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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
I've never hacked my phone before but I really do want the Froyo update.

Looking at the guide in the other forum it looks pretty complex but I'm willing to put some time into getting it done.

couple of questions though.. Once i've done it if something goes wrong Can I roll it back to what it is right now? a 2.1 T-Mobile Branded Desire (Bravo)

And also does this affect my service with T-Mobile as the carrier and will they know i've hacked my phone etc?

Yes. Noobish dumb questions but sadly ones i need to get straight in my head first.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
You can unroot and go back to stock whenever you like

and when you update to a cooked Froyo ROM make sure you update the radio first
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kunal23:
Hi there i know this is my first post but i have been trawling these forums looking about rooting for quite a while now.

Anyway don't worry i used the unrevoked 1 click method and although it was sacry it was really simple and worked a treat. The ability to flash custom roms is really cool, im curretly running leedroids 1.6a rom.

All i can say is read lots of how to's and then when you fell comfortable go for it!!!

BTW im on t mobile also and the new radio has actually improved my signal, i can now get full bars on HSDPA at home whereas i used to get G or 1-2 bars of H!!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aljwatson69:
I'm on T-Mobile too, and have recently rooted and flashed my first custom ROMs. All I can say is just read up on the superb guides that cover pretty much all the bases. Use the Unr3voked tool for rooting, it really is very easy if you follow the instructions. Then when you want to flash custom ROMs, again just follow the instructions and it's very easy.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
Ok great!

Thanks alot for your replies, they've been very useful.

I'm going to have a look at getting my Desire Rooted using Unrevoked atm.

Just a quick question.. what is a GoldCard and why do I need one (In reference to the rooting faq/walkthrough)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s1977:
Can you follow the instructions detailed in this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=743408
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
thanks for the alternative solution to getting Froyo on my phone.. One question to this, does getting the OTA Froyo actually work on T-Mobile considering they haven't released it yet?

I'm alittle bit unsure on how it all actually works.

I'm currently trying the unrevoked method atm but if that doesn't work i'll research and try your method in conjunction with creating a goldcard
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
im on t-mobile too and although the test radio was crap the new official radio is gr8, get hsdpa all the time now :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
The OTA Froyo will arrive on Tmob when they release it,,, it would work but its going to be a wait

Cooked ROMs are the way to go IMO, and i hope you acheive root (then its flash happy time)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
Dan, ok. right.. I've installed the Hboot Drivers as instructed so now the phone shows up as bootloader when in the Hboot menu and usb connected. but when i connect my phone powered on normally in charge only and usb debugging mode i still can't get unrevoked to accept that i have a phone connected..

i've checked my device manager and i notice that i have something called ADB that isn't drivers properly? is that something to do with this all?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
you need to get the drivers, there is a link somewhere on here from memory

ah ha

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=696189

you should be ablet o read through that and find everything, failing that follow whats there for the goldcard method
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
This is getting out of control now..

I have to download the Android SDK and because i'm in Windows 7 I have to download HTC Sync and then boot to Vista to get the correct drivers?

ok.. so basically before i can use unrevoked i need ADB, USB Bootloader and HTC Sync working?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
Im on Win 7 and it works fine, since im not branded i didnt have to make a goldcard, its alot easier then it looks and with a goldcard apparently its the same only you have a funky SD card, just follow and enjoy
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
Dan.. Are you using Unrevoked? or the method using a different bootloader or whatever?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
As per post i didnt need a goldcard (or unREVoked etc) but a mate of mine has used a goldcard and described the method as 'simple as it gets'

so im just going with what he said :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
Eureka! Unrevoked works now.

Now i'm in the rebooted system where it has options like apply sdcard.update.zip lol.

I suppose i should download a 2.2 froyo rom now.. which would you suggest?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
Personally im between LeeDroid 1.7b and SETrom 4.5 both work lovely for me,,, but i do want the bootscreen from LeeDroid (and the R2D2 Sounds) on the SETrom lol
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] isaw:
Well, if it helps, I posted my steps on what i did with a stock T-Mobile (UK) device I bought off a friend. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7422943#post7422943

Was easy and worked perfectly. I'm now happily enjoying AdamG's OpenDesire 3.0.2 ROM and loving it.

EDIT: Oh yeh, used "Gparted" to partition my 16gb sd card for using ap2sd properly and that too was pretty easy and without issue.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
you said i should upgrade my radio first?

is that another rom? so i have to flash the radio (i've found the link to it in leedroid's thread) and then flash the leedroid rom?

Also.. I guess this might be obvious but A2SD won't work unless I properly partition the SD card yes? after formatting it.. will that mean losing my bootloader?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
wow. you are psychic :P
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
when you go to leedroids it is reccomended to flash the radio then the ROM (Radio works on all roms so no issue there)

and to partition the SD card you can use ROM Manager (from the market) and partition the SD card through that,, i went with 0 swap and 1024 EXT2 partition, then you can use that to upgrade the EXT2 to EXT3,, its fun really lol
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
ok.. i have Rom Manager.. never really used it though lol. Its telling me I have to have clockwork mod recovery installed before I can partition.. I thought I did have it installed because thats the mod unrevoked uses to root?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
ahh hell i'm just going ahead with it anyway..

So i have clockworkmod flashed and formatting/partionioning my SD card with

512 ext3 and 32mb swap whatever that means.. I wonder if my phone will load when its done >_>
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
itll take a while first time (trust me) but after that it was fine
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
ok.. phone booted, partition i assume created.. no idea about the ext2/3 thing as i can't find a button to press to modify partition or whatever.

downloading and installing the radio and leedroid rom's now..

then I assume i reboot in recovery (which will bring up my clockworkmod i think) and then flash from zip options.. radio first then rom yes?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
Well.. Radio installed fine.. now installing the leedroid rom. thankfully it comes with a warning saying it may take a while.. because its on copying files.. and i have my fingers crossed that if something goes wrong i'll be able to root/reflash it to the T-mobile official 2.1 update1
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
if something goes wrong you can always reflash back to stock :cool: gotta love Android for that lol
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
Awesome. thats exactly what I wanted to hear! clockworkmod (the green recovery console after choosing recovery from the HBoot) that is always going to be there though? so HTC will know I've rooted my phone?

Oh damn.. its stuck in a booting loop.. though i do like the R2D2 sounds it gets annoying after 5 mins :P

Right.. I saw in that other posters linked post.. Clear the cache and datawipe etc thats doable from the recovery yes?

Also.. do i need to rename the Leedroid zip to anything? (just in case)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
IF its blue recovery its ClockworkMod, so you will need to name it update.zip

if its green you can do the wipe,, you can even even convert your EXT2 partition to EXT3 and you wont need to rename the zip
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
I think i have a new version of CLockworkmod.. as it says its clockworkmod.. and i was able to do the installation withouth renaming by just choosing the zip...

I'm abit concerned though.. after the reboot loop i've reflashed leedroid back on.. and its been stuck on the "leeDroid Mod (Froyo)" screen for about 3 minutes now.

If I can't get this to work how do i go about putting it back to stock? IE how do i mount the SD card to my PC so I can install one of thr RUU zips?

Also.. this Converting Ext2 to 3 thing.. what and why is that?

ooo. EDIT.. Leedroid is working.. no idea bout the ext thing still :P
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
Its to do with the A2SD and A2SD+,,,, it would seem Froyo likes the + version (storing apps on SD card, in the meantime an EXT2 partition should work just fine
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
Ok. Awesome. Right. So every time I try out a different Rom I lose all my apps etc?

What would you suggest are must have apps?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanTehManUK:
If they are stored on the EXT2/3/4 Partition they are always saved (which is freaking awesome) as for suggestions,,, well

Barcode Scanner,,, always a good one to have

Folder Manager,, Looks Purddy

Astro File Manager

Google Goggles

Quardrent Standard (good benchmarking app)

Speed Test

Robo Defence,,, helps pass the time

other then that im still getting apps myself, i have more but there all pants :cool:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musiccontrolsus:
Right.. I can't use A2SD.. I think this is because of what you were saying about the Ext partition being 2 instead of 3.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] yamenrbd:
It sems like ther some driver mising for th galaxy s

Its giveng me masege conecting mtp

I try every thing

Mybe becus my pc 64 bit what can i do
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] r3loaded2010:
Without trying to sound snarky or anything, do yourself a favour and throw Kies in the bin.

Either use mass storage mode to copy media over manually, or use MTP mode with WMP to sync.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] nandihno:
Good idea but remember samsung don't do ota upgrades and so kies becomes important...me too having the same issue
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] yamenrbd:
Thanks every body i found thr solution

I have to format the internal sdcard the conected in storage position

After dawnlod the driver descounect then conect in kies position

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] redf:
start touchwiz and allow to install drivers from windows update, after few phone disconnects and windows reboot, it connected (win7 64)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Asterdroid:
So I decided to give RadioTime a whirl. It's such a great concept. Plus I spend about 4 hours a day in the car, and have 3g coverage for the entire drive, so I wanted to give this a shot to change things up a bit from Last.fm and Subsonic.

I can't get the damn thing to stop skipping though. It skips like crazy. I know it's not a coverage area issue because I'm streaming 256 kbps mp3s from my home computer with Subsonic with no issues.

Has anyone else run into this? Is there a fix or an alternative application? I'm running SkyRaider 2.0 at the moment if it matters.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jkocr2:
there is an option to choose a different stream. when mine starts to skip i generally choose a little bit lower quality stream and it seems to solve the problem.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] dreamersipaq:
OP, completely off topic, but something about your avatar just rubs me the wrong way.... :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDSL:
I have been reading people saying that clockwork recovery doesn't wipe cache right and some other stuff. I am also starting to see ROM developers even mention this in their posted ROM's.

I have always used clockwork recovery with no problems. Has anyone even bothered to talk to koush about this problem the recovery has or just dissin his mod?

He seems to update it often and I find it hard to believe he hasn't or wouldn't address this.

Anyone?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikesus:
I am right there with ya? I have used it and not had issues... Maybe its because I don't get crazy on flipping roms that often?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iceman5000:
Version 2.5 fixed all past issues with clockwork mod.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stangdriverdoug:
Well I was using clockwork mod....latest version of course....and it didn't seem to wipe davlink cache...so last night I did the research and figured out a quick way to flash between RA and clockworkmod recoveries. It's actually really easy to flip between the two through adb. I do flip between roms from time to time and its nice to use the recovery the developer reccomends.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zunteck:
Help....my clockwork will not let me install the latest recovery ??? What can I do
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stangdriverdoug:
What do you mean latest recovery? Clockwork is a recovery.

Sent from my EVO running Fresh
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacc1234:
I switched to RA after Clockwork recovery tried to strangle me in my sleep. I reported the bug so hopefully it will be fixed in the next version.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasecloud4:
I've hopped between Amon and Clockwork, and I like them both. Amon is a cleaner interface (in my opinion) but Clockwork allows you to flash unsigned .zip's, and makes sure that you want to do an action before you do it (i.e. no, no, no, yes, no interface, lololol).

Both are amazing pieces of software.

~Jasecloud4
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
This.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zunteck:
I have been using amon this whole time....I need to flash the netarchy c kernel...when I go to flash latest recovery in clockwork it gives me a error...so I uses the alternative recovery at the bottom of the menus. I still can't flash the kernel
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stangdriverdoug:
Oh that sucks.....i did the same thing as you and it went through just fine

Sent from my EVO running Fresh
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] berardi:
I use Clockwork because that's what Rom Manager uses. Haven't had a single problem with it as of yet. Very nice to be able to update CM6 nightlies without touching a computer.

Seems like Amon has more features / cleaner interface though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thecodemonk:
ROM Manager also allows easy switching as AmonRA's recovery is there as the "Alternate Recovery" on the bottom of the app. It will gladly flash back and forth (I use RA when I am going to update something through any of the CMUpdater-based update apps (DC and Fresh both use these)).

It's important to remember too, that each of the recovery images handle nandroids differently so if you nandroid in one, you have to use that same one to restore.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timothydonohue:
not really. if you copy the nandroid file from one folder to the other folder, either one will load it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
From my experience, CWM doesn't flash ROMs as well as AR (Failed flashing the CM6 nightly twice, AR got it the first time) and also doesn't have a Wipe Dalvik option, or an as-easy way to mount the SD card.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] berardi:
I never had a failure of flashing a rom, on any recovery, period. That is strange, sounds more like a problem with the rom.

CWM definitely has wipe dalvik option, it's under advanced. I just used it
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDSL:
Again clockwork has never failed me ever! It seems to clear cache fine to me as I have never had a boot loop I couldn't get out of.

So far there apears to be ZERO evidence of an issue with clockwork recovery so I guess I need to start asking developers why they are dissing clockwork recovery or just PM Koush directly.

If there is an issue I just want it to be addressed because I love the recovery and ROM Manager.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] etismyname:
Has anyone successfully sync with their hotmail account?

I tried to change the server address to m.hotmail.com and successfully lead me to another page to sync with emails and accounts but when I click sync, it will show an error saying failed to create the account. please try again later
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alisha:
I think that all hotmail accounts have not yet been enabled for exchange active sync (unfortunately)...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madman1520:
Mine has always worked fine......
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sh500:
I get 'failed to create the account. Please try again later' on my device.

Perhaps it's not enabled on my account. Any way of telling if it has?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wib911:
Hi guys, I do have exchange active sync working on my Hotmail account. Sync of email, contacts and calendar work flawless. Hang in there apparently this week more news will be made available regarding EAS.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sandervanzijl:
I have the same problem.

it seems to connect to the server, but is then unable to create the account.

I think i have the wave 4 hotmail. but supposedly that is not all you need.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nik3t:
Same problem for me. Hopefully my account becomes enabled soon
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeeperXV:
It's not your account that's the problem, it's HTC's mail app.

Try downloading 'Improved Email' from the market, it's free and works like a charm.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sh500:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft...port-for-ipad-iphone-but-not-yet-android/7251
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Singh400:
Nice tip - thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] morningwithjoys:
My imate jamin touch screen alignment are not working properly lets suppose when m going to dial a number and press 3 to dial it appears 0

same problem in typing a text message when i press "A" so it appears "H"

i hope u will understand

kindly help me soon

Thank you
[General Questions and Answers] Spiaatie:
Welcome to XDA!

Most likely you do have a bad touchscreen, I would suggest you to buy a new replacement screen / touchscreen.

:)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokester902:
I was reading over in some desire forum that it only takes htc sync 3.05387 to allow the itunes sync to work after froyo update. this version of htc sync is supposed to be available only to the wildfire. so my question is do you guys think this should enable itunes sync on the EVO?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Huluk:
You can sync itunes using just htc sync?! Why haven't I heard about this before?

Is this new to froyo?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokester902:
Yes it's a froyo feature that is supposed to be leading to the OTA itunes sync that Google demoed at their conference a couple of months ago. Here is the Desire thread that I read that got me interested. http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/140251-froyo-i-tunes.html
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b7ryn:
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong... but I can get the HTC Sync version working, and it's recognising the playlists on iTunes... but when I opt to sync a single playlist (or a few - bu not all) then it seems to copy across random tracks (despite it saying it is copying the right tracks while the sync is happening).

Anyone else experienced this?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Huluk:
I got a new card, but for some reason HTC sync only shows 1.7 gb as being free, even though the phone tells me I have 13gb free! No clue why it isnt working.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Huluk:
Well my earlier problems were caused by me not rebooting my computer after installing the new version of htc sync.

The only problem now is that none of the music players on my phone seem to realize that the music is there now. Kinda defeats the whole purpose!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Drybonz:
I couldn't even get the 3.0 version of HTC Sync to recognize my Evo. It always just says "no devices connected".
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Huluk:
I ended up just using doubletwist. At first it was abysmally slow, but now with an updated version it's great!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikesus:
Ok, on the leaked version I noticed a few problems:

1) Music Streaming sounded tinny or thinner than on 2.1

2) Listen Podcast APP ff / rew didn't work.

What problems are you seeing on the latest stock 2.2?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikesus:
Youtube audio problem - No Audio

Profile Settings - Does not detect Bluetooth change

While the speed increase is great, this seems more like a beta release. Too many broken things...

Going to have to go back to 2.1 til they fix some of this... :(
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hjb417:
I was able to play my mp4 audio files in the HTC player and doubletwist in 2.1. I'm no longer able to do this in 2.2, gives me an error saying "Unable to play this type of audio file"
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] njward75:
I too have an issue playing wmp files
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pitbull_Raven:
Ok peeps! It's time someone stepped up and posted a thread that addresses the most critical of (the technically inclined) humanity's issues:

ROMS - From the bunch out there, which one is your favorite and why?

I'll start this poll by posting the ones available in the Android Development forum. If none apply, please post what you are using and why.

Not sure if we can change polls after they started so probably can't add any options after the initial post, but suggestions might make it into a next edition. For now I'll post 20 ROMS

Let's get our 'droid on people!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pitbull_Raven:
Bumping back to top so more people can see the poll. Would be great if some admin could sticky this poll for the duration so we could get more participants and maybe get a better sense of what the community is doing / using.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitrius:
Been trying out a few ROMs lately, though currently happy with Froyo DeLite, it's pretty much the stock Froyo release by HTC just with root and no new hboot, just what i was looking for.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snark_be:
I'm running this one: [ROM] Official 2.2, with: busybox, old A2SD+, OpenVPN (TUN), EXT4 support, 802.11N by ieftm. Which one is it in your list?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pitbull_Raven:
LOL... When preparing this poll I had counted 20 ROMs. When I finished filling out the forms, I had 19 and an open space and couldn't figure out what was missing so I used the 20th spot and filled it in with "others". Guess now I know which one I forgot :)

Just vote for others and leave your comment. Thanks for commenting and sorry to all that I messed this up by forgetting that ROM :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edgeball:
Same here. I'm using roufianos V3 right now but still not 100% happy