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

No the phone boots back up, it does the first part and says on the flash recovery window rebooting phone, then its reboots the phone and says about the flashing part that's all that comes up.

When i have tried to use the new method it just says pushing recovery file and the phone does nothing stays on.

Had enough for tonight if i can't get it to sort tomorrow i will just stick a stock rom on if i can.
 
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Got my Desire today and already love it. It is far more responsive and easy to use than I thought it would be (never had a touch screen phone before). Tested the google navigation app and it worked really well driving around London :)

Any must have apps I might have missed? So far I've installed App killer, Astro file manager, Googly Sky map, myPlayer, and Shazam. Not got any paid applications yet tho.
 
Battery life seems to be getting worse. This is what has used my battery today. Only moderate internet, a few texts and about 20 minutes phone.

The other day I left unplugged overnight, and it was losing 5-6% every hour.

Am I expecting too much of this battery, or is something wrong?

Using pays Sparta and mcr kernel.

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Getting my Desire at the end of the week but the first thing i am going todo is flash the phone to a newer rom, i have gone for the open desire v1.6a with the blackbar cm6 0.2, are there any good/safe guides available for me to use so i don't brick the phone on my first try?
 
Step 1
Risk free root

Step 2
Permanent recovery image with EXT4 support

Step 3
Choose a ROM. I recommend OpenDesire 1.6x+ or DeFrost 2.xx+ as these are the most stockified ROMs with fine tuned tweaks thrown in. DeFrost has more features at present and continues to do so as Richard Trip updates it all the time.

I'm using DeFrost but have a Nandroid backup of OpenDesire 1.6a which I had set up virtually perfect in setup and speed. DeFrost runs exactly the same but with better battery life due to the undervolted kernel I am using. Both ROMs support bluetooth pairing for wiimote+extensions so you can play emulators et.

Install Launcher Pro launcher, purchase Titanium Backup too because it's amazing. Now you're complete for backup and restore with this and Nandroid in Recovery \m/

Step 4
In Recovery partition your SD card with 0MB swap, 512MB (or greater) EXT and then upgrade the EXT to EXT4 (within recovery).

This will put the cache to SD which frees up internal memory and move all apps to SD as well, a better implementation than Android's built in Apps2SD. No need to do anything once the SD is partitioned, the ROM does everything in the background.

Step 5
EIFFEL TOWER!

 
Depends, nandroid your r21 and try the others out. They sport some other features and of course don't use HTC's framework so all bluetooth stuff works for pairing controllers and so on.
 
chippie said:
Battery life seems to be getting worse. This is what has used my battery today. Only moderate internet, a few texts and about 20 minutes phone.

The other day I left unplugged overnight, and it was losing 5-6% every hour.

Am I expecting too much of this battery, or is something wrong?

Using pays Sparta and mcr kernel.
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I had the same problem the other day also using Sparta and mcr kernal but im convinced it was an app that had used my battery power up, i also noticed on the same day i had used 3.5mb of data down and 5.5mb up :eek:
what the hell would be sending 5.5mb of date from my phone during the day.

I uninstalled the last couple of apps id put on and its been fine over the last few days...touch wood.
 
Sorted it used these instructions below from the link below but i pasted them in here. I followed section 4 and it worked instantly strange.

http://android.modaco.com/content-p...very-image-with-unrevoked/page/-20/#entry1339


Windows: (Thanks to BlackLine7)

1) Install the HBOOT driver (take a look at the guide in the zip you just downloaded)
2) Unninstall HTC Sync (leave HTC Driver Installer)
3) Reboot
4) Take your Desire and go to Settings - Connect to PC - Default connection type - Disk drive and remove check from Ask me
5) Connect your Desire
6) Start the reflash.exe in Admin mode
7) Wait (it should take about 1-2 minutes)
8) Done
 
chippie said:
Battery life seems to be getting worse. This is what has used my battery today. Only moderate internet, a few texts and about 20 minutes phone.

The other day I left unplugged overnight, and it was losing 5-6% every hour.

Am I expecting too much of this battery, or is something wrong?

Using pays Sparta and mcr kernel.

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funny, my phone is stock as i bought it from the shop, and the battery life goes opretty quick!, i need to charge it ever 1-2 days :confused:
 
Just installed pays 2.3 seems pretty nice, no 720p video but it doesnt really bother me that much.

*edit* and my parrot syncs properly with contacts now, something it wouldnt do on other 2.2's with sense which was odd

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ShiWarrior said:
funny, my phone is stock as i bought it from the shop, and the battery life goes opretty quick!, i need to charge it ever 1-2 days :confused:
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Charging every 1-2 days is good, and normal for a smartphone.

I struggle to get 18 hours from a full charge, even with light use!

Cell standby does seem really high though. What percentage are others getting for that?
 
I personally found the sparta roms to use heavy battery i only really noticed this when i changed to Pays desire sense roms and my battery life got way better.
 
Messed around with it a little :) installed launcher pro and its a little cleaner now think i might stick with it for a while as i like the icons on the top of screen is there a app to install these on other roms such as OD1.6b?

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Where do you lot get all your android info from? regarding roms etc and guides for it?

And, is there an android based Desire beater coming out in the next couple of months, preferably with qwerty keyboard?
 
Possibly a very daft question. What are the benefits of rooting your phone and using a custom rom?

Tempted to do it tonight when I get home but was wondering, apart from the apps2sd, why I should.
 
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