*** The Official HTC Desire (Bravo) Thread! ***
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Hi, i am also thinking of getting the HTC desire from mobiles.co.uk on orange Panther 30 24 month contract,website says that they are in stock.Does anybody know if these are brand NEW handsets because i went into carphone warehouse (part of same company),today to try and get them to price match and they said that they are probably refurbished handsets
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Both of our Desires in my household seem to be suffering slightly from the 'pink hue' problem. Weirdly mine only seems to be affected at minimum brightness, everything else is crisp white whereas my missus' phone is only slightly affected at medium brightness, and not at all at minimum brightness.
Is the shortage of AMOLED screens leading to slightly lower quality control? I might take my other half's one back, mine is just a free refurb from work so I can swap it anytime. Also as it only affects mine on minimum brightness I don't really notice it at all either.
There is a post here (with a pic stolen from Khaaan?
) showing the issue, mine isn't quite that pink on minimum brightness but you can notice it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7215597&postcount=198
Maybe something to be concerned about for those who are thinking of getting one.
Is the shortage of AMOLED screens leading to slightly lower quality control? I might take my other half's one back, mine is just a free refurb from work so I can swap it anytime. Also as it only affects mine on minimum brightness I don't really notice it at all either.
There is a post here (with a pic stolen from Khaaan?
) showing the issue, mine isn't quite that pink on minimum brightness but you can notice it:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7215597&postcount=198
Maybe something to be concerned about for those who are thinking of getting one.
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Soldato
ok this is probably the best place to ask etc
Should be getting the desire shortly as my next phone and the best price I've found is via o2 (I'm on o2) and from what I've read it just has branding on the boot loader.
I'm not a fan of the look of sense, think it looks good damn ugly, so the obvious option is to either try and replace all the sense apps/bits (not easy as it's integrated) with better options (launcher pro, k9, chomp/handcent etc) or do a custom rom replacement.
Now the first option is fairly straight forward, find apps, set as defaults etc but doing a custom rom is new for me.
Has anyone done a custom rom on an o2 desire and is there anything I'd need to be aware of compared with doing the stock model and any tips to make my life easier
Also which 'stock' froyo rom would people recommend, I've seen defrost, opendesire, leedroid mentioned here and I know cyanogen (highly regarded on nexus one) is working on one
Thanks
Should be getting the desire shortly as my next phone and the best price I've found is via o2 (I'm on o2) and from what I've read it just has branding on the boot loader.
I'm not a fan of the look of sense, think it looks good damn ugly, so the obvious option is to either try and replace all the sense apps/bits (not easy as it's integrated) with better options (launcher pro, k9, chomp/handcent etc) or do a custom rom replacement.
Now the first option is fairly straight forward, find apps, set as defaults etc but doing a custom rom is new for me.
Has anyone done a custom rom on an o2 desire and is there anything I'd need to be aware of compared with doing the stock model and any tips to make my life easier
Also which 'stock' froyo rom would people recommend, I've seen defrost, opendesire, leedroid mentioned here and I know cyanogen (highly regarded on nexus one) is working on one
Thanks
Soldato
Im on DeFrost atm, Will be moving onto OpenDesire when adam releases the 720p eneabled version (Within the hour... and that was a few hours ago 
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Soldato
ok this is probably the best place to ask etc
Should be getting the desire shortly as my next phone and the best price I've found is via o2 (I'm on o2) and from what I've read it just has branding on the boot loader.
I'm not a fan of the look of sense, think it looks good damn ugly, so the obvious option is to either try and replace all the sense apps/bits (not easy as it's integrated) with better options (launcher pro, k9, chomp/handcent etc) or do a custom rom replacement.
Now the first option is fairly straight forward, find apps, set as defaults etc but doing a custom rom is new for me.
Has anyone done a custom rom on an o2 desire and is there anything I'd need to be aware of compared with doing the stock model and any tips to make my life easier
Also which 'stock' froyo rom would people recommend, I've seen defrost, opendesire, leedroid mentioned here and I know cyanogen (highly regarded on nexus one) is working on one
Thanks
I'd seriously take a look at Samsung Galaxy S or wait to see if The Motorola Shadow is getting released over here
Soldato
Samsung has a tendency to not update roms, and their stock interface is just as bad as htc's to me, there's nothing wrong with the stock interface!! Also it doesn't have a flash and for some unknown reason, the UK version doesn't have 4 buttons like the US options.
Htc has a fairly solid community for new roms if htc doesn't do a new rom.
Motorola Shadow (the Droid X iirc) has a locked bootloader with encryption and hardware to brick the phone (need motorola reinstall) from what I've read which might make custom roms more difficult, milestone was bad enough.
Samsung has a tendency not to update ROMs? We have access to their weekly (they've actually been coming out faster) builds. They are working very hard on ROMs.
As for the lack of a search button, I think you'll find it isn't of much use and has been dropped by a few phone manufacturers. True it doesn't have a flash, but when has a phone flash genuinely come in useful?
The Desire does have a fairly large community, but with the Galaxy S and its variants being promoted very heavily worldwide, it won't be far behind.
I see the Galaxy S vs Desire decision simply as, samoled vs amoled/slcd and hummingbird vs snapdragon. If you like weighty phones to give an illusion of build quality, the desire is heavier.
As for the lack of a search button, I think you'll find it isn't of much use and has been dropped by a few phone manufacturers. True it doesn't have a flash, but when has a phone flash genuinely come in useful?
The Desire does have a fairly large community, but with the Galaxy S and its variants being promoted very heavily worldwide, it won't be far behind.
I see the Galaxy S vs Desire decision simply as, samoled vs amoled/slcd and hummingbird vs snapdragon. If you like weighty phones to give an illusion of build quality, the desire is heavier.
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Soldato
look at the old samsung phones, pretty much all of them are still stuck on what they started with, even if they did get updated they weren't updated as far as samsung said they would. It might be different with the new phones but it concerns me enough to discount the phone.
Neowin have just posted that Froyo for the HTC Desire is imminent apparently. Hopefully this means an update in the coming weeks!
http://www.neowin.net/news/froyo-for-htc-desire-imminent
http://www.neowin.net/news/froyo-for-htc-desire-imminent
Soldato
This is by far the most promising 'leak' of any sort yet.
Lets hope its true!
Lol indeed. That same news story has been fed around the various news sites in the last day or so quite nicely, I wonder what website has a story on it next
And of course, here's to hoping it's true....
Any ideas?
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Desire query... why did half my battery life get used last night while I slept :S
Did you have any APPS running in the background?
I used to use eBuddy for my MSN, and i found it totally rapes my battery
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Is anyone running Leedroid here on O2? I seem to have problems sending MMS on both our phones and I'm wondering if it's the ROM or something weirdly provisioned on our accounts as we both migrated from iPhones. I have the correct APN settings, it looks like it's trying to send (I get the H and the arrows) but then it says "Unable to send message, retrying - Generic network failure".
Soldato
So... should I stick with DeFroST or move to OpenDesire?