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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nAFaNyA99:
1 year.

i bought clear coat and now it looks fine.

but have one problem and I dont know hi to fix it...my proximity sensor don't work correctly

when I call some somebody, my screen off (black) at once.

I download program "Proximity Sensor Finder" and I found out that phone always think that distance between "sensor - anything" always 0.0 cm

what to do :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dantecampaza:
got it in february from someone who got it in august 2010 and I hope to use my desire another one or maybe two years, depending on the cooked roms I can find
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gjpicko:
Had mine 18 months but now with redux2 custom rom its like a new phone all over again.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rakludnet:
I bought it in Dec 2010. very much satisfied with it using custom roms like cm7,redux:)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xpeter88:
How can i try how old is my desire? Does exist any secret code as for Nokia phones?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deakodude:
Its just a fun poll ......................as in how long have you had it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danuzor:
I bought mine in May 2010. It is one of the most desired Android phones. Easy rooting, s-offing, rom shifting and so on. Best phone ever!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragonithe:
I got mine around march / April 2010.

And it's really an great phone, currently running MIUI on it.

Only thing that bothered me in the past was that my metal casing started to show so sort of acid pits.

So I've sanded my phone, and now it looks perfect again, probably even better than the stock color.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortuus82:
me too except i havent rooted it.. i se no reason its a stable phone and i like it way it is stable and fast still today for me.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cartmanotfat:
Got mine in 08/19/10 :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] man4714:
mine is Aug10
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deakodude:
2010 seems to have been the Desire's year.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paolo-red1:
no I bought in 05/2011. LOL :)

It was an offer very cheap so I decided to change my old motorola.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smathan:
May 2010 for me :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mircea_novac:
07.2010....no problems...great phone.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theboss4:
June 2010, great phone, just ROOTED and its given it a new lease of life.:)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pitzelberger:
December 2010 for me
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emwhy12:
Got mine last October 2011 only. I waited for the price to drop and grabed one. 1st ever smartphone for me and i'm loving it

HTC Desire GSM

S - Off

Stock HBoot

ROM: MIUI 11. 11. 11
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mertins:
2 weeks ago, bought it second hand. My HD2 broke and didn't have the money for a sensation. But who needs sense 3.0 when you can have 3.5? :-D

But my desire is around 1 year old
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XenoBE:
About 4 months :) Rooted immediatly :D and now it has some nice 3.0 Maybe i should have bought a Desire S. but this one was 70euro and its brand new.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cjwhite:
Got mine in July 2010.

Bit disappointed to be honest, with Android being so under development to not get proper gingerbread on it from HTC proper sucks.

Now HTC seem to be churning out new models every 4 months and leaving the past handsets behind very quickly. I'm scared to buy one!

Think I'm going to jump to nexus / galaxy s 3 next year at renewal.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vileycl:
gonna buy an iphone5 from my telco when it comes out!.............. and then sell it to buy a htc android . should be cheaper that way considering the amout pple would pay for an i phone lol
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stoyanski:
My Desire is second hand, only few months old :), got several scratches on the front panel, but it's ok.

Now it's rooted with stock hboot and I'm testing ROMs with sense 3.5 these days.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Someone09:
Got mine somewhere around August 2010 and still loving it.

But without the devs on here I wouldn´t be loving it even half the way I do.

Even though I have to admit I am looking forward to a new device. ;)

Got my mind (and eyes) on the unofficially announced Motorola Tegra 3 handsets combined with a lapdock.

But that´s just in case nothing "special" from HTC shows up.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MichaelAmrs:
Well i bought myself Desire just 3 months ago...i am having a great time with my Desire......love it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rotten Ross:
Had mine over a year now, Rooted, s-off running Seb runnymede 2.1, never had a problem with my little desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ed83:
I have my desire for almost a year now .... very happy with it .. running 3.5 Rom perfectly :) and can't wait for ICS Roms
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dgattenb:
got mine when it came out ( march ) so said 2 years as was not an option for 1 year +
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benben89:
bought mine in may 2010 ... still happy with it although im kinda fed up with htc's updating policies ... oh well!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biohaufen:
[x] 1 year ,but it´s one and a half year old :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cr79:
April 2010, still loving it
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JellyXDA:
June 2010, still a great phone, phenomenal back in it's day. Looking forward to my upgrade in June, however.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sheepytoo:
had my desire eighteen months , great phone thanks to droidzone and Sibere :) .

two gods of ROMS walk among us......
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DNL_Daniel:
I got mine a few weeks after being released and the first day of offering it by my operator, it was shiny and friends with 3GSs were impressed ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Terepin:
November 2010. While great phone, I'm regreting the buy and will regret it till my death.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sebastianlow:
March 2011, i regretted a bit, cuz if i waited while longer, i could have got the incredible s for the same price :/

But I really like the phone, its a really nice... Good dev support too :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ionutrf:
Octomber 2010....although i would want a galaxy s2...i am very happy with my desire it works and looks perfectly, and the devs keep me interested...thanks to all the devs
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thomaslala:
:o Im actually getting mine in a few days. Sooo excited. Lol. I am, a noob. I know.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] str355:
I bought mine at the beginning of April 2010, will be moving to a galaxy nexus when the volume problem is resolved.

Sent from Mobile..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Desire1: June 2010 [Dead]

Desire2: January 2011 [Still Kickin']

Looking to get Galaxy Nexus though
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gupardox:
Got it September 2010 and I'm still very happy with it.. rooted in February 2011 and it's still alive :) have got no problems and it will stay with me till next year September. Then I'm going to buy a new phone tough.. with a bigger screen..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] random_factor:
I picked mine up on release day (April 2nd) - bit of a fluke really; I was looking at the Legend online and the website in question had tagged a note on the end saying that there would be a successor coming out soon... A little googling found that by "soon" it meant "today". I turned up at the shop to find that of the 80 they were supposed to have delivered, they'd got 12 - preorders had taken the rest.

Pretty pleased with it overall - especially since I rooted it, removed the Orange bloatware and started trying new ROMs. Currently I'm on Runnymede (yes, another one) and loving it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmitr:
August 15th 2010, got my Telus preorder delivered by courier.

*@#**!!*!# THREE year contracts in Canada though!!!!!!!!!!

It's amazing how the phone of the year can become obsolete so quickly, even our screen resolution is now two steps behind. I feel like I'm reliving my HTC Touch qvga days.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cvejleaa:
April 2010, so voted 2 years :-)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fissikela:
I got it from Globul - Bulgaria.

The first batch of defective, I waited to pass the time

i bought on 10/10/2010
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yabbie:
I got a second hand desire cdma.

not bad.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] touch of jobo:
Augustus or September 2010, so a bit over a year. (Voted 1 yr.)

I always get 1 year contract extensions, not 2. That means I don't get the phone for free, but get to pay a bit. Still waaay less than half of the naked price. Of course it also means I get to pick a new phone after a year, not two.

Right now I'm holding on for something to come along that blows my mind. Not a problem since the Desire is not at all outdated or obsolete.

-Jobo
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StillTheWatcher:
Got mine May 2010 but thanks to all the roms doesn't feel old at all and holds it own against the latest devices
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixelmine:
About a year, not sure when I'll upgrade.

Nexus prime is tempting though...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sirhcchris:
I'm still holding on to mine, with a 2600 quadrant score on MiU, I can still drop jaws on this 17 month old phone. I see no reason to upgrade until the specs are doubled. And not the Ghz but the real world tourque.

There are other issues also like reception. The desire has great reception. Must have something to do with the EM radiation levels .
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinchan03:
My device is now 1 year and 2 months old. I think it's still a very good smartphone for the price. Bang for buck!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nuntius:
Purchased in May 2010. Still rocking!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anoniemouse:
I got mine on the 5th june 2010, & i am still pleased with it.

When i do upgrade i will still keep it for my pay as you go sim
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fever003:
bought mine second hand from cEx trade shop in Streatham, March this year at £250, grade A condition.

My first Android phone, coming from nokia. Almost bought n900, but changed my mind.

Was very impressed with Android and HTC Sense, waited anxiously for gingerbread, but they kept twisting their words and changing their decision back in June.

Came across xda forum, rooted, flashed custom ROMS, and I'd say, everytime there's a new ROM installed it feels like a brand new phone.

I don't think i will be upgrading my phone anytime soon. The phone has everything that i need, i use it mainly for gps navigation, whatsapp, camera on the go, check emails, update facebook etc.

Many thanks to developers here for making this model alive
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odl:
mine has 1y3m and I just spotted first small scratch on the screen... ;]
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kkh786:
May 2010 when O2 released it! :)

Got an AMOLED desire!

It has been surprising me all the way.. I haven't managed to get bored with it as of yet.

Had a Galaxy Nexus for a few days but came back to my precious Desire! :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmisavenko:
Bought my AMOLED Desire in late October 2010. Actually this is the first phone which I use for more than 1 year :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] electroforum:
I have my Desire for one year.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BurnCK:
Had mine for just over a year now....time for a change soon though.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harm007:
I got my Desire since june 2011.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ferencz1:
I got mine in march 2011 :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darth Oro:
I just ordered mine, hope its worth a shot, at least its prolly better than my O1
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zurl:
bought june 2011.1st smartphone i ever owned.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wviegas:
november 2011
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nozzla:
Got mine in may 2010 can upgrade in April.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mhs409:
July 2010, With T-Mobile UK.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chandrajit:
Hi guys, I'm in a dilemma.

1) some one's selling his Desire (6 month warranty left, hasn't been opened yet, void stickers intact, good condition overall) for about Rs. 12.5K (approx $ 250)

2) I also have my eyes on Sony ericsson Live with walkman (I am a music lover) (around the same price)

Should i get a used Desire or a Brand new SE.... I know both the phones are world apart....

i can't seem to find a clear winner in low specced new phone v/s Great specced old phone..

Thx guys.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dloner:
Got mine on late October of 2010. The phone is still in good condition, and its faster than the stock ROM that was on it. The ICS ROM looking good, so i m not gonna upgrade my device.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iYappi:
Got mine on January, 3rd 2011) almost a year)))
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exocetdj:
got mine originally in feb 11 then 2nd one after screen smashed in september. rooted straight away! :D:D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zukosok:
November 2010, second hand, seller prefer iphone :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zealotic:
I got mine in July, 2010.

And it's stll awesome.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danhthuan269:
i think in this time my phone is very bad
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diokletian:
Got mine on December 3rd 2010, so I've had my HTC-Desire-one-year-anniversary yesterday. :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RollingStar:
Got mine 1 year 2 months ago. Should easily last me another 10 months, provided some decent ICS ROMs arrive!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bazman70:
Got mine in Aug 2010, and with new roms have no reason to upgrade yet
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrUrgit:
Brand new early September 2010.

Current ROM is Oxygen 2.3.2 with ICS theme or ICS 0.4.0 ...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stinger1:
hi

i got mine in June 2010 ,

so its 1 year & 6 Months.

2 weeks later it was rooted, and running a custom ROM :D

still working good

i love it
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timon259:
missing the 1.5 years option... :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eXXon82:
Got mine in May 2010. In September 2011 the phone decided to stop cooperating (random boots, freezes) so HTC gave me a new one in October. Great service. :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alxnks:
Got mine in October 2010 with eclair on it. Updated it to froyo with the original update. When gingerbread update came out I waited to see what to do. I decided to skip the original one and in early November 2011 I decided to root and try Supernova by Droidzone, which i still have.

My big dilemma now is, since I have an upgrade offer from my mobile company to renew my contract. Get the Sony Ericcson Xperia Neo V for free and sell it to get the money and keep the Desire which thankfully is still heavilly supported in XDA (but we don't know if and how successfull an upgrade to ICS will be), or sell the Desire and keep the Neo V which has better specs and will be officially upgrated to ICS? Any help/suggestions?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aditirex:
Got mine in July 2010 ( at full price , my operator didn't have it yet at that time ) .

Used LeedDroid ,Cyanogen m RcMix , InsertCoin , Runnymede .

Now running latest Oxygen .

Still working great , battery is good , no reason yet to change it .
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickabbott:
I've had mine about 1 and a half years and seriously thinking of keeping it another year after my 2 year contract runs out especially with new roms and stuff breathing a new lease of life into my phone!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chetteli:
May 2010

I got mine in May 2010 and was seriously thinking of switching to the Galaxy Nexus..

but I think I'd need a better camera in a new phone and since ICS is already running pretty smooth, I'll stay with it. :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhiteCyclone:
I got my Desire last August. One of the best phones I have ever owned!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nieker:
June 2010... Best phone since my Nokia 3310 and Nokia 6600.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SquallLTT:
Sept 2010 to celebrate my birthday, hehe
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rudidu:
Mine is about 14 months old now :) Still going solid.

Custom ROM is keeping the phone alive!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kartnite:
A year and three months. Time flies. :)

Bought this after thorough research... Still remember those days of going thru reviews. The POS fellow was forcing me to opt for the Galaxy S.

Thankfully, the store allowed me a special request.

And so it came to be. A Desire. Come true. ;)

*nostalgic* :')
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galdel:
16 months old but still going strong.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iruiz2:
Mine is only 5 months old, but there have been many things in these months: root first, many custom roms later, s-off, and finally discovering cm7 and its nightlies...

Tapatalking
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djMesias:
Ten months old, and very good. S-OFF, Root, and custom CM7 installed (own build with spanish&english languages only).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schalmers:
I am on my 2nd Desire. 1st one was bought in April 2010 but went swimming in July 2010 so I bought a 2nd one in July and it is working great, had overheat issue in July 2011 and Mainboard was replaced by HTC.

Using Oxygen at the moment and trying to decide if I keep it for another 6 months or 1 year or buy a Motorola Razr, think I will wait for the HTC Ville to come out next year.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drew2d1:
Got it on the 24th of June 2010 on a 2 year contract. It's had 1 overheating problem since then.

Almost time for a new phone. It will be a sad day. :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nimamrsdy:
15 Months old.

Installed many ROMs and using runnymede now.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiwipedia:
i got it in april 2010 :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kciko:
Mine is 12 months old. Other is the same :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 350Rocket:
Mine will be one year at start of this February. This is my first post, registered long ago but just realized I can't even view the marketplace forums without a minimum of posts. Guess there is no reward for using the search function instead of posting needlessly lol.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swemoza:
From aug 2010. Wait for HTC release new winner phone..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ITesAndroid:
Mine is 5 months old )
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fragargon:
mine is a 12 month old phone. i m running gingervillain. fatest rom

sent from my GV desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulsmithramses:
16 month, run with revolution 1.7, stable and good. Waiting for new Rom.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverRanger:
Almost 2 years, and it will hopefully last for another 2 years :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackep82:
my desire is already 2 years old
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrizzk:
Mine is about 14 month's old now, still good in shape, just some little scratches here and there, and volume buttons sometimes need hard pushing to work :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
Haha... me too... since 16 Aug 2010... the best phone I ever have after HTC Elf.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Bought it in Sep 2010..But after my latest warranty claim, got it replaced with a brand new Desire on Dec 21 (today), and currently trying to sell it.. The Desire has served me well.. but it's time to move on :) Anyone want it? ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andreigherghe:
Bought the puppy in December 2010 :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightmare911:
anyone who said there had it for 2 years are lying when its only been out for 22 months and ive had it since it came out. i dont want to leave my phone its became my family (lol thats weird)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gery2123:
My is 19 months old
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sebster718:
I got mine in September 2010, so almost 16 months ago. I'm itching for a new phone, thinking about a Galaxy S2. Been watching ICS development for the Desire, seems to be moving pretty quick. Hoping there will be a release candidate soon.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivan_dgo:
about half a year, got it as a gift :P
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamsh:
How much???
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bcrisp4:
Got mine in 2010 and looking to upgrade to a sensation or galaxy nexus next year.

Sent from my rooted Redux2 HTC Desire using magic :-)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fightspit:
Look at my signature ;)

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Big plans for the anniversary? ;)
[Droid 2 Global General] beepea206:
I've got a D2G with Clockwork and Bootstrapper installed.

I tried to flash a version of CM7 (http://download.cyanogenmod.com/get/update-cm-7.1.0-DROID2WE-signed.zip), but I'm stuck at the 'M' logo. I used RSDLite 4.9 to root the phone, so I know I have the drivers installed, but now, I can't get my PC to recognize the phone to sbf.

I tried installing RSD5.0, but no dice. I tried deleting the data/cache from the bootloader, tried reinstalling CM7, but nothing. I have a back up image on my SD card, but it doesn't do me any good.

Any help is appreciated. I'm not sure what I can do.
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
RSDLite cannot be used to “root”. It's a tool that allows you to flash the factory flash image.

Have you entered the SBF loader? http://droid.koumakan.jp/wiki/SBF has instructions for this. You must boot the phone into the SBF loader for RSDLite to detect it.

The link to CM7 you posted above is most probably the Froyo build (for the old Froyo kernel of 2.4.x firmware) and won't work with the kernel from 4.5.x firmware.
[Droid 2 Global General] beepea206:
Yea, sorry, I misspoke.. i rooted with 'Pete's Motorola Tools 1.06'.

I've got DROID2WE_X6_2.4.29_FULL.sbf, but I think I know my issue. I initially flashed to DROID2WE_X6_2.4.29_FULL.sbf to receive and install the new VZ OTA update of Gingerbread... I didn't flash back to Froyo before installing CM7 (I found instructions to do so AFTER I did the CM7 install attempt), which narsed the whole thing up.

So now, I can't get RSD to recognize the phone and no matter what I do with bootloader, it doesn't get past the 'M' logo.

Am I just **** out of luck? The phone is still under warranty, so I can get a replacement from VZ if I need to.
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
Do you mean that pulling battery and then pressing and holding power/lock button + up arrow key doesn't take you to SBF loader?
[Droid 2 Global General] beepea206:
ugg. Yea, that worked. I feel like a total n00b now. I was pressing 'M' to run the factory reset, which of course wouldn't work.

I honestly wish there was a easily accessible wiki with RSD, flashing ROMs and rooting; the info is available in various locations, but some are missing info that others have, so it can be confusing to novices like myself.
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
Well, the link I posted describes how to boot into SBF loader. It also has instructions for CWM and stock recovery. Along with some info on CM7 installation.

I didn't bother to write an article on rooting yet, though.