*** The Official HTC Desire (Bravo) Thread! ***

Jabbs said:
You must see smooth different to me as his roms lag slightly in live wallapapers as they all do.
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Well, its not quite perfectly smooth and it varies depending on what your phone is doing but its certainly a step up from the default ROM speed.
 
i tried that, which option should i use as the aspect can seem abit wrong with the android option and the sound tends to be ahead of the video.

It's a shame i've put some really high quality mp4's which look HD good but the sound is always ahead of the action =/
 
I've decided to do it once 2.2 stable is out. No point really doing it now only to have to redo all my settings again in days/weeks (if it comes to it!).
 
True that!

Ahmgsk and Richard Trip just need to plug a couple of minor memory leaks and fix up the Camera (fully), Bluetooth and Wifi hotspotting which should be some day during the week. (They are from XDA)

:D

Not sure what Modaco are doing :(
 
One very important thing missing from the ports so far... usb tethering (wifi tethering not working yet either).

I can't do without this... my phone is my mobile internet... that's why i'm holding off... but at this rate i'm probably going to hang around til HTC release a sense rom... am tempted to try a vanilla one though...
 
My battery life is still a bit pants, I have to charge every night regardless of use. I could probably manage 18 hours if with minimal texting/internet/musics, but it would be dead any longer than that.

Compared to my friends Desire (his lasts about 2 days with moderate use), I think I might buy myself another battery.. :(
 
The stock desire ROM is horrible for battery use. With a few apps you can easily get 2-3 days use from it.

Biggest drain on the battery is mobile data/wifi. Disable it when your not using it! Juice Defender is a great app, that can double or triple the life of your battery, if your phone is rooted get SetCPU, that be used to control the CPU speed on the phone. Instead of 1Ghz all the time, it can down clock the CPU to 245MHz extending battery life considerably.
 
I'd imagine the most common thing (obviously) stopping people Rooting their phone and flashing new ROMS is the Bricking Issue. <- Clicky

In short, it messes up your phone's USB connectivity software for the operating system. So for example, if your phone was "bricked", your charger wouldn't work when you plugged it in, or its USB functions.

However, if you are in the very small minority and it does brick, you can still use USB via FASTBOOT, and reflash on a generic non-rooted ROM, so you can return it without a problem for it to be fixed.

This means you might end up without your phone for a little while but it is by no means the end of the world, and HTC/the place you got it from probably have a good turnaround on these things.

There should hopefully be a fix coming for it, so if you aren't fussed, you might as well wait, but if you are really itching to flash Froyo on there, the worst case scenario isn't a completely dire one after all.
 
****! I swore I would never get another branded phone after getting a T-Mobile G2. Yet I jumped in and got the Desire on Orange, and to be fair, the branding is 10x worse than my last phone being called a G2 being apart from the rename, there was nothing different to a normal Hero (software wise.) It's shocking that Orange saw fit to replace Gtalk with 'messenger' and there is no way to get gtalk enabled other than debranding, and to debrand, we have to create a gold card, and it seems from reading some forum entries, that a there is a risk of bricking it.

Is it actually possible to brick the desire beyond repair?

BTW. Sorry for the rant. I dug my own whole, :(
 
divaboy said:
take it back?
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Never! I got a decent deal, I just felt like ranting a bit. Also, if anyone can advise the reason why networks decide to brand/add stupid apps that disable an integral part of the original OS ( as in Orange ad a 'Messenger app' which ends any chance of using gtalk.

I've had the phone 4 days, and I already want to customise it past the point that the market will allow. I will never understand why the networks feel they should dictate to you how you should use your own phone/contract


/Naïve :(
 
djmc0 said:
****! I swore I would never get another branded phone after getting a T-Mobile G2. Yet I jumped in and got the Desire on Orange, and to be fair, the branding is 10x worse than my last phone being called a G2 being apart from the rename, there was nothing different to a normal Hero (software wise.) It's shocking that Orange saw fit to replace Gtalk with 'messenger' and there is no way to get gtalk enabled other than debranding, and to debrand, we have to create a gold card, and it seems from reading some forum entries, that a there is a risk of bricking it.

Is it actually possible to brick the desire beyond repair?

BTW. Sorry for the rant. I dug my own whole, :(
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I think the bricking issue is to do with rooting it, you don't need root to update with official firmwares... you only need root to out user created ones on like mocado etc.

For updating with official roms, which is what I done, you usually need a goldcard if your phone is branded.

Making a gold card is easy... which is nice :)

Someone correct me if I'm wrong! Lol
 
MadMossy said:
The stock desire ROM is horrible for battery use. With a few apps you can easily get 2-3 days use from it.

Biggest drain on the battery is mobile data/wifi. Disable it when your not using it! Juice Defender is a great app, that can double or triple the life of your battery, if your phone is rooted get SetCPU, that be used to control the CPU speed on the phone. Instead of 1Ghz all the time, it can down clock the CPU to 245MHz extending battery life considerably.
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Thanks I'll give it a try :)
 
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