[HTC Desire C] neoyoli:
Emailing to HTC

a.k.a.

- - - Operation "ath6kl_sdio.ko" - - -

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Hey Guys,​

As you know, our great little phone has lot of potentials, but HTC condemned it to the status of an entry-level phone, meaning its main purpose is to draw new customers to their more expensive devices. And thus they leave us in the dark in the development front, and not just us but other less hi-spec phones too, like our twin-brother the Explorer forum or the Amaze 4G who have both achieved amazing things despite the lack of support.

Compared to other companies like Sony and Samsung who aims to be a "good open source citizen" by releasing entire source codes ahead of the actual phone launch, we can call it carelessness, laziness or a marketing model with debatable efficiency, but that is not too important now.

The only thing we can do - similarly to other users of neglected phones, like the Amaze 4G - is to inundate HTC with emails from each one of us, so they become aware that there is a strong and willing community of Desire C users who are devoted to this phone not just because it is cheap, but for other reasons too :cowboy::cool::victory:

For me personally it's the size that hands down beats all the higher-spec bigger bros, and feature wise all it's category. Think about yours and write to them.

The aim of this thread is to highlight the holes in the official support and to provide information for anyone who is prepared to write HTC regarding the development issues we are facing. The post below will be updated parallel with the info we are gathering here.

>>> Therefore it would be appreciated if our devs and more technically literate members added their insights on these problems, so it can be communicated to the company effectively in an appropriate manner.

However we are looking for sharing valuable information here as we don't have anything else right now, so please aim for constructive comments and don't spam the thread with "it aint gonna happen no way" and "i hate you HTC, die cun**ts", herpaderpaderp and so on.

Sobbing, ranting or being cynical does not help at all, in fact does the opposite. <<<

::::: So guys, we can choose wether moaning about the shortcomings of our phone or actually do something about it even if one isn't a dev. Based on the info you find here and on these forums, write an email to HTC, some of us have done it already. We have nothing to lose and a pro-active collective attitude can make real change. In fact that's the only thing that does;)

CLICK to write to HTC

if you run out of space in the provided text-box, alternatively you can contact them here:

http://www.htc.com/uk/contact/email/

However, expect to get a well-bred canned reply with no actual help at all, but as an example look at the recent Amaze 4G success story (thanks for odunluzikkim and sakindia123 for pointing out).

You have to realise our strength is in collective effort, and its success is depending on each one of us, seriously.

To educate yourself in the topic:

-- about the success of the Amaze 4G community:

http://www.change.org/petitions/htc...ivers-sourcecode-associated-with-the-amaze-4g

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1679112

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1557500

-- about HTC's violations and company attitude:

http://users.livejournal.com/joshua_/41833.html

http://users.livejournal.com/joshua_/43185.html

http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-c...ore-decisive?utm_source=ac&utm_medium=twitter

-- about the competition and HTC's situation on the market:

http://www.tmonews.com/2013/01/as-s...-different-financial-results-can-htc-survive/

http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Samsung+Snag+99+of+Mobile+Phone+Profits+/article24616.htm

-- about software licensing:

http://www.fsf.org/about/

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/bsd/license.html

http://pthree.org/2007/08/08/bsd-license-explained-in-layman-terms/

And finally, if you believe this is a good cause and benefits for the whole Android and Open-Source Community:

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- Include this or the petition in your signature and blog and write about it in forums. Click to download the press pack or the avatar pack

- Use Twitter, Facebook, G+ and all your social networks to tweet, share, post about it and about HTC's ignorant attitude

- Bombard @HTC and @HTCdev Twitter and Facebook and express the issue

More on #HASHTAGS will follow later -

Stay tuned;)