

I've got everything up and running how I want though :)

What's a good SMS replacement? I've heard handcent and chompSMS (which I believe is by the bitesms guys from iPhone who do a great job).

Maybe out of place but have to ask,

BTW just got my Desire yesterday

Is there an app to play music/movies stored in a separate HDD connected to Windows 7 machine over network

i am already playing the videos/ music through WDTV Live so just thought if I can do the same on my phone as well

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