HTC Desire

[Bioran]

Any ideas whether the white version will be internationally sold? (I love it...)

[Guest]

Saw someone with the black one that Orange sell. Prefer the normal colour to be honest. That white one looks nice though.

[Sir Topham Hatt]

OoOo

Just waiting for Amazon to drop their price and I'm in there.

I bet they won't till October though :/

[Subject Delta]

I've also just read somewhere that having an ext3 partition can slowdown 720p recording? Any truth to this?

Usually even with Apps 2 SD, you still get about 2-2.5 MB/s on the FAT32 partition if you have a Class 6 card, more than fast enough

As for all the other people asking about the speed of the card: It doesn't really matter for general usage, however if you use an Apps 2 SD hack (EXT3 partition) it is a lot better with a Class 6 card

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Just got my 16GB Sandisk card in today, smooth transition over!

One thing I love about this phone over my iPhone, no paying stupid extra prices for storage and not being able to upgrade it.

?20 delivered (Y)

[Sethos]

An update was pushed today, anyone know what that was about?

[+John Teacake MVC]

Got this the other day just looks like a few small bug fixes.

[firebelly]

ok, just a quick question,

Is it possible to root but not flash a custom rom (LeeDroid, Open Desire etc) and remain on the Official rom that came with the phone

If not, is there a rom that have sense ui cooked in?

[Singh400]

Just got my 16GB Sandisk card in today, smooth transition over!

One thing I love about this phone over my iPhone, no paying stupid extra prices for storage and not being able to upgrade it.

?20 delivered (Y)

Just ordered my Class 10 Kingston 16gb (Y)

ok, just a quick question,

Is it possible to root but not flash a custom rom (LeeDroid, Open Desire etc) and remain on the Official rom that came with the phone

If not, is there a rom that have sense ui cooked in?

Yes. You can, just use Unrevoked. As for the ROM, you are looking for something like this.

[firebelly]

and can you please guide me towards a site/ guide which just shows how to root :D or should I just follow the steps in this guide and follow it till rooting? and then instead of custom rom load the nandroid backup???

[Singh400]

and can you please guide me towards a site/ guide which just shows how to root :D

Unrevoked is a one click root program...

http://tinyurl.com/29ynfft

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

DesireHD rom is up and running on the normal Desires :D

[Singh400]

DesireHD rom is up and running on the normal Desires :D

Not a flashable ZIP...yet ;)

[Subject Delta]

Paul from Modaco is working on optimising the Desire HD ROM so that it can fit on the Desire's internal memory without the need to install components on your Apps 2 SD Partition

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Excellent! Prices have dropped for the Desire and I hope will continue to do so as many people go for the DesireHD:

18 09 2010 - ?419

22 09 2010 - ?409

25 09 2010 - ?385

The further down it goes, the more value my contract will become in October. I may even look at getting it with a network as they will all be promoting the DesireHD, so may give me the phone for free on a ?15/month contract. But then the problem with this is it will have their branding all over it, I don't like that :/

[Pajter]

I'm starting to get annoyed with OpenDesire. Seems there is some small annoyance / bug in every new build. Apps that stop responding, wifi that doesn't work or is too slow, etc. In short, I'm looking for a more stable experience. OD just changes around stuff too much.

I do like the quite frequent feature updates with OD, so if possible I'd like a ROM that has this as well. Just needs to be as bug free as possible. Can anyone here recommend me anything?

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

I'm starting to get annoyed with OpenDesire. Seems there is some small annoyance / bug in every new build. Apps that stop responding, wifi that doesn't work or is too slow, etc. In short, I'm looking for a more stable experience. OD just changes around stuff too much.

I do like the quite frequent feature updates with OD, so if possible I'd like a ROM that has this as well. Just needs to be as bug free as possible. Can anyone here recommend me anything?

DeFrost is a better ROM with regular updates and IMO a better OTA ap (DeFrost setup).

I have used all the big name ROMs now and have always gone back to DeFrost.

[neo1911]

I am selling my unrooted, unlocked and unbranded by default HTC Desire for 249 GBP. It still looks as new. UK only. PM me if interested.

[TheElite]

DeFrost is a better ROM with regular updates and IMO a better OTA ap (DeFrost setup).

I have used all the big name ROMs now and have always gone back to DeFrost.

What didn't you like about Leedroid?

[andrew_f]

What didn't you like about Leedroid?

I've not used it, but I saw it uses Sense. That's enough for me not to use it.

OpenDesire seems fine for me. You're right by saying there's occasionally bugs but the update cycle is quick enough and painless enough that I can look over it because the rest is so good.

One thing I don't like is the cyanogen modifications such as music mod. Does anyone know if someone's maintaining a rooted nexus one rom that works with the Desire?

[Pajter]

I prefer not to use Sense as well. I'll look into Defrost.

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

What didn't you like about Leedroid?

I'm not too keen on Sense and since I use Launcher Pro it means I have no need for it whatsoever and since you cannot shut it off completely a Sense-free ROM is the best way to free up internal memory.

Plus LeeDroid bundles in apps that I don't want and I can't bothered to manually remove them each update via ADB.

And then there's the lack of bluetooth support for Wiimotes and so on.

[Singh400]

Plus LeeDroid bundles in apps that I don't want and I can't bothered to manually remove them each update via ADB.

Those apps are all commonly used apps hence why they have been added. But you can easily remove them without having to use ADB. Use open the the ZIP file with WinRAR navigate to data/app and delete the APKs in there. Job done.

[Guest]

I was using OpenDesire on my Desire before it broke. As for android being better for skinning. It is better for sure. But IMO it's maybe the only thing I like over the iPhone 4.

[gazebee_]

SK[' date=26 September 2010 - 20:32' timestamp='1285533141' post='593196276]

I was using OpenDesire on my Desire before it broke. As for android being better for skinning. It is better for sure. But IMO it's maybe the only thing I like over the iPhone 4.

The iPhone is much better for skinning with Winterboard... Android still has a way to go with making skinning a more intuitive process. Besides that, my Desire is great! I'm running Leedroid 2.1a but hoping for a fully functional and stable Desire HD rom.