*** The Official HTC Desire (Bravo) Thread! ***
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The other thing is whether, beyond benchmarks, will this actually translate to a real world performance improvement or just a benchmark one?
As Khaaan! says, the custom roms are often quite fast anyway, even Leedroid is decent and that's still Sense based. Most of the things that seem slow to me are held back by the CPU (video decoding) rather than the file system/storage...well as far as I can tell, so it makes me wonder how much of an improvement this would really offer. Apps generally load quickly anyway!
As Khaaan! says, the custom roms are often quite fast anyway, even Leedroid is decent and that's still Sense based. Most of the things that seem slow to me are held back by the CPU (video decoding) rather than the file system/storage...well as far as I can tell, so it makes me wonder how much of an improvement this would really offer. Apps generally load quickly anyway!
Previous DATA2EXT etc mods were just inflating Quadrant benchmarks, ownhere says this new version isn't just that but improves OS performance all round because it's designed just make better use of the Flash Memory blocks and they way they can be better written to because you can't simply overwrite memory blocks on flash memory, they have to be erased first (hence the faster read speeds than write).
I think these mods will be out the window as soon as we see more efficient CPUs and GPUs come out. The LG Star uses a dual core chip and the latest videos of it running benchmarks are very impressive!
I think these mods will be out the window as soon as we see more efficient CPUs and GPUs come out. The LG Star uses a dual core chip and the latest videos of it running benchmarks are very impressive!
I think I came within a hair's breadth of bricking my Desire on Friday night (tell me if I didn't!).
I was in the middle of using UnrEVOked, when it hit a wall as I hadn't installed the HBOOT drivers. I was a bit confused as to what I needed to do, and then realised what was wrong. I forgot that I hadn't closed unrEVOked at this point, and the phone was still connected via USB. Basically, I installed the HBOOT drivers and as soon as they'd installed, the rooting commenced without warning. I wondered why my Desire had rebooted itself, so I disconnected it and realised very quickly that UnrEVOked was still running, and was forcing the phone to reboot. I don't think a plug has been re-plugged in so fast as when I realised what I'd done. Thankfully the phone was rebooting so it didn't get stopped mid-root, and was okay.
I was in the middle of using UnrEVOked, when it hit a wall as I hadn't installed the HBOOT drivers. I was a bit confused as to what I needed to do, and then realised what was wrong. I forgot that I hadn't closed unrEVOked at this point, and the phone was still connected via USB. Basically, I installed the HBOOT drivers and as soon as they'd installed, the rooting commenced without warning. I wondered why my Desire had rebooted itself, so I disconnected it and realised very quickly that UnrEVOked was still running, and was forcing the phone to reboot. I don't think a plug has been re-plugged in so fast as when I realised what I'd done. Thankfully the phone was rebooting so it didn't get stopped mid-root, and was okay.
i might try oxygen, can someone remind me its been a while. im rooted.
chuck the file on the sd card, then wipe, then update?
way i did it this time was full wipe, partition the sd card in recovery, removed the sd card place in card reader copy rom across put sd card back in phone boot to recovery and flash, if your just wiping you can do it the way you have stated
What do you remove the card and put it into a card reader for?
Just enable USB-MS mode in recovery (it's in AmonRA, not sure if it's in Clockwork) and it will mount your SDCard whilst in recovery, so it appears as a removable drive in Windows.
Then just copy ROM over and then disable USB-MS mode again.
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Yeah and as usual, everything running fine!
Probably as ive never seen that option lol, but thanks for the tip will save a bit of bother in the future
Same here, upgraded last night and all is well.
Robbie - how do I flash bravo_alphaspl-n1table.img? I've downloaded the file from the AlphaRev site but where do I enter the 'fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl-n1table.img' command?
Instructions are severely lacking on their website.
Cheers.
Cheers, thought that was the case.
I've got the SDK installed already. When my phone is booted up I get the device listed when I enter adb devices. However, when I go into fastboot my phone is not listed, although it does appear OK in Device Manager on my PC.
Anyway, won't let me run the command. Might have to try on another PC tonight to see if that sorts it.
I've got the SDK installed already. When my phone is booted up I get the device listed when I enter adb devices. However, when I go into fastboot my phone is not listed, although it does appear OK in Device Manager on my PC.
Anyway, won't let me run the command. Might have to try on another PC tonight to see if that sorts it.
OK, something weird going on then as I get 'fastboot' is not a recognised command error. I had problems with the Android SDK on this machine before (Win7 x64) when I rooted the phone originally. Going to try it on an XP machine and see if that helps.