froyo for desire starts this weekend

Immsy · 3 Aug 2010 at 21:29

_Jimlad_ said:
that sucks, syncing the contacts with google if you have a google account is a must,

All is not lost I have done a manual sync and they have all come back so they must have been synced up to the google cloud at some point

Howard · 3 Aug 2010 at 21:50

Update for Orange branded phones in the next month apparently

kona786 · 3 Aug 2010 at 22:00

Did anyone notice any extra available RAM compared to Eclair (2.1)

box · 3 Aug 2010 at 22:08

iamtheoneneo said:
would help if you uninstalled htc sync and installed the correct drivers - which i bet £100 you havent done!

Care to expand..?

Word on the Vodafone forums is that those who've installed the disgusting Vodafone update today can no longer unbrand their Desires. :mad:

_Jimlad_ · 3 Aug 2010 at 22:16

Immsy said:
All is not lost I have done a manual sync and they have all come back so they must have been synced up to the google cloud at some point

nice one that would have been a bitch otherwise

LiE · 3 Aug 2010 at 22:22

tim80bwi said:
Care to expand..?

Word on the Vodafone forums is that those who've installed the disgusting Vodafone update today can no longer unbrand their Desires.

If the bootloader has been modified then it's possible you're ****ed

box · 3 Aug 2010 at 22:34

LiE said:
If the bootloader has been modified then it's possible you're ****ed

It would seem to be the case. :rolleyes:

I did find this post on the eForum quite funny though

Vodafone haven't made themselves any friends today.

Immsy · 3 Aug 2010 at 23:01

tim80bwi said:
Care to expand..?

Word on the Vodafone forums is that those who've installed the disgusting Vodafone update today can no longer unbrand their Desires.

This is incorrect. I installed it but have since rooted and put on a custom mod and am not branded anymore.

box · 3 Aug 2010 at 23:14

Immsy said:
This is incorrect. I installed it but have since rooted and put on a custom mod and am not branded anymore.

Well unless I'm doing something wrong, none of the ROMs work using RUU, and others are having the same issue after installing this update. Does rooting use a different process then? My ultimate goal is to simply end up with an unrooted unbranded HTC 2.1 (then 2.2) ROM on my Desire. Nothing more.

russ0r · 3 Aug 2010 at 23:16

Well impressed with Froyo. Updated yesterday, my battery life has increased by almost half as much again. Feels much slicker, internet is quicker even on EDGE.
Just a shame I had to root my phone to get the update on time.

Immsy · 3 Aug 2010 at 23:17

I used http://rootmydroid.co.uk/guides/desire/howto-root-your-htc-desire/ and installed the suggested rom from modaco.

Rimsy · 3 Aug 2010 at 23:33

tim80bwi said:
It would seem to be the case.

I did find this post on the eForum quite funny though Vodafone haven't made themselves any friends today.

When will these idiotic companies learn to stop thinking they know best and just let their customers make their own decisions?

_Jimlad_ · 4 Aug 2010 at 00:19

im with vodafone and debranded on saturday as heard 2.2 was coming sunday pm............SOOOOOOOOO glad i did

box · 4 Aug 2010 at 00:30

_Jimlad_ said:
im with vodafone and debranded on saturday as heard 2.2 was coming sunday pm............SOOOOOOOOO glad i did

_Jimlad_ · 4 Aug 2010 at 00:35

NICE

i only did it as i wanted 2.2 and very impatient, although having the flirt site bookmarked would have been nice, guess i will have to do add it manually

greeny_fastcar · 4 Aug 2010 at 12:26

LiE said:
Follow this guide to root your phone - http://rootmydroid.co.uk/guides/desire/howto-root-your-htc-desire/
Install the ROM from here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741775

Done using this method thank you.

rs1800 · 4 Aug 2010 at 12:30

LiE said:
Follow this guide to root your phone - http://rootmydroid.co.uk/guides/desire/howto-root-your-htc-desire/
Install the ROM from here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741775

Thanks for this post, that first link was great (made it easy) and I now have a working rooted phone with froyo

Only problem I had was it took a bit of messing about getting the HBOOT driver installed on x64

LiE · 4 Aug 2010 at 12:36

rs1800 said:
Thanks for this post, that first link was great (made it easy) and I now have a working rooted phone with froyo

Only problem I had was it took a bit of messing about getting the HBOOT driver installed on x64

I had the same issue, had to reboot a few times to get it to take.

rs1800 · 4 Aug 2010 at 12:50

In case it helps anyone to get the hboot driver installed under x64 this is what I had to do (copied from Modaco forum):

Open Device Manager, right click the ADB device and click Uninstall
Tick Delete the driver software for this device. and click OK.
Download USB Deview and open it.
Sort the list by Serial Number and look for anything with HT at the start (e.g. HT00GPL00000).
Highlight them and click Uninstall Selected Devices in the top left (looks like a recycle bin).
Unplug the phone and then plug it back in.
Open Device Manager, right click the ADB device and click Update Driver Software...
Click Browse my computer for driver software.
Click Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
Select Show All Devices and click Next.
Click Have Disk...
Click Browse...
Browse to your desktop and go into the usb_driver folder.
Select android_winusb.inf, click OK and then select Android Composite ADB Interface.
Click Next, when the Update Driver Warning appears click Yes.
If all is done correctly, it should say Windows has successfully updated your driver software. Click Close to finish.

This worked although I obviously used the modified driver instead

_Jimlad_ · 4 Aug 2010 at 13:29

why do you need these drivers? is there two diffirent menthods for rooting?