yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Sensation] ganeshp:
Hey can you try flashing recovery again?

I'll give you the recovery img

Here http://db.tt/VTKmP0lQ

Extract the recovery.img from the zip to the adb folder you have

Also make sure you have usb debugging on (doesn't matter for fastboot commands but for safe keep)

Now connect your phone to pc.. With phone in bootloader (phone should read fastboot usb after that.. If it's not and if it reads hboot.. Then use Vol up/down and power button to select fastboot from the options displayed in hboot and enter it)

Now type this command

fastboot devices

The above command should show your device listed... If not please do the connection properly

Now to flash recobert

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

If the above failed please post back the output

Also if you just want to root the device without having recovery there is a method... Please check my soff guide (link in my signature) which has one click root tool.. (you might need to run it again though if it fails first time)

Sent from my pyramid.. Through blazing fast sonic waves
[Samsung Infuse 4G] demonspork:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1251634

is a huge list of them. my favorite is the Tardis in flight.

Just posting this here so that people looking for bootanimations will know that they can use them from any phone with wvga 480x800 screens
[Samsung Infuse 4G] seano666:
I can't believe no one has commented on this man, these are awesome! Thanks a lot!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Mista Panda:
Goood find bud, I'm using a few now testing on Dlev's ROM
[Samsung Infuse 4G] blktalon456:
I assume to use this it needs to be rooted.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kinubic:
will these fit on the AT&T version?

http://www.gelaskins.com/store/phones/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II/collection/Most_Popular/pg/1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] axis01:
Yes they will fit but they cover up the noise canceling mic. You can modify it to work by cutting out the area for the mic.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] djoutrages:
These will not fit, these skins are made for the international version of the s2 which features the home button as opposed to the capacitive button set of the at&t model.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roadrash7:
Those are weird. I justgot my case finally from amazon its for the international but fits perfectly, just had to cut the whole for mic actually i melted the whole with a hot nail...perfecto
[General Topics] zadnica:
Samsung and Google postpone Ice Cream Sandwich and Galaxy Nexus
[General Topics] Klk450:
Honestly... I think that's pretty stupid. No one told them, that it would be disrespectful if they did... it's just a phone for god's sake.
[General Topics] solesonfire:
not a big fan of the samsung but on the other hand i just wanted to see the damn thing already
[General Topics] Machtgelust:
Oh wow. Disrespectful how? It's probably just me but I find the mentality somewhat arrogant.
[General Topics] MailenJokerbell:
Although I was excited, I think it was a good choice to postpone it.

People are really sensitive over the smallest things (though this one wasnt small) so it's better to not give people reasons to rage on.
[General Topics] bleach168:
My guess is that Google and Samsung were going to launch into a full frontal attack on Apple and the 4S comparing it feature by feature. They didn't want to pour salt in the wounds.
[General Topics] cttttt:
It could also have been to allow Samsung/Google execs to attend whatever arrangements were planned post Jobs' passing.

Who knows?

Pretty interesting coincidence that all the leaks came out of the woodwork a few days ago, though. I wouldn't be surprised if those were an intentional 'we aren't stalling...for realz.'

- chris
[General Topics] mizz lia:
I kinda knew they were going to postpone it
[General Topics] punshkin:
...you sure did...
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Hey guys,

I've seen the chromed Desire HD on the XDA front page and thought it was totally awesome. So i did it with my own phone too, but i wanted something extra, so i've also painted some stuff.

And maybe some more people want to do it but don't know how.. That's the reason i've made this short tutorial :D

And also post your own results in this topic :D

Let's start the pimping:

First up is removing this little sticker and pull out the volume button thingy with some tweezers or a small screwdriver

The next step is removing the GPS antenna. This is the small rubber piece that also holds the plastic glass for the dual LED's.

This is a hard piece to remove and i don't have pictures of this procedure. But i think the best way is to carefully open/push away the 8 plastic pins on the sides of the rubber with a sharp stanley knife. I started at the top and went round the entire think. Slowly it will pop out of the body.

Then you have to remove 5 screws with a small skrewdriver thing. I tried some of mine until one fitted. Don't know witch size it is exactly.

After you've removed the 5 screws you can carefully remove the body from the phone. You have to tilt it a little bit because the light sensor (the most right dot at the side of the speaker grill) is a little bit sunk into the body.

The next step is to remove all the small little pieces from the aluminium piece.

The camera cover has 4 little metal taps that you have to fold a little bit to the inside, then it will fall out of the body.

The other 3 things are easily to remove, their held in place with some double sticky tape stuff.

Now it's time to sand the thing until you've got the result you want. I didn't want to have it really shiny so i stopped when i got a nice brushed look. But if you want to have it shine you just have to keep sanding (up to grid 2500).

I've started with a sandpaper with grid size 200. After all the paint was gone i've wet sanded with 400 and after that 800. These are my results:

When i was sanding i noticed the HTC logo letters were falling out :P

I removed them. After the sanding I've painted them black with a very fluid paint so it will fill up the gap nicely. The excess paint you can easily sand away with grid 800.

In the meantime when the paint had to dry i roughened up the surface of the small pieces and prepared them fore a paint job.

After two layers of standard spray paint (color mat traffic red) i noticed i didn't like the red speaker grill. It was just ugly. So i've sanded the paint off of the piece and painted it black :)

The next step would be to glue the small pieces back on the body. I don't know exactly what glue it was. But it's glue that is pretty fluid and dries up pretty quickly. The English translation would be 'secondglue' :P but i don't know that's the right description ^^

Have fun modding your Desire HD and show me your results :D :cool:

Regards, Bas ;)
[Desire HD General] DubelBoom:
wow very nice!!

but if ill do it, i know ill kill my phone :P
[Desire HD General] robinmobile:
Mind blowing dude..... But you should upload more pics of the finished work....
[Desire HD General] rakinisbat:
W0W! This will take my phone to a whole another level, I Will be doing this very very soon, next month,
[Desire HD General] Kevxify:
so wickedly nice!!!

*drool*

hope i got the guts to do this....

kinda curious how you remove the LEDs?
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
What led's do you mean?

And i'll shoot some pictures now ;)
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
New pics are online! :cool::cool: Check first post ;)
[Desire HD General] gemini44:
nice mods. thanks for good work. keep going ;)
[Desire HD General] *se-nsei.:
Extremely cool - looks like it would suit the HTC Beats by Dre™ line perfectly. :)
[Desire HD General] Targox:
wow, looks great, nice work man!
[Desire HD General] rakinisbat:
How did you paint the small parts. I means what type of paint.
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Please don't quote the entire first post :p

But i used a normal spray paint can? (don't know how you call it exactly in English)

The color was traffic red :)

And thanks for all the nice replies :cool:
[Desire HD General] dhruv.arora25:
Kick ass...! :D
[Desire HD General] guiltyundertaker:
Wow! Very nice...
[Desire HD General] Paradoxxx:
Awesome.

Sent from HydrOG3N MOD DHD.

Technology Evolves, Android Evolves.

HydrOG3N is THE Revolution.
[Desire HD General] vladutz2007:
wow nice u are unique :D
[Desire HD General] a33a:
WOW! To take it to the neXt level, you should order custom metal battery doors and SIM card covers. haha that would be awesome.
[Desire HD General] Zeus20:
Awesome

i want that for my desire hd but to scared to ruin the parts on the inside of the phone. should you cover the inside of the phone with cellophane or ceran wrap so no dust gets in?
[Desire HD General] ineser:
Woah I wouldnt even dare to do that.

Now your DHD looks cool!
[Desire HD General] zdjaib:
you are fanstastic, man!
[Desire HD General] SazzGuy:
It's pretty cooll :)
[Desire HD General] michoscopic:
Absolutely beautiful. Have been looking for a solution to the lame grip due to the sandpaper-like original metal feel. Thanks for this!
[Desire HD General] serzenus:
nice one, keep up the good ideas and work..
[Desire HD General] picoroma:
Me too ! :)
[Desire HD General] HTC-FoX:
looks nice :good:
[Desire HD General] Abhitha:
omg I'm going to do this with my phone over the summer, that looks amazing! :)

great work! :)
[Desire HD General] tendersong:
Wow~~ this is really impress me. It's so COOOOOL~~
[Desire HD General] festisen:
you did a great job :good:
[Desire HD General] s0geking:
Congratulation!!!It is beautiful!!!:good:

Just have a htc sensation. Maybe i will test your customize on my old DHD.
[Desire HD General] smartumer:
Oh wow. This looks amazing man...
[Desire HD General] dex willer:
i ve got my brand new set of back cover shell case and side cases. i will try someting on weekend and post here the results. thx for the inspiration.
[Desire HD General] Nutella_Kid:
Well that looks awesome.. gonna try that on my mom's mobile, maybe as a Christmas present...
[Desire HD General] NiCk.JaY:
If I use too many scripts, it breaks the ROM.
[Desire HD General] Mafia80:
Nice!

do you use the varnish or some sort of cover the Al?
[Desire HD General] dex willer:
My pimpin

here is my work.

only broken thing is me thumb and my volume down key :laugh:

i used 400, 320, 200 sandpaper, standart sprey paint and some glue to re-attach buttons to cover shell..

sanding is the most diffiuclt part of all.
[Desire HD General] RYKWEST:
Very good, but the finish was better with Scotch Brite Pad. ;)
[Desire HD General] espmartin:
Wow, nice work in pimping out our Inspires!
[Desire HD General] PowieT:
now you have to go and find a company that chromes plastik :p
[Desire HD General] dex willer:
actualy i like the way that looks... but i have a doubt about the aluminum become blackened by the time.
[Desire HD General] dex willer:
tnx for the tip ;)
[Desire HD General] Rawrden:
That looks awesome! To be honest i've become bored of my phone its looks but i'd rather wait until my contract ends so i can mess it up without breaking it and having no phone at all.
[Desire HD General] malakagr:
AWESOME:good::good::good:
[Desire HD General] Sheepsi:
looking goooddd

how did you spray the speakers without the spray get inside it?
[Desire HD General] dex willer:
you need to apart the speaker grill from the cover shell, spray it, then reopen the painted holes with a neddle.
[Desire HD General] i8890321:
lol. off topic my vol button is broken, can i fix it manually like the steps you've shown?
[Desire HD General] Zupy1:
Nice work - i have one old housing - maybe i will try too :laugh:
[Desire HD General] faizal ali:
What an art :thumbup:
[Desire HD General] DoLetMeBe:
Kewl stuff!
[Desire HD General] quantaZ:
awesome looks brilliant

maybe try it myself to get a new phone
[Desire HD General] dbgurudk:
So cool.....
[Desire HD General] Grady22:
cool man .. but the phone has been affected in some way?
[Desire HD General] lccc37:
Really cool~~speechless
[Desire HD General] denwathappened:
Thank you for this one! I just pimped my dhd and now, it looks better than the old look of dhd. No problems met after doing this. Just follow the steps:D

Sent at RWY 06, MNL Int'l Airport
[Desire HD General] tommy_xuyijun:
Amazing job~ Looks like some recently released HTC phone.
[Desire HD General] Meowing Byakuei:
Odp: [TUTORIAL] Pimp your Desire HD!

Hmmm... Thinking about Storm Trooper DHD....
[Desire HD General] anonymous007:
Can you make a video of the tutorial?
[Desire HD General] ankitrb:
Now thats what you cal pimping
[Desire HD General] MiikO:
Well, I take for my DHD :) Well done: D
[Desire HD General] LikssOn:
nice...
[Desire HD General] stealth09:
must have taken ages to do that lol
[Desire HD General] daozen:
ffectsu thods

wow its awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Desire HD General] superbeast_87:
Great writeup! Might experiment with mine now.
[Desire HD General] adrenalinas:
My volume down button is not functioning properly too. it is very hard to get volume down. I need to press it very hard. would like to fix it as it is very annoying.

---------- Post added at 10:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:54 PM ----------

I have heard that it is possibility to pollish till mirror effect with tooth paste... never tried myself :)
[Desire HD General] tomerFire:
Very nice! enjoy your DHD.
[Desire HD General] *yiannisl*:
Wow! Amazing Job! :)

Well Done!:good:
[Desire HD General] deagle_alin:
It's true, but need to spray a clear coat if you want last longer effect.

Car polishing paste its better than tooth paste.
[Desire HD General] ekadarma:
+1. Maybe better you can chrome that case. I want do that, but still afraid.....
[Desire HD General] shark_max:
Awesome.. It's like giving a plastic surgery on an old woman.. Beautifull but still the inside keep beeing old...

Want it *___*
[Desire HD General] guojeff1:
W0W! This will take my phone to a whole another level, I Will be doing this very very soon, next month,:o
[Desire HD General] nsdapm27:
ceasuce master

Any screen shots
[Desire HD General] joaon:
Yeah screenshots are down... can you please repost?
[Desire HD General] iamdofus:
My volume up button is not functioning properly :confused:
[Desire HD General] FusionX3:
I can't see the pics :(
[Desire HD General] GonzoKSV:
Pretty cool thread. That's what I'm searching for! Thank you!
[Desire HD General] jsmith203344:
Nice post:highfive:
[Desire HD General] 623baller:
oh man, wish the pictures werent down , wanted to see what it looks like
[Desire HD General] -SmOgER:
Google still has em:

http://goo.gl/k67bQ

first 4-5 pics.
[Desire HD General] xChr11s:
wow, now i have the best tweaked phone in my town !!! Pics will follow next year (;
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
I've taken the entire phone apart so no need to protect the stuff.
[Desire HD General] maxbluelake:
AWESOME!

Holy cow, that really is one beauty. Only reason stopping me from doing that is the fear of destroying my phone :/ **** happens when i disassemble my phone :D
[Desire HD General] Grant Barker:
Very cool. It looks nice.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Good job!
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
I read that allot, that people are scared to destroy their phone. But just take the time, and their isn't that much to destroy :P

Just handle it with care ;)
[Desire HD General] joschi1985:
Wow this is awesome!!! Nice guide! i wouldn't chrome it. but good to know how to oper up this whole construction so i can clean it and adjust the power button properly! Thx
[Desire HD General] roniellee:
All i can say is WOW! :))
[Desire HD General] ajay86:
Chromed DHD

Here we go IRON DHD :)
[Desire HD General] desmolab:
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Are you using some transparent case to protect it?

And after this work is the body of the phone less resistant to scratch?!

However AMAZING work!!!!!!
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Because i've removed the though paint coating it's now pretty easy to scratch the body.

And i'm using a leather pouche with a pull cord thingy :p
[Desire HD General] HACKDROID_X:
it does look good but i would really like to put the inspire 4g RED housing on my dhd ,has anyone seen the red inspire? i really think it looks good . do you think its exactly the same and would fit? red isnt for everyone but i like it.

if i do get round to doing this i will remove all the paint of the stock dhd housing and then go for a full respray with some crazy pearl or candy paint with metal flake etc like some do on their cars if you know what i mean ,you might aswell if are going to take it all apart and its only a small peice so it wont cost much
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
The full repaint might look totally epic :cool:

But i really don't like the red inspire 4g. Too much red :p

And i think it should fit, it's the same phone, accept it has another name.
[Desire HD General] losoloso:
looks vry vry great
[Desire HD General] PXeuda:
dude...the red color looks awesome, i think i will try it out.
[Desire HD General] crazyjc81:
Sweet man ! The red highlights are pretty cool !
[Desire HD General] rageeed:
Thats amazing :D

Good work!
[Desire HD General] GoBLiN_2169:
Sweat :) look awesome
[Desire HD General] Elvara:
that's a nice job but something I would try i'll probably brake something. Can you buy the metal case you unscrewed? I saw the battery cover and the antenna, sim cover but nothing else.
[Desire HD General] Oli28:
Omg that looks absolutly awsome!!! Have to try :d :d
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
I don't know if you can buy a seperate metal case but you could buy a full new housing with everything included.
[Desire HD General] HellRa1SeR:
Awesome!! :D
[Desire HD General] TUN_SD:
very stylish!!
[Desire HD General] zahir.dk:
Awesomeeeeeeeeeee

This no doubt is AWESOMEEEEEEEE... Wanna try this out bt afraid of messing up with the phone... I so much wanna do this after watching what u have done... Tis is just Awesomeeeeeeeeee...... Red looks sexyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
[Desire HD General] oradul:
after I return from Greece, I am going to do the same.

but I will leave the cover as it is and only paint the buttons and grills gold ( including the htc logo on the back cover ).

I think that will look great ( also I love the color gold ).

one question, what paint did you use for the buttons? traffic spray in not something I can buy in any store ( if any ) and I dought the clerk will know what I am talking about.
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
The paint is just a normal spray paint can thing.

The color was traffic red ;)
[Desire HD General] Oli28:
Does the color hold on this? Also w?hen its wet and u use it a lot
[Desire HD General] DexterMorganNL:
You should give those dark brown plastic parts also a suiting color, because it doesnt suit with the silver color your dhd alu body has now.
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
It holds on very good. Accept for the volume rocker, i've got 3 blank spots there, but thats not that big of a deal.

I think it actually looks pretty nice this way. Maybe if they were black it would look better, but i think i've put enough work in this phone. In 1 year i'll buy a new one and start modding that one :P
[Desire HD General] butman0:
Wow, nice work!
[Desire HD General] Ditti4:
When my phone is out of warranty I'm gonna steal your Theme. :P

Nice work, bro.

You haven't done a video, have you?
[Desire HD General] mateusm:
JOB

WOW!

Thumbs up :)
[Desire HD General] Oli28:
does everyone know if the housing of the inspire fitts with the dhd?
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Haha, thanks :P

Nope, i've not made a video. Maybe i will when i mod my next phone ;)

Thanks guys :D

I think it should fit perfectly.

It's the same phone, but with a different name.

It would probably be too expensive to redesign the inside of the metal case.
[Desire HD General] Eshi:
Looks really great! ;)
[Desire HD General] Oli28:
cool could buy something like that www.repairsuniverse.com/htc-inspire-4g-housing-assembly-replacement.html

and then sand it and it would look great and there would be no htc logo anymore

(even when i like HTC :D :D )

what do you think?
[Desire HD General] P00t:
Wowww incredible. HTC should maker more phones with more colors "!""!!!!
[Desire HD General] frostark:
incredible, I like it :cool:
[Desire HD General] freesch:
Great job! Thanks for sharing.
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Well, it could look badass. But i also think the black painted htc logo looks pretty sweet :cool: It gives the phone a nice touch.

One thing i don't like is the text on the plastic bottom part, were it says Dolby and SRS. Don't want to sand it because you'll probably ruin the plastic and scratch it allot.

(btw, it's a pretty cheap full replacement housing, on ebay their pretty expensive)

And thanks for the nice comment guys :D

I actually want to take it to a next level, but don't know how exactly. Maybe engrave something in it.., my name, or a logo :)

But i'll have to think about that. I've also got acces to a laser cutter. So i can burn an image on the surface of the metal, would look prèèèty nice :D
[Desire HD General] kureta_228:
damn... your modify is so good.
[Desire HD General] D-U-R-X:
That is pretty epic actually mate... I'd be happy with that. Think I may have to have a go! :)
[Desire HD General] toreador2008:
WOW, this looks really nice. Thanks for sharing!
[Desire HD General] puska:
wow ur pimpin' is amazing
[Desire HD General] ByAnz12:
wow dhd is more sexy after your modify.. like this brad..
[Desire HD General] HellRa1SeR:
@OP

take a look at the following post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1127142

He's used chemicals like ferric chloride so that the brushed aluminium doesnt get scratched. Maybe you could also do so and post the pics so that amateurs like could also do so.

Thanks keep it up mate. :D
[Desire HD General] googleye:
That's a really nice finish, makes me drool. But after you removed all of the brown stuff, can the aluminium not get miscolored or something?
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
At the moment everything still looks good :)

I've seen that a while ago. Maybe i'll try something like that with my next phone. I'll keep the DHD as it is at the moment.

But thanks for the link ;)
[Desire HD General] Oli28:
now i have a question!

a friend of mine has a thing you can powder-coated in any color this would be great but the aluminum gets up to 200C hot. I dont know if thats to hot for that aluminium...???

and the other question is what color should i choose?? he has nearly all of'em....

any ideas?
[Desire HD General] freebie_10:
This is cool, that means the back of the DHD is metal?
[Desire HD General] googleye:
Shouldn't be, aluminium melts at around 1000 C I THINK. And if you can choose whatever you want, an orange phone would be sick. You'd have to paint the other parts too though, doesn't go very well with brown...
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Wow, that would be nice!

I was thinking about that too, but i didn't know anybody that could help me with that.
[Desire HD General] psycomagic:
Wow, its look great, but I still feel scared to unpack
[Desire HD General] j.tarantula:
Good work :) maybe some day I renew mine to :)
[Desire HD General] toreador2008:
WOW I'm impressed
[Desire HD General] DonUber:
Nice job man, you have a good sense for style, when my guarantee has expired I will do it :), but then I will make it black with cyan grills and volume button, great job man, tnx
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Moar modding!

I'm going to take it a step further.

I think polishing the device would look epic in combination with this image burned in the phone using a laser cutter

:cool::cool::cool:

What do you guys think??
[Desire HD General] arknailed7754:
In debate dude looks like Robocop...when he gets battered
[Desire HD General] mkk90:
WooooW +1!
[Desire HD General] DonUber:
It really looks stylish, we already did much PC casemodding, but it's good to see that it's also coming up for smartphones, many will follow your decision to casemod their phones.

Do you all that equipment at home, or a workplace of a company or something?