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[Desire HD General] foxymyeung:
Good to Great!

I was initially impressed with the overall build quality of this phone, and was one of the main reasons why I chose this phone over the Samsung Galaxy S (which I got for the wifey as it was lighter and more of a girlie phone).

Stock, I think Sense is one of the best android experiences compared to TouchWiz... but after 6 months usage I felt the phone was getting bogged down... maybe because of all of the crapware and other stuff preloaded on the phone.. plus my battery life was dismal.

Then I found out about the Custom ROM experience, but was weary of the benefits/disadvantages of rooting my phone. Eventually though I decided to make the leap and root my phone and test out all the different flavors! What a HUGE difference!

After testing out a few of the ROMS (ARHD / Runny / CM7 / MIUI), I settled on MIUI because I really just like the feel of AOSP ROMS (smaller file sizes and a lot more free RAM), and MIUI has the easiest theming pre-installed. As well, I just liked the format of the drop-down toggle screen, the lockscreens, the built-in data monitor, and the easy use for the music player & camera app since I use both of these apps a lot more than any of the others.

On all of the custom ROMS my battery life was a huge improvement, especially after using custom kernels! And I LOVE the fact that there isn't any BLOATWARE! My phone is zippy and a fast experience! All in all, I went from an okay experience with the DHD to a great experience after rooting & using Custom ROMS! I'm pretty set to keep this phone for quite some time.

The only reason I would want to upgrade in the near future would be for a phone that has a hugely improved camera, and has no screen buttons to make use of ICS4.0 interface (i.e. have a bigger screen but same sized phone).
[Desire HD General] dalanik:
I tend to agree with most what is posted here except the iTunes post :) I hate iTunes concept and I can't understand how somebody might like it. It allows you only to SYNCHRONIZE music from your PC (ONE PC!) to phone/player. I want more freedom than that. I want to copy music from various sources (PCs). Also, all sync programs (be it iTunes, ActiveSync, HTCSync, KIES, etc) are SLOWER than when you copy files to "USB connected flash disk" device. IMHO, only the very computer-illiterate can like this concept. What is the problem of copying files via Total Commander to the mp3 player/phone? You can be sure that tags are not changed by sync program and you can maintain your own directory structure.

Anyways, other things about DHD I noticed in these 6-7 months I've been using it:

Build quality is excellent, feels nice in hand, heavy like it should be, not like SGS2 that feels like a toy (but a good phone no matter). Only exceptions are:

* volume rocker could be a bit better, but not a major deal, you get used to it

* battery cover is hard to open, but not a big deal since I opened it only once in 7 months

* sim card/memory card cover is of bad quality, if you use car mount it tends to widen on top and it is not aligned with the phone, This is only slight problem, but it still looks bad for a phone that is top of the range (or was at the time it was introduced)

Battery is bad, but all smart phones have similar. Could be a bit better, but not a major deal. Samsung Galaxy Ace i.e. has slightly better battery, so does iPhone, but not THAT much better that it matters.

Sense is really nice even though it is a memory hog and bit slow sometimes. Again, nothing crucial.

Let me just say I have like 440 apps installed on my DHD and they all work. In various forums I always read how people with motorola or samsung have problems running certain apps (crashes etc), I never had any problems with DHD! All apps and games work just fine (and as you see, I have quite a few)

So I'm pretty satisfied.

As a side note, I think that memory is crucial on Android. As soon as my RAM memory drops below 100mb, DHD starts slowing down. It should have 1Gb or RAM, then there wouldn't be any problems at all. But then, I have a lot of "resident" software installed, i.e. Setting Profiles, Extended Controls, Phone usage stats and similar which all work in the background and have widgets. What I also found is that storage memory is important too, that's why it keeps warning you when it drops below 100Mb. It is good to have at least 150 Mb storage memory free. This is not so noticable on DHD, but very noticable on phones with smaller storage memory, like my SG Ace.
[Desire HD General] sam.crowther:
so i've had mine maybe 4-5 months now, AUD180 good price for a phone that was used for 3 weeks.

Apart from clicking a phone number in the browser taking you to a call and the N8-00's AMOLED screen and 12MP camera, kicks every Nokia I've ever had.

Battery: read a few reviews, bought a "2000mAh" battery off ebay from Hong Kong for twelve bucks with free shipping, followed the charge recommendation (3 cycles full to empty) it lasts over a day (7 am to 9 am the next morning when i forgot to charge it) with greater than moderate usage.

The stock battery lasts at least from 7am to 11pm

it was twelve bucks, really can't complain, still have the stock battery if it suddenly declines.

Build quality, no complaints, would be cool if the housing battery cover and sim/sd cover were the same colour/material, but meh.

I got a (i dunno twelve buck?) vinyl sticker off ebay....

GPS no issues on mine.

Sense: Played with AOSP roms, missed certain things about sense, and am now using RCMix 3d Runny.

The only gripe i have about sense over AOSP is when my phone and car are connected via Bluetooth, i have to switch the car stereo to telephone when someone calls. (hmm, support thread post) AOSP roms just did that.

Music: I prefer the sense 3.5 player over ANY other music player i have tried on android.

(Re: sense above, yeah i use Bluetooth in the car, not a cable, i can use the head deck for 'next' instead of press power, use lock screen widget, looks less suspicious when overtaking cops on the freeway)

PC- using songbird. have a playlist 'htcdhd' i change that playlist, plug my phone in and hit sync. Not hard once set-up.

ROMS: i hacked all my nokias, cooked my own firmware for the last 4 or 5, so rooting and roms were the first thing for me with the HTC. Played with heaps, prefer sense over the others.

remove the apps you don't use, teeter, tips, live wallpapers, watch, stocks, news, htc navigation stuff (i use Sygic) etc. Set memory management to kill apps when memory is low, maybe reboot every 2 or 3 days, no problem.

Overall, I'm really happy with it. when the girlfriend dropped her laptop and started using my netbook it didn't worry me, i can do most of my web browsing/rss reading stuff on the phone, (with more battery life than the netbook).
[Desire HD General] :
Rugged, except for the battery and sim card cover

I came from X10 to DHD. Its been closed to 9 months using DHD.

Over all its been a good experience using DHD , but then there are few quirks though ..

Hardware : Single piece aluminium case love it :D, Plastic battery and sim cover hate it :mad: the sim cover started making sounds with in one week of purchase !

Screen : Awesome!!! clear,crisp and sharp ..... All of that when you are hidden from the sun :p

Sensors : I had put a special mention on this is cause of the proximity/light sensor .... its got a mind of its own ... i have tried many roms/fixes still does not play well ... eventually this might be the fault i replace the awesome beast.

Sense Ui : Cant say i like both sense,asop and miui (iphonish) but then i feel miui and sense better integration out of the box.

Battery : Okay to worst. Depends on the kind of rom/kernel settings etc

Look and feel : Industrial

After 9 months using DHD i feel i had enough of all the proximity fixings and will be eventually moving to SGS2 .. Plastic but then powerful ;)
[Desire HD General] matthew33:
I came from HTC HD2 which had windows 6.5 on it at first, then they sorted it to take android on sd card, then Nand Android....but sooooo many problems with the HD2 constantly restarting, gps causing the phone to freeze, constant random restarts etc.

So i sold it and bought a Desire HD.......had it about 3 months now and have zero problem with it.....absolutely love it.

Not one freeze, no lag, no restarts...gps fine etc....best purchase i ever made.

Matt
[Desire HD General] dvhttn:
Thought I'd post a couple of things about my experience with the DHD.

Got mine over a year ago as well, and started reading xda and other forums, and was a little perturbed to read about all the issues that people were having and half expecting my phone to end up exploding in my hand or something .... (a little dramatic license there ...) :eek: Talk about issues with the proximity sensor, rubbish battery life, etc etc. I can honestly say that I've not had any of them and the phone has just "worked".

GPS can be a bit slow to start but then I don't use it too often and may get around to the 'antenna fix' from another thread.

Music: I use Poweramp and find this ideal for my needs - at the computer or in the car on 'shuffle all'. As for syncing music, I use MyPhoneExplorer to sync all my MP3s to the 32GB microSD card I have in the phone.

Battery life: well, we could all use more and I think this is one of the most important things manufacturers should work on. I rarely run out of battery but a) I turn the phone off at night m(fast boot is OFF) and b) I have a car mount with a phone charger rigged up so it always gets a charge when in the car. Works for me. But I see new "advances" in battery technology almost every week on the tech rags and, if all were kosher I'm sure we should have DHD-sized batteries that charge to full in about 30 secs and could power the phone for 2 weeks non-stop .... Dunno where all these breakthroughs end up but not in my battery anyway! Though people would still complain even then so the manufacturers can't win .... :D

Software: I'm still using the bog-stock HTC ROM. After years as a techie-type in IT and installing alpha this and beta that I've reached the stage where I just like to use the damn thing! The only thing I may do is root so I could get rid of apps I didn't want on the phone.

Oh, and I like the "feel" of the Sensation better but I'm not at the end of my contract yet so will wait. Not sure I need a 4-core phone but I guess they'll be tempting me at renewal time .... :cool:

Dave
[Desire HD General] Scr!pt0:
Maybe i dont have the same opinion as you at some points, but; very nice review :)
[Desire HD General] dan_hin:
I bought the DHD based on a techcrunch review. Coming from the g1 it was an absolute revelation, the power and build quality blew me away.

All my issues with this phone have been software related. Battery life, random reboots, poor video recording performance.. All fixed the minute I escaped from the gilded cage of the Sense experience.

i'm not sure that HTC know what they're doing with software compared to cyanogen. My personal view is that they're wedded to a Fisher-price interface design that emphasizes low res, kiddy friendly frameworks over minimalist, usable graphics.
[General Questions and Answers] superlungz420:
I've tried a couple of times and its just a solid color
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huckbucket:
Been trying to warm up to Calkulin+Clemsyn 1.5ghz Froyo Combo VERSION 8 final (bootloader 1.2 only). Came from Honeycomb and did a complete system wipe with the install of C&C. Was running pretty smoothly, but now every application launch results in a FC. Also, if you pull the notification bar down, you get a empty/misshapen dialogue box in the upper left and none of the menus or apps will launch. Have reinstalled a couple of times and still get the same result after a couple of days. Thoughts?

(wanted to post this in the dev thread for the os, but I have less than 10 total posts at this point)
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huckbucket:
Anyone?

#4
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aabbondanza:
Bug in VTL Launcher

The empty dialog is due to a bug in VTL Launcher. Open VTL settings, select General behavior & change the Swipe down & Swipe up actions to none.

Al
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huckbucket:
That'll help. Thanks. Didn't find that info in the development thread.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanpowell95:
E: Error in / sdcard/ BlackICE.v1.23-201111106.zip

Have wiped everything. I am currently using a CM7 rom

please help
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Papa Smurf151:
U using cwm or amon RA. Cause if I had to guess its not written to work on cwm
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
That, or the rom is corrupt. Or the rom isn't meant for the evo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Papa Smurf151:
I've never seen black ice here before. That's not the ander web theme/rom he created is it. I know he has versions for different phones but didn't think for evo. At least not in a long time
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
I've never heard of it either..but I think I have heard of that as a theme somewhere.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Green_Arrow:
try this guide with that rom: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1295702
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanpowell95:
Cyanogenmod BlackICE Rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1298283

I am using amon RA
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Green_Arrow:
Click the sig

that's for the "Desire hd" if you wanna learn what AOSP Roms/Kernels there are for the evo just click in the link in my sig, they're all there
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Thank you for proving my point in that the was NOT for the evo. :)

First thanks founder.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
I never understand people that try to flash ROMs for other phones...

I mean, wouldn't it be obvious that it's not going to work?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diablo67:
Black Ice Rom is for the Galaxy S 4G from Samsung,its not meant to be installed on the EVO.http://androidspin.com/2011/06/22/rom-krylon360-bionix-black-ice-galaxy-s-4g-for-samsung-galaxy-s-4g/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dubbee:
@HipKat - I think it's OK to try things out that "shouldn't" work... it's part of the learning process. People who are newer to all this are going to try things that are obviously wrong to more experienced people... but it shows a good inquisitive spirit, no? When I think of all the time I wasted trying to install the Sense camera on a non-Sense ROM... oy.

I flashed BlackIce the other day and it's looking like a keeper!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ben.nesheim:
i would probably shat myself if it did tho :P

just sayin
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fitz420:
You and everyone else that's new to this need to realize that flashing something incorrectly can f your phone up. A borked radio flash can perm brick your phone for example. Read thoroughly and make sure before you flash anything that you check md5s, and since roms, kernels, radios, miss, etc are model specific make sure that you are in the right forum.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PinkFrosty:
seriously? I'm a noob to custom roms on my evo but I know not to do that.
[Epic 4G Themes] zanderman112:
Using this site: uot.dakra.lt/kitchen

Their official forum discussion here:

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for your phone. I am also not responsible for anything made using this guide.

*NOTE:* Please do not flood the forums with simple battery changes, or subtle things. This is a make it for yourself guide.

If you want to make more complete, deodexed themes, use this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=821638

This is for those that want to do simple mods for themselves, and want to stay on the stock rom, or slightly modify their current rom. Nothing more. This is not a guide for fully blown deodexed themes.

On your phone, use a file explorer to grab these files:

Eclair and Froyo:

/system/framework/framework-res.apk

/system/framework/twframework-res.apk

Gingerbread:

/system/framework/framework-res.apk

/system/framework/twframework-res.apk

/system/app/SystemUI.apk

Go to the kitchen, and click the File upload section.

Attach the 3* apks you downloaded to the proper sections as shown in this screenshot. And make sure everything in a red box in this image is the same on your screen:

*Note, for Eclair or Froyo, this would be 2 apks, not 3.

Then, once that is done, let your imagination flow, and make whatever mods you want to make.

Then, once all mods have been made, go the "Summary" tab.

If everything is ok(Green=Good, Orange=Bad, White=Not used), then hit Submit to Kitchen. This is an example of a good status bar+battery mod:

You should get an order number.

Copy and Paste your order number into a notepad, or a search bar, as long as you can remember this number.

Go to the pickup section, and once your order is done(can take a few minutes, to a while, depending on what you did), download the file.

Now, this zip is almost ready for flashing.

Open it in 7zip or winrar, and copy the entire "Settings" folder to your desktop, then delete it from the zip.

Rename the zip to whatever you want it to be called and put this zip on your sdcard.

Then, follow any theme install procedure.
[Epic 4G Themes] zanderman112:
2nd post just in case.

Sent from my Samsung Legendary 4G, a Universe UTES phone, running "two.three.five"
[Epic 4G Themes] poit:
Seems like it would be safest to extract the 3 files from your own rom using a program like ES File Explorer. Do any of those files get changed in custom roms?
[Epic 4G Themes] zanderman112:
Probably, but odexed themes are only good on stock roms.
[Epic 4G Themes] signal34:
Hey Zander--

Have you been successful in changing Status Bar Icons? I've tried and find only a handful of them actually are the ones I choose from the kitchen...others are still stock.

Is it possible to copy/replace the ones I want from my original framework-res.apk and settingsui.apk to the UOT modified ones?
[Epic 4G Themes] Paul627g:
Good thread, my only thought is you could end up with a theme section here full of everyones individual themes... Example...

Hey I got a RED circle battery mod..

I got a green one...

I have red one with white letters...

LOL.. It could get a bit crazy if a handful of people start whipping out theme'd framework after framework from the Kitchen....
[Epic 4G Themes] zanderman112:
The status bar icons should change.

I use "Custom uni-color icons"

Check:

Statusbar icons

Power buttons

And choose their colors.

Sent from my Samsung Legendary 4G, a Universe UTES phone, running "two.three.five"
[Epic 4G Themes] zanderman112:
True, but everyone has the right to I guess..

Sent from my Samsung Legendary 4G, a Universe UTES phone, running "two.three.five"
[Epic 4G Themes] signal34:
Ahhhh....ok. I'm trying to use the themed icons. Maybe that's my issue.
[Epic 4G Themes] Paul627g:
Yes everyone is entitled... Kitchen is nice and I'm not going to say I never used it in the past but hopefully users will take the time to really figure out how these mods are done like many of us theme builders have.
[Epic 4G Themes] zanderman112:
Yepp, let's see. Some first post editing. Links to the fulll guide.. /me off to work

Sent from my Samsung Legendary 4G, a Universe UTES phone, running "two.three.five"
[Epic 4G Themes] Paul627g:
Looks like you got it covered....

At least now if it starts getting cluttered with tons of threads you can say I made a disclaimer LOL....

I'm all about freedom to show off something we've created but at the same time for the ease of finding stuff and clutter free..

Regardless of all that.... Good how to thread.... I like them, its the only way to learn and using screen captures and all doesn't get any easier....
[Epic 4G Themes] usagi111:
This seems GREAT!!!, but it only makes themes for Odexed Stock ROMS?, for anyone who has a deodexed custom rom can't use this to change things up a lil?

Or is there another kitchen-application for those...
[Epic 4G Themes] zanderman112:
You can, but it won't be as full as using dreamsforgottens themeing guide. Follow the steps in the OP that I made, just use the franework-res.apk, twframework-res.apk, and system-ui.apk from your ROM. I left out this in the OP for a reason, I didn't want a kajillion half-made frameworks being released as themes. But, yes you can use this.
[Epic 4G Themes] usagi111:
Awesome...and I understand your reasoning behind that, only those really dedicated and focused on a certain design will probably do this for custom roms, while others rather wait....

'Pricate it!!!
[Epic 4G Themes] zanderman112:
No problem

Sent from my Samsung Legendary 4G, a Universe UTES phone, running "two.three.five"
[Epic 4G Themes] zanderman112:
Updated Guide, now worded to be used on *ANY* Galaxy S device.

This works for Odexed and Deodexed roms.
[Epic 4G Themes] chrisbriney226:
this is some good information thanks for this post
[Epic 4G Themes] zanderman112:
No problem. Make sure to click "Thanks" >.> lol

I am Z.
[HTC Amaze 4G] djnicho12:
Anyone got the update yet I hear November 13 so please if someone already got the update leets us know thanks
[HTC Amaze 4G] xboarder56:
if any one does i would like to know thanks it can hlep with roms
[HTC Amaze 4G] morganpants:
i thought u had a leaked version?
[HTC Amaze 4G] xboarder56:
no i patched the wifi calling my self into my builds
[HTC Amaze 4G] domin8:
smarty pants :p
[HTC Amaze 4G] arodhr13:
Here we are the 14th still nothing. Please let us know if anyone gets it
[HTC Amaze 4G] bluemoon737:
It hasn't been released yet. The 13th date was speculation from various blogs such as TMONews. Nothing from T-Mobile indicated the 13th was the date. The only "official" word you get from T-Mobile is that it is coming.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Raibyn:
Yep, that's what T-Mobile is saying on its support forums. No date has been given by them, just that it will be available sometime in the future.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malloy0:
Hi,

Over the last year I have been rooting and flashing roms on both the HTC DZ and the Aria and have not had any real troubles. However...

Recently picked up a used Desire A8181 that was flashed and had CM7 with 2.3.7 G installed with CWM backups but "desired" to flash a newer ROM with either 2.1+3 Sense or Sense 3.5.

So over the course of the last week, been looking at alpharev, hboots and all of the stuff one might need to flash such a ROM. Well today ran into a problem. I cannot tell you exactly what I did but where I am is not a good place.

So, need some help...

1. I can boot into recovery and currently have cwm-4.0.1.4 loaded

2. Using Fastboot I can flash an .img file either a new bravo_alphaspl.img or a recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-bravo.img file using AndroidFlasher.exe or using fastboot.exe

3. I cannot get

a. revolutionary.exe to see my phone, it states WAITING FOR DEVICE

b. abd shell or device or any adb command to work

4. I cannot get a stock OTA RUU file to flash and when I do, I get the errors shown in the attached png files.

5. I cannot access my SDCARD and get this error can't mount /SDCARD and along with this the error /dev/block/mmcblk0

I have

- stock hboot

- PVT3 S-OFF

- hboot 6.93.1002

So looking for some tips or trick to get my ROM reloaded which I suspect is related to corrupt storage on the phone?

Anyway, thoughts welcomed.

Thanks,

malloy0

UPDATE...I also reviewed this guide http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1275632 and many others, NONE addresses the issue of not being able to access the SDCARD. Also, I have 6 different SDCARDs and they all work fine in my DZ. I have also prepd and formated using Gparted and booted via Linux.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayiskon:
SD card brick , u can look at this thread

these commands through adb should solve it (u said adb is not finding ur device,make sure u have the drivers installed). i had this sd card issue at least 3-4 times and these 2 lines always saved me ;)

fastboot oem rebootRUU

fastboot oem enableqxdm 0