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[Desire General] Pitbull_Raven:
Lol @ wife comment. No, seriously, I wouldn't say no to an iPhone, but given the choice I'd go with Android. Apple just gives you that "just works" kind of feeling that I love. But my Desire also gives me a "98% just works" feeling plus the liberty to do what I damn well please with my expensive hardware and software. Also I found it shoking someone saying that the Optimus 2x is slower than our Desires. I had one in my hands for over an hour and I swear to God that thing is fast, fast, fast! Can't wait to see what 2012 holds for us. I plan on trading my Desire in 2012.
[Desire General] vnvman:
Optimus x2 is faster for sure, anyway looks like (at least that's what i heard) many of the current apps aren't really optimized for new dualcores: most of the time only a single core is used, unless the app is very demanding, so at least for now it's hard to feel that huge boost in everyday use...i guess it's like it used to be with some older games on the first dualcore pcs, where you had to force the program to use more cores via driver, because it was made with singlecore architecture in mind...but obviously it's just a matter of time before we get our butts kicked way harder by new gen phones :D
[Desire General] danila27:
Desire is the best
[Desire General] neoghio:
The desire is the best thing I ever bought. the modding and tweaking is just great, thanks to all the great devs out there
[Desire General] PlayPetepp:
With such a huge development base there really is no need to buy a new phone, just change whatever you dont like on the desire and there it is :)
[Desire General] torqtech:
i love my desire :)
[Desire General] erklat:
Copy/pasting some are we? :p
[Desire General] tommo123:
the desire is the 1st phone i've had where i'm not aching to get a new phone after a year. i am in contract till november and will get a dualie then. ideally a refresh of LGs optimus 3D. what devs could do to the GUI to make use of that 3D screen ........ :D
[Desire General] Lmkt:
i don't know how you set up your ADW but mine is really fast, actually faster than go launcher or launcherpro...
[Desire General] tommo123:
i use adw too. that, on oxygen is the fastest setup i've had on the phone
[Desire General] DJ-Desire:
my desire runs real good with insertcoin rom
[Desire General] Pitbull_Raven:
Been on Oxygen HBOOT and Redux for last couple of weeks and must say pretty fast, but became unstable closer to the end now. Just finished flashing Alparev Stock HBOOT and RCMix. It's the damn eye candy! I keep coming back for more. And I'm just waiting on the Kingdom port to be ready and done with to move over yet again :p
[Desire General] cr1960:
I used to love my desire more until someone on this very forum pointed out that the OJ isn't in the absolute centre of the device :(
[Desire General] aaa:
welll...

Desire is the best phone in term of price, performance, and flashability, if you compare it with DesireHD, DesireZ, GalaxyS, and DesireS...(My opinion) Desire has no really big differences with those phone and it is cheap.

But you must bare in mind that there is one condition of getting a highly classed Desire and that is to have a really custom ROM (you can find plenty of those here in this forum), of course for that you will need root, s-off, and custom nand partition (at least root).

Without at least root, your Desire is already a little out-of-date at this point of time and you have to buy one of the new generation phones.

But beware of a new kind of addiction if you root your Desire!...people call it flashing addiction :D

...but I think I will consider getting at least a phone with Sensation specs next year after my contract period is over :D
[Desire General] Pitbull_Raven:
I flash so much I feel I'm Chuck Bartowski :D
[Desire General] Thermaltake868:
I love my desire, can't wait for gingerbread official and sense 2 to come.
[Desire General] tomoooo:
:-D (was ment to pitbull_raven's comment).
[Desire General] GladiTek:
Desire is almost perfect but only almost...
[Desire General] repel89:
One of the better Android phones I have owned... ;)
[Desire General] Pitbull_Raven:
I'm guessing you mean Sense 3, like the Kingdom. Has it been confirmed that we'll get Sense 3 with the new GB release?

Glad you liked it :D

I agree. I feel it lacks a few things. Among those is first and foremost the front facing camera. Of my previous 5 devices or so, this is a step down for me since all before had a ffc.

In my case, it's the best I've had so far since it's my first Android device, but I don't think it'll be my last.

I'll be honest here. I love my Android. I love the freedom it gives me. But Android still lacks in some departments where the Apple devices are so strong, even with the original iPhone. Namely in the media department. If this were a simple mid to low end device, I'd say, hey... you cant expect much. But Desire was meant to be a super phone. As such, I'd have expected HTC to deck it out with all the bells and whistles and not just spruce up the UI. I felt they should have done some tweaking of the Android software and maybe integrate some purpose built media players. I mean, my previous phone, the Samsung Jet... It rocked media! And was no where near the category of the Desire.

That said, I'll def go for another Android once this one passes on to the other side. Either that or an iPhone. Depends on how media evolves with Android. I't a big point for ppl like me that are always on the go, need to stay entertained when traveling, etc...
[Desire General] resadent:
Desire S is the only phone I prefer to my Desire, and mine has an AMOLED display. Even it today´s not the fastest phone, nor the biggest or the one with the best camera, its has such a large community that still keeps it alive. Love my Desire.
[Desire General] Gundam00qan:
HTC Desire and iPod Touch 4 32GB.

Best combination of devices I've ever had.

Now I need one of those snappy 2nd gen lappys and I'm content :)

I'm currently waiting for Nexus 3. Long wait but Desire will fulfil it's desire-ness until then. :rolleyes:
[Desire General] Pitbull_Raven:
The Second gen lappy and the Desire I have locked down. As for the iPod... himmmm... rather like I said. If they'd fix media for Android, wouldn't need a iPod, now would we ;)
[Desire General] ldn.still.hf:
I love my desire! it's beautiful, and here are so many roms.:D
[Desire General] Pitbull_Raven:
Wow boy. Calm down! Too much enthusiasm :D
[Desire General] Gundam00qan:
Actually my problem was the multi-touch. :P
[Desire General] Dany0:
I don't know where did you get that iPhone 4 is faster then desire. In my real-life experience it's much much slower.

I think that people are subconsciously thinking that iPhone 4 is faster because it's UI is GPU accelerated. Android's UI is running much jerkier because it's 90% CPU rendered. We should get a boost with Ice Cream Sandwich(I think it'll be 4.0 not 3.x; 3.1 is out already and it's tablet-only).

The reason is that android had to fill in the lower range too, and because the hardware in G1 wasn't mature enough, CPU rendered UI was actually faster and battery saving.

So yeah, iPhone 4 is slow. Really slow. I have no idea where you got it, I've seen it with my own eyes.

Also Optimus 2x is slower too. Tegra no tegra, it's about as fast as the first sense we got with desire. When it's lucky it keeps up with my desire. Even though it lasts much longer. I mean the battery of course.

BTW Chuck Bartowski isn't a geek anymore. Anyone else noticed how the special effects in the series went SO LOW and stupid in the last series? He hasn't flashed anything but karate and motorcycle for the whole series! I just think the whole series were like for rednecks or what.

And last thing - Gundam - do you think I should hboot to CM7 and flash Reflex S or I should stay with redux?

EDIT: BTW I have 512 EXT partition, is it enough?
[Desire General] Pitbull_Raven:
Ok, lemme start by saying that I don't wanna turn this into a violent political debate :D

That said, I know that the CPU on the iPhone 4 doesn't seem to keep up with that on the Desire. I also am aware of the GPU rendering you mentioned. Now to get practical, lets assume a non-rooted Desire vs a standard iPhone. If you pit them together, right out of the box, your Desire is probably going to win every single time from here till Sunday. But as soon as you start loading up the software, it get's to a point where the Desire starts becoming sluggish. I haven't had that issue with the iPhone. Now if we go rooted... That's a whole different ball game. There, it'll take longer for your Desire to start slowing down. Especially if you get Oxygen or Redux. But then again, you give up the eye candy.

All in all, if you use your phone as a phone, then you can't get much faster than the iPhone at this point and it's smooth feel. Now if you're gonna wack the hell out of it, play games, go media mad and stuff... yeah, you're prolly better off with the Desire.

I haven't heard anything about GPU UI for 4 yet. Is that info out there already? Also, it'll be out at some point, I don't doubt, but it'll probably never be introduced officially to the Desire and we'll probably have to go the way of the mod if we wanna get it on the phones.

As for the 2x, give it time and let the dual core apps start rolling in and then you'll see. And also let them optimize the UI and the GPU rendering as you stated... Then it'll blow you away.

Chuck will always be geek in my book. The damn writers and producers of the show are the ones at fault here. It's always the same crappy things now. No interest what so ever. I have given up on this series and am pretty sure it'll be canceled by end of next year.

I'd hboot to Oxygen and then flash Redux or Oxygen. Doesn't get much faster than that. And yes, 512 is enough. I haven't felt the need for more till this point and you can always gparted the hell out of it and expand later if needed. Just don't try to partition with CWM cause it'll wipe the fat partition as well.
[Desire General] fl3rry:
what means OJ?
[Desire General] fl3rry:
@Dany0

why dont i feel like my Desire is the fastest phone out there!?

tell us how did u set it up!?
[Desire General] Nitin985:
It means optical joy pad

Sent From My HTC sensation (desire with rcmix s )
[Desire General] jukyO:
True!

I simply love my Desire in combination with MIUIXJ X-PART ROM. Fast, non-jerky, continuously developing.....now on GB 2.3.4....
[Desire General] Pitbull_Raven:
I used to think that MIUI was "da bom" but now, after trying Oxygen hboot and Redux, I can't go back. It's just too damn fast compared to MIUI and also I can't live with the not being able to sort apps on the home screens by name or whatever. I like my stuff ordered alphabetically.
[Desire General] jukyO:
Pitbull_Raven, didn't tried that one, I'm still S-ON. Good to know, anyway.
[Desire General] Pitbull_Raven:
I recommend. If you stay S-On, then either MIUI or Sense ROMS are best in my opinion. This, of course, if you're after the eye candy. If not, You can still find leaner, faster ROMS out there.
[Desire General] bizb360:
my only problem with the desire is the battery life
[Desire General] Pitbull_Raven:
Stock ROM? I'm a medium to heavy user. I game on it and watch series when possible and use it for about 1 hour talk time daily average. OC'd on demand to 1100+ and it's rock stable. Using Oxygen at the moment but Redux gave pretty much same results.
[Desire General] jukyO:
basically, stability and speed which MIUI offers are quite enough for me, I guess I'll stick to it for time being.....
[Desire General] SilverHawk2:
I've had my Desire since the first week or so it became available last year. I was never before so satisfied with a mobile device. Over the months it got faster and faster: At first Android 2.2, later i started rooting and flashing custom roms.

Right now I'm s-off CM7-Hboot on Android 2.3/Sense 2.1 with Sense 3.0 Insertions (InsertCoin v30) The Device has more eyecandy than ever (animated lockscreen and so on) and is fast as hell. Way faster than most of the stock roms of Desire HD/Z, Incredible and Desire S (tested in various stores) Which is quite understandable, because it's basically an optimized rom from the newer devices. (I'm not talking about games, only userinterface, browser etc in general)

So if you want to get more out of your 'old' hardware-don't buy a new device, start flashing instead. Most of the benefits from the never devices are only software-wise, a better battery life is a nice result of undervolting as well!

The first time i saw Sense 3.0 I wanted the HTC Sensation so much....but after seening all the features ported to my device, there is nearly no need for a dual core. Everything is so fast and I'm expecting it to get even more speedier with icecream.

PS: If you want hardware acceleration, try the Opera Mobile Browser. Smooth as silk scrolling, it uses the GPU to render the webpages and enables flash as well....!
[Desire General] Dany0:
1.) Buy a better SD card.

2.) Complete wipe

3.) Flash a fast ROM. Redux, Oxygen, MIUI or anything around this. If it's based on AOSP it's going to be FAST. If it's based on CM7 it will be FASt. If it's based on Sense and some combination of the above it's going to be FAST but JERKY. If you want stability and speed go for pinkolin.

4.) Use only fast apps.

5.) Monitor app usage. 2 days is enough. You'll soon find out there are apps that take up 20mb and you never use them.

6.) Startup killer. I don't approve normal killers. Startup killer is the way to go.

7.) Accidently opened an app? Use hold back to force close - available on most ROMs.

8.) SWAP. Doesn't hurt, only helps.

9.) Move often used apps to internal storage, least used to SD card. Remember, balanced. Too much apps on sd cause slow startup and slower launcher.

10.) Use other tips here on xda ;)

11.) Prevent folder fragmentation. Just look into your sd card. DiskUsage app on market - recommended. You should see a lot of junk lying around. It's really good for gallery app.

12.) When we're talking about gallery app - use .nomedia. Speeds up a little. If too much has no effect.

13.) There are some apps on the market that promise to speed up SD card by changing sd card cache size. It works, kinda. Good if you have a lot of music on your sd card.

14.) Logcat live wallpaper. Use it for a day or two - and oh my goodness you'll see things!

15.) Setcpu. Minimum frequency 384(HUGE speed bump, EXTREME speed bump when unlocking sense ROMs/lockscreens) maximum 1,074 -1,13Ghz. Depends what's most stable for you. For me it's 1074 :(. <45% battery 285/1ghz. Turned off screen 285/800mhz.

16.) USE EVERYTHING. haha. Yeah in one run, load every app, every call, reboot the phone and do nothing for a while.

17.) When we're talking about booting... Don't reboot too much. Android likes to "stay alive". Look for rather stable ROMs.

18.) Alternative launchers. Seek for those that will speed up your access to both quick information and apps. Launcher 7 allows quick access to apps. Other rather quick widgets. Don't use too much widgets. Find the best for you.

19.) Once 3 days of non-stop(no reboot) run clear cache(the other one, not data) and kill google services and market.

20.) Don't use apps that often annoy you in the status bar.

21.) Download all browsers at once. Acquire stopwatch. Test. See? Compare to others.

22.) Sometimes, some gesture-based tweaks n apps are really speeding up the workflow.

23.) Acquire root explorer. Seek in the system. Delete some preloaded and never used apps.

24.) Facebook sucks. Kill it, with fire.

25.) Acquire some better keyboard. Test and you'll see what suits you best.

26.) Re-root. Wipe and re-root. There might be some junk in system lying around after the old root techniques.

27.) Spare parts -> fast animations. Looks cool too.

28.) No, you don't need this app.

29.) Watch out for when you need and don't need sync. You'll see for yourself, later.

30.) Once a few weeks delete browser history. Admit it, you do it anyways.

SilverHawk2:

Oh yeah.
[Desire General] Dany0:
bump if anyone's interested
[Desire General] erklat:
Interested in what?

I would kindly disagree with count number 9. It makes no difference where the apk is as long as dalvik cache remains on internal.
[Desire General] ronilzizou:
Cant wait for gingerbread to come out for the desire!
[Desire General] alexs1mmo:
Still happy with the performance of my desire almost 2 years on!
[Desire General] blossom:
I'm still in love with my desire
[Desire General] rophaq:
i don't know , all i know ,the technology is moving so fast, newer and faster processors ,and other new stuff that we don't know about, give it another year the desire will be a dinosaur, like all past phones we had in last decade.

it'll still work, but it'll look so slow compare to the new one that will come out in the future ( beam me up scotty) :D:D:D
[Desire General] lathanub:
I was sceptical of getting my Desire because the Desire HD was out but on a not so good network that I was fed up with. I ended up going on the much better network with the Desire (even though it had been out for a year already) and I could never look back. I love my Desire and must thank the lady at the telephone shop for persuading me that I would in fact love it.
[Desire General] will8578:
i just lost out by 2quid on ebay, buying a desire, would have been for 102 quid, im totally gutted, this phone is amazing
[Desire General] pavel54:
Htc Desire is still good a good smartphone but when you want to play even SGS not so new is really.better, when you use sgs2 for a while you will see smartphone wich is faster on all functions, electronic goes better and better really fast ;p
[Desire General] aaa:
Desire is still the best phone there is at this very moment.

It is obvious that the new ones can beat Desire easily with their performance but the current price of the Desire can also beat the price of the new ones very easily.

I am keeping my Desire at the moment and will not buy any other smartphones until next year :)
[Desire General] k-lin:
+1 Desire is great:)
[Desire General] will8578:
i have just got, what might asewll be a brand new desire of ebay for £150, it is my first android power phone, ie top of the range specs, this phone is so amazing
[Desire General] dgattenb:
1: this is a XDA developers site

2: You are in the desire section

3: your are writing in the desire section.

and you think the desire is not wonderful ??

next year , may sell it .. but .... it's a good phone .. and you can always keep it as a spare ... under your pillow ... mmmmmmm
[Desire General] Dany0:
Reading the OP after a year makes me puke... How could write so much mistakes in English...
[Desire General] Demonhotrod:
Haha, having just read this topic for the first time, this post deserves a good mention :) funny stuff
[Desire General] Rageypeep:
I love the desire, even after getting a one x, I still have my desire, and I'm really looking forward to flashing sense 4.0 on it when it's ready. :-)
[Desire General] swanden:
I am also waiting for sense 4.0 for my little baby! I hope devs keep on devoloping ROMs for the desire, I'm more or less stuck with mine for another year or so. But with awesome developers I'm sure I'll make it!
[Desire General] MetinKale38:
No new phone until my desire os dead ;-)
[Desire General] blade 84:
Me too! Although the One X looks tempting..
[Desire General] GraphicGoose:
^this :p
[Desire General] HTC Bravo:
Of course the HTC Desire is not the fastest phone now, but two years ago when I purchased mine I didn't thought that it would be so good. Nowadays with a cool custom ROM, the right Radio and Kernel is still quite competitive.

HTC did it right :D.
[Desire General] Desaf:
So which rom, radio and kernel would you recommend?
[Desire General] erklat:
I think you'll get the most accurate answer if you skip the part where you use a handy search tool, and open a whole new thread asking this?
[Desire General] tewei:
I will stick with my Desire as long as its still alive. :cool:

New android phones have many improvements but nothing too different tbh. (yeah the camera will be the major one, but its not that necessary for me)
[Desire General] Niekfct:
Went from Hero to Desire, the improvement is amazing!
[Desire General] sudkcoce:
Smart move. I would do the same, but the geek in me won't let me, I am afraid. ;-)
[Desire General] agismaniax:
i think desire cpu is good for the next one or two years, but not the gpu. andreno 200 is too old and too slow.
[Desire General] japestinho:
Yeah I agreed and need to upgrade the phone in couple months :)
[Desire General] Omcho:
The graphics are actually quite good in my opinion for casual games such as temple run. The desire is still impressing me as it started at android 2.1 and now you can use 4.1!
[Desire General] Mika83AC:
I think the desire is far away from being the fasted phone on market ;) But it still is realy worth the money i spend for it. It has a very active dev community which is really great! Even JB is currently in the development and already running in beta. Until there are hacks for getting the current android versions to my desire i won't by a new one :o
[Desire General] lolomolo:
i am using 4ext recovery parted sd-ext and dk_cool ' spazedog ics version with disk manager option on ... 110 apps installed, no lag (thanks god) or slow down.. İ am very happy with my new ROM..

I am just flashing my phone a new ROM by hitting wipe all &install but my fellows sees me as a geeky genious.. :)

How pathetic i am.. :p
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1ral:
Well guys and gals I recently recieved a used Dinc..

After months with out my other one *got stolen...retrieved it.. now Broke...

I got it for a good price..

Anyways.

I tried my old Nandroids from my SD card but to no avail didn't work *I knew this would happen, but it was worth a shot.

As we speak I am boot loop'n after I flashed Skyraider 4.0, and I am wondering how I can fix this.

I have been trying all night, I got it working only after I cleared everything.

Is there a way other than clearing it all, I want to keep all my apps in place and everything.

Is there additional steps I have to take?

Thank for your time

v1ral
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carngeX:
You won't be able to use any of your Nandroids because of the android_id will conflict. I would just use Titanium Backup to backup all of your apps, wipe everything, and install SR 4.0 fresh. Then install TiBu on SR4.0, and reinstall all your apps that way.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AEBobby912:
I just bought my Nook Color and im gonna put android on it soon. Is it possible to do the 1.2 update and then root it afterward. I watch youtube videos on how to do it, but not sure if I can root it with the new "froyo" update that just came out a few days ago. Im running the stock 1.1.0.....any help is appreciated!!!

P.S. i need to get a new SD card...i have a 2GB one that i can use, or should i wait til i get an 8GB? not sure if i need that much space or not.....im gonna use it for games and web browsing....THANKS!!!

Bobby
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nburnes:
Install 1.2 update. Read/flash this. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AEBobby912:
Thanks for the helpppp! im gonna try it...ill keep ya updated!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nburnes:
No problem man. Hope it works well for you.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AEBobby912:
Manualnooter help

Hey Nburnes! I bought an 8GB class 6 SDcard from ebay, so itll be here in a couple days(yay)...sooo the hacking starts soon

Butttt....I was looking over ManualNooter and it seems kinda complicated for me. Im good with phone hacking and understand pretty much most of that (i have an HD2 running Motomans 4G mytouch ROM).

And i understand most of all the steps for MN, except the SD card step. its step "3.CWM Bootable from SD Card: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=987735 - You should use CWM 3.0.2.8

•OR emmc CWM Recovery Installed"...i went to the link but im not sure what to do after i download my file(which would be the 8GB SD card file). Is there anyway you can help me with that? Thanksssss alot!